Florence (first name)
Florence ( French: 'the blooming' from Latin florere 'blooming', PPA "florens, florentis", 'der / die / das Blühende') is a female given name.
Well-known namesake
A.
- Florence Arthaud (1957-2015), French skipper
- Florence Aubenas (* 1961), French journalist
B.
- Florence Baker (1841–1916), British African explorer
- Florence Ballard (1943–1976), American singer
- Florence Barsosio (* 1976), Kenyan long-distance runner
- Florence Baverel-Robert (* 1974), French biathlete
- Florence Bell (1910–1998), Canadian athlete and Olympic champion
C.
- Florence Cestac (* 1949), French draftsman
- Florence Chadwick (1918–1995), American long-distance swimmer
D.
- Florence Delay (* 1941), French writer, actress and translator
- Florence Dixie (1855–1905), British traveler, journalist and writer
- Florence Dupont , French Romance philologist
E.
- Florence Ekpo-Umoh (* 1977), German, formerly Nigerian athlete
- Florence Eldridge ; actually Florence McKechnie (1901–1988), American actress
- Florence Ezeh (* 1977), Togolese hammer thrower
G
- Florence von Gerkan (* 1960), German costume designer and professor at the Berlin University of the Arts
- Florence Griffith-Joyner (1959–1998), American athlete
- Florence Griswold (1850–1937), American teacher
- Florence Guérin (* 1965), French actress
H
- Florence Harding (1860-1924), First Lady of the USA (1921-1923)
- Florence Hawley Ellis (1906–1991), American anthropologist, ethnographer, and archaeologist
- Florence Henri (1893–1982), American photographer and painter
- Florence Hervé (* 1944), Franco-German author
J
- Florence Foster Jenkins (1868–1944), American soprano
- Florence Joy (* 1986), German singer and actress
L.
- Florence Lawrence (actually Florence Annie Bridgwood ; 1886–1938), Canadian-American silent film actress
M.
- Florence Malgoire (* 1960), French violinist
- Florence Marryat (1833–1899), English writer
- Florence Masnada (* 1968), French ski racer
N
- Florence Nibart-Devouard (* 1968), French and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
- Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), English nurse and pioneer of modern nursing
R.
- Florence Marjorie Robertson (1904–1986), British actress
S.
- Florence Rena Sabin (1871–1953), American doctor and scientist
- Florence Oboshie Sai-Coffie , Ghanaian politician
- Florence Steurer (* 1949), French ski racer
V
- Florence Vidor (1895–1977), American silent film actress
W.
- Florence Mary Leontine Welch (* 1986), English singer
Name bearer
- Florence Estienne Méric Casaubon (1599–1671), English scholar
- Florence Crauford Grove (1838–1902), British mountaineer
- Florence of Worcester ; also Florentius Wigorniensis († 1118), English Benedictine monk and chronicler