Adelaide (name)
Adelaide is a feminine given name .
Origin and meaning
Adelaide is an Italian , Portuguese or English variant of the first name Adelheid and means “of noble nature” or “of noble nature”. The name is pronounced a little differently, as is the French form of the name Adélaïde . The Spanish or Hungarian variant is Adelaida , Polish Adelajda.
Older forms of the name are Adelayda, Adelaydis or Adelasia.
The name is often combined with Maria to form a double name : Maria-Adelaide.
Name bearers
Nobles
- Adelaide di Susa , also Adelaide di Torino (1016-1091), Margravine of Turin
- Adelaide di Savona (1072–1118), Countess and Regent of Sicily and Queen of Jerusalem.
English name form
- Adelaide Ames (1900–1932), American astronomer
- Adelaide Amurane (* 1960), Mozambican economist and politician (FRELIMO)
- Adelaide Bartlett (* 1855), alleged murderer (?)
- Adelaide George Bennett (1848–1911), American poet and botanist
- Adelaide Avery Claflin (1846–1931), American theologian and suffragette
- Adelaide Clemens (* 1989), Australian actress
- Adelaide Hall (1901–1993), American jazz singer and actress
- Adelaide Hawley Cumming (born Dieta Adelaide Fish; 1905–1998) American actress and radio presenter
- Adelaide Johnson (1859–1955), American sculptor
- Adelaide Kane (born 1990), Australian actress
- Adelaide Kemble (1815–1879), British singer (soprano) and writer
- Adelaide Knight (1871-1950) British suffragette
- Adelaide Livingstone (1881–1970) British political activist and pacifist
- Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), English poet and philanthropist
- Adelaide Ross (1896–1993), English writer
- Adelaide Smith Casely Hayford (1868–1960), Sierra Leonean feminist, lawyer, and writer
- Adelaide Sosseh Gaye (born August 31, 1946), human rights activist and educator from Gambia
- Adelaide Tambo , also known as Ma Tambo (1929–2007), South African politician and civil rights activist.
- Adelaide Wallerstein (1869–1942), American doctor and translator
- Gail Zappa , resident of Adelaide Gail Sloatman (1945–2015 in Los Angeles, California), American entrepreneur
Italian and Portuguese form of the name
- Adriana Asti (formerly Adelaide Asti; * 1933), Italian actress
- Adelaide Borghi-Mamo (1829–1901), Italian opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
- Adelaide Chiozzo (1931–2020), Brazilian singer, accordion player, and actress
- Ada Ditzen (formerly Adelaide Ditzen ; 1859–1939), German translator
- Adelaide Ferreira ( owner : Maria Adelaide Mengas Matafome Ferreira ; * 1959 ), Portuguese singer and actress.
- Adèle Koekkoek (real Adelaide Alexandrine Koekkoek ; 1838–1919), German painter
- Adelaide Nerev , pseudonym of Verena C. Harksen (* 1942), German translator, editor and writer
- Adelaide Pandiani Maraini (1836–1917), Italian-Swiss sculptor
- Adelaide Molinari , known as Irmã Adelaide (Sister Adelaide) (1938–1985), Brazilian nun and assassination victim
- Adelaide Ristori (1822–1906), Italian actress
- Adelaide Tosi (1800-1859), Italian opera singer (soprano) and noblewoman
Middle name
- Maria Adelaide di Savoia (French: Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie ) (1685–1712), Princess of Savoy, Duchess of Burgundy and Dauphine of France
- Maria Adelaide d'Asburgo-Lorena , known as Adelheid of Austria (1822–1855), Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Hungary and Queen of Sardinia
- Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833–1897), Princess of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover, Queen Mother
- Maria Adelaide di Savoia-Genova (1904–1979), Italian princess from the House of Savoy-Genoa
- Maria Adelaide de Bragança (1912–2012), Portuguese nobleman from the House of Braganza
- Maria Adelaide Aglietta (1940–2000), Italian politician, Member of the European Parliament
- Maria Adelaide Amaral (* 1942), Portuguese theater and film writer in Brazil
- Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes (1868–1947), English novelist and screenwriter
- Maria Adelaide de Lima Cruz (1908–1985), Portuguese painter, illustrator and scenographer
- Maria Adelaide Nielli , known as Nina Ricci (1883–1970) Italian-French fashion designer and founder of a fashion house.
- Mary Adelaide Nutting (1858–1948), Canadian nurse, nursing historian, and professor of nursing
- Maria Adelaide da Silva Lalande , known as Maria Lalande (1913–1968), Portuguese actress
music
- Adelaide , opera libretto by Antonio Salvi about the historical figure of Adélaïde de Bourgogne , set to music by Pietro Torri (1722), Nicola Porpora (1723), Giuseppe Maria Orlandini (1729), Antonio Vivaldi (1735), and by Georg Friedrich Händel ( as Lotario , 1729)
- Adelaide di Borgogna , opera by Gioachino Rossini (1817)
- Adelaide e Comingio , opera by Giovanni Pacini (1817)
- Adelasia ed Aleramo , opera by Giovanni Simone Mayr (1806)
Individual evidence
- ^ Mike Campbell: Meaning, origin and history of the name Adelaide. Retrieved April 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Biography on the IHU website (Portuguese; accessed on July 31, 2020)
- ^ Search for operas by Adelaide (name) (search term in the Autore field : "Salvi Antonio") in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- ↑ Adelaide e Comingio (Giovanni Pacini) in Corago information system of the University of Bologna