Monique is a female given name. It is the French form of the name Monica. The name has enjoyed some popularity in the

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since about 1955, and is less common in other English-speaking countries except for

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although mostly used by French speakers in

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and is rare in the English parts of Canada.

Notable people named Monique

Acting

Monique Chaumette Monique Chaumette (born 4 April 1927) is a French actress. She appeared in more than forty films since 1958. She was married to Philippe Noiret from 1962 until his death in 2006. Selected filmography References External links * {{DEFAU ...

(born 1927), French actress * Monique Coleman (born 1980), American actress, singer, and dancer *

Monique Gabriela Curnen Monique Gabriela Curnen (born September 7, 1970) is an American actress. Early life and education Curnen was born on September 7, 1970. Her mother is from Puerto Rico, and her father is of German and Irish descent. She grew up in Framingham, Mas ...

(born 1970), American actress *

Monique Gabrielle Katherine Gonzalez (born July 30, 1962), also known as Monique Gabrielle, is an American model and actress. Gabrielle was selected as the '' Penthouse'' Pet of the Month for December 1982, and has appeared in a variety of mainstream and adult f ...

(born 1963), American actress * Mo'Nique Hicks (born 1967), American actress and comedian *

Monique Leyrac Monique Leyrac, (26 February 1928 – 15 December 2019) was a Canadian singer and actress who popularized many songs by French-Canadian composers. Early life Leyrac was born Monique Tremblay in Montreal, Quebec.Alexis Luko, Rachelle Taylor ...

(1928-2019), Canadian singer and actress *

Monique Mélinand Monique Mélinand (9 March 1916 – 16 May 2012) was a French film and television actress.Capua p.177 Selected filmography * ''Rouletabille joue et gagne'' (1947) * ''Rouletabille contre la dame de pique'' (1948) * '' Between Eleven and Midnigh ...

(1916–2012), French actress *

Monique Mercure Marie Lise Monique Émond (14 November 193016 May 2020), better known as Monique Mercure (), was a Canadian stage and screen actress. She was one of the country's great actors of the classical and modern repertory. In 1977, Mercure won a Cann ...

(born 1930), Canadian actress * Monique Mojica, Canadian playwright, director, and actor * Monique Noel (born 1967), American glamour model and actress *

Monique van de Ven Monica Maria Theresia "Monique" van de Ven (; born 28 July 1952) is a Dutch actress and director. Life and career From 1973 until 1988 she was married to Dutch cinematographer and director Jan de Bont, with whom she lived in Los Angeles for a ...

(born 1952), Dutch actress and film director *

Monique Heart Mo Heart, previously Monique Heart, is the stage name of Kevin Richardson (born May 22, 1986), an American drag queen, reality television personality, and recording artist best known for competing on the tenth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' (2 ...

(born 1986), the stage name of American drag queen Kevin Richardson * Monique Williams, actress in Australian television series ''

The Sleepover Club ''The Sleepover Club'' is a series of children's books by authors Rose Impey, Narinder Dhami, Lorna Read , Fiona Cummings, Louis Catt, Sue Mongredien (aka Lucy Diamond), Angie Bates, Ginny Deals, Harriet Castor and Jana Novotny Hunter. It has al ...

Music

Monique Brumby Monique Brumby (born 16 September 1974, in Devonport) is an Australian Indie pop/rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. Her debut single, "Fool for You", peaked into the top 40 in the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) A ...

(born 1974), Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer *

Monique Buzzarté Monique Buzzarté (born 1960 in San Pedro, California, United States on August 26, 1960) is a composer, trombonist, and activist was a key part of an international protest on behalf of the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) again ...

(born 1960), American composer, trombonist, and activist *

Monique Haas Monique Haas (20 October 1909 – 9 June 1987) was a French pianist. Born in Paris, she studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Joseph Morpain and Lazare Lévy, taking a ''Premier Prix'' in 1927. She went on to study with Rudolf Serkin and Rob ...

(1909–1987), French pianist *

Monique Melsen Monique Melsen (born 24 February 1951) is a Luxembourgish singer, best known for her participation in the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest. Melsen is one of only eight native Luxembourgish to have represented the country at Eurovision in 37 years of ...

(born 1951), Luxembourgian singer * Monique Powell, singer for American ska band

Save Ferris Save Ferris is an American ska punk band formed circa 1995 in Orange County, California, United States. Their name is a reference to the 1986 film ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off''. In 1995, the band began to perform underground venues in Southern Cal ...

Monique Rhodes Monique Rhodes is a singer, songwriter and producer born in New Zealand. She has toured the world performing and composing music. Monique has produced two platinum selling albums in New Zealand, toured Europe twice with Chuck Berry and collabor ...

, New Zealand singer, songwriter, and producer

Politics

Monique Cerisier-ben Guiga Monique Cerisier-ben Guiga (20 June 1942 – 9 May 2021Monique D. Davis (born 1936), American politician * Monique Guay (born 1959), Quebec politician * Monique Iborra (born 1945), French politician *

Monique Koeyers-Felida Monique H. Koeyers-Felida (23 April 1967 – 15 August 2016) was a Curaçaoan politician of the Movement for the Future of Curaçao. She was a member of the Estates of Curaçao between 2010 and 2015. She was focused on matters related to education, ...

(1967–2016), Curaçaoan politician *

Monique Landry Monique Landry (born December 25, 1937) is a former Canadian politician. Career Member of Parliament A physiotherapist and administrator, Landry was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1984 general election that brough ...

(born 1937), Canadian politician * Monique Limon (born 1953), French politician *

Monique Limón Monique Limón (born October 30, 1979) is an American politician serving as a member of the California State Senate. She is a Democrat representing the 19th Senate District, encompassing all of Santa Barbara County, as well as over half of V ...

(born 1979), American politician *

Monique Orphé Monique Orphé (born 15 October 1964 in Saint-Denis, Réunion) is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party (PS), she was a Deputy in the National Assembly from Réunion between 2012 and 2017. Biography Teacher by profession, Moniqu ...

(born 1964), French politician *

Monique Papon Monique Papon (5 October 1934 – 6 June 2018) was a French politician who was member of the Senate of France, representing the Loire-Atlantique department. She was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement; most recently she served as a vice-p ...

(1934–2018), French politician *

Monique Pauzé Monique Pauzé is a Canadian politician who was elected to the House of Commons in the 2015 election from the electoral district of Repentigny. Initially elected as a member of the Bloc Québécois The Bloc Québécois (BQ; , " Quebecer Bl ...

, Quebec politician * Monique Richard (born 1947), Quebec politician *

Monique Smith (Canadian politician) Monique M. Smith (born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2011 who represented the riding of Nipissing. She was a cabinet minister in the government of Da ...

(born 1965), Ontario politician *

Monique Vézina Monique Vézina, (born July 13, 1935) is a former Canadian politician. She now works with a Non-governmental organization in the field of international development. Vézina was born in Rimouski, Quebec. Prior to entering politics, she worked fo ...

(born 1935), Canadian politician *

Monique de Vries Monique de Vries is a Dutch politician and has been with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy since 1973. From the period 1994-2003 she was the Secretary of State of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. and a member of the Hous ...

(born 1947), Dutch politician *

Monique Wilson (politician) Monique Wilson is a Saban politician. She served as a member of the Saba Island Council for the Saba Labour Party between 2015 and 2019. Career Wilson was a candidate for the Saba Labour Party in the 2015 Island Council elections, in which she ...

, Saban politician

Sports

Monique Adamczak Monique Adamczak (born 21 January 1983) is an Australian professional tennis player. Her favourite surface is grass. She has specialised in doubles and has been coached by Tony Roche, former coach of Roger Federer. Adamczak made her debut as ...

(born 1983), Australian professional tennis player * Monique Angermüller (born 1984), German speed skater * Monique de Bruin (born 1965), Dutch cyclist * Monique de Bruin (born 1977), American fencer * Monique Burkland (born 1989), American Paralympic volleyball player *

Monique Cabral Monique Cabral (born December 9, 1986) is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main isl ...

(born 1986), Trinidadian sprinter *

Monique Conti Monique Conti (born 9 December 1999) is an Australian rules footballer and basketballer. Conti currently plays for the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW), having previously played for the Western Bulldogs from 2018 to 2019, and ...

(born 1999), Australian basketball player *

Monique Drost Monique Drost (born 8 October 1964) is a retired Dutch swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 1981 European Aquatics Championships. She also competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the 100 m freestyle. Monique is ...

(born 1964), Dutch swimmer *

Monique van de Elzen Monique Annette van de Elzen (born 17 July 1967) is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level. Van de Elzen scored a hat-trick on her Football Ferns debut in a 3–0 win over a Hawaii X1 12 December ...

(born 1976), New Zealand footballer *

Monique Éwanjé-Épée Monique Éwanjé-Épée Lewin (née Éwanjé-Épée, formerly Tourret; born 11 July 1967) is a retired French track and field athlete who competed in the 60m hurdles and 100m hurdles, and is the co-holder (as of 2016) of the French national reco ...

(born 1967), French track and field athlete *

Monique Ferreira Monique Andrade Ferreira (born 29 June 1980 in Rio de Janeiro) is a freestyle swimmer from Brazil. A member of Santos. International career She represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and 2008 Summer Ol ...

(born 1980), Brazilian freestyle swimmer *

Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt (born 11 December 1968) is a German former ice speed skater. During her 15-year career, she became sprint world champion five times (1991, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003), and in addition she won four gold medals in the Worl ...

(born 1968), German speed skater * Monique Gladding (born 1981), British diver *

Monique Hennagan Monique Hennagan (born May 26, 1976, in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. She won her first relay medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships and her second in 2003. Monique Hennagan gradua ...

(born 1976), American track and field athlete *

Monique Hirovanaa Monique Hirovanaa (born 25 May 1966) is a former female rugby union player. She played for and Auckland. She was in the squad that won the 1998 Women's Rugby World Cup and the 2002 Women's Rugby World Cup. In 2018, Hirovanaa was inducted into th ...

(born 1966), New Zealand rugby player * Monique Hoogland (born 1967), Dutch badminton player *

Monique Iannella Monique Iannella (born 1 August 1996) is an Australian football (soccer) player, who played in the Australian W-League for Adelaide United and Melbourne City and in the American college system for the Texas Longhorns and for the Hofstra Pride ...

(born 1996), Australian professional footballer *

Monique Jansen Monique Jansen (born 3 October 1978, Harderwijk) is a Dutch athlete specializing in the discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an a ...

(born 1978), Dutch discus thrower * Monique Kauffmann (born 1963), Dutch road cyclist and speed skater *

Monique Knol Monique Knol (born 31 March 1964 in Wolvega, Friesland) is a former racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who won a medal in two consecutive Summer Olympics (gold and bronze), starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. There she won the road race, ...

(born 1964), Dutch racing cyclist *

Monique Leroux Monique Leroux (17 August 1938 – 11 February 1985) was a French fencer. She competed in the women's individual and team foil events at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), official ...

(1938–1985), French fencer * Monique Merrill (born 1969), American ski mountaineer and mountain biker * Monique Murphy (born 1994), Australian swimmer *

Monique Olivier Monique Olivier (born 13 May 1998 in South Africa) is a national record-holding swimmer from Luxembourg. She attends the International School of Luxembourg in Luxembourg City and has swum for Luxembourg at several international competitions, in ...

(born 1998), Luxembourgian swimmer * Monique Riekewald (born 1979), German skeleton racer * Monique Williams (born 1985), New Zealand sprinter * Monique de Wilt (born 1976), Dutch pole vaulter

Other fields

* Monique Alexander (born 1982), American pornographic actress *

Monique Bégin Monique Bégin, (born March 1, 1936) is a Canadian academic and former politician. Early life Bégin was born in Rome and raised in France and Portugal before emigrating to Canada at the end of World War II. She received a MA degree in soc ...

(born 1936), Canadian academic and former politician *

Monique de Bissy Monique de Bissy (married Schimmelpenninck; 13 March 1923 – 17 November 2009) was a French-Belgian resistance member during World War II. She was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium and died in Montpellier, France. Belgian Resistance Monique de Bis ...

(1923–2009), French-Belgian World War II resistance member *

Monique Boekaerts Monique Boekaerts (born 1946) is a Belgian educationalist. She was a professor of pedagogy at the Radboud University Nijmegen (1980–1990) and Leiden University (1991–2011). Career Boekaerts was born in 1946 in Belgium. She studied psychology at ...

(born 1946), Belgian educationalist *

Monique Charbonneau Monique Charbonneau (1928–2014) was a Canadian artist, known for her etchings, lithographs, lyrical wood engravings and gouache paintings. She designed the Canada Post stamp to commemorate the life and work of Quebec poet Emile Nelligan (1879-1 ...

(1928–2014), Canadian artist * Monique Ganderton (born 1980), Canadian stuntwoman *

Monique Lhuillier Monique Lhuillier (born September 15, 1971) is a Filipino-French fashion designer and creative director known for her bridal, ready-to-wear and lifestyle brand. She launched her eponymous brand in 1996 and has since established fashion houses in ...

(born 1971), Filipino-American fashion designer *

Monique Péan Monique Péan (born c. 1981) is an American artist whose practice is focused on fine jewelry, sculpture, painting and furniture. Her studio is based in New York City. Her work explores themes of space, temporality, identity, and origins, and make ...

(born c. 1981), American fine jewelry designer *

Monique Pinçon-Charlot Monique Pinçon-Charlot (born 15 May 1946, in Saint-Étienne, France) is a French sociologist, research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) until 2007, year of her retiring, attached to the Research Instit ...

(born 1946), French sociologist * Monique Régimbald-Zeiber (born 1947), Canadian painter *

Monique de Roux Monique de Roux (born 1946 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French painter and engraver. She lives and works in Spain. Biography Sister of the writer Dominique de Roux, of the sailor Jacques de Roux, of the lawyer and politician Xavier de Roux a ...

(born 1946), French painter and engraver *

Monique Schwitter Monique Schwitter (born 2 March 1972) is a Swiss writer and actress. Life and career Schwitter was born in Zürich, Switzerland. She studied stage direction and theater at the Mozarteum Salzburg from 1993 to 1997. Having graduated, she worke ...

(born 1972), Swiss writer and actress * Monique Sené, French nuclear physicist *

Monique Truong Monique T.D. Truong (born May 13, 1968, in Saigon in South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. She has written multiple books, and her ...

(born 1968), Vietnamese-American writer * Monique Vinh Thuy (born 1946), widow of Vietnamese emperor Bảo Đại * Monique Wadsted (born 1957), Swedish lawyer *

Monique Wittig Monique Wittig (; July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003) was a French author, philosopher and feminist theorist who wrote about abolition of the sex-class system and coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". Her seminal work is titled '' The Strai ...

(1935–2003), French writer and feminist theorist *

Monique Wright Monique Wright (born 18 May 1973) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. Wright is currently co-host of '' Weekend Sunrise''.

(born 1973), Australian journalist and television personality *

Norodom Monineath Norodom Monineath Sihanouk ( km, នរោត្ដម មុនីនាថ សីហនុ, ; born Paule Monique Izzi; 18 June 1936) is the queen mother of Cambodia. She was queen consort of Cambodia from 1993 to 2004, as the wife of King No ...

(born 1936), queen mother of Cambodia, sometimes referred to as ''Queen Monique''

Fictional characters

* Monique, friend of

Kim Possible ''Kim Possible'' is an American animated action comedy-adventure television series created by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle for Disney Channel. The title character is a teenage girl tasked with fighting crime on a regular basis while copi ...

* Monique, a cat villager from the video game series

Animal Crossing is a social simulation video game series developed and published by Nintendo. The series was conceptualized and created by Katsuya Eguchi and Hisashi Nogami. In ''Animal Crossing'', the player character is a human who lives in a village inh ...

* Monique Jeffries, character in American crime drama television series ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' * Monique Pollier,

Orson Hodge Orson Hodge is a fictional character on the ABC television series ''Desperate Housewives''. The character is played by Kyle MacLachlan. Orson is introduced in the final episodes of the second season of the series, and becomes the main mystery o ...

's deceased mistress in ''

Desperate Housewives ''Desperate Housewives'' is an American comedy-drama soap opera television series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It aired for eight seasons on ABC from October 3, 2004, until May 13, 2012, for a to ...