Caroline
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Gender | Female |
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Related names | Carolyn, Carol, Carolin, Carolyne |
Caroline or Carolyn is a given name for women. It is a feminine form of Charles.
It may refer to:
People
XVIIth -XIXth century
- Caroline of Ansbach (1683–1737), queen consort of George II of Great Britain
- Caroline of Brunswick (1768–1821), queen consort of George IV of the United Kingdom
- Caroline Bonaparte, (1782-1839),
- Caroline Ridderstolpe (1793-1878), Swedish composer
- Caroline Gibert , or Maria Caroline Gibert de Lametz (1793-1879),
- Caroline von Hessen-Homburg (1819−1872),
- Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
XXth and XXIst century
- Caroline Aherne (born 1963), British comedian, actress and writer
- Caroline Anthonypillai (1908–2009), Sri Lankan trade unionist and founder of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party
- Caroline, Princess of Hanover (born 1957), heir presumptive to the throne of Monaco
- Caroline Burckle (born 1986), American swimmer
- Caroline D' Amore (born 1984), American model and actress
- Caroline Delas (born 1980), French rower
- Caroline Dhenin (born 1973), French tennis player
- Caroline Fayard (born 1978), Louisiana politician
- Caroline Flack (born 1980), British television presenter
- Caroline Flint (born 1961), British politician
- Caroline Foot (born 1965), British butterfly swimmer
- Caroline Garcia (born 1993), Dhenin's French compatriot and tennis player
- Caroline Graham (born 1931), English author and screenwriter
- Caroline Kennedy (born 1957), author, attorney, daughter and only surviving child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
- Caroline Myss (born 1952), American self-help, spirituality and mysticism author
- Caroline Lufkin (born 1981), Okinawan-American musician
- Caroline Rhea (born 1964), Canadian actor
- Caroline Stoll (born 1960), American former tennis player
- Caroline Trentini (born 1987), Brazilian fashion model
- Caroline Vis (born 1970), Dutch former tennis player
- Caroline Wensink (born 1984), Dutch volleyball player
- Caroline Winberg (born 1985), Swedish model
- Caroline Wittrin (born 1968), Canadian former hammer thrower
- Caroline Wozniacki (born 1990), Danish tennis player
Geography
- Big Caroline Rock, Tasmania
- Caroline Island, an uninhabited coral atoll in the central Pacific, part of the Line Islands archipelago (Kiribati)
- Caroline Islands an archipelago in the western Pacific, northeast of New Guinea
- Caroline, New York
- Caroline County, Virginia
- Caroline County, Maryland
- Caroline, Wisconsin an unincorporated community
Music
- "Caroline (song)", a single by British rock band Status Quo
- "Sweet Caroline", a single by American singer Neil Diamond
- "Caroline", a 1974 Jefferson Starship song from their Dragon Fly album.
- Radio Caroline, a UK radio station
- Caroline Records, A record label
- Caroline Distribution
- Caroline, or Change, a musical with lyrics by Tony Kushner
Ships
- Carolina (ship), also known as Caroline, a merchant ship that tried to break though a United States Navy blockade of Galveston, Texas, during the American Civil War
- HMS Caroline, various ships of the British Royal Navy
- SS Caroline, a Confederate States blockade runner that later served in the United States Navy as USS Arizona (1858)
- USS Caroline (SP-1105), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
Fictional
- Caroline Brady, a character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives
- Carrie Brady Reed or Caroline Anna Brady-Reed, a character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives
- Cara Castillo Martin or Carolyn Castllio, a character on the American soap opera All My Children
- Carly Benson Corinthos-Jacks or Caroline Leigh Benson Corinthos-Jacks, a character on the American soap opera General Hospital
- Caroline, secretary to Cave Johnson, two characters from the highly acclaimed Portal series.
Other uses
- The Caroline affair, an 1837 border incident between the United States and Canada named after the steamer Caroline
- The Caroline Age, the period in English history covering the reign of Charles I of England (1625–1649)
- The Caroline minuscule, sometimes just "Caroline," also known as the Carolingian minuscule
- Caroline?, a 1990 made-for-TV film in the Hallmark Hall of Fame starring Stephanie Zimbalist, based on a novel by E. L. Konigsburg
- Radio Caroline, a former British-based pirate radio station, now a legal satellite and internet broadcaster
See also
- Carolina (disambiguation)
- Coraline, a novella by Neil Gaiman
- Coraline (film), a 2009 film based on the novella
- Carolyn Keene, pseudonym of the author(s) of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls, also mystery stories
- Karoline
- Caroleans, soldiers of Charles XII of Sweden