Violet

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Contents 1 Color 2 People 3 Biology 4 Geography 5 Entertainment 6 Fictional characters 7 Other uses

Violet may refer to:

[edit] Color

• Violet (color), which is primarily used to describe a color often confused with purple

[edit] People

• Violet (name), a given name for girls
• Violet Berlin, presenter of the television program Game Pad
• Violet Blue, an American writer, podcaster, blogger, editor, sex educator, and sex columnist.
• Violet Bonham Carter, British politician
• Violet Jessop, stewardess, survived three famous shipwrecks including the Titanic
• Violet Wilkey, American child actress of the silent film era
• Violet, the stage name of singer Amelia Brightman

[edit] Biology

• Violet, a plant of the genus Viola
• African violet, a plant of the genus Saintpaulia that has a superficial resemblance to Viola
• Dogtooth violet, any of several species of the genus Erythronium
• Sea violet, a type of edible ascidian, or sea squirt

[edit] Geography

• Violet, Louisiana, United States, a community in St. Bernard Parish

[edit] Entertainment

• Violet (musical), an off-Broadway musical
• Violet (album), an album by The Birthday Massacre
• "Violet" (song), a song by the band Hole
• "Violet", a song by Seal, from his first album Seal (1991 album)
• Violet (film), a 1981 short film
• Violet (computer game), a 2008 interactive fiction

[edit] Fictional characters

• Violet (comics) a.k.a. Shrinking Violet, a character in the DC Comics series Legion of Super-Heroes
• Violet Gray, a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
• Violet Baudelaire, a character from the highly popular A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
• Violet Beauregarde, a character in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• Violet Parr, a character in the Pixar movie The Incredibles
• Violet Song jat Shariff, a character in the 2006 film UltraViolet
• An alias of the character Lee Chaolan in Tekken 4
• Violet, a character in Fifi & the Flowertots.
• Violet, a character in the 1980's cartoon Rainbow Brite
• Violet, a character in the 1978 film Pretty Baby, directed by Louis Malle
• Violet, a character in the 1996 film Bound
• Violet Heaslip, Becky Botsford's/WordGirl's best friend in the series of WordGirl
• Violet Potato, Elena Potato's baby sister in the series of Monster Allergy
• Dr. Violet Turner, a character in the television series, Private Practice, portrayed by Amy Brenneman

[edit] Other uses

• Violets, the name of New York University's sports teams, and the school color

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