Adrienne
For other uses, see Adrienne (disambiguation).
Adrienne | |
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Gender | Female |
Language(s) | French |
Origin | |
Meaning | from the city Hadria |
Other names | |
Short form(s) | Addie, Rienne, Enne |
Related names | Adrian, Adriana, Adrien |
Adrienne is the French feminine form of the male name Adrien. Its meaning is literally "from the city Hadria."[1] It also means "the dark one".
People named Adrienne
- Adrienne Albert (born 1941), composer
- Adrienne Ames (1907–1947), American actress
- Adrienne Arsenault (born 1967), Canadian journalist
- Adrienne Bailon (born 1983), member of girl group The Cheetah Girls
- Adrienne Barbeau (born 1945), American actress
- Adrienne Beames (born 1942), Australian long-distance runner
- Adrienne Bolland (1896–1975), French test pilot and first woman to fly over the Andes
- Adrienne Clarke (born 1938), Australian botanist and former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
- Adrienne Clarkson (born 1939), Canadian journalist and former Governor General of Canada
- Adrienne Corri (born 1933), Scottish actress
- Adrienne Fazan (1906–1986), American Academy Award-winning film editor
- Adrienne Frantz (born 1978), American actress and singer-songwriter
- Adrienne Goodson (born 1966), American former professional basketball player
- Adrienne Kennedy (born 1931), African-American playwright
- Adrienne Krausz (born 1967), Hungarian pianist
- Adrienne de La Fayette (1759–1807), wife of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
- Adrienne Lau, American singer and actress
- Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692–1730), French actress
- Adrienne Maloof (born 1961), American businesswoman and television personality
- Adrianne Palicki (born 1983), American actress
- Adrienne Posta (born 1948), English actress
- Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), American poet and essayist
- Adrienne Roy (born 1953), comic book colorist
- Adrienne Shelly (1966–2006), Russian-American filmmaker and actress
- Adrienne Du Vivier (1626–1706), one of the first white women settlers in Montreal
Fictional characters
- Adrienne Frost, Marvel Comics character
- Adrienne Johnson Kiriakis, from the soap opera Days of our Lives
References
See also
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