Maddalena (first name)

Maddalena is a female given name .

Origin and meaning

The name is an Italian variant of Magdalena . A diminutive is Lena .

Well-known namesake

• Maddalena Allegranti (probably 1754 – after 1801), Italian opera singer
• Maddalena Crippa (* 1957), Italian actress
• Maddalena Hirschal (* 1983), Austrian actress
• Maddalena Kerrh (* 1938), German actress and voice actress
• Maddalena de 'Medici (1473–1519), second eldest daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent
• Maddalena Casulana Mezari (around 1544– ??), Italian composer
• Maddalena Montalban (1820–1869), most important republican and champion for Venice's independence
• Maddalena Sirmen (1745-1818), Venetian violinist, singer and composer
• Maddalena Visconti (around 1366–1404), one of the hundred thousand gulden daughters of the Milanese city lord Bernabò Visconti

Madalena

• Madalena Fragoso (1940-2013), Portuguese publicist
• Madalena Iglésias (1939–2018), Portuguese singer

Madelaine

• Madelaine Böhme (* 1967), German geoscientist and professor of paleoclimatology
• Madelaine Edlund (* 1985), Swedish soccer player
• Madelaine Petsch (* 1994), American actress
• Madelaine Smith (* 1995), British skeleton pilot
• Madelaine Wibom (* 1971), Swedish-Swiss opera singer and actress

Madeleine

• Madeleine of France (1520–1537), Queen of Scotland
• Madeleine of Sweden , the youngest daughter of King Carl XVI. Gustaf of Sweden and Queen Silvia
• Madeleine Albright (* 1937), former US Secretary of State
• Madeleine Marion (1929-2010), French actress
• Madeleine McCann , a British girl who disappeared in May 2007
• Madeleine Sauveur (* 1953), German cabaret artist
• Madeleine Schickedanz (* 1943), German entrepreneur
• Madeleine West (born 1979), Australian actress

See also

• Maddalena

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mike Campbell: Meaning, origin and history of the name Maddalena. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .