Genevieve (given name)

Genevieve (Geneviève) is a female name of "Celtic or Germanic origin, possibly from the Germanic name [Kenowefa Latinized as] Genoveva, meaning 'race' or 'tribe', and wefa ... 'woman'". Genevieve can also mean "woman of the family".

People with this name

 * Sainte Geneviève, French saint (Patron saint of Paris) in Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy
 * Genevieve Angelson (born 1987), American TV and film actress
 * Genevieve Armstrong (born 1988), New Zealand rower
 * Genevieve Artadi (born 1982), American singer and producer
 * Genevieve Beacom (born 2004–2005), Australian baseball pitcher
 * Geneviève Behrend (1881–1960), French-born author and teacher
 * Genevieve Behrent (born 1990), New Zealand rower
 * Genevieve Blatt (1913–1996), American judge and politician
 * Geneviève Robic-Brunet (born 1959), Canadian cyclist
 * Geneviève Bujold (born 1942), Canadian actress
 * Geneviève Castrée (1981–2016), Canadian comics artist, illustrator, and musician
 * Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri (c.1817-1878), early French photographer
 * Genevieve Chappell (born 1972), American television personality
 * Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, Canadian film director
 * Genevieve Feinstein (1913-2006), American mathematician, cryptanalyst, NSA Hall of Honor recipient
 * Geneviève Fraisse (b. 1948), French feminist philosopher
 * Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, (1920-2002), member of the French Resistance
 * Geneviève Gemayel (1908–2003), Lebanese political figure
 * Genevieve Gorder (born 1974), American television host and interior designer
 * Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (1913-2006), American mathematician and cryptanalyst
 * Geneviève Hafner, French photographer based in New York City
 * Geneviève Halévy (1849-1926), French salonnière
 * Genevieve Hannelius (born 1998), American teen actress
 * Genevieve Hughes (1932-2012), American Freedom Rider
 * Gen Kitchen, British politician
 * Geneviève Lacambre (born 1937), French heritage curator
 * Geneviève Meurgues (1931-2021), French explorer, museum curator and conservator
 * Genevieve Morton (born 1986), South African model
 * Genevieve Nnaji (born 1979), Nigerian actress
 * Genevieve Oswald (1921-2019), American dance scholar and archivist
 * Genevieve Padalecki (born 1981), American actress
 * Geneviève Page (born 1927), French actress
 * Genevieve Pezet (1913–2009), American-born French artist
 * Genevieve Schatz, American singer
 * Geneviève Simard (born 1980), Canadian alpine skier
 * Geneviève Serreau (1915–1981), French stage actress and playwright
 * Genevieve Valentine (born 1981), American science fiction and fantasy writer
 * Genevieve M. Walton (1857–1932), American librarian
 * Genevieve Westcott (1955–2020), New Zealand journalist and television presenter
 * Genevieve Woo (born 1969), Singaporean television news presenter

Fictional characters

 * Genevieve, a vintage car, title character of the British film Genevieve
 * Genevieve, the dog in Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
 * Princess Genevieve, main protagonist in the animated film Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses
 * Genevieve Atkinson in the American CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless
 * Geneviève Emery in the French film Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, played by Catherine Deneuve
 * Genevieve Selsor in the book The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
 * Genevieve Villard in CrossGen Comics' Sigilverse
 * Geneviève in the movie Rush Hour 3
 * "Sweet Lady Genevieve", a 1973 song by the Kinks
 * Genevieve from To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
 * Genevieve Mirren-Carter, in the American TV show Brooklyn Nine-Nine
 * Genevieve Helicopter on display in Air and Space Museum Bell Model 30 Ship 1A
 * Genevieve Mercier from Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
 * Geneviève, from the short story "The Mask", published in The King in Yellow
 * Genevieve Terhoven, from The Black Obelisk