# Roxanne (given name)

Roxanne is a Persian feminine given name. The English rendition of the name is derived from Greek Rhōxanē (Latinised to Roxana), used for Roxana, one of Cambyses's wives, the daughter of Idérnēs, a sister of one sister of king Mithridates VI, and the wife of Alexander the Great. The name originates from the Old Iranian Raṷxšnā-, meaning “bright” or “radiant”. It shares the same etymology as the Persian word “roshan”, which also means “light” or “bright” (روشن).

## People

* Roxana, Bactrian princess and wife of Alexander the Great
* Saint Humility (1226–1310), Italian saint known as Saint Roxanne (Santa Rosanna)
* Roxanne Avent (born 1976), American film producer and movie studio executive
* Roxanne Barcelo (born 1985), Filipino-American actress, model and singer
* Roxanne Barker (born 1991), South African football goalkeeper
* Roxanne Beck, American singer and voice actress
* Roxanne Beckford (born 1969), American actress
* Roxanne Benjamin, American film producer, writer and director
* Roxanne Bovenberg (born 1989), Dutch handball player
* Roxanne Conlin (born 1944), United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa
* Roxanne Constantin, Canadian musician
* Roxanne Donnery American politician from New York
* Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (born 1939), American historian, writer and feminist
* Roxanne Dufter (born 1992), German speed skater
* Roxanne Ellis (1942–1995), American murder victim
* Roxanne Emery (born 1984), English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer
* Roxanne Franck (born 1998), French female handball player
* Roxanne Guinoo (born 1986), Filipino actress
* Roxanne Hart (born 1952), American actress
* Roxanne James (born 1966), Canadian politician
* Roxanne Jones (1928–1996), American politician from Pennsylvania
* Roxanne Kernohan (1960–1993), Canadian actress
* Roxanne Lowit, New York-based fashion and celebrity photographer
* Roxanne McDonald (born c. 1960), Australian actress
* Roxanne McKee (born 1980), English actress and model
* Roxanne Modafferi (born 1982), American mixed martial artist
* Roxanne Didier Nicholas (born 1992), St. Lucian dancer and beauty pageant titleholder
* Roxanne Pallett (born 1982), English actress and singer
* Roxanne Persaud, American politician from New York
* Roxanne Potvin (born 1982) Canadian bilingual singer, guitarist and songwriter
* Roxanne Pulitzer (born 1951), American novelist and actress
* Roxanne Qualls (born 1953), American mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
* Roxanne Quimby (born 1950), American artist and businesswoman
* Roxanne Roberts (born 1954), American style writer for the Washington Post
* Roxanne "Roxy" Saint (born 1977) American singer, musician, video producer
* Roxanne Seeman (born 1954), American songwriter and lyricist
* Roxanne Shanté (born 1969), American hip hop musician
* Roxanne Starr, American graphic designer and comic book letterer
* Roxanne Swentzell (born 1962), American ceramist
* Roxanne Tong (born 1987), Hong Kong beauty pageant contestant
* Roxane Turcotte (born 1952), Canadian author
* Roxanne Varza (born 1985), Iranian-American company executive
* Roxanne Wilson (born 1979), American businesswoman
* Roxanne Ashley Yu (born 1997), Filipino swimmer

## Roxanna

* Roxanna Bennett, Canadian poet
* Roxanna Brown, prominent authority on Southeast Asian ceramics and director of the Bangkok University's Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum
* Roxanna Carrillo, Peruvian activist and feminist
* Roxanna June, Playboy model
* Roxanna Panufnik, British composer of Polish heritage

## Fictional characters

* Roxane, cousin and main love interest of the titular character in the 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac.
* Roxanne "Roxy" Washington, a Marvel character known as Bling!
* Roxanne Ritchie, a TV news reporter in the movie Megamind
* Roxanne, the high school love interest of Max Goof in A Goofy Movie
* Roxanne / Christina M. Constantino, a character from Ngayon at Kailanman (2018 TV series)
* Roxanne Fatima "Roxy" G. Cristobal, a character from Senior High and High Street
* Roxy Lalonde, via Homestuck.
* Roxanne "Roxy" Mangubat, a character from Kadenang Ginto
* Roxanne Opeña, a character from FPJ's Ang Probinsyano
* Roxanne Richter, one of Ramona's exes in Scott Pilgrim
* Dr. Roxanne Vanderwheele, an archeologist from the cartoon "Tutenstein".
* Roxanne Wolf, one of the animatronics in Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach.
* Roxanne "Roxie" Hart, the protagonist of the 1926 play, Chicago, and 1975 musical of the same name.
* Roxy, fairy of animals and the unofficial 7th member of the Winx Club.