Antoinette

For other uses, see Antoinette (disambiguation).

Antoinette

Gender	Female
Language	French
Origin
Meaning	praise or highly praiseworthy
Other names
See also	Antoine, Antonietta, Antony, Tony, Antonius, Antonella, Antonia

Antoinette is a given name, that is a diminutive feminine form of Antoine and Antonia (from Latin Antonius). ^[1]

People with the name include:

Nobles

• Antoinette de Maignelais, Baroness of Villequier by marriage (1434–1474), mistress of Charles VII of France and later of Francis II, Duke of Brittany
• Antoinette de Bourbon (1493–1583)
• Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1696–1762)
• Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1779–1824)
• Antoinette de Mérode (1828–1864), Princess of Monaco
• Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg (1838–1908)
• Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy (1920–2011)

Artists and entertainers

• Antoinette de Beaucaire (1840–1865), Occitan language poet
• Antoinette Beumer (born 1962), Dutch film director
• Antoinette Bower (born 1932), German-born British actress
• Antoinette Cellier (1913–1981), English actress
• Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1638–1694), French poet
• Antoinette Halloran, Australian operatic soprano
• D. Antoinette Handy (1930–2002), American musician and scholar
• Antoinette Hertsenberg (born 1964), Dutch television presenter
• Antoinette Kirkwood (1930–2014), English composer
• Antoinette Miggiani (born 1937), Maltese soprano
• Antoinette Lovell Patterson (born 1970), American rapper Antoinette (rapper)
• Antoinette Lubaki (1895-?), watercolourist, Congo's first known named female artist
• Antoinette Perry (1888–1946), American actress and director for whom the Tony Awards are named
• Antoinette Sibley (born 1939), British ballerina
• Antoinette Sterling (1850–1904), Anglo-American vocalist
• Antoinette Taus (born 1980), Filipino-American actress
• Antoinette-Thérèse Des Houlières (1659–1718), French poet

Athletes

• Antoinette Guedia Mouafo (born 1995), Cameroonian swimmer
• Antoinette de Jong (born 1995), Dutch speed skater
• Antoinette Lucas (born 1968), American field hockey player
• Antoinette Meyer (1920–2010), Swiss alpine skier
• Antoinette Nana Djimou (born 1985), Cameroonian-French heptathlete and pentathlete
• Antoinette Uys (born 1976), South African badminton player

Politicians

• Antoinette Batumubwira (born 1956), Burundian politician
• Antoinette Montaigne, French/Central African politician and lawyer
• Antoinette Sandbach (born 1969), Welsh politician
• Antoinette Spaak (1928–2020), Belgian politician

Others

• Antoinette Bonner (1892–1920), Romanian American jewel thief
• Antoinette Bourignon (1616–1680), French-Flemish mystic and adventurer
• Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella (c. 1641–1676), French engraver
• Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921), first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the United States
• Antoinette Candia-Bailey (1974–2024), American academic administrator
• Antoinette Downing (1904–2001), American architect
• Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912–2003), French Resistance member and jurist
• Antoinette Fouque (1936–2014), French psychoanalyst
• Antoinette Frank (born 1971), American convicted murderer
• Antoinette Konikow (1869–1946), American physician, feminist, and radical political activist
• Antoinette Nording (1814–1887), Swedish perfume entrepreneur
• Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee (1924–2011), American socialite
• Antoinette Pirie (1905–1991), British biochemist, ophthalmologist, and educator
• Antoinette Van Leer Polk (1847–1919), American plantation owner
• Antoinette Sayeh (born 1958), Liberian economist
• Antoinette Schoar, American economist

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Antoinette
• All pages with titles containing Antoinette
• Other feminine given names formed from "Antonius":
  • Antionette
  • Antonella
  • Antonette
  • Antonia (disambiguation)
  • Antonietta (disambiguation)
• Marie Antoinette (disambiguation)

References

1. Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford paperback reference. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 60. ISBN   978-0-19-861060-1. OCLC   67869278 . Retrieved 21 November 2024.