# 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 in the 1970s, due to public figures such as Bianca Jagger.

## Variants

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

## People
### Medieval period

    In chronological order
* Bianca Lancia (c. 1200 – c. 1233), 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, Holy Roman Emperor
* Bianca Giovanna Sforza, (1482–1495), Countess of Bobbio and Voghera, wife of Galeazzo Sanseverino
* 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 Borgella (born 2003), Canadian para-athlete
* Bianca Brandolini d’Adda (born 1987), Italian socialite
* Bianca Butler (born 1989), American ice skater
* Bianca Bustamante (born 2005), Filipina racing driver
* 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 Censori (born 1995), Australian architect and model
* 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
* Bianca Williams (born 1980), American anthropologist
* Bianca Williams (born 1993), British athlete

## 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
* Bianca Bikini, villain from The Powerpuff Girls

## Other uses

* Bianca (moon), a moon of Uranus