Viola (first name)
Viola is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
The name Viola comes from Latin and means " violet ". As a first name, he was known by the main character in Shakespeare's comedy What you want .
variants
The name comes in various forms in several languages, including:
Name bearers
- Viola Alvarez (* 1971), German writer and dramaturge
- Viola Amherd (* 1962), Swiss politician
- Viola Bauer (* 1976), German cross-country skier
- Viola von Bethusy-Huc (1927–2010), German political scientist
- Viola von der Burg (* 1965), German actress
- Viola von Cramon-Taubadel (* 1970), German agricultural economist, politician and member of the Bundestag
- Viola Dana (1897–1987), American silent film actress
- Viola Davis (born 1965), American actress
- Viola Engelbrecht (* 1959), German jazz musician, choir director and composer
- Viola Falb (* 1980), Austrian jazz musician
- Viola Falkenberg (* 1961), German journalist, author and lecturer
- Viola Goretzki (* 1956), German rower and Olympic champion
- Viola Gregg Liuzzo (1925–1965), American civil rights activist
- Viola König (* 1952), German ethnologist and university professor
- Viola Lawrence (1894–1973), American film editor
- Viola Meynell (1885–1956), English writer
- Viola Myers (* 1948), Canadian athlete and Olympian.
- Viola Odebrecht (* 1983), German soccer player
- Viola Paulitz (* 1967), German cyclist and three-time German road champion
- Viola Poley (* 1955), German rower, world champion and Olympic champion
- Viola Raheb (* 1969), Palestinian peace activist and theologian
- Viola Roggenkamp (* 1948), German writer
- Viola Sauer , German actress and voice actress
- Viola Smith (* 1912), American drummer
- Viola Tami (* 1981), Swiss presenter
- Viola Elisabeth von Teschen (1290–1317), Bohemian and Hungarian queen
- Viola Valli (* 1972), Italian long-distance swimmer, world and European champion
- Viola Wahlen (1917–2018), German actress
- Viola Wedekind (* 1978), German actress and voice actress
- Viola Gertrude Wells (1904–1984), American blues singer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Viola on behindthename.com (Engl.)