Melitta (first name)
Melitta is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Melitta is an ancient Greek variant of Melissa and means " bee ".
The name only became known in Germany in modern times .
name day
Well-known namesake
- Melitta (saint) († around 150)
- Melitta Bentz (1873–1950), German company founder and inventor of the coffee filter
- Melitta Berg (* 1939), German pop singer
- Melitta Breznik (* 1961), Austrian doctor and writer
- Melitta Brunner (1907–2003), Austrian figure skater
- Melitta Gerhard (1891–1981), American literary historian of German origin
- Melitta Mitscherlich (1906–1992), German doctor and psychoanalyst
- Melitta Muszely (* 1927), Austrian opera singer (soprano) and vocal teacher
- Melitta Otto-Alvsleben (1842–1893), German opera singer (soprano) and vocal teacher
- Melitta Rühn (* 1965), Romanian artistic gymnast
- Melitta Schachner Camartin (* 1943), German neurobiologist
- Melitta Schenk Countess von Stauffenberg (1903–1945), German aviation pioneer
- Melitta Schnarrenberger (1909–1996), German painter and local politician
- Melitta Sollmann (* 1958), German luge athlete
See also
Wiktionary: Melitta - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations