Blanche (given name)

Blanche

Gender	Female
Origin
Meaning	White
Other names
Related names	Bianca, Blanca, Branca

Blanche is a feminine given name. It means "white" in French, derived from the Late Latin word "blancus",

People

French royalty

• Blanche of Castile (1188–1252), Queen of France, granddaughter of Blanca of Navarre (daughter of Garcia VI)
• Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France (Blanche d'Évreux, 1330–1398)
• Blanche of France, Infanta of Castile (1253–1323), daughter of King Louis IX of France, wife of Fernando, the eldest son of Alfonso X of Castile
• Blanche of France, Duchess of Austria (c. 1278–1305), daughter of King Philip II of France, wife of Rudolf I of Bohemia
• Blanche of France (nun) (1313–1358), daughter of King Philip V of France
• Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (1328–1382), posthumous daughter of King Charles IV of France, Duchess consort of Orleans
• Blanche of Burgundy, Queen of France

Navarrese royalty

• Blanche of Navarre, Queen of Castile (after 1133 – 1156), daughter of García Ramírez of Navarre, wife of King Sancho III of Castile
• Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne (died 1229), Countess of Champagne and regent of Navarre
• Blanche of Artois (1248–1302), queen consort and regent of Navarre
• Blanche of Navarre, Duchess of Brittany (1226–1283), also known as Blanche of Champagne, wife of duke John I of Brittany
• Blanche I of Navarre (1385–1441), queen regnant of Navarre, wife of John II of Navarre
• Blanche II of Navarre (1424–1464), daughter of Blanche I of Navarre; pretender of Navarre, divorced Queen of Castile

Other nobility

• Blanche of Namur (1320–1363), queen-consort of Norway and Sweden
• Duchess Blanche of England (1392–1409), also known as Blanche of Lancaster, daughter of King Henry IV
• Blanche of Brittany (1271–1327), mother of Robert III of Artois
• Blanche of Sicily, wife of Robert III of Flanders
• Blanche of Anjou (1280–1310), wife of James II of Aragon
• Lady Blanche Arundell (1583 or c. 1584–1649), wife of Thomas Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Wardour
• Blanche de Brienne, Baroness Tingry (c. 1252–c. 1302)
• Blanche del Carretto (1432–1458), Lady Consort of Monaco
• Lady Blanche, daughter of Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough
• Blanche of Valois (1316–1348), wife of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Other people

• Blanche d'Alpuget, Australian novelist and biographer, second wife of former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke
• Blanche Baker, actress
• Blanche Bates, actress
• Blanche Bingley (1863–1946), English tennis player
• Blanche Bruce (1841–1898), first African-American to serve a full term in the United States Senate
• Blanche Calloway, 1930s African-American jazz singer
• Blanche Wiesen Cook (born 1941), American professor of history and author
• Blanche Deschamps-Jéhin (1857–1923), French operatic contralto
• Blanche Friderici (1878—1933), American film and stage actress
• Blanche Lazzell, modernist painter and printmaker
• Blanche Douglass Leathers, first female steamboat captain
• Blanche Lincoln (born 1960), former U.S. Senator from Arkansas
• Blanche Martin (born 1937), American Football League player in 1960
• Blanche McManus (1869–1935), American writer and artist
• Blanche Hoschedé Monet (1865–1947), French painter, both stepdaughter and daughter-in law of Claude Monet
• Blanche Oelrichs, actress and poet
• Blanche Ravalec, actress
• Blanche Roddick, mother of tennis player Andy Roddick
• Blanche Scott (1885–1970), possibly the first American woman aviator
• Blanche Sweet (1896–1986), American early silent film actress
• Blanche Thebom, operatic soprano
• Blanche Walsh, actress

Fictional characters

• Blanche Devereaux, in the television series The Golden Girls and The Golden Palace
• Blanche DuBois, in the play A Streetcar Named Desire and its adaptations
• the title character of the 1948 British film Blanche Fury, played by Valerie Hobson
• Blanche Hunt, in the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Blanche Ingram, from the novel Jane Eyre
• Madamoiselle Blanche De Cominges, from Dostoyevsky's novel The Gambler
• Blanche White, in the board game Cluedo (Clue in US)
• Blanca Trueba, in Isabel Allende's novel The House of the Spirits
• Blanche Buck, in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde
• Blanche, a white cat in 1977 Japanese surrealistic horror film Hausu
• Blanche, Kaede Saitou's angel in the anime and manga series Angelic Layer
• Blanche Norton; from the 1950s comedy show, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. Bea Benaderet played the character.
• Blanche; Team Mystic's leader from 2016 game Pokemon Go.

See also

• Blanche (disambiguation)