Alice
Alice is a female given name .
Origin and meaning of the name
Alice is derived from Aëlis , an old French short form of the German name Adelheid ( ahd. Adalheit ), which means "of noble status, of noble nature".
According to a second opinion, Alice comes from the Greek ( Αλική, Aliki ). Alice has the same stem as the word salt and means sea daughter or from the sea , with the Latin equivalent of marina .
name day
Name day is:
- December 16, St. Adelheid of Burgundy
- June 15th Saint Alice de la Cambre , died in 1250
- January 9th and June 13th , Blessed Alix Le Clerc , died in 1622
- February 5th , Saint Adelheid von Vilich
- November 11th , Blessed Alicja Jadwiga Kotowska (Poland)
Name bearers
- Alice (Champagne) (1196–1246), regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
- Alice of Antioch , Princess of Antioch
- Alice of Armenia (* 1182), Princess of Lesser Armenia, wife of the Prince of Antioch, mistress of Toron
- Alice Anderson (* 1976), British artist and filmmaker
- Alice Babs (1924-2014), Swedish pop and jazz singer
- Alice von Battenberg (1885–1969), mother-in-law of Queen Elisabeth
- Alice Bellagamba (* 1987), Italian actress and dancer
- Alice Berend (1875–1938), German writer
- Alice Brown (writer) (1856–1948), American writer
- Alice Brown (athlete) (born 1960), American athlete
- Alice Brown Chittenden (1859–1944), American painter
- Alice Dalton Brown (* 1939), American painter
- Alice Calaprice (* 1941), American biographer of Albert Einstein, born in Germany, and long-time publisher
- Alice Cooper (born 1948), American rock musician
- Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883–1981), granddaughter of Queen Victoria
- Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901-2004), British nobleman
- Alice of Great Britain and Ireland (1843–1878), British princess
- Alice Harnoncourt (* 1930), Austrian violinist
- Alice Haubrich-Gottschalk (1892–1944), German pediatrician and gynecologist
- Alice Herz-Sommer (1903–2014), Israeli pianist and survivor from Theresienstadt
- Alice Keppel (actually Alice Frederica Edmonstone, 1869–1947), Scottish courtesan and mistress of the British King Edward VII.
- Alice Kessler (* 1936), German dancer and singer
- Alice Korbová (* 1971), Czech ski mountaineer
- Alice Liddell (1852–1934), model for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
- Alice Marble (1913–1990), American tennis player
- Alice Macura (* 1982), Austrian musical actress
- Alice Merton (* 1993), German pop singer
- Alice Miller (1923–2010), Swiss writer and childhood researcher
- Alice Moore Hubbard (1861–1915), American women's rights activist and writer
- Alice Munro (* 1931), Canadian writer
- Alice Neven DuMont (1877–1964), German women's rights activist and social politician
- Alice Paul (1885–1977), American suffragette
- Alice Perrers (* around 1325, certainly before 1351, † after 1377), English nobleman
- Alice Pike Barney (1857–1931), American painter
- Alice Rivaz (1901–1998), Swiss writer
- Alice Robinson (* 2001), New Zealand ski racer
- Alice Rühle-Gerstel (1894–1943), German writer
- Alice Salomon (1872–1948), German social reformer
- Alice Schmidt (1916–1983), German writer
- Alice Schoenfeld (1921–2019), German-American violinist and music teacher
- Alice Schwarzer (* 1942), German feminist, journalist and author
- Alice Seeley Harris (1870–1970), British missionary and photographer
- Gina Alice Stiebitz (* 1997), German actress
- Alice Treff (1906–2003), German actress and voice actress
- Alice Walker (* 1944), American writer
- Alice Weidel (* 1979), German politician of the alternative for Germany
- Alice Wosikowski (1886–1949), German politician and resistance fighter
- Alice Zikeli (* 1990), German actress
stage name
- Alice (Italian singer) (* 1954), Italian pop singer
- Alice (Japanese singer) (* 1990), Japanese pop singer
- Alice (Swedish singer) (* 1991), Swedish pop singer
- Alice Cooper (born 1948), American rock musician
- Nina C. Alice (* 1966), German rock singer
Fictional characters
- Alice in Wonderland , children's book by Lewis Carroll from 1865
- Alice Behind the Mirrors , Lewis Carroll's 1871 children's book
- Alice the Emergency Princess , children's book by Torun Lian from 2015
Movies
- Alice (1988) , fantasy film by the Czech director Jan Švankmajer
- Alice (1990) , fantasy comedy by American director Woody Allen
- Alice (2005) , drama by the Portuguese director Marco Martins
Computer and video games
- American McGee's Alice , game about the character of the same name from "Alice in Wonderland"
- Alice: Madness Returns , sequel to "American McGee's Alice"
- Alice in Wonderland , game based on the Disney film of the same name by Tim Burton