Delphine (given name)

Delphine is a feminine Francophone given name, a form of the Latin Delphina, meaning woman from Delphi. Delphine of Glandèves was a 14th-century nun from Provence. Notable people with the name include:


 * Delfina Potocka (1807–1877), Polish countess, a friend and muse to artists Frédéric Chopin and Zygmunt Krasiński
 * Delphine Arnault (born 1975), French businesswoman, director and executive vice president of Louis Vuitton (LVMH Group)
 * Delphine Atangana (born 1984), Cameroonian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres
 * Delphine Batho (born 1973), French politician
 * Delphine Biscaye, French mechanical engineer and designer
 * Delphine Blanc (born 1983), French football player
 * Princess Delphine of Belgium (born 1968), illegitimate daughter of King Albert II of Belgium and Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps
 * Delphine Cascarino (born 1997), French professional football player, 5-time UEFA Women's Champions League winner
 * Delphine O (born 1985), French-Korean politician and former MP for Paris for Renaissance
 * Delphine Chanéac (born 1978), French actress
 * Delphine Combe (born 1974), French sprinter
 * Delphine de Custine (1770–1826), French literary and society figure
 * Delphine Ernotte (born 1966), French businesswoman
 * Delphine de Girardin (1804–1855), French author under the pen name Vicomte Delaunay
 * Delphine Galou (born 1977), French-born contralto
 * Delphine Gény-Stephann (born 1968), French engineer, current Secretary of State under Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire
 * Delphine Gleize (born 1973), French film director and screenwriter
 * Delphine Minoui (born 1974), French-Iranian investigative journalist, social scientist and author
 * Delphine Hanna (1854–1941), American physical education professor
 * Delphine Horvilleur (born 1974), prominent French rabbi, co-leader of the Liberal Jewish Movement of France
 * Delphine LaLaurie (1787–1849), New Orleans socialite and murderer
 * Delphine Lecompte (born 1978), Flemish poet
 * Delphine Levy (1969–2020), French manager of cultural institutions
 * Delphine Lingemann (born 1972), French politician
 * Delphine Neid, a bassist in the band The Nuns
 * Delphine Oggeri (born 1973), French ski mountaineer
 * Delphine Py-Bilot (born 1979), professional French triathlete
 * Delphine Seyrig (1932–1990), French actress
 * Delphine Anderson Squires (1868-1961), American suffragist and journalist
 * Delphine de Vigan (born 1966), Award-winning French novelist
 * Delphine Wespiser (born 1992), Miss Alsace 2011 and Miss France 2012
 * Delphine Zanga Tsogo (1935–2020), Cameroonian writer and politician
 * Belle Delphine (born 1999), Mary-Belle Kirschner, professionally known as Belle Delphine, South African-born English internet celebrity, pornographic actress, model, and YouTuber

Fictional characters

 * Delphine d'Albémar, titular heroine in the eponymous Delphine, infamous epistolary novel by Germaine de Staël
 * Delphine de Nucingen, recurrent character in Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie Humaine
 * Delphine, one of the two young farmgirls, Delphine and Marinette, narrating their adventures in Marcel Aymé's Les Contes du Chat Perché (1934-1946) - translated in English as The Magic Pictures and The Wonderful Farm.
 * Captain Delphine Angua von Überwald, a character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld
 * Delphine, a character in Power Rangers
 * Delphine, a character in the 2011 game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
 * Delphine Cormier, a character on Orphan Black played by Évelyne Brochu
 * Delphine Lasalle, undercover French intelligence agent in the 2017 film Atomic Blonde
 * Delphine Day, a character from ITV's Mr Selfridge
 * Delphine Donkey, a character in the British children's cartoon Peppa Pig
 * Delphine, a character from ITV TV series Plebs
 * Delphine Watzka, the protagonist of the 2003 novel The Master Butchers Singing Club
 * Delphine Gaither, the narrator of Rita Williams-Garcia's 2010 novel One Crazy Summer and its sequels.
 * Delphine Lacroix a character from Netflix's TV series Anne with an E