Edwige is a feminine French given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Edwige Avice
Edwige Avice (born 13 April 1945 in Nevers, France) is a French politician.
References
1945 births
Living people
People from Nevers
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Government ministers of France
Deputies of the 6th National Assembl ...
, French politician
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Edwige Belmore
Edwige, also known as Edwige Belmore and Edwige Braun-Belmore and la reine du punk a Paris (February 26, 1957 – September 22, 2015) was a French model, singer, artist and actress. She was considered a blonde icon of 1980s No Wave New York/Franc ...
, French model, singer, and actress
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Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat (; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, '' Breath, Eyes, Memory'', was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written ...
, Haitian-American novelist
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Edwige Djedjemel
Edwige Djedjemel (born 28 October 1988) is an Ivorian female professional basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compet ...
, Ivorian basketball player
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Edwige Fenech
Edwige Fenech (, ; born 24 December 1948) is a French-Italian actress and film producer. She is mostly known as the star of a series of ''commedia sexy all'italiana'' and ''giallo'' films released predominantly through her 20 year career in the ...
, Italian actress and film producer
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Edwige Feuillère
Edwige Feuillère (born Edwige Louise Caroline Cunatti; 29 October 1907 – 13 November 1998) was a French stage and film actress.
Biography
She was born Edwige Louise Caroline Cunatti to an Italian architect father and an Alsace-born moth ...
, French film actress
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Edwige Gwend
Edwige Gwend (born 11 March 1990) is a Cameroonean-born Italian judoka who competes in the 63 kg division. She won an individual silver medal at the 2010 European Championships, and was eliminated in the second round at the 2012 and 2016 O ...
, Italian judoka
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Edwige Lawson-Wade
Edwige Lawson (born 14 May 1979), also Edwige Lawson-Wade, is a French former professional women's basketball player.
Professional career
A point guard, Lawson-Wade started her professional career at the age of 17.
She played in Bordeaux, Aix-en ...
, French basketball player
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Edwige Pitel
Edwige Pitel (born 4 June 1967) is a French racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Continental Team . Pitel was the winner of the 2003 ITU Duathlon World Championships.
Pitel earned a PhD from Imperial College London in 1994 un ...
, French cyclist
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Edwige-Renée Dro
Edwige-Renée Dro (born 1980s) is a writer, translator and literary activist from Côte d'Ivoire. She is co-founder of the literature collective Abidjan Lit.
Career
In 2014, Edwige-Renée Dro was named as one of those chosen for the Africa39 proj ...
, Ivorian writer, translator and literary activist
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Vige Langevin
Vige Langevin (2 October 1898 – 22 September 1992), born Edwige Grandjouan, was a French artist, writer and arts educator.
Early life and education
Langevin was born in Nantes, the daughter of artist and writer and teacher Bettina Simon. One ...
, born Edwige Grandjouan, French educator, artist, writer
See also
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Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat (; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, '' Breath, Eyes, Memory'', was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written ...
, Haitian-American author
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Hadewijch
Hadewijch (), sometimes referred to as Hadewych or Hadewig (of Brabant or of Antwerp), was a 13th-century poet and mystic, probably living in the Duchy of Brabant. Most of her extant writings are in a Brabantian form of Middle Dutch. Her writ ...
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Hedwig (given name)
Hedwig is a German language, German feminine given name, from Old High German Hadwig, Hadewig, Haduwig. It is a Germanic name consisting of the two elements ''hadu'' "battle, combat" and ''wig'' "fight, duel".
The name is on record since the 9th c ...
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Jadwiga
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French feminine given names
Feminine given names