Georgiana

Georgiana is a Catalan, English, Greek and Romanian name. It is the feminine form of the male name George and a variation of the female names Georgina and Georgia. It comes from the Greek word Template:Lang (Template:Transliteration), meaning "farmer".<ref>Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Georgiana</ref> A variant spelling is Georgianna.

List of persons with the given name Georgiana

• Georgiana Astley (1796–1835), English daughter of Sir Henry Dashwood, MP
• Georgiana Birțoiu (born 1989), Romanian footballer
• Georgiana Blankenship (1861–1936), American writer
• Georgiana Bloomfield, Baroness Bloomfield (1822–1905), British courtier and author
• Georgiana Bonser (1898–1979), British physician
• Georgiana Buller (1884–1953), English hospital administrator
• Georgiana Burne-Jones (1840–1920), artist, wife and biographer of Edward Burne-Jones
• Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806)
• Georgiana Chatterton (1806–1876), English aristocrat, traveler, and author
• Georgiana Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, (1764–1838)
• Lady Georgiana Curzon (1910–1976), English socialite
• Georgiana Fanny Shipley Daniell (1836–1894), British philanthropist
• Georgiana Drew (1856–1893), American actress and comedian, a member of the Barrymore acting family
• Georgiana Dvorak-Theobald (1884-1971), American ophthalmologist
• Lady Georgiana Fullerton (1812–1885), English novelist, philanthropist, and biographer
• Georgiana Harcourt (1807–1886), writer and translator
• Georgiana Finch-Hatton, Countess of Winchilsea, (1791–1835)
• Georgiana Hill (1858-1924), British social historian and women's rights activist
• Georgiana Klingle Holmes (1841–1940), American poet and painter
• Georgiana Houghton (1814–1884), British artist and spiritualist medium
• Georgiana Burne-Jones (1840–1920), British painter and engraver
• Georgiana Keate (1771 (probably)–1850), English painter
• Georgiana Goddard King (1871–1939), American Hispanist and medievalist
• Georgiana Leicester, Baroness de Tabley (1794–1859), English aristocrat
• Georgiana Lobonț (born 1994), Romanian singer
• Georgiana McCrae (1804–1890), English-Australian painter and diarist
• Georgiana Molloy (1805–1843), English-Australian botanical collector
• Georgiana Hare-Naylor (1755–1806), English painter and art patron
• Georgiana Rolls, Baroness Llangattock (c.1837–1923), socialite and enthusiast for Nelson
• Georgiana Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1781–1853), British aristocrat and patron of the arts
• Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1809–1884)
• Georgiana Simpson (1865–1944), African-American philologist
• Georgiana Solomon (1844–1933), British educator and campaigner
• Georgiana Somerset, Marchioness of Worcester (1792–1821)
• Georgiana Spencer, Countess Spencer (1737–1814), English philanthropist
• Georgiana Teodorescu (born 1985), Romanian politician
• Georgiana Young (1924–2007), American actress
• Georgiana Zornlin (1800–1881), English artist and writer

Fictional characters

• Georgiana Darcy, younger sister of one of the main characters in Pride and Prejudice
• Georgiana Pirrip, the mother of Pip in Charles Dickens‘s "Great Expectations"
• Georgiana, wife of Aylmer in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark"
• Georgiana Reed, cousin of Jane Eyre in Charlotte Brontë's novel of the same name.

Dramatic works

• Georgiana (2019), an opera pasticcio based on the life of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806) commissioned by the Buxton Festival.

Territories

• Georgiana, a colony proposed by Phineas Lyman for establishment in the Natchez district of British West Florida.

List of persons with the given name Georgianna

• Georgianna Bell, a pen name of the author Anne Rundle
• Georgianna Bishop (1878–1971), American golfer
• Georgianna Hiliadaki, Greek chef
• Georgianna Hopley (1858–1944), better known as Georgia Hopley, American journalist and temperance advocate
• Georgianna Lincoln (born 1943), American politician and businesswoman
• Georgianna Robertson (born 1972), Jamaican model and actress
• Georgianna Stout (born 1967), American graphic designer
• Georgianna Kathleen Symonette (1902–1965), Bahamian suffragist

See also

• Georgina