Amélie (given name)
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Amélie is a French
feminine given name
.
The variant form Amelie is used outside the Francophone
world, sometimes by French people.
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...
feminine given name
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...
.
The variant form Amelie is used outside the Francophone
Francophone
The adjective francophone means French-speaking, typically as primary language, whether referring to individuals, groups, or places. Often, the word is used as a noun to describe a natively French-speaking person....
world, sometimes by French people.
People with this given name
- Amélie Beaury-SaurelAmélie Beaury-SaurelAmélie Beaury-Saurel was a French painter.She was born in Barcelona. A pupil of J. Lefebvre, T. Robert-Fleury and J.P. Laurens in Académie Julian, she became a very popular portrait painter, thanks to Léon Bonnat....
(1849–1924), French painter - Amelie BeeseAmelie BeeseAmelie Hedwig Boutard-Beese , also known as Melli Beese was an early German female aviator born in Laubegast, on the outskirts of Dresden, Saxony.-Youth:...
(1886–1925), German aviator - Amelie ChabannesAmelie ChabannesAmelie Chabannes is a French artist whose paintings and sculptures derive from the unconscious and recall the Surrealist automatic drawing technique...
(born 1974), French artist - Amélie CocheteuxAmélie CocheteuxAmélie Cocheteux is a former professional tennis player from France. She reached her career high ranking of No. 55 in the world on 10 May 1999. She defeated world number ten Nathalie Tauziat in the Prostějov tournament in 1999...
(born 1978), former French professional tennis player - Amélie CoquetAmélie CoquetAmélie Coquet is a French football player currently playing for FCF Juvisy of the Division 1 Féminine. Coquet plays as a midfielder and is a member of the France women's national football team.-External links:*...
(born 1984), French football player - Amélie d'OrléansAmélie d'OrléansAmélie of Orléans was the last Queen consort of Portugal, known to her husband's subjects as "Maria Amélia"...
(1865–1951), the eldest daughter of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris - Amelie DelagrangeAmelie DelagrangeAmelie Delagrange was a French-born student living in Twickenham, south-west London, England murdered by Levi Bellfield...
(1982–2004), French murder victim - Amélie GexAmélie GexAmélie Rose Françoise Gex, was a Savoyard writer and poet who created works in French and Franco-Provençal . Until 1880, she published most of her writings under the pen name Dian de la Jeânna.-Biography:Amélie Gex was the daughter of the physician and winemaker Marc-Samuel Gex...
(1835–1883), Savoyard poet - Amélie GoudjoAmélie GoudjoAmélie Goudjo is a French handball player. She plays for the club Bera Bera and for the French national team....
(born 1980), French handball player - Amélie Goulet-NadonAmélie Goulet-NadonAmélie Goulet-Nadon is a Canadian short track speed skater who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics....
(born 1983), Canadian short track speed skater - Amelie KoberAmelie KoberAmelie Kober is a German Federal Police officer and Olympic medalist in snowboarding.-Biography:...
(born 1987), German snowboarder - Amélie KuhrtAmélie KuhrtAmélie Kuhrt FBA is a historian and specialist in the history of the ancient Near East.Professor Emerita at University College London, she specialises in the social, cultural and political history of the region from c.3000-100 BC, especially the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian and Seleucid empires....
(born 1944), historian and specialist in the history of the ancient Near East - Amélie LacosteAmélie LacosteAmélie Lacoste is a Canadian figure skater. She is a two-time Canadian bronze medalist and 2005 junior national champion. Her highest placement at an ISU Championship is 7th at the 2010 Four Continents Championships.- Career :Lacoste won the novice national title in 2003 and the junior national...
(born 1988), Canadian figure skater - Amélie Le FurAmélie Le FurAmélie Le Fur is a Paralympian athlete from France competing mainly in category T44 sprint events.She competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There she won a silver medal in the women's Long jump - F44 event, a silver medal in the women's 100 metres - T44 event and finished...
, French Paralympian athlete - Amélie of Leuchtenberg (1812–1873), Empress of Brazil as the wife of Emperor Pedro I
- Amélie LinzAmélie LinzAmélie Linz was a German author, born at Bamberg. She married an officer of engineers and four years after his death settled in Munich. Her literary work, largely under the influence of Paul Heyse, published under the name Amélie Godin, includes the novels Eine Katastrophe , Frauenliebe und...
(1824–1904), German author - Amélie Helga LundahlAmélie Helga LundahlAmélie Helga Lundahl was a Finnish painter.She studied in Stockholm's School of Fine Arts and obtained a student grant to continue her studies at the Académie Julian in Paris. Following a visit to Brittany in the 1870s, she decided to move there and paint her typical landscapes and...
(1850–1914), Finnish painter - Amélie MauresmoAmélie MauresmoAmélie Simone Mauresmo ; is a French former professional tennis player, and a former World No. 1. Mauresmo won two Grand Slam singles titles at the Australian Open and at Wimbledon....
(born 1979), retired professional tennis player - Amélie NothombAmélie NothombAmélie Nothomb is a Belgian writer who writes in French.- Biography :Amélie Nothomb was born in Kobe, Japan to Belgian diplomats. She lived there until she was five years old, and then subsequently lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, Coventry and Laos...
(born 1967), Belgian writer - Amélie PerrinAmélie PerrinAmélie Perrin is a female hammer thrower from France. Her personal best throw is 71.38 metres, achieved in July 2006 in Sotteville.-Achievements:-References:*...
(born 1980), French female hammer thrower - Amélie PlumeAmélie PlumeAmélie Plume is a Swiss writer born in 1943 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.- Studies :She carried out her study of letters and ethnology at the Université de Neuchâtel.- Travels :...
(born 1943), Swiss writer - Amelie PosseAmelie PosseAmelie Posse was a Swedish author. She is also known for her work against nazism during World War II.Amelie Posse was the daughter of Baron Fredrik Arvidsson Posse and Auda Gunhild Wennerberg...
(1884-1957), Swedish writer - Amélie Rives TroubetzkoyAmélie Rives TroubetzkoyAmélie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy was an American novelist and poet. Rives wrote at least twenty-four volumes of fiction, numerous uncollected poems, and Herod and Marianne , a verse drama. In 1888, she published novel The Quick or the Dead?, her most famous and popular work that sold 300,000 copies...
(1863–1945), American novelist and poet - Amélie SarnAmélie SarnAmélie Sarn-Cantin is a French author, comic book writer and translator. In 2006, she took over Geneviève Huriet's role as the author of the Beechwood Bunny Tales series, with Qu'as-tu fait, Mistouflet ? and L'album photo des Passiflore.In April 2002, Sarn published her first novel for adults,...
(born 1970), French author, comic book writer and translator
Fictional characters
- Amelie Planchard in the anime franchise Strike WitchesStrike Witchesis a mixed-media project originally created by Humikane Shimada via a series of magazine illustration columns. It was later adapted into two light novel series, three manga series, an anime OVA, a televised anime series and various video games. The story revolves around teenage girls who are...
- Amélie Poulain, protagonist of the film AmélieAmélieAmélie is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre...
See also
- AmélieAmélieAmélie is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre...
, a French film - Amelia (given name)
- Amélie (disambiguation)Amélie (disambiguation)Amélie may refer to:* Amélie * Amélie, a 2001 French film** Amélie from that film* Ameli.fr, official website of the French national health insurance office...
- other meanings