Pauline (given name)
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | French |
| Meaning | little |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Paulina |
Pauline is a female given name. It was originally the French form of Paulina, a female version of Paulinus, a variant of Paulus meaning the little, hence the younger.
The corresponding form for the name in Italian is Paolina (Paula corresponds to Paola). In Russian, the corresponding names are Павли́на (pronounced Pavlína) and Поли́на (pronounced poleenah). A Finnish form of the name is Pauliina; in Greece it is Παυλίνα or Πωλίνα (Paulina, pronounced Pavleena or Paulina, Poleena). In French, other diminutives of Paula exist, namely Paulette and Pauletta.
People
- Pauline Adams (1874–1958), Irish-American suffragist
- Pauline Ado (b. 1991), French professional surfer
- Pauline Alderman (1893–1983), US musicologist and composer
- Pauline Allen (b. 1948), Australian scholar of early Christianity
- Pauline Allen-Dean, Bahamian former banker
- Pauline Amos, British performance artist
- Pauline Armitage, Northern Ireland former politician
- Pauline Ashwell, pseudonym of British author Pauline Whitby (1928-2015)
- Pauline Auzou (1775–1835), French painter
- Pauline Morrow Austin (1916–2011), US meteorologist
- Pauline Baards, a stage name of Italian actor Paola Barbara (1912–1989)
- Pauline Irene Batebe, Ugandan engineer
- Pauline Baynes (1922–2008), English illustrator
- Pauline Bebe (b. 1965), French rabbi
- Pauline Bell (1912-2010), winner of the second Scripps National Spelling Bee champion
- Pauline Benda (1877–1985), French actress better known as Simone Le Bargy
- Pauline Bennett (b. 1964), British DJ and rapper also known as Jazzi P
- Pauline Bern (b. 1952), New Zealand jeweller
- Pauline Betz (1919–2011), US professional tennis player
- Pauline Bewick (1935–2022), Irish artist
- Pauline Bird-Hart (b. 1957), British rower
- Pauline Biscarat (b. 1989), French rugby sevens player
- Pauline Black (b. 1953), English singer
- Pauline Bøgelund (b. 1996), Danish handball player
- Pauline Bonaparte (1780–1825), Italian noble
- Pauline Boty (1938–1966), British painter
- Pauline Boutal (1894–1992), French-born Canadian artist, theatrical designer, actress and educator
- Pauline Browes (b. 1938), a Canadian former politician
- Pauline Powell Burns (1872–1912), African-American artist
- Pauline Cassin Caro (1828/34/35 - 1901), French novelist
- Pauline Chalamet (b. 1992), American actress, writer, and director
- Pauline Atherton Cochrane (born 1929), American librarian
- Pauline Collins (b. 1940), English actress
- Pauline Marie Armande Craven (1808–1891), French author
- Pauline Croze (b. 1979), French singer and musician
- Pauline Cushman (1833–1893), US actress and spy
- Pauline Davis (politician) (1917–1995), US politician
- Pauline Davis-Thompson (b. 1966), former Bahamian sprinter
- Pauline de Rothschild (1908–1976), writer and fashion designer
- Pauline Donalda (1882–1970), Canadian singer
- Pauline Ducruet (b. 1994), Monegasque noble
- Dame Pauline Engel (1930–2017), New Zealand educator and Catholic nun
- Pauline Fisk (1948–2015), British children's author
- Pauline Flanagan (1925–2003), Irish actress
- Pauline Fréchette (1889-1943), poet, dramatist, journalist, nun
- Pauline Frederick (1883–1938), US actor
- Pauline Gardiner (b. 1947), former New Zealand politician
- Pauline Garon (1900–1965), US actor
- Pauline Gedge (b. 1945), Canadian novelist
- Pauline Green (b. 1948), European politician
- Pauline Gregg (1909–2006), British historian
- Pauline Hanson (b. 1954), Australian politician
- Pauline Heßler (b. 1998), German ski jumper
- Pauline Holdstock (b. 1948), British-Canadian writer
- Pauline Hopkins (1859–1930), African-American novelist
- Pauline von Hügel (1858-1901), Italian-born Austrian baroness; British writer, philanthropist
- Pauline Jacobus (1840–1930), US studio potter
- Pauline-Marie Jaricot (1799–1862), French founder of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith and the Living Rosary Association.
- Pauline Jewett (1922–1992), Canadian politician
- E. Pauline Johnson (1861–1913), Canadian writer and performer
- Pauline Johnson (actress) (1899–1947), English film actor
- Pauline Julien (1928–1998), Canadian singer
- Pauline Kael (1919–2001), US film critic
- Pauline Koner (1912–2001), US dancer and choreographer
- Pauline Konga (b. 1970), retired Kenyan runner
- Pauline Kingi (b. 1951), Māori community leader
- Pauline LaFon Gore (1912–2004), mother of former US Vice President Al Gore and the wife of former US Senator Albert Gore Sr.
- Pauline Lafont (1963–1988), French actor
- Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891–1974), US chemist
- Pauline Maier (1938–2013), US historian
- Pauline Mailhac (1858–1946), Austrian-German opera singer
- Pauline Félicité de Mailly (1712–1741), French noble
- Pauline Marois (b. 1949), Canadian politician
- Pauline Mills McGibbon (1910–2001), Canadian politician
- Pauline McLynn (b. 1962), Irish actor
- Pauline McNeill (b. 1962) Scottish politician
- Pauline Melville (b. 1948), Guyanese-born writer and actor
- Pauline Menczer (b. 1970), Australian surfer
- Pauline Mendoza (b. 1999), Filipina actress and model
- Pauline von Metternich (1836–1921), Austrian socialite
- Anna Milder-Hauptmann (1785–1838), Austrian singer
- Pauline Moran (b. 1947), English actor
- Pauline Musters (1876–1895), the shortest woman ever recorded
- Pauline Ngan Po-ling, Chinese politician
- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones (b. 1939), former BBC Governor and Chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee
- Pauline Newstone, Canadian voice actor
- Pauline Nyiramasuhuko (b. 1946), Rwandan politician and war criminal
- Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016), US composer and accordionist
- Pauline O'Neill (disambiguation)
- Pauline O'Neill (sister), first president of Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana
- Pauline O'Neill (suffrage leader) (1865–1961), suffrage leader, Arizona state legislator, and widow of Buckey O'Neill
- Princess Pauline of Orange-Nassau {1800–1806), Dutch noble
- Pauline Pantsdown, stage name of Australian satirist Simon Hunt
- Pauline Parker (b. 1938), New Zealander murderer
- Pauline Parmentier (b. 1986), French tennis player
- Pauline-Euphrosine Paul (1803–1877), French ballet dancer also known as Madame Montessu
- Pauline Periwinkle (1863-1916), American journalist, poet, teacher, feminist
- Pauline Phillips (1918–2013), US writer of Dear Abby
- Pauline Picard (1947–2009), Canadian politician
- Pauline Polaire, Italian actor
- Paulina Porizkova (b. 1965), Czech model and actress
- Pauline Prior-Pitt, British poet
- Pauline Quirke (b. 1959), English actress
- Pauline Reade (d. 1963), British murder victim
- Pauline Réage, pseudonym of French journalist Anne Desclos (1907–1998)
- Pauline Richards, Canadian political candidate
- Pauline Robertson (b. 1968), retired Scottish field hockey player
- Pauline Roland (1805—1852), French feminist and socialist
- Pauline Dohn Rudolph (1865–1934), US painter
- Pauline Sabin (1887–1955), US prohibition repeal leader and Republican party official
- Pauline Scanlon, Irish singer
- Pauline Schmidt (1865–1944), Danish magician
- Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841–1917), US philanthropist and social reformer
- Pauline Small (1924–2005), Crow tribal politician
- Pauline Smith (1882–1959), South African novelist
- Pauline Stainer (b. 1941), English poet
- Pauline Starke (1901–1977), US actor
- Pauline Anna Strom, US composer and synthesist better known as Trans-Millenia Consort
- Pauline Thompson (1942–2012), New Zealand painter
- Pauline Thys (c.1836–1909), French composer and librettist
- Pauline Tompkins (1918–2004), president of Cedar Crest College
- Pauline, Lady Trevelyan {1816–1866), English painter
- Pauline van der Wildt (b. 1944), retired Dutch swimmer
- Pauline Vanier (1898–1991), Canadian vice-regal consort
- Pauline (singer) (Pauline Vasseur) (b. 1988), French singer
- Pauline Viardot (1821–1910), French singer
- Pauline Wayne (b. ca 1906), US President Taft's cow
- Pauline Payne Whitney (1874–1916), US heiress
- Pauline of Württemberg (disambiguation)
- Pauline Therese of Württemberg (1800–1873), daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg and third wife of King William I of Württemberg
- Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810–1856), daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg and second wife of William, Duke of Nassau
- Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1877–1965), daughter of William II of Württemberg and wife of William Frederick, Prince of Wied
- Pauline A. Young (1900–1991), African-American teacher, activist, and humanitarian
Fictional characters
- Ms. Pauline Fleming, a character from the 1988 film Heathers, and it's musical and TV adaptations
- Pauline Fowler, a character from the British soap opera EastEnders, portrayed by Wendy Richard
- Pauline, a character in Nintendo's Donkey Kong and Mario franchises
See also
- Pauline (disambiguation) (other meanings of the word Pauline)
- The Perils of Pauline, a series of films
- Paulina
- Pavlina
- All pages with titles beginning with Pauline
- All pages with titles beginning with Princess Pauline
External links
- Lexikoneintrag über den Namen Pauline at vorname.com (in German)
- Entry at onomastik.com (in German)
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