Camille (given name)

For the exclusively feminine name, see [[:Camilla (given name)]]. For other uses, see [[:Camille (disambiguation)]].

Camille

Pronunciation	/kəˈmɪl/ French: [kaˈmij]
Gender	female, male
Origin
Word/name	"acolyte" (young cult officiant); a Latin cognomen

Camille is a male and female given name.

History

The form Camille was later associated with the heroine of Dumas' The Lady of the Camellias (1848), which served as the basis for Verdi's opera La Traviata and several films. In Dumas' novel, Camille is not the given name of the heroine; this name was applied to her in derived works in the English-speaking world, presumably due to the similarity in sound to the floral name Camellia (which was coined by Linnaeus (1753) after the name of the Czech Jesuit missionary Georg Joseph Kamel).

The name Camille was given to the heroine as early as in a silent film of 1915, but it became widely known (and led to the increased popularity of the given name in the United States) with Greta Garbo's Camille of 1936.

Male

• Camille Chamoun (1900–1987), former president of Lebanon
• Camille Combal (born 1981), French television presenter
• Camille Cordahi, Lebanese footballer
• Camille Bob (1937–2015), American rhythm and blues singer and musician
• Camille Corot (1796–1875), French painter
• Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794), French journalist and revolutionary
• Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), French astronomer and author
• Camille Huard (born 1951), French-Canadian boxer
• Camille Jordan (born 1838), French mathematician
• Camille Lacourt (born 1985), French swimmer
• Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), French-Danish impressionist painter
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), French composer
• Camille Sée (1847–1919), French politician
• Camille Solon (1877–1960), British muralist and ceramist of French descent

Female

• Camille Anderson (born 1978), an American actress and model
• Camille Babut du Marès, Belgian violinist
• Camille Bonora (born 1956), a former Muppet performer
• Camille Catala (born 1991), a French football player
• Camille Claudel (1864–1943), a French female sculptor
• Camille Cosby (born 1944), an American philanthropist
• Camille Coduri (born 1965), a British actress
• Camille Dalmais (born 1978), a French singer and musician, better known as Camille
• Camille De Pazzis (born 1978), a French actress
• Camille Ford (born 1981), an American television personality, actress and producer
• Camille Grammer (born 1968), an American reality television star
• Camille Guaty (born 1976), an American actress
• Camille Herron (born 1981), an American long-distance runner
• Camille Keaton (born 1947), an American actress
• Camille Kitt (born 1988), an American actress and identical twin sister of Kennerly Kitt
• Camille Kostek (born 1992), American model and actress
• Camille Levin (born 1990), American soccer player
• Camille Munro (born 1991), Miss World Canada winner
• Camille Muffat (1989-2015), French swimmer
• Camille Natta (born 1977), French actress
• Camille Norment (born 1970), Norwegian-American multimedia artist
• Camille Saviola (born 1950), an Italian-American actress and singer
• Camille Seaman (born 1969), an American photographer
• Camille Sullivan (born 1975), a Canadian actress
• Camille O'Sullivan (born 1970), a British musician, vocalist and actress
• Camille Paglia (born 1947), an American professor, author and critic
• Camille Pin (born 1981), a French tennis player
• Camille Rowe (born 1990), a French model and actress

Fictional characters

For fictional characters called Camilla, see Camilla (given name)#Fictional characters

• Greta Garbo's Camille (1936)
• Princess Camille, protagonist of Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
• Camille, the main villainess in Power Rangers Jungle Fury
• Camille Montes, the lead Bond girl in the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace
• Camille, a pseudonym used by Prince during the late 1980s and early 1990s
• Camille Leon, a fictional shapeshifting character from Kim Possible portrayed by Ashley Tisdale
• Camille Saroyan, character of the TV series Bones
• Camille the Wood Elf, Character of Troll Tales
• Camille Bordey, a detective sergeant in the BBC series Death In Paradise
• Camille, a main character in the French series Les Revenants
• Kamille Bidan, the protagonist of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
• Camille Preaker, protagonist of Sharp Objects
• Camille, a fighter style champion in League of Legends