Odette (given name)
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Odette is a French given name, a female form of Odet
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The Odet is a river in western France , which runs from Saint-Goazec into the Atlantic Ocean at Bénodet. Bénodet is being given its name from the river The Odet is a river in western France (Finistère department), which runs from Saint-Goazec (near Leuhan, in the Montagnes Noires of Brittany) into...
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- Odette, a character in the ballet Swan LakeSwan LakeSwan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...
- Odette BancilhonOdette BancilhonOdette Bancilhon was a French astronomer. She is known for her work during the 1930s and 1940s at the Algiers Observatory, where she discovered the asteroid 1333 Cevenola. All of her publications are signed O. Bancilhon, a practice of her profession at that time.She later married her colleague...
, a French astronomer - Odette BarenceyOdette BarenceyOdette Barencey was a French film actress. She appeared in 53 films between 1927 and 1958.-Selected filmography:* Girl and the River * Toute la ville accuse * Flesh and the Woman...
(died 1981), French film actress - Odette de ChampdiversOdette de ChampdiversOdette de Champdivers was the mistress of Charles VI of France...
(died ca. 1425), mistress of Charles VI of France - Odette DrandOdette DrandOdette Drand is a French fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.-References:...
(born 1927), French Olympic fencer - Odette DulacOdette DulacOdette Dulac was a French singing actress, born 14 July 1865 in Aire-sur-Adour a diseuse in the manner of Yvette Guilbert, who became a militant feminist and novelist...
, French actress and singer - Odette Hallowes, World War II Allied heroine
- Odette Henriette JacqminOdette Henriette JacqminOdette Henriette Jacqmin is a famous Thai-French supermodel, actress and singer born in Lyon, France, on October 13, 1982. Raised in France, she moved to Thailand at the age of 18 . She is 178 cm and 53 kg....
, Thai-French model and singer - Odette HerviauxOdette HerviauxOdette Herviaux is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Morbihan department. She is a member of the Socialist Party.-References:*...
(born 1948), French politician - Odette JoyeuxOdette JoyeuxOdette Joyeux was a French actress, playwright and novelist. She was born in Paris, where she studied dance at the Paris Opera Ballet before taking the stage. Joyeux started her film career in 1931. Her first notable film was Marc Allegret's Entrée des artistes...
(died 2000), French writer and actress - Odette KahnOdette KahnOdette Kahn was a leading authority on wine and editor of the La Revue du vin de France and of Cuisine et Vins de France . She was a judge at the historic Paris Wine Tasting of 1976...
(died 1982), French wine authority - Odette KrempinOdette KrempinOdette Maniema Krempin is an African entrepreneur,socialite and, honorary consul of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Frankfurt am Main....
(born 1976), Zairian fashion designer and socialite - Odette LapierreOdette LapierreOdette Lapierre is a former long-distance runner from Canada, who competed in the women's marathon at two consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1988...
(born 1955), Canadian marathoner - Odette LaureOdette LaureOdette Laure was a French actress and cabaret singer. She appeared in 57 films and television shows between 1950 and 2001. She was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for Daddy Nostalgia...
(died 2004), French actress and singer - Odette MyrtilOdette MyrtilOdette Myrtil was an American actress, singer, and violinist of French birth. She began her career as a violinist on the vaudeville stage in Paris at the age of 14. She expanded out into acting and singing, and had her first major success at the age of 18 on the London stage in the 1916 musical...
(died 1978), French-born American actress and musician - Odette NyiramilimoOdette NyiramilimoOdette Nyiramilimo is a Rwandan physician and senator. She served as Minister of State for Social Affairs in the government of Paul Kagame from March 2000 to October 2003....
(born 1956), Rwandan physician and former politician - Odette PiñeiroOdette PiñeiroDr. Odette Piñeiro is the former Secretary of Puerto Rico Department of Education , appointed by Governor Luis Fortuño on December 14, 2009, confirmed by the Senate of Puerto Rico on December 18, 2009 and sworn in by Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock on December 30, 2009. She succeeded Dr....
, Puerto Rican politician - Odette SansomOdette SansomOdette Sansom Hallowes GC, MBE, Chevalier de la légion d'honneur was an Allied heroine of the Second World War.-Early years:...
GCGeorge CrossThe George Cross is the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, and also holds, or has held, that status in many of the other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations...
, French spy, and the film OdetteOdette (film)Odette is a 1950 film that was directed by Herbert Wilcox and used a screenplay by Warren Chetham-Strode. The film starred Anna Neagle as Odette Sansom, an Allied French-born heroine of World War II who joined the Special Operations Executive and was sent to France to work with the resistance...
on her life story - Odette TchernineOdette TchernineOdette Tchernine is the author of several books on the Abominable Snowman or Yeti, such as In Pursuit of the Abominable Snowman, Taplinger Publishing, 1971. She worked heavily in this area at least from the 1950s through the 1970s. Before In Pursuit, she published The Snowman and Company...
, author of several books on the Yeti - Odette YustmanOdette YustmanOdette Juliette Annable , better known by her birth name Odette Yustman, is an American actress.-Early life:...
(born 1985), American actress