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Faustina Kowalska Maria Faustyna Kowalska, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938), also known as ''Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament'', Faustyna popularly spelled "Faustina", was a Polish Catholic religious sister ...
(1905–1938), Polish mystic, "Secretary of Divine Mercy" *
Saint Faustina and Saint Liberata of Como Liberata and Faustina of Como were sisters who lived as holy virgins in Como, Italy, during the 6th century. They founded the Convent of Santa Margarita in the town and both died around 580 AD. Traditional account Liberata and Faustina were the ...
, 6th-century Italian nuns


Women from the Nerva–Antonine dynasty

* Rupilia Faustina, a daughter of Vitellia Galeria and the consul Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus *
Faustina the Elder Annia Galeria Faustina the Elder, sometimes referred to as Faustina I or Faustina Major (born on February 16 around 100; died in October or November of 140), was a Roman empress and wife of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius. The emperor Marcus Au ...
(died c. 140), Annia Galeria Faustina Major, daughter of Rupilia Faustina and Marcus Annius Verus; wife of Emperor Antoninus Pius *
Faustina the Younger Annia Galeria Faustina the Younger (born probably 21 September AD, – 175/176 AD) was Roman empress from 161 to her death as the wife of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, her maternal cousin. Faustina was the youngest child of Emperor Antoninus Pius a ...
(2nd century – 175), Annia Galeria Faustina Minor, daughter of Faustina the Elder and Antoninus Pius; wife of Emperor Marcus Aurelius *
Annia Cornificia Faustina Annia Cornificia Faustina (122/123between 152 and 158) was the youngest child and only daughter of the praetor Marcus Annius Verus and Domitia Lucilla. The parents of Cornificia came from wealthy senatorial families who were of consular rank. H ...
(123–152), cousin of Faustina to Younger and sister to Marcus Aurelius *
Annia Fundania Faustina Annia Fundania Faustina (died 192) was a noble Roman woman who lived in the Roman Empire during the 2nd century AD. She was the paternal cousin of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his sister Annia Cornificia Faustina. Life Fundania Faustina was t ...
(died 192), cousin of Faustina the Younger and Marcus Aurelius *
Ummidia Cornificia Faustina Ummidia Cornificia Faustina (AD 141–182) was a wealthy Roman noblewoman, an heiress and the niece of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Family Cornificia Faustina was the daughter of Marcus Aurelius’ sister, Annia Cornificia Faustina and a R ...
(141–182), daughter of Annia Cornificia Faustina and niece of Marcus Aurelius *
Vitrasia Faustina Vitrasia Faustina (died 182 or 183) was a noble Roman woman who lived in the 2nd century during the Roman Empire. Life Vitrasia was the daughter of Annia Fundania Faustina and the Roman Senator Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio, consul II ...
(died c. 180), daughter of Annia Fundania Faustina *
Annia Galeria Aurelia Faustina Annia Galeria Aurelia Faustina (c. 151/153Birley, Anthony. ''Marcus Aurelius'', revised edition (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 108. - after 165) was a daughter of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and his wife, Faustina the Younger. Her sister was em ...
(147 – 2nd century), first-born daughter of Faustina the Younger and Marcus Aurelius *
Annia Cornificia Faustina Minor Annia Cornificia Faustina Minor (''Minor'' Latin for ''the younger'', 160–212 AD) was a daughter of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and his wife, Faustina the Younger. She was sister to Lucilla and Commodus. Her maternal grandparents were A ...
(160–212), another sister of Annia Aurelia Galeria Faustina *
Annia Faustina (daughter of Ummidia Cornificia Faustina) Annia Faustina (165-by 218) was a noblewoman of Anatolian Roman descent and a wealthy heiress who lived in the Roman Empire. She was a mother-in-law of the emperor Elagabalus. Biography Annia Faustina was the daughter and only child of the wealt ...
(165 – c. 210), noblewoman of Anatolian Roman descent and a wealthy heiress who lived in the Roman Empire * Annia Faustina or Annia Aurelia Faustina, the great, granddaughter of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger, the third wife of Roman Emperor Elagabalus


Other Roman women

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Faustina (wife of Constantius II) Faustina ( 361 – after 366) was an Empress of the Roman Empire and third wife of Emperor Constantius II. The main source for her biography is the account of historian Ammianus Marcellinus. Her origins and other names are unknown. Marriage Co ...
** Faustina Constantia, daughter of Faustina and Constantius * Faustina, a hagiographical version of Empress
Valeria Maximilla Valeria Maximilla () was the Empress of the Romans and wife of Emperor Maxentius. Life She was the daughter of Emperor Galerius and his first wife, whose name is unknown. She married Maxentius around 293 (the exact date is unknown) in what was ...
, supposedly converted by St. Catherine of Alexandria


Other people

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Faustina Agolley Faustina "Fuzzy" Agolley (born 10 April 1984) is an Australian television presenter best known for her role as the host of long-running Australian music program ''Video Hits'' on Channel 10. She was also the host of late-night game and gadget ...
, Australian television music presenter * Faustina Acheampong, First Lady of the Republic of Ghana *
Faustina Bordoni Faustina Bordoni (30 March 1697 – 4 November 1781) was an Italian mezzo-soprano. In Hamburg, Germany, the Johann Adolph Hasse Museum is dedicated to her husband and partly to Bordoni. Early career She was born in Venice and brought up unde ...
(1697–1781), Baroque-era soprano nicknamed "Faustina" * Faustina Maratti (c. 1670–1745), Italian Baroque poet and painter * Faustina Sáez de Melgar (1834–1895), Spanish writer and journalist *
Faustina Pignatelli Faustina Pignatelli Carafa, princess of Colubrano (9 December 1705-30 December 1769), was an Italian mathematician and scientist from Naples. She became the second woman (after the Bolognese physicist Laura Bassi) to be elected to the Academy of ...
(died 1785), Italian physicist * Doc Faustina (born 1939), NASCAR driver


Fictional characters

* Faustina, a character in the 1969 novel ''
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Other uses

* ''Faustina'' (1957 film), a 1957 Spanish comedy * ''Faustina'' (1968 film), an Italian comedy * ''Faustina'' (1995 film), a Polish religious drama * ''Faustine'' (1991 novel), by
Emma Tennant Emma Christina Tennant FRSL (20 October 1937 – 21 January 2017) was an English novelist and editor of Scottish extraction, known for a post-modern approach to her fiction, often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a femi ...
* ''Faustina'' (gastropod), a subgenus of '' Chilostoma'' gastropods * ''Faustina'' (play), a 1948 drama by Paul Goodman {{disambig, hndis, given name