Natalie (given name)
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Natalie is a female given name
, found in many languages but especially common in French and Russian speaking countries. Popular variants are Nathalie
and Natalia
. The name is derived from the Latin "Dies Natalis", meaning "Natal Day" or "birthday
" in reference to the birth of Christ
and was traditionally given to girls born around Christmas
.
People with the given name Natalie:
Fictional characters:
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
, found in many languages but especially common in French and Russian speaking countries. Popular variants are Nathalie
Nathalie
Nathalie is a female given name. It is one popular variant of the name Natalie, found in many languages but especially common in French and Russian speaking countries...
and Natalia
Natalia
Natalia is a female given name. It is the Latin form of Natalie used also in Italian, Spanish and Polish. Other spellings include Natália Nathália , Natalya , Nataliya , Natalija .-People with the given name Natalia:* Natalia ,...
. The name is derived from the Latin "Dies Natalis", meaning "Natal Day" or "birthday
Birthday
A birthday is a day or anniversary where a person celebrates his or her date of birth. Birthdays are celebrated in numerous cultures, often with a gift, party or rite of passage. Although the major religions celebrate the birth of their founders , Christmas – which is celebrated widely by...
" in reference to the birth of Christ
Christ
Christ is the English term for the Greek meaning "the anointed one". It is a translation of the Hebrew , usually transliterated into English as Messiah or Mashiach...
and was traditionally given to girls born around Christmas
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
.
People with the given name Natalie:
- Natalie Albino, member of the R&B duo Nina SkyNina SkyNina Sky is an American musical duo composed of identical twins Nicole and Natalie Albino .-Early life and career:Albino's parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico and were divorced when the girls were younger...
- Natalie Alvarado (commonly referred to as "Natalie"), American R&B singer
- Natalie AngierNatalie AngierNatalie Angier is a nonfiction writer and a science journalist for the New York Times.- Life :...
, NY Times science writer - Natalie AppletonNatalie AppletonNatalie Jane Appleton Howlett is a Canadian pop singer and actress who rose to fame as a member of the band All Saints. During All Saints' five years of inactivity, she was a member of Appleton with her younger sister Nicole.-Biography:...
, Canadian pop singer and former member of the groups All Saints and Appleton - Natalie BassingthwaighteNatalie BassingthwaighteNatalie Bassingthwaighte is an Australian actress, singer-songwriter and television personality. She began her career as an actress on the television series All Saints. She then starred in the American television movie Counterstrike...
, Australian soap actress and former singer for pop group the Rogue TradersRogue TradersRogue Traders are an Australian electronic pop rock band fronted by Melinda "Mindi" Jackson with James Ash on keyboards, Tim Henwood on guitars and Peter Marin on drums. The group's original members met in London in 1989. Before forming Rogue Traders, Ash and Davis worked together on many... - Natalie BlairNatalie BlairNatalie Louise Blair is an Australian actress, best known for her role as Carmella Cammeniti on Neighbours, an Australian TV series.-Career:...
, Australian soap actress - Natalie BrownNatalie BrownNatalie Brown is a Canadian-born, contemporary R&B, pop and Blue-eyed soul singer-songwriter.She is one of the first artists to successfully launch a music career using the Internet as her primary medium for publicity.-Biography:...
, Canadian pop/R&B singer and songwriter - Natalie CleinNatalie CleinNatalie Clein is a British cellist. Her mother is a professional violinist. Her sister is the actress Louisa Clein....
, English cellist - Natalie Clifford BarneyNatalie Clifford BarneyNatalie Clifford Barney was an American playwright, poet and novelist who lived as an expatriate in Paris....
, American writer and salon hostess - Natalie ColeNatalie ColeNatalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"...
(born 1950), American jazz singer and songwriter - Natalie CookNatalie CookNatalie Louise Cook OAM is an Australian professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist.-Early life:...
, Australian professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist - Natalie CoughlinNatalie CoughlinNatalie Anne Coughlin is an American swimmer and eleven-time Olympic medallist.At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Coughlin became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive...
(born 1982), American Olympic swimmer - Natalie Denise SulemanNadya SulemanNadya Denise Doud-Suleman , known as Octomom in the media, is an American woman who came to international attention when she gave birth to octuplets in January 2009. The Suleman octuplets are only the second full set of octuplets to be born alive in the United States...
(born 1975), American mother of octuplets (also Nadya Suleman) - Natalie DessayNatalie DessayNatalie Dessay is a French coloratura soprano. She dropped the silent "h" in her first name in honor of Natalie Wood when she was in grade school and subsequently simplified the spelling of her surname outside France...
, French opera singer - Natalie du ToitNatalie du ToitNatalie du Toit is a South African swimmer. She is best known for the gold medals she won at the 2004 Paralympic Games as well as the Commonwealth Games. She was one of two Paralympians to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; the other being table tennis player Natalia Partyka...
, South African swimmer and Olympic gold medallist - Natalie GlebovaNatalie GlebovaNatalie Glebova is a Russian Canadian beauty queen, the 2005 Miss Universe title holder.-Personal life:Glebova was born in Tuapse, Russia. She studied classical piano and graduated from a professional musical school at age of 12. She also has won various regional rhythmic gymnastics championships...
, Canadian model and winner of 2005 Miss Universe beauty contest - Natalie GoldbergNatalie GoldbergNatalie Goldberg is an American author. She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as Zen practice. Goldberg lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.-Books:*Chicken and in Love , ISBN 978-0930100049...
, American writer - Natalie Green, a character from The Facts of LifeThe Facts of Life (TV series)The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979 to May 7, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focused on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, a prestigious...
TV series - Natalie GriesbeckNatalie GriesbeckNatalie Griesbeck is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. She is a member of the Democratic Movement , part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe....
, French politician - Natalie GrinhamNatalie GrinhamNatalie Marie Grinham is a professional squash player. During her career, she has won three Commonwealth Games Gold Medals, and finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open. She reached the World No. 2 ranking in 2007. She represented Australia in international squash...
, Dutch squash player - Natalie GulbisNatalie GulbisNatalie Anne Gulbis is an American professional golfer of Latvian descent who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.-Golf career:...
(born 1983), American golfer - Natalee HollowayNatalee HollowayNatalee Ann Holloway disappeared on May 30, 2005, during a high school graduation trip to Aruba, a Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. An American student from Mountain Brook, Alabama, Holloway graduated from Mountain Brook High School on May 24, 2005, shortly before the trip...
, American high school student who disappeared in 2005 - Natalie HorlerNatalie HorlerNatalie Christine Horler is an English-German singer and television presenter born in Bonn, Germany. She is known internationally as the lead singer of Eurodance/Eurotrance group Cascada. She is popular in Europe and America, as well as in several Asian countries. Cascada consists of Horler and...
, lead singer of CascadaCascadaCascada is a German Eurodance act most famous for their hit singles "Everytime We Touch", "What Hurts the Most", and "Evacuate the Dancefloor"... - Natalie ImbrugliaNatalie ImbrugliaNatalie Jane Imbruglia is an Australian singer-songwriter, model and actress. In the early 1990s, Imbruglia was known to audiences as Beth Brennan in the popular Australian soap Neighbours. Three years after leaving the programme, Imbruglia launched a singing career with the international hit,...
(born 1975), Australian pop singer and soap actress, married to Daniel Johns of silverchair and the face of L'Oreal 2006 - Natalie JeremijenkoNatalie JeremijenkoNatalie Jeremijenko is an artist and engineer whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. She is an active member of the net.art movement, and her work primarily explores the interface between society, the environment and technology...
, Australian artist, engineer, and environmentalist - Natalie MacMasterNatalie MacMasterNatalie MacMaster, CM is an award-winning fiddler from the rural community of Troy in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada who plays Cape Breton fiddle music....
, Canadian fiddle-player - Natalie MainesNatalie MainesNatalie Louise Maines Pasdar is an American singer-songwriter who achieved success as the lead vocalist for the female alternative country band, the Dixie Chicks...
, lead singer for the Dixie Chicks - Natalie MerchantNatalie MerchantNatalie Anne Merchant is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993.-Early life:...
, rock singer and former member of group 10,000 Maniacs - Natalie MuntNatalie MuntNatalie Munt is a female badminton player from the United Kingdom who currently resides in Milton Keynes. She participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics partnering Robert Blair in the mixed doubles.-External links:*...
, English Olympic badminton player - Natalie "Nattie" NeidhartNattie NeidhartNatalie "Nattie" Katherine Neidhart is a Canadian professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE on its SmackDown brand under the ring name Natalya....
(born 1982), Canadian professional wrestler currently known as Natalya in WWE - Natalie PikeNatalie PikeNatalie Pike is a British model, raised in Berwick-on-Tweed and Stockport in England, who won the Miss British Isles Competition and the FHM High Street Honeys competition in 2004.- Education :...
, English model - Natalie PortmanNatalie PortmanNatalie Hershlag , better known by her stage name Natalie Portman, is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 French action film Léon, but major success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel...
(born 1981; real name: Natalie Hershlag), Israeli-born American actress - Natalie RaitanoNatalie RaitanoNatalie Raitano is an American actress.Raitano was born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. She is a 1984 graduate of Monongahela Valley Catholic High School, in Monongahela, Pennsylvania...
, American actress - Natalie SchaferNatalie SchaferNatalie Schafer was an American actress, best known as Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell on CBS's sitcom Gilligan's Island .-Early life and career:...
(1900–1991), American actress - Natalie SleethNatalie SleethNatalie Allyn Sleeth was an American composer.Sleeth was born in Evanston, Illinois. In 1934, she began to study the piano at the early age of four. Later in her life, she received an Academic major in music and a BA in music theory at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She married a Professor...
, American composer - Natalie Tyler Tran, Youtube.com celebrity
- Natalie WalkerNatalie WalkerNatalie Walker is an American vocalist, songwriter and musician from Indianawho first came to prominence as part of the group Daughter Darling. While her time in the low-key electronica trip hop outfit was promising, Walker decided on a solo career, and released her first album Urban Angel in 2006,...
, American musician - Natalie WoodNatalie WoodNatalie Wood, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko was an American film and television actress. After first working in films as a child, Wood became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old.Wood began acting in movies at the...
(1938-1981), American actress - Natalie Zemon DavisNatalie Zemon DavisNatalie Zemon Davis is a Canadian and American historian of the early modern period. She is currently a professor of history at the University of Toronto in Canada. Her work originally focused on France, but has since broadened to include other parts of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean...
, Canadian and American historian
Fictional characters:
- Natalie TeegerNatalie TeegerNatalie J. Teeger is a fictional character on the American crime drama Monk. She becomes Adrian Monk's personal assistant midway through the third season of the show...
, a fictional character from the TV series MonkMonkA monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose... - Natalie, a character from Ape Escape (series)
- Natalie, a version of Number SixNumber Six (Battlestar Galactica)Number Six is a family of fictional characters from the reimagined science fiction television series, Battlestar Galactica. She is portrayed by Canadian actress and model Tricia Helfer. Of the twelve known Cylon models, she is the sixth of the "Significant Seven"...
, from the reimagined Battlestar Galactica - Natalie from Home Alone 4Home Alone 4Home Alone 4, also known as Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House, is a 2002 American made-for-television family/Christmas film directed by Rod Daniel. It is the fourth and final installment in the Home Alone franchise...