Nadine (given name)
Nadine (with the variant spellings: Nadeen, Nadene) is a female given name. It is a French elaboration (feminine diminutive; cf. Clémentine, Géraldine, Micheline) of the name Nadia (also spelled Nadja, Nadya) (Russian: Надя, romanized: Nádja, lit. 'Nadya'), itself being a pet form of the Russian virtue name Nadezhda (Russian: Надежда, romanized: Nadéžda, lit. 'Hope'; from Russian: надежда, romanized: nadéžda, lit. 'hope').[1] It is also commonly used amongst Arabic communities and may mean in Arabic: نادين, romanized: nādīn, lit. 'Admonitory/Messenger, Showerer of blessings'.
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Gender | Female |
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Word/name | French, Russian |
Meaning | Showerer of blessings, Hope |
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Related names | Nadezhda, Nadia, Nadège |
It may refer to:
- Nádine (born 1982), South African singer
- Nadine Ames (born 1991), Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder who won Puteri Indonesia 2010
- Nadine Angerer (born 1978), German football player
- Nadine Baylis (1940–2017), British stage and costume designer
- Nadine Beiler (born 1990), Austrian singer
- Nadine Blacklock (1953–1998), American nature photographer
- Nadine Broersen (born 1990), Dutch heptathlete
- Nadine Capellmann (born 1965), German equestrian
- Nadine Chandrawinata (born 1984), Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder who won Puteri Indonesia 2005
- Nadine Chanz (born 1972), German Playboy model and actress
- Nadine Conner (1914–2003), American soprano
- Nadine Jolie Courtney (born 1980), American novelist and reality TV personality
- Nadine Coyle (born 1985), singer in the all-girl group Girls Aloud
- Nadine M. DeLawrence (1953–1992), African-American installation artist and sculptor
- Nadine Deleury, French cellist
- Nadine Dorries (born 1957), British politician
- Nadine Ernsting-Krienke (born 1974), German field hockey player
- Nadine Garner (born 1970), Australian actress
- Nadine George (born 1968), West Indian cricketer
- Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014), Nobel and Booker Prize–winning South African novelist
- Nadine Heredia, politician and First Lady of Peru
- Nadine Hildebrand (born 1987), German athlete
- Nadeen L. Kaufman (born 1945), American psychologist
- Nadine Kleinert (born 1975), German shot put athlete
- Nadine Kraus (born 1988), German footballer
- Nadine Krause (born 1982), German handball player
- Nadine Labaki, Lebanese actress and director
- Nadine Lambert (1926–2006), American psychology and education professor
- Nadine Lewington, British actress
- Nadine Lockwood (1991–1996), child from Washington Heights, New York, murdered by her mother
- Nadine Lustre (born 1993), Filipina actress
- Nadine Macaluso (born 1967), American psychologist
- Nadine Mohamed (born 1998), Egyptian basketball player
- Nadine Mulkerrin (born 1993), English actress
- Nadine Müller (born 1985), German discus thrower
- Nadine Netter (born 1944), American tennis player
- Nadine Neumann (born 1975), Australian swimmer
- Nadine Nassib Njeim (born 1984), Lebanese model
- Nadine Wilson Njeim (born 1988), Lebanese model
- Nadine Pequeneza, Canadian documentary film director and producer
- Nadine Salameh (born 1979), Syrian/Palestinian actress
- Nadine Samonte (born 1988), German-Filipina actress
- Nadine Schiff, Canadian film producer, screenwriter, author
- Nadine Schön (born 1983), German politician
- Nadine Shah (born 1986), British singer-songwriter
- Nadine Shahin (born 1997), Egyptian squash player
- Nadine Shamir (1972–2004), American singer-songwriter
- Nadine Strossen (born 1950), president of the American Civil Liberties Union
- Nadine Trintignant (born 1934), French filmmaker and author
- Nadine Velazquez (born 1978), American actress and model
- Nadine Visser (born 1995), Dutch heptathlete
- Nadine Voindrouh (born 1977), Romanian singer, actress and television presenter
- Nadine Wilson, Canadian politician
Fictional characters
- Nadine, a fictional character played by Marion Cotillard in the 2006 film Dikkenek
- Marina Nadine Cooper, fictional character on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light
- Nadine Cross, fictional character in Stephen King's novel The Stand
- Nadine Boynton, a fictional character in Agatha Christie's novel Appointment with Death
- Nadine Hurley, fictional character on the television series Twin Peaks
- Nadine Flumberghast, a fictional character in Arthur
- Nadine, a fictional character in the TV series Hey Arnold!
- Nadine Ross, a fictional character played by Laura Bailey in the 2016 Naughty Dog video game Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
- Nadine Hudson-Thomas, a fictional character played by Anne-Marie Johnson on the TV series What's Happening Now!!
- Nadine Tolliver, a fictional character played by Bebe Neuwirth on the CBS TV Series Madam Secretary
- Nadine, a fictional character played by Hailee Steinfeld in the 2016 film The Edge of Seventeen
- Nadine Foster, a main character in Jacqueline Wilson's Girls Series and its CITV adaptation, where she is played by Amy Kwolek.
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