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Bianca is a feminine given name or an Italian family name. It means "white" in Italian[1] (it is an Italian cognate of Blanche). Bianca may refer to:
- Bianca Balti (born 1984), Italian model
- Bianca Beauchamp (born 1977), Canadian model
- Bianca Butler (born 1989), American ice skater
- Bianca Cappello (1548—1587), Grand Duchess of Tuscany
- Bianca Castanho (born 1979), Brazilian actress
- Bianca Chatfield (born 1982), Australian netball player
- Bianca Collins (born 1988), American actress
- Bianca Ferguson, American actress
- Bianca Gascoigne (born 1987), British model and TV personality
- Bianca Gonzalez (born 1983), Filipina TV personality
- Bianca Hagenbeek (born 1967), Dutch TV personality
- Bianca Jagger (born 1945), social and political activist
- Bianca Kajlich (born 1977), American actress
- Bianca Kappler (born 1977), German long jumper
- Bianca King (born 1986), Canadian–Filipina actress, Model
- Bianca Lamblin, French writer
- Bianca Lancia (c. 1200–c. 1233), Italian noble
- Bianca Langham Pritchard (born 1975), Australian field hockey player
- Bianca Lawson (born 1979), American actress
- Bianca de' Medici, called Bia (1536-1542)
- Bianca Netzler (born 1976), Australian field hockey player
- Bianca Onoh, Nigerian beauty-pageant contestant
- Bianca Rinaldi (born 1974), Brazilian actress
- Bianca Ryan (born 1994), American singer
- Bianca Sanchez, American actress
- Bianca Maria Sforza (1472–1510), Italian noble
- Bianca Solorzano, American TV journalist
- Bianca Trump (born 1972), American pornographic actress
- Bianca van Rangelrooy (born 1959), New Zealand artist
- Bianca Maria Visconti (1425–1468), Duchess of Milan
- Bianca Weiß (born 1968), German field hockey player
- Fictional
- Bianca (Mariah Carey), a character played by Mariah Carey in the video for her 1999 single "Heartbreaker"
- Bianca (Othello), a character from William Shakespeare's play Othello
- Bianca (Spyro the Dragon), a character from the video game series Spyro the Dragon
- Bianca (That's So Raven), a character from the American TV series That's So Raven
- A character from William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew
- A character from Bianca e Fernando, an 1828 opera by Vincenzo Bellini
- Bianca Castafiore, the Milanese Nightingale, a recurring character in The Adventures of Tintin
- Bianca di Angelo, a character in the fantasy novel The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
- Bianca Jackson, a character from the British soap opera EastEnders
- Bianca Montgomery, a character from the American soap opera All My Children
- Bianca Solderini, a character in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles
- Miss Bianca, a character from the animated films The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under
- A playable character in Dragon Quest V, whom the hero can choose to marry.
- Bianca Erdmann, a pre-pubescent nymphomaniac in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow.
- Bianca Reyes, mother to the third Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) in the DC continuum.
[edit] References
- ^ MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Bianca
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