Virginia (first name)
Virginia is a female given name .
Origin and meaning of the name
The ancient Roman gender name Verginius (newer spelling Virginius ), the meaning of which is open, lives on in this first name. In Latin , the adjectives virgineus, virgina, virginum mean virginal; virgo means virgin . The first name can therefore be interpreted as the virgin .
Verginia , the daughter of Decimus Verginius , was stabbed to death by him to put an end to the pursuits of Appius Claudius . This tragic story has already produced in ancient times rise to literary and musical processing and also was a template for the bourgeois tragedy Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing .
name day
- January 7th - St. Virginia of Poitu
- December 15 - St. Virginia Centurione Bracelli
Well-known namesake
Virginia
- Virginia von Poitu , French shepherdess and patroness of the town of Sainte-Verge in the Deux-Sèvres department
- Virginia Apgar (1909–1974), American doctor
- Virginia Bruce (1910–1982), American actress and singer
- Virginia Centurione Bracelli (1587–1651), Italian founder and saint
- Virginia Dare , first English woman born in America in 1587
- Virginia Davis, see Geena Davis (* 1956), American film actress
- Virginia Fox (1902–1982), American silent film actress
- Virginia Grace (1901–1994), American archaeologist
- Virginia Hall (1906–1982), American secret agent during World War II
- Virginia Johnson (1925–2013), American sex researcher
- Virginia Kravarioti (* 1984), Greek regatta sailor
- Virginia Leith (1925-2019), American actress
- Virginia Madsen (born 1961), American film actress
- Virginia Mayo (1920–2005), American film actress
- Virginia O'Hanlon (1889–1971), as a child, asked the New York Sun “ Is there a Santa Claus? "
- Virginia Phiri (* 1954), Zimbabwean author
- Virginia Raggi (* 1978), Italian lawyer and politician of the MoVimento 5 Stelle (M5S) party, has been the mayor of Rome since 2016
- Virginia Satir (1916–1988), American psychotherapist
- Virginia Trimble (* 1943), American astronomer
- Virginia Valli (1898–1968), American actress
- Virginia Williams (* 1978), American actress
- Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), English writer
- Virginia Euwer Wolff (* 1937), American writer
- Virginia Yep (* 1960), Peruvian ethnomusicologist, musician and composer
- Virginia Zeani (* 1925), Romanian opera singer (soprano)
Virginie
- Virginie Ancelot (1792–1875), French writer and painter
- Virginie Atger (* 1984), French rider
- Virginie Besson-Silla (* 1972), French film producer
- Virginie Cueff (* 1988), French cyclist
- Virginie Demont-Breton (1859–1935), French painter
- Virginie Despentes (* 1969), French writer and director
- Virginie Efira (* 1977), Belgian actress and presenter
- Virginie Faivre (* 1982), Swiss skier
- Virginie Guyot (* 1976), French fighter pilot
- Virginie Henry (* 1979), French judoka
- Virginie Hériot (1890–1932), French navigator
- Virginie Jouve (* 1983), French triathlete
- Virginie Korte-van Hemel (1929–2014), Dutch lawyer and politician of the Katholieke Volkspartij
- Virginie Ledoyen (* 1976), French actress
- Virginie Pouchain (* 1980), French singer
- Virginie Razzano (* 1983), French tennis player
- Virginie Rozière (* 1976), French politician
- Virginie Viard (* 1962), French fashion designer
additional
- Virginia now! , German pop band