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'Beatrice' (pronounced ''bee'-a-tris'' or in Italian ''bay'-a-tree-chay'') is a name derived from the Latin name Beatrix. This occurred in medieval Italy. Beatrice means ''she who blesses'' or ''bringer of joy''. The French form is Béatrice. The Spanish and Portuguese form is Beatriz. The Greek form is Βεατρίκη (''Beatrikē''). Other variants of the name include Bea, Beatty, Beattie and Trixie.

Contents
People with the given name Beatrice
Film, television, and the stage
Sport
Politics and visible public positions
Miscellaneous
Fictional people
Places
See also
External links

People with the given name Beatrice


Film, television, and the stage


Beatrice Alda, American actress

Beatrice Arthur, American actress who starred in ''The Golden Girls''

Beatrice Boepple, American actress best known as Amanda Krueger in

Beatrice Politi, Canadian television journalist

Beatrice Roberts, American singer/stage performer

Beatrice Winde, American actress
Sport


Beatrice Căslaru, Romanian swimmer

Beatrice Faumuina, New Zealand Olympic Champion Discus thrower

Beatrice Jepchumba, a Kenyan runner

Beatrice Lanza, Italian triathlete

Beatrice Mouthon, French triathlete

Beatrice Utondu, Nigerian sprinter
Politics and visible public positions


Beatrice of Nazareth, Flemish nun and mystic writer

Beatrice Plummer, Baroness Plummer, a British Peeress and Justice of the Peace for Essex

Beatrice Wright, American-born British politician

Princess Beatrice (disambiguation), several princesses have been named Beatrice

Saint Beatrice, name of several Christian saints
Miscellaneous


Beatrice Cenci, Italian woman in the 16th century who died by decapitation

Beatrice Hastings, (pen-name) lover of Modigliana

Beatrice M. Hinkle, American feminist psychoanalyst

Beatrice Portinari, Dante Alighieri's great love and muse

Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, British Government minister and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords

Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist

Beatrice Trew, Canadian socialist

Beatrice Warde, American communicator on typography

Beatrice Webb, English writer

Beatrice (singer), singer in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999
Fictional people


Beatrice Portinari, the guide through Paradise in Dante's ''Divina Commedia''

★ Beatrice, a character in William Shakespeare's ''Much Ado About Nothing''

Beatrice Baudelaire, a fictional character from ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'' and the daughter of Kit Snicket

Beatrice Baudelaire, the Baudelaires children's mother in ''A Series of Unfortunate Events''

★ Beatrice Carbone, one of the cast of characters in ''A View from the Bridge'', a play by Arthur Miller

★ Beatrice is the antagonist of the 4 chapeter arch in the Sony Playstation Role Playing Game Wild Arms 3

Places



Beatrice, Alabama, a town in the United States

See also



Beatrijs, a 13th century Dutch poem about a nun with this name


External links



Beatrice at Behindthename.com

Beatrice at Ancestry.com

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