Pauline (given name)
Pauline is a female given name. It was originally the French form of Paulina, a female version of Paulinus, a variant of Paulus meaning the little, hence the younger.
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | French |
| Meaning | little |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Paulina |
The corresponding form for the name in Italian is Paolina (Paula corresponds to Paola). In Russian, the corresponding names are Павли́на (pronounced Pavlína) and Поли́на (pronounced poleenah). A Finnish form of the name is Pauliina; in Greece it is Παυλίνα or Πωλίνα (Paulina, pronounced Pavleena or Paulina, Poleena). In French, other diminutives of Paula exist, namely Paulette and Pauletta.
People
- Pauline Adams (1874–1958), Irish-American suffragist
- Pauline Ado (b. 1991), French professional surfer
- Pauline Alderman (1893–1983), US musicologist and composer
- Pauline Allen (b. 1948), Australian scholar of early Christianity
- Pauline Allen-Dean, Bahamian former banker
- Pauline Amos, British performance artist
- Pauline Armitage, Northern Ireland former politician
- Pauline Ashwell, pseudonym of British author Pauline Whitby (1928-2015)
- Pauline Auzou (1775–1835), French painter
- Pauline Morrow Austin (1916–2011), US meteorologist
- Pauline Baards, a stage name of Italian actor Paola Barbara (1912–1989)
- Pauline Irene Batebe, Ugandan engineer
- Pauline Baynes (1922–2008), English illustrator
- Pauline Bebe (b. 1965), French rabbi
- Pauline Bell (1912-2010), winner of the second Scripps National Spelling Bee champion
- Pauline Benda (1877–1985), French actress better known as Simone Le Bargy
- Pauline Bennett (b. 1964), British DJ and rapper also known as Jazzi P
- Pauline Bern (b. 1952), New Zealand jeweller
- Pauline Betz (1919–2011), US professional tennis player
- Pauline Bewick (1935–2022), Irish artist
- Pauline Bird-Hart (b. 1957), British rower
- Pauline Biscarat (b. 1989), French rugby sevens player
- Pauline Black (b. 1953), English singer
- Pauline Bøgelund (b. 1996), Danish handball player
- Pauline Bonaparte (1780–1825), Italian noble
- Pauline Boty (1938–1966), British painter
- Pauline Boutal (1894–1992), French-born Canadian artist, theatrical designer, actress and educator
- Pauline Browes (b. 1938), a Canadian former politician
- Pauline Powell Burns (1872–1912), African-American artist
- Pauline Cassin Caro (1828/34/35 - 1901), French novelist
- Pauline Chalamet (b. 1992), American actress, writer, and director
- Pauline Atherton Cochrane (born 1929), American librarian
- Pauline Collins (b. 1940), English actress
- Pauline Marie Armande Craven (1808–1891), French author
- Pauline Croze (b. 1979), French singer and musician
- Pauline Cushman (1833–1893), US actress and spy
- Pauline Davis (politician) (1917–1995), US politician
- Pauline Davis-Thompson (b. 1966), former Bahamian sprinter
- Pauline de Rothschild (1908–1976), writer and fashion designer
- Pauline Donalda (1882–1970), Canadian singer
- Pauline Ducruet (b. 1994), Monegasque noble
- Dame Pauline Engel (1930–2017), New Zealand educator and Catholic nun
- Pauline Fisk (1948–2015), British children's author
- Pauline Flanagan (1925–2003), Irish actress
- Pauline Fréchette (1889-1943), poet, dramatist, journalist, nun
- Pauline Frederick (1883–1938), US actor
- Pauline Gardiner (b. 1947), former New Zealand politician
- Pauline Garon (1900–1965), US actor
- Pauline Gedge (b. 1945), Canadian novelist
- Pauline Green (b. 1948), European politician
- Pauline Gregg (1909–2006), British historian
- Pauline Hanson (b. 1954), Australian politician
- Pauline Heßler (b. 1998), German ski jumper
- Pauline Holdstock (b. 1948), British-Canadian writer
- Pauline Hopkins (1859–1930), African-American novelist
- Pauline von Hügel (1858-1901), Italian-born Austrian baroness; British writer, philanthropist
- Pauline Jacobus (1840–1930), US studio potter
- Pauline-Marie Jaricot (1799–1862), French founder of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith and the Living Rosary Association.
- Pauline Jewett (1922–1992), Canadian politician
- E. Pauline Johnson (1861–1913), Canadian writer and performer
- Pauline Johnson (actress) (1899–1947), English film actor
- Pauline Julien (1928–1998), Canadian singer
- Pauline Kael (1919–2001), US film critic
- Pauline Koner (1912–2001), US dancer and choreographer
- Pauline Konga (b. 1970), retired Kenyan runner
- Pauline Kingi (b. 1951), Māori community leader
- Pauline LaFon Gore (1912–2004), mother of former US Vice President Al Gore and the wife of former US Senator Albert Gore Sr.
- Pauline Lafont (1963–1988), French actor
- Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891–1974), US chemist
- Pauline Maier (1938–2013), US historian
- Pauline Mailhac (1858–1946), Austrian-German opera singer
- Pauline Félicité de Mailly (1712–1741), French noble
- Pauline Marois (b. 1949), Canadian politician
- Pauline Mills McGibbon (1910–2001), Canadian politician
- Pauline McLynn (b. 1962), Irish actor
- Pauline McNeill (b. 1962) Scottish politician
- Pauline Melville (b. 1948), Guyanese-born writer and actor
- Pauline Menczer (b. 1970), Australian surfer
- Pauline Mendoza (b. 1999), Filipina actress and model
- Pauline von Metternich (1836–1921), Austrian socialite
- Anna Milder-Hauptmann (1785–1838), Austrian singer
- Pauline Moran (b. 1947), English actor
- Pauline Musters (1876–1895), the shortest woman ever recorded
- Pauline Ngan Po-ling, Chinese politician
- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones (b. 1939), former BBC Governor and Chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee
- Pauline Newstone, Canadian voice actor
- Pauline Nyiramasuhuko (b. 1946), Rwandan politician and war criminal
- Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016), US composer and accordionist
- Pauline O'Neill (disambiguation)
- Pauline O'Neill (sister), first president of Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana
- Pauline O'Neill (suffrage leader) (1865–1961), suffrage leader, Arizona state legislator, and widow of Buckey O'Neill
- Princess Pauline of Orange-Nassau {1800–1806), Dutch noble
- Pauline Pantsdown, stage name of Australian satirist Simon Hunt
- Pauline Parker (b. 1938), New Zealander murderer
- Pauline Parmentier (b. 1986), French tennis player
- Pauline-Euphrosine Paul (1803–1877), French ballet dancer also known as Madame Montessu
- Pauline Periwinkle (1863-1916), American journalist, poet, teacher, feminist
- Pauline Phillips (1918–2013), US writer of Dear Abby
- Pauline Picard (1947–2009), Canadian politician
- Pauline Polaire, Italian actor
- Paulina Porizkova (b. 1965), Czech model and actress
- Pauline Prior-Pitt, British poet
- Pauline Quirke (b. 1959), English actress
- Pauline Reade (d. 1963), British murder victim
- Pauline Réage, pseudonym of French journalist Anne Desclos (1907–1998)
- Pauline Richards, Canadian political candidate
- Pauline Robertson (b. 1968), retired Scottish field hockey player
- Pauline Roland (1805—1852), French feminist and socialist
- Pauline Dohn Rudolph (1865–1934), US painter
- Pauline Sabin (1887–1955), US prohibition repeal leader and Republican party official
- Pauline Scanlon, Irish singer
- Pauline Schmidt (1865–1944), Danish magician
- Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841–1917), US philanthropist and social reformer
- Pauline Small (1924–2005), Crow tribal politician
- Pauline Smith (1882–1959), South African novelist
- Pauline Stainer (b. 1941), English poet
- Pauline Starke (1901–1977), US actor
- Pauline Anna Strom, US composer and synthesist better known as Trans-Millenia Consort
- Pauline Thompson (1942–2012), New Zealand painter
- Pauline Thys (c.1836–1909), French composer and librettist
- Pauline Tompkins (1918–2004), president of Cedar Crest College
- Pauline, Lady Trevelyan {1816–1866), English painter
- Pauline van der Wildt (b. 1944), retired Dutch swimmer
- Pauline Vanier (1898–1991), Canadian vice-regal consort
- Pauline (singer) (Pauline Vasseur) (b. 1988), French singer
- Pauline Viardot (1821–1910), French singer
- Pauline Wayne (b. ca 1906), US President Taft's cow
- Pauline Payne Whitney (1874–1916), US heiress
- Pauline of Württemberg (disambiguation)
- Pauline Therese of Württemberg (1800–1873), daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg and third wife of King William I of Württemberg
- Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810–1856), daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg and second wife of William, Duke of Nassau
- Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1877–1965), daughter of William II of Württemberg and wife of William Frederick, Prince of Wied
- Pauline A. Young (1900–1991), African-American teacher, activist, and humanitarian
Fictional characters
- Ms. Pauline Fleming, a character from the 1988 film Heathers, and it's musical and TV adaptations
- Pauline Fowler, a character from the British soap opera EastEnders, portrayed by Wendy Richard
- Pauline, a character in Nintendo's Donkey Kong and Mario franchises
See also
- Pauline (disambiguation) (other meanings of the word Pauline)
- The Perils of Pauline, a series of films
- Paulina
- Pavlina
- All pages with titles beginning with Pauline
- All pages with titles beginning with Princess Pauline
External links
- Lexikoneintrag über den Namen Pauline at vorname.com (in German)
- Entry at onomastik.com (in German)
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