# Genevieve (given name)

Genevieve (French: Geneviève) is a female name of "Celtic or Germanic origin, possibly from the Germanic name [Kenowefa Latinized as] Genoveva, meaning kin, '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 Bell, vice-chancellor of ANU
* 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 (born 1948), French feminist philosopher
* Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz (1920–2002), member of the French Resistance
* Genevieve Gaunt (born 1991), Dutch-English actress
* 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, also known as G Hannelius
* 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 Mina (born 1996), American politician
* Genevieve Morton (born 1986), South African model
* Genevieve Mushaluk (born 1991), Canadian lawyer and Survivor 47 contestant
* Genevieve Nnaji (born 1979), Nigerian actress
* Genevieve Oswald (1921–2019), American dance scholar and archivist
* Genevieve Padalecki (born 1981), American actress
* Geneviève Page (1927–2025), French actress
* Genevieve Pezet (1913–2009), American-born French artist
* Geneviève Savalette (1735–1795), French playwright and actress
* Genevieve Schatz, American singer
* Geneviève Serreau (1915–1981), French stage actress and playwright
* Geneviève Simard (born 1980), Canadian alpine skier
* Genevieve Valentine (born 1981), American science fiction and fantasy writer
* Geneviève Vergez-Tricom (1889–1966), French geographer and historian
* 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
* Genevieve Delacroix in the Netflix television series Bridgerton
* 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 from Emily in Paris
* 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, protagonist of 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