Genoveva
Genoveva is a female given name .
Historically and culturally, the biographies of two women must be distinguished:
- Genoveva of Paris , a consecrated virgin of the 5th century born in Nanterre , patron saint of the French capital
- Genoveva von Brabant , the main character of a late medieval legend (presumably without a concrete historical background) about a ducal daughter who was falsely cast out as an adulterous woman and who was exposed with her son in pain. Verschriftlicht in the 14th century, found the substance widely used and was the inclusion in the collections of German chapbooks popular
For Genoveva in Art, see the individual articles on these two people.
variants
Name bearers
Genoveva, Genovefa
- Genoveva Añonma (* 1989), Equatorial Guinean soccer player
- Genoveva of Brabant , legendary saint (presumably fictional)
- Genoveva Eichenmann (* 1957), Swiss marathon runner
- Genoveva Mayer (* 1982), German actress
- Genoveva of Paris (≈422–502), saint, patron saint of Paris (5th century)
- Genoveva Torres Morales (1870–1956), founder of the Spanish order and saint
- Genovefa Weber (1764–1798), opera singer and actress, mother of the composer Carl Maria von Weber
Genevieve, Genevieve
- Genevieve (1920–2004) French-American singer and comedic actress
- Genevieve Angelson (born 1987), American actress
- Genevieve Bell (* 1968 or 1969), Australian anthropologist
- Geneviève Brisac (* 1951), French writer
- Geneviève Bujold (* 1942), French-Canadian film actress
- Geneviève Cadieux (* 1955), Canadian photographer
- Geneviève Castrée (1981–2016), Canadian comic artist, illustrator and musician
- Geneviève Claisse (1935–2018), French artist of geometric abstraction
- Geneviève Cluny (born 1928), French actress
- Geneviève Dormann (1933–2015), French journalist and writer
- Geneviève Fioraso (* 1954), French politician of the Parti Socialiste (PS)
- Geneviève Fontanel (1936–2018), French theater and film actress
- Geneviève Fraisse (* 1948s), French philosopher, author, historian and politician
- Geneviève de Galard Terraub (* 1925), French nurse, the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu"
- Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz (1920–2002), member of the French Resistance and the human rights movement ATD Fourth World
- Geneviève Gallois (1888–1962), French Benedictine nun, painter, draftsman, stained glass painter and caricaturist
- Geneviève Grad (born 1944), French actress
- Geneviève Guitel (1895–1982), French mathematician
- Geneviève Halévy (1849–1926), Parisian Salonière
- Geneviève Jeanson (* 1981), former Canadian cyclist
- Geneviève Laporte (1926–2012), French writer, poet and filmmaker
- Geneviève Lüscher (* 1953), Swiss prehistorian, non-fiction author and science journalist
- Geneviève Micheli (1883–1961), ecumenically oriented French Protestant, first superior of the Community de Grandchamp
- Genevieve Nnaji (* 1979), Nigerian actress
- Genevieve O'Reilly (born 1977), Irish-Australian actress
- Genevieve Padalecki (born 1981), American actress
- Geneviève Page (born 1927), French actress
- Geneviève Picot (born 1956), Australian actress
- Geneviève Raugel (1951–2019), French mathematician
- Geneviève Simard (* 1980), former Canadian ski racer
- Geneviève Tabouis (1892–1985), French journalist
- Genevieve Valentine (* 1981), American fantasy and science fiction writer
- Geneviève Winding (1927–2008), French film editor
places
- Sainte-Geneviève
- the name of the Swiss city Genève , (German: Geneva) has nothing to do with the name Genoveva.
- the asteroids (680) Genoveva and (1237) Geneviève
Works of art
(except Genoveva of Brabant and Genoveva of Paris , see there)
- Mam'zelle Geneviève , comic opera by Adolphe Adam
- Genoveva (opera) , only opera by Robert Schumann
Others
- Genevieve , brand name of the former US automobile manufacturer Neustadt Automobile & Supply Company