Rosalie ( , ) is a feminine given name, the

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name ''Rosalia'', which was ultimately derived from the

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word ''rosa'', meaning

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. The name may also be spelled Rozalie in Dutch and Rosalee or Rosaleigh in English. Diminutives for the name include Rosa, Rose, Roz, or Rosie. Notable people with the name include: *

Rosalie Abella Rosalie Silberman Abella (born July 1, 1946) is a Canadians, Canadian jurist. In 2004, Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, becoming the first Jews, Jewish woman and refugee to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench. She retire ...

(born 1946), Canadian jurist * Rosalie Abrams (1921–2010), American playwright * Rosalie Adams, British governor *

Rosalie Allen Rosalie Allen (born Julie Marlene Bedra; June 27, 1924 – September 23, 2003) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, columnist and television and radio host who was noted for her yodeling. She was known as the Queen of Yodeling ...

(1924–2003), American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, columnist and television and radio host * Rosalie Bertell (1929–2012), American scientist * Rosalie Birch (born 1983), English cricketer * Rosalie Bradford (1942–2006), American woman * (1758–1834), Swiss naturalist *

Rosalie Craig Rosalie Mae Craig (born May 30, 1980) is an English actress, noted for her performances in musical theatre. In 2013, she received her first major award, a London Evening Standard Award for Best Performance in a Musical. Life and career Craig ...

(born 1981), English actress *

Rosalie Crutchley Rosalie Sylvia Crutchley (4 January 1920 – 28 July 1997) was a British actress. Trained at the Royal Academy of Music, she was perhaps best known for her television performances, but had a long and successful career in theatre and films, makin ...

(1920-1997), British actress * Rosalie Cunningham (born 1990), English singer-songwriter * Rosalie Deighton (born 1976), Dutch singer *

Rosalie Dreyer Rosalie Dreyer (3 September 1895 – 21 May 1987) was a Swiss-born naturalised British nurse and administrator. Immigrating to England at the age of eighteen, she trained as a nurse in London and worked her way through the ranks to become matron ...

(1895-1987), Swiss nurse *

Rosalie Duthé Catherine-Rosalie Gerard Duthé (1748–1830), alternately Duthe or Du The, was a celebrated French courtesan. A companion of French kings and European nobility, she has been called "the first officially recorded dumb blonde." Duthé was a frequen ...

(1748-1830), French courtesan *

Rosalie Edge Rosalie Barrow Edge (November 3, 1877 – November 30, 1962) was an American environmentalist and suffragist. In 1929, she established the Emergency Conservation Committee to expose the conservation establishment's ineffectiveness and advocate ...

(1877–1962), American socialite, suffragist, and amateur birdwatcher * Rosalie Emslie (1891-1977), British artist * Rosalie Filleul (1752–1794), French artist * Rosalie Fougelberg (1841–1911), Swedish dentist * Rosalie B. Green (1917–2012), American art historian * Rosalie Konou, Assistant Attorney General of the Marshall Islands * Rosalie Anderson MacDowell, American actress * Lokalia Montgomery (1903–1978), born Rosalie Lokalia Lovelle, American Hawaiian cultural historian and artist *

Rosalie Nawira Rosalie Nawira (born 1968) is a Central African politician and a current mayor of Zemio. Early life and career Born in 1968, Nawira learned the trade from his father. Nawira lost her father at the age of 12. Four years later, she became orphane ...

(born 1968), Central African politician * Rosalie Pouzère (born 1944), Central African politician * Rosalie A. Reed (born 1945), American veterinarian *

Rosalie Rendu Rosalie Rendu, DC (9 September 1786 – 7 February 1856) was a Catholic Church in France, French Catholic member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, Daughters of Charity who organized care for the poor in the Paris slums during ...

(1786–1856), venerated by the Roman Catholic Church *

Rosalie Roos Rosalie Ulrika Olivecrona (née Roos; December 9, 1823 – June 4, 1898) was a Swedish feminist and writer. She is one of the three great pioneers of the organized women's rights movement in Sweden, alongside Fredrika Bremer and Sophie Adle ...

, Swedish feminist * Rosalie Selfridge, known as

Rose Selfridge Rosalie Amelia Selfridge (née Buckingham; 5 July 1860 – 12 May 1918) was a property developer before becoming the wife of department store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge. A member of the wealthy Buckingham family of Chicago, she inherited a la ...

(1860–1918), property developer *

Rosalie Sjöman Rosalie Sofie Sjöman (née Hammarqvist, 1833–1919) was an early Swedish female photographer. From the mid-1860s, she became one of Stockholm's most highly regarded portrait photographers. Biography Born on 16 October 1833 in Kalmar in the sout ...

, Swedish photographer *

Rosalie Sorrels Rosalie Sorrels (June 24, 1933 – June 11, 2017) was an American folk singer-songwriter. She began her public career as a singer and collector of traditional folksongs in the late 1950s. During the early 1960s she left her husband and began trav ...

, American folk singer-songwriter * Rosalie Sully (1818-1847), American painter *

Rosalie Thomass Rosalie Thomass (born 14 August 1987 in Munich) is a German actress. She has appeared in several television shows and films. Filmography * 2007: ' * 2008: ' * 2011: ' * 2012: ' (TV film) * 2012: ' (TV film) * 2014: ' (TV film) * 2015: ' * 20 ...

(born 1987), German actress *

Rosalie Trombley Rosalie Trombley (September 18, 1939 – November 23, 2021) was a Canadian music director of Windsor, Ontario AM Top 40 radio station CKLW, also known as "The Big 8". She was known for her ability to select songs that would later become big hit ...

, American music executive *

Rosalie Varda Rosalie Varda (; born 28 May 1958) is a French costume designer, producer, writer and actress. She is perhaps best known for producing the documentary '' Faces Places'', directed by and starring her mother Agnès Varda, for which she received an ...

(born 1958), French costume designer * Rosalie E. Wahl (1924–2013), American lawyer * Rosalie Wilkins (born 1946), British politician * Rosalie Williams, British actress * Rosalie Woodruff, Australian politician

In fiction

* Rosalie Lamorlière, in ''

The Rose of Versailles also known as ''Lady Oscar'' and ''La Rose de Versailles'', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda. It was originally serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Margaret'' from 1972 to 1973, while a revival ...

'' * Rosalie Hale, vampire in Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'' series * Rosalie Murray/Rosalie Ashby, in Anne Bronte's ''

Agnes Grey ''Agnes Grey, A Novel'' is the Debut novel, first novel by English author Anne Brontë (writing under the pen name of "Acton Bell"), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a g ...

'' * Rosalie Otterbourne, in Agatha Christie's ''

Death on the Nile ''Death on the Nile'' is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 1 November 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at ...

'' *Rosalie Aprile, in ''

The Sopranos ''The Sopranos'' is an American Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama television series created by David Chase. The series follows Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey American Mafia, Mafia boss who suffers from panic attacks. He reluct ...

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