Blanche (first name)
Blanche is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
The name means "the white one" and is the French form of Bianca .
name day
Well-known namesake
Rulers and rulers' wives
- Blanche d'Artois (1248–1302), regent of Navarre and Champagne-Brie
- Blanche de Bourgogne (1295–1326), Queen of France
- Blanche of France (around 1282–1305), wife of Rudolf III. of Habsburg
- Blanche de Castille (1188–1252), third daughter of King Alfonso VIII of Castile
- Blanche of Lancaster (1341 or 1345-1368), Duchess of Lancaster
- Blanche of Namur (around 1320–1363), queen of Sweden and Norway
First name
- Blanche Arral (1864–1945), Belgian opera singer
- Blanche Aubry (1921–1986), Swiss actress
- Blanche Baker (born 1956), American actress
- Blanche Bingley (1863-1946), English tennis player
- Blanche Bruce (1841–1898), American politician
- Blanche Calloway (1904–1978), American jazz singer, band leader and composer of swing
- Cynthia Blanche Curzon (1898–1933), British nobleman and politician
- Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix (1883–1948), mistress of King Leopold II.
- Blanche Elliz , Dutch-German singer
- Blanche Honegger (1909–2011), Swiss-American violinist and conductor
- Blanche Kommerell (* 1950), German actress and author
- Yvette Blanche Labrousse (1906–2000), wife of Aga Khan III.
- Blanche Lincoln (* 1960), American politician
- Blanche Marchesi (1863–1940), French opera singer and vocal teacher
- Blanche Oelrichs (1890–1950), American poet, screenwriter and stage actress
- Blanche Ravalec , French actress
- Blanche Stuart Scott (1889–1970), first American woman to fly an airplane
- Blanche Sweet (1896–1986), American film actress
- Blanche Thebom (1915-2010), American singer
- Blanche Thomas (1922–1977), American singer
- Violet Blanche Webb (1915–1999), British athlete and Olympian
- Blanche Wittman (1859–1913), patient of Jean-Martin Charcot
- Blanche Yurka (1887–1974), American opera singer, theater and film actress