Pamela (first name)
Pamela is a female given name, invented in the 16th century by the poet Sir Philip Sidney in his shepherd novel Arcadia . Possibly he composed the name from the Greek words παν pan 'everything, whole' and μελι meli 'honey' or from pan 'whole, everything' and melas 'black'.
He became popular in the middle of the 18th century through the epistle novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by the English writer Samuel Richardson .
The name is widespread in the English-speaking area, but is also becoming increasingly popular in German-speaking areas , pronounced in German with an emphasis on the e .
The name day is February 16 .
variants
- Pam (English)
- Pamelita (Spanish)
- Pamelka, Pelka (Polish)
- Pamella
- Pamila
Well-known namesake
- Pamela Adlon (* 1966), American actress and voice actress
- Pamela Anderson (* 1967), Canadian actress and pin-up girl
- Pamela Bach (* 1963), American film actress
- Pamela Behr (* 1956), German ski racer
- Pamela Bellwood (born 1951), American actress
- Pamela Chepchumba (* 1979), Kenyan long-distance runner
- Pamela Dutkiewicz (* 1991), German athlete (100-meter hurdles)
- Pam Fletcher (* 1963), American ski racer
- Pamela Fryman (* 1959), American director and producer
- Pamela Geller (* 1958), American blogger, author, political activist and commentator
- Pam Grier (born 1949), American actress
- Pamela Großer (* 1977), German television presenter and actress
- Pamela Hensley (* 1950), American actress and author
- Pamela Jelimo (* 1989), Kenyan middle-distance runner and Olympic champion (2008) in the 800-meter run
- Pamela O. Long (* 1943), American science and technology historian
- Pamela Martin (film editor) , American film editor
- Pamela Sue Martin (born 1953), American actress
- Pamela Moore (1937–1964), American writer
- Pamela Nash (* 1984), British politician (Labor Party)
- Pamela Palmater (* 1970), Mi'kmaq lawyer, professor and politician from the Canadian province of New Brunswick
- Pamela C. Rasmussen (* 1959), American ornithologist
- Pamela Reed (born 1949), American actress
- Pamela Rendi-Wagner (* 1971), Austrian doctor and politician
- Pam Ryan (born 1939), Australian athlete
- Pam Shriver (born 1962), American tennis player
- Pamela Colman Smith (1878–1951), American artist and author
- Pamela H. Smith (* 1957), science historian
- Pamela Margaret Elizabeth Smith (1915–1982), British salonnière
- Pamela Stephenson (* 1949), New Zealand-born actress, psychologist, television presenter and author
- Pamela Tajonar (* 1984), Mexican soccer goalkeeper
- Pam Tillis (* 1957), American singer
- Pamela Lyndon Travers (1899–1996), Australian writer
- Pamela Ware (* 1993), Canadian water diver
- Pamela Wedekind (1906–1986), actress and chanson singer
- Pamela Zoellner (* 1977), German speed skater
literature
- Gillian Beer: 'Pamela' and 'Arcadia'. Reading class, genre, gender. In: dies .: Arguing with the Past. Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney. Butler and Tanner, Frome (Somerset) 1989, ISBN 0-415-02607-5 , pp. 34-61, here p. 37 and p. 60, note 6 with further references.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Stanley Lieberson: A Matter of Taste. How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change. Yale University Press, New Haven CT 2000, ISBN 0-300-08385-8 , p. 228 .