Bianca

Bianca is a feminine given name. It means "white" and is an Italian cognate of Blanche. It is known in the Anglosphere as a character in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. It came to greater notice beginning in the 1970s due to public figures such as Bianca Jagger.

Variants

 * Blanche: French
 * Bianca: Italian, Romanian
 * Bianka (Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, German, English, French, Icelandic, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, Corsican, Spanish, Greek, Czech)
 * Blanca (French, English, Icelandic, Hungarian, Spanish)

Medieval period

 * In chronological order


 * Bianca Lancia (c. 1200), Italian noble
 * Bianca of Savoy (1337–1387), Lady of Milan by marriage
 * Bianca Maria Visconti (1425–1468), Duchess of Milan
 * Bianca Maria Sforza (1472–1510), Holy Roman Empress, wife of Maximilian I
 * Bianca Cappello (1548–1587), Grand Duchess of Tuscany

A–K

 * Bianca Andreescu (born 2000), Canadian tennis player
 * Bianca Atzei (born 1987), Italian singer
 * Bianca Balti (born 1984), Italian model
 * Bianca Beauchamp (born 1977), Canadian model
 * Bianca Belair (born 1989), American professional wrestler
 * Bianca Bianchi (1855–1947), stage name of Bertha Schwarz, German/Austrian opera soprano
 * Bianca Bin (born 1990), Brazilian actress
 * Bianca Brandolini d’Adda (born 1987), Italian socialite
 * Bianca Butler (born 1989), American ice skater
 * Bianca Byington (born 1966), Brazilian actress
 * Bianca Carstensen (born 1975), Danish rower
 * Bianca Casady (born 1982), American musical artist
 * Bianca Castanho (born 1979), Brazilian actress
 * Bianca Chatfield (born 1982), Australian netball player
 * Bianca Chiminello (born 1976), Australian model and actress
 * Bianca Collins (born 1988), American actress
 * Bianca Comparato (born 1985), Brazilian actress
 * Bianca de Vera (born 2002), Filipina actress
 * Bianca Del Rio (born 1975), American drag queen
 * Bianca Devins (born 2001), American murder victim
 * Bianca Ferguson, American actress
 * Bianca Froese-Acquaye (born 1964), German artist and author
 * Bianca Gascoigne (born 1987), British model and TV personality
 * Bianca Gonzalez (born 1983), Filipina TV personality
 * Bianca Jagger (born 1945), Nicaraguan actress, social and human rights advocate
 * Bianca Kajlich (born 1977), American actress
 * Bianca Kappler (born 1977), German long jumper
 * Bianca King (born 1985), Canadian–Filipina actress, model

L–Z

 * Bianca Lamblin (1921–2011), French writer
 * Bianca Langham-Pritchard (born 1975), Australian field hockey player
 * Bianca Manalo (born 1987), Filipina actress and beauty pageant titleholder
 * Bianca Marroquín, Mexican actress
 * Bianca Lawson (born 1979), American actress
 * Bianca Netzler (cyclist) (born 1974), New Zealand cyclist representing Samoa
 * Bianca Netzler (field hockey) (born 1976), Australian field hockey player
 * Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu (born 1968), Nigerian beauty queen, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and businesswoman; wife of former Biafran President, Chukuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
 * Bianca Noel Piper (born 1991), American missing person
 * Bianca Răzor (born 1994), Romanian sprinter
 * Bianca Rinaldi (born 1974), Brazilian actress
 * Bianca Ryan (born 1994), American singer
 * Bianca Solorzano (born 1974), American TV journalist
 * Bianca Szíjgyártó (born 1981), Hungarian ice dancer
 * Bianca Tiron (born 1995), Romanian handballer
 * Bianca Umali (born 2000), Filipina actress, model
 * Bianca van Rangelrooy (born 1959), New Zealand artist
 * Bianca Weiß (born 1968), German field hockey player

Fictional characters

 * Bianca (Othello), from William Shakespeare's play Othello
 * Bianca Minola, from William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew
 * Bianca Stratford, in the 1999 movie based on The Taming of the Shrew, 10 Things I Hate About You
 * A character from Bianca e Fernando, an 1828 opera by Vincenzo Bellini
 * Bianca, played by Mariah Carey in the video for her 1999 single "Heartbreaker" and in "Boy (I Need You)"
 * Bianca (That's So Raven), from the American TV series That's So Raven
 * Bianca Castafiore, recurring character in The Adventures of Tintin
 * Bianca DeSousa, in Degrassi
 * Bianca di Angelo, a minor character in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan
 * Bianca Jackson, from the British soap opera EastEnders
 * Bianca Montgomery, from the American soap opera All My Children
 * Bianca Solderini, in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles
 * Miss Bianca, from The Rescuers books by Margery Sharp and the animated films The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under
 * Bianca Erdmann, a pre-pubescent nymphomaniac in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow
 * Bianca Reyes, mother of Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) in the DC Comics continuum
 * Bianca Scott, from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
 * Bianca, the name of Varric's crossbow in Dragon Age II
 * Bianca, an anatomically correct doll in Lars and the Real Girl
 * Bianca, from the movie Pokémon Heroes
 * Bianca, in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
 * Bianca, rival character in Pokémon Black and White
 * Bianca, from the American TV series Henry Danger
 * Bianca Piper, from the book and movie The Duff
 * Bianca, from the TV series Brooklyn Nine-Nine
 * Bianca Lussi, another main character from the TV series'' Maggie & Bianca: Fashion Friends
 * Bianca, a character and former villain from Spyro: Year of the Dragon
 * Bianca, from Dragon Quest
 * Bianca Dupree, from the 1987 cartoon Beverly Hills Teens

Other uses

 * Bianca (moon), a moon of Uranus