Pauline (name)
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Pauline is a female given name. It was originally the French
form of Paulina
, a female version of Paulinus, a variant of Paulus meaning the little, hence the younger.
The corresponding form for the name in Italian is Paolina (Paula corresponds to Paola). In Russian, the corresponding name is Paulina (from Pavla). A Finnish form of the name is Pauliina; in Greece it is Παυλίνα or Πωλίνα . In French, other diminutives of Paula exist, namely Paulette and Pauletta.
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
form of Paulina
Paulina (name)
Paulina is a female given name. It is a female version of Paulinus, a variant of Paulus meaning the little.Paula and Pauline are variants on this name.-Famous Paulinas:* Paulina, the name of several Roman women related to Emperor Hadrian...
, a female version of Paulinus, a variant of Paulus meaning the little, hence the younger.
The corresponding form for the name in Italian is Paolina (Paula corresponds to Paola). In Russian, the corresponding name is Paulina (from Pavla). A Finnish form of the name is Pauliina; in Greece it is Παυλίνα or Πωλίνα . In French, other diminutives of Paula exist, namely Paulette and Pauletta.
People
- Pauline (singer)Pauline (singer)Pauline Vasseur , who performs under the mononym Pauline, is a French composer, songwriter and singer.-Biography:...
, French singer - Pauline BaynesPauline BaynesPauline Diana Baynes was an English book illustrator, whose work encompassed more than 100 books, notably those by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. She was born in Hove, Sussex....
- Pauline BetzPauline BetzPauline May Betz Addie was an American professional tennis player.She won five Grand Slam singles titles and was the runner-up on three other occasions. Jack Kramer has called her the second best female tennis player he ever saw, behind Helen Wills Moody.-Early life:Betz attended Los Angeles High...
- Pauline BewickPauline BewickPauline Bewick is an Irish artist.Bewick now lives and works in County Kerry, where she spent some of her peripatetic childhood on a farm. She is a descendant of 19th century artist Thomas Bewick....
- Pauline BonapartePauline BonapartePauline Bonaparte was the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla, an imperial French Princess and the Princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano. She was the sixth child of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Buonaparte, Corsica's representative to the court of King Louis XVI of France. Her elder brother,...
- Pauline BotyPauline BotyPauline Boty was a founder of the British Pop art movement and Britain's only notable female Pop art painter. Boty's paintings and collages often demonstrated a joy in self-assured femininity and female sexuality, and expressed overt or implicit criticism of the "man's world" in which she lived...
- Pauline BrowesPauline BrowesPauline Browes, PC is a Canadian politician. She was a Member of Parliament between 1984 and 1993.An educator by training, Browes was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Scarborough Centre in the 1984 federal election that brought...
- Pauline CollinsPauline CollinsPauline Collins, OBE is an English actress of the stage, television, and film. She first came to prominence portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah during the 1970s. She later drew acclaim for playing the title role in the play Shirley Valentine for which...
- Pauline Marie Armande CravenPauline Marie Armande CravenPauline Marie Armande Craven née de La Ferronnays was a French author.-Early life:She was the daughter of a Breton nobleman. Her father, the comte Auguste de la Ferronays, was a close friend of the duc de Bern, whom he accompanied on his return to France in 1814...
- Pauline CrozePauline CrozePauline Croze is a French pop/folk singer and musician.She started to sing and play the guitar when she was 14 and 6 years later she made her first demos with Quito of the group Señor Holmes. At this time she made her very first appearance on stage.In 2003, she collaborated with Anne Claverie and...
- Pauline CushmanPauline CushmanPauline Cushman , was an American actress and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Pauline Davis (politician)Pauline Davis (politician)Pauline L. Davis served in the California State Assembly from 1953 until she retired in 1976. She was a Democrat...
- Pauline Davis-Thompson
- Princess Pauline von Metternich
- Pauline de RothschildPauline de RothschildPauline de Rothschild was a writer, a fashion designer, and, with her second husband, a translator of both Elizabethan poetry and the plays of Christopher Fry...
- Pauline DonaldaPauline DonaldaPauline Donalda, OC was a Canadian operatic soprano.Born Pauline Lightstone in Montreal, Quebec, she studied music at Royal Victoria College. In 1902 she studied in Paris and made her debut in 1904 in Nice. In 1922, she opened a studio in Paris and became a teacher...
- Pauline DucruetPauline DucruetPauline Grace Maguy Ducruet is the daughter of HSH Princess Stéphanie of Monaco and Daniel Ducruet...
- Pauline FlanaganPauline FlanaganPauline Flanagan was a County Sligo, Irish Free State-born actress who had a long career on stage. American television audiences best knew her as Annie Colleary on the soap opera Ryan's Hope....
- Pauline FowlerPauline FowlerPauline Fowler is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, a long-running serial drama about working class life in the fictional London borough of Walford. She was played by actress Wendy Richard between 1985 and 2006. Pauline was created by scriptwriter Tony Holland and producer...
- Pauline FrederickPauline FrederickPauline Frederick was a leading Broadway actress who later became known for her motion picture work.-Early years:...
- Pauline García-ViardotPauline Garcia-ViardotPauline Viardot [née García] was a leading nineteenth-century French mezzo-soprano, pedagogue and composer of Spanish descent.-Name:Her name appears in various forms. When it is not simply "Pauline Viardot", it most commonly appears in association with her maiden name García or the unaccented...
- Pauline GardinerPauline GardinerPauline Gardiner is a former New Zealand politician.-Member of Parliament:Gardiner was a member of parliament from 1993 to 1996, representing first the National Party and then United New Zealand...
- Pauline GaronPauline GaronPauline Garon was a Canadian-born American silent film, feature film and stage actress.-Early life:Born in Montreal, Quebec as Marie Pauline Garon, Garon was the daughter of Pierre and Victoria Garon. Pierre was of French descent and Victoria's heritage was Irish...
- Pauline GedgePauline GedgePauline Gedge is a Canadian novelist best known for her historical fiction trilogies, Lords of the Two Lands and The King’s Men. She also writes science fiction, fantasy and horror. Her 13 novels have sold more than six million copies in 18 languages. -Life and career:Pauline Gedge was born...
- Pauline GreenPauline GreenDame Pauline Green DBE is a former Labour and Co-operative Member of the European Parliament and former Leader of the Parliamentary Group of the Party of European Socialists...
- Pauline GreggPauline Gregg-Works:Her published works concentrated on the period of the English Civil Wars of the 17th century and the history of social life in Britain.Among her published titles are:*King Charles I: Biography of Charles I....
- Pauline HansonPauline HansonPauline Lee Hanson is an Australian politician and former leader of Pauline Hanson's One Nation, a political party with a populist and anti-multiculturalism platform...
- Pauline HoldstockPauline HoldstockPauline Holdstock is a British-Canadian essayist and writer of historical fiction. Into the Heart of the Country, her seventh novel, was published in 2011.Born in England, she came to Canada in 1974, and resides in Vancouver, British Columbia....
- Pauline HopkinsPauline HopkinsPauline Elizabeth Hopkins was a prominent African-American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes. Her work reflects the influence of W. E. B...
- Pauline JacobusPauline JacobusPauline Jacobus was an American studio potter from Chicago who worked in Edgerton, Wisconsin.Jacobus, the wife of a Chicago merchant of the 1880s, was an accomplished painter of porcelain before she decided to try her hand at crafting and decorating the very first art pottery in Chicago in 1883....
- Pauline JewettPauline JewettPauline Jewett, was a Canadian Member of Parliament.Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, she received a BA and a MA from Queen's University and a Ph.D in political science from Harvard University in 1949...
- Pauline JohnsonPauline JohnsonEmily Pauline Johnson , commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson, was a Canadian writer and performer popular in the late 19th century...
- Pauline JulienPauline JulienPauline Julien, CQ was a singer, songwriter, actress, feminist activist and Quebec sovereigntist.Born in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Julien was the companion of the poet and Québec provincial MLA Gérald Godin, another Trifluvian and sovereigntist. She also worked with Gilles Vigneault and recorded...
- Pauline KaelPauline KaelPauline Kael was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Earlier in her career, her work appeared in City Lights, McCall's and The New Republic....
- Pauline KongaPauline KongaPauline Konga is a Kenyan athlete.At the 1996 Summer Olympics she won the silver medal in the 5000 m, behind Wang Junxia of China and in front of Roberta Brunet of Italy. The result made Konga first Kenyan woman to win an Olympic medal.She is married to Paul Bitok, who won men's 5000 metres at the...
- Pauline Kumeroa KingiPauline Kumeroa KingiPauline Kumeroa Kingi, CNZM is a well-known Māori community leader.-Biography:Pauline Kingi received an LL.M. from Harvard and was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in 1980 and is also a Corporate director, with membership of both the Institute of Directors and the New Zealand Institute of...
- Pauline LaFon GorePauline LaFon GorePauline LaFon Gore was the mother of former United States Vice President Al Gore and the wife of former US Senator Al Gore, Sr.. She is credited with playing a significant role in both of their careers with Al Gore saying "there will never be a better campaigner than Pauline LaFon Gore"...
- Pauline LafontPauline LafontPauline Lafont was a French actress. She was the daughter of film star Bernadette Lafont and Diourka Medveczky, an Hungarian sculptor....
- Pauline MaroisPauline MaroisPauline Marois is the current leader of the Parti Québécois in the province of Quebec, since June 27, 2007 and current Leader of the Official Opposition of the National Assembly of Quebec, representing the riding of Charlevoix...
- Pauline McLynnPauline McLynnPauline McLynn is an Irish actress, comedienne and author, best known for playing Mrs Doyle in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, and Libby Croker in the Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless.- Early life :...
- Pauline McNeillPauline McNeillPauline McNeill is a Labour politician and formerly a Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Kelvin, Scotland, having been elected in the Scottish Parliament elections in 1999, 2003 and 2007...
- Pauline MelvillePauline MelvillePauline Melville is a Guyanese-born writer and actress. Her mother was English, and her father Guyanese. Her first book, Shape-Shifter , a collection of short stories, won the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize , and the Guardian Fiction Prize.The book consists of a number of short stories dealing...
- Pauline MenczerPauline MenczerPauline Menczer is an Australian surfer. She won the 1988 women's amateur world title and the 1993 women's world championship and has been a long-standing competitor on the world championship tour....
- Pauline Mills McGibbonPauline Mills McGibbonThe Hon. Pauline Mills McGibbon, CC, O.Ont , served as the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1974 to 1980...
- Pauline MoranPauline MoranPauline Moran is an English actress known for her role as Miss Lemon in the British television series Agatha Christie's Poirot....
- Pauline MustersPauline MustersPauline Bennett is, at tall, recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest woman ever recorded....
- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
- Pauline NewstonePauline NewstonePauline Newstone is a voice actress.- Voice credits :*Beast Wars - Airazor *Dragon Ball Z - Frieza *Class of the Titans - Medusa*Hamtaro - Kaitlin Endo*Inuyasha - Mistress Centipede...
- Pauline NyiramasuhukoPauline NyiramasuhukoPauline Nyiramasuhuko is a Rwandan politician who was the Minister for Family Welfare and the Advancement of Women. She was accused of having incited troops and militia to rape thousands of women during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994...
- Pauline OliverosPauline OliverosPauline Oliveros is an American accordionist and composer who is a central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music....
- Pauline O'Neill (disambiguation)
- Pauline PantsdownPauline PantsdownSimon Hunt, sometimes known as Pauline Pantsdown, is an Australian satirist and Australian Senate candidate who parodied Pauline Hanson, a controversial former member of federal parliament, in 1997. His birth name was Simon Hunt, but he changed his name by deed poll so that he would appear on the...
- Pauline ParkerPauline ParkerPauline Yvonne Parker is a woman from Christchurch, New Zealand who, together with her friend Juliet Hulme , murdered her mother, Honora Rieper, on 22 June 1954...
- Pauline ParmentierPauline ParmentierPauline Parmentier is a professional tennis player from France. Her career high was #40, achieved on 21 July 2008 and her highest ranking in doubles was World Number 146 on 15 June 2009.-Background:...
, French tennis player - Pauline Payne WhitneyPauline Payne WhitneyPauline Payne Whitney , was an American heiress and a member of the prominent Whitney family.She was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of William C. Whitney and Flora Whitney...
- Pauline PhillipsPauline PhillipsPauline Phillips is an American advice columnist and radio show host who began the "Dear Abby" column in 1956. Married to Morton Phillips, the couple has two children, a son, Edward Jay Phillips, and a daughter, Jeanne Phillips....
, better known by her pseudonym of Dear AbbyDear AbbyDear Abby is the name of the advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name Abigail Van Buren and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to the pen name.... - Pauline PicardPauline PicardPauline Picard was a Quebec politician. She was the Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament for the riding of Drummond from 1993 to 2008....
- Pauline Polaire
- Pavlína PořízkováPaulina PorizkovaPavlína Pořízková-Ocasek is a Czech model and actress. At the age of eighteen years, she became the first woman from Central Europe to grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated swim-suit issue. She was the second woman to be featured on the swim-suit issue's front cover consecutive times...
, Czech model and actress - Pauline Prior-PittPauline Prior-PittPauline Prior-Pitt is a British poet who lives in North Uist, Scotland.- Personal life and career :Pauline lives in Grenitote in North Uist, an island in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland.- Publications :...
- Pauline QuirkePauline QuirkePauline Perpetua Quirke is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Sharon in the comedy series Birds of a Feather, alongside her lifelong friend and frequent acting partner Linda Robson...
- Pauline Reade
- Pauline RéagePauline RéageAnne Desclos was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage.-Early life:...
- Pauline Richards
- Pauline RobertsonPauline RobertsonPauline Judith Robertson-Stott is a retired female field hockey player from Scotland. She represented Great Britain in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 when she captained the team that ended up in fourth place....
- Pauline Robinson Bush
- Pauline RolandPauline RolandPauline Roland was a French feminist and socialist.Upon her mother's insistence, Roland received a good education and was introduced to the ideas of Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, the founder of French socialism, by one of her teachers. She became an enthusiastic supporter of his...
- Pauline SabinPauline SabinPauline Sabin was a New Yorker who founded the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform in 1929. Time recognized her work promoting the repeal of prohibition by featuring her on its cover on July 18, 1932.-Background:...
- Pauline ScanlonPauline ScanlonPauline Scanlon is a singer of contemporary and traditional Irish music.Dingle is in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht, which is an area where the population's first language is Irish. Scanlon has been singing professionally since she was 15 years old...
- Pauline SmallPauline SmallPauline Small was the first woman to be elected to office in the Crow Tribe of Indians. In 1966 she was elected to Vice-Secretary of the Crow Tribal Council, holding office de facto to 1972, and served in various positions within the Crow Tribal Offices, many to do with supporting...
- Pauline SmithPauline SmithPauline Janet Smith is known as one of South Africa's greatest writers.Pauline Smith was born on 2 April 1882 in Oudtshoorn, South Africa, and grew up in the Little Karoo. At the age of thirteen she was sent to boarding school in England and never lived permanently in South Africa again, though...
- Pauline StainerPauline StainerPauline Stainer is an acclaimed English poet. She was born in the industrial district of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. She later left the city to attend St Anne's College, Oxford, where she took a degree in English...
- Pauline StarkePauline StarkePauline Starke was an American silent-film actress born in Joplin, Missouri.She made her acting debut appearing as a dance extra in D.W. Griffith's film Intolerance...
- Pauline TompkinsPauline TompkinsPauline "Polly" Tompkins was the first woman President of Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States and a pioneer in American education and women's education....
- Pauline van der WildtPauline van der WildtPaulina Jacoba van der Wildt was a Dutch swimmer who won the bronze medal in the 4x100 metres Freestyle Relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Her teammates in that race, who clocked in at 4:12, were Toos Beumer, Erica Terpstra and Winnie van Weerdenburg.-References:* *...
- Pauline VanierPauline VanierThe Honourable Pauline Vanier, PC, CC, DStJ , born Pauline Archer in Montreal, married Georges Vanier on September 29, 1921. Georges would become one of Canada's first professional diplomats, Canada's first ambassador to France and Canada's first Canadian-born French-speaking Governor General of...
- Pauline WaynePauline WaynePauline Wayne was a Holstein cow which belonged to William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States. Also known as "Miss Wayne", Pauline was not Taft's first presidential cow: she replaced the lesser-known "Mooley Wooly", who provided milk for the First Family for a year and a half...
- Princess Pauline of WürttembergPrincess Pauline of WürttembergPrincess Pauline Friederike Marie of Württemberg, full German name: Pauline Friederike Marie, Prinzessin von Württemberg was a member of the House of Württemberg and a Princess of Württemberg by birth...
- Princess Pauline of Orange-NassauPrincess Pauline of Orange-NassauPrincess Pauline Charlotte of Orange-Nassau was a Princess of the House of Orange-Nassau.-Life:...
- Princess Pauline von Metternich
- Princess Pauline, Duchess of Sagan
See also
- Pauline (disambiguation) (other meanings of the word Pauline)
- The Perils of PaulineThe Perils of PaulineThe Perils of Pauline may refer to:* The Perils of Pauline , a 1914 silent film serial* The Perils of Pauline , a 1933 film serial from Universal Studios...
a series of films