'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.

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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

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External links

★ Beatrice at Behindthename.com

★ Beatrice at Ancestry.com

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