Gladys (given name)
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Gladys is a feminine name from the Welsh
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

 name Gwladus or Gwladys
Gwladys (disambiguation)
Saint Gwladys ferch Brychan or St Gladys , was the beautiful Queen of Saint Gwynllyw Milwr.Gwladys is also the name of:* Gwladys ferch Dafydd , Welsh noblewoman, daughter of Dafydd ap Gruffudd...

, which bears the meaning of royalty (princess)
or the gladiolus
Gladiolus
Gladiolus is a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the iris family...

 flower.

It has been sometimes used as a Welsh form of Claudia
Claudia
-Ancient Romans:* Claudia , a legendary Vestal Virgin* Claudia Augusta , infant daughter of Nero by his second wife* Claudia Capitolina, a princess of Commagene originally from Roman Egypt...

.

People

  • Gladys Aylward
    Gladys Aylward
    Gladys May Aylward was the evangelical Christian missionary to China whose story was told in the book The Small Woman by Alan Burgess, published in 1957...

     (1902–1970), English Missionary to China
  • Gladys Berejiklian
    Gladys Berejiklian
    Gladys Berejiklian MP , an Australian politician, is the Minister for Transport in the O'Farrell Government. Berejiklian is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Willoughby for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2003.-Early years and background:Berejiklian was born in...

    , Australian politician
  • Gladys Brockwell
    Gladys Brockwell
    Gladys Brockwell was an American actress whose career began during the silent film era.-Early life:Born Gladys Lindeman in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of a chorus girl who put her on stage at a very early age. By the time she reached her middle teens, she was already a veteran and...

    , American actress
  • Gladys Bustamante
    Gladys Bustamante
    Gladys Bustamante, OJ, was a Jamaican workers' and women's rights activist and the widow of Jamaica's first Prime Minister, Sir Alexander Bustamante...

     (1912–2009), Jamaican activist
  • Gladys Cooper
    Gladys Cooper
    Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television....

    , English actress
  • Gladys Knight
    Gladys Knight
    Gladys Maria Knight , known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman, humanitarian, and author...

    , American singer/actress
  • Gladys Rich
    Gladys Rich
    Gladys Rich was an American composer and the author of "American Lullaby".-Biography:Rich was born in Decatur County, Georgia on March 21, 1904. The daughter of Euzema and Menla Rich, Gladys was raised on the family farm...

     (1904–1994), American composer

Fictional characters

  • Gladys Hotchkiss, one of the lead characters in the musical The Pajama Game
    The Pajama Game
    The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a seven-and-a-half cents raise are going unheeded...

  • Gladys Emmanuel, a character off Open All Hours
    Open All Hours
    Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke which ran for four series a first run in 1976, a second run in 1981, third in 1982 and finally with a fourth run in 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series in 1973...

  • Gladys Kravitz
    Gladys Kravitz
    Gladys Kravitz is a fictional character on the American situation comedy Bewitched . Portrayed by Alice Pearce from the show's premiere in 1964 until Pearce's death in 1966 and then by Sandra Gould from 1966 until her last appearance in 1971, Gladys Kravitz is an across-the-street neighbor of the...

    , the snoopy neighbor who always spies on the Stephens household in the TV show Bewitched
    Bewitched
    Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York and Dick Sargent , Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who marries a mortal and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban...

  • Gladys Pugh, Chief Yellowcoat, sports organiser and voice of Radio Maplin in the BBC comedy Hi-de-Hi!
    Hi-de-Hi!
    Hi-de-Hi! is a British sitcom that aired on the BBC from 1980-1988. It was set in a holiday camp during the 1950s and 1960s and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who had written Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum. The title was the phrase used to greet the campers and in early episodes...

  • Gladys Porter, the scatterbrained wife in the TV sitcom Pete and Gladys
    Pete and Gladys
    Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy broadcast by CBS on Monday night at 8:00pm Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960...

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