Yvette (, ) is a feminine given name, the French feminine form of Yves, which means
yew
Yew is a common name given to various species of trees.
It is most prominently given to any of various coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus '' Taxus'':
* European yew or common yew (''Taxus baccata'')
* Pacific yew or western yew ('' Taxus ...
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archer
Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern ...
Czech
Czech may refer to:
* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus
*Czech (surnam ...
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Dutch
Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
** Dutch people as an ethnic group ()
** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship ()
** Dutch language ()
* In specific terms, i ...
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English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Culture, language and peoples
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
* ''English'', an Amish ter ...
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French
French may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France
** French people, a nation and ethnic group
** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices
Arts and media
* The French (band), ...
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German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany, the country of the Germans and German things
**Germania (Roman era)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
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Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
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Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
* Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...
Russian
Russian(s) may refer to:
*Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*A citizen of Russia
*Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages
*''The Russians'', a b ...
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Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
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Swedish
Swedish or ' may refer to:
Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
Yvette Alexander
Yvette M. Alexander (born October 1, 1961, in the District of Columbia) is a Democratic politician in Washington, D.C. She represented Ward 7 on the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2017.
Education
Alexander has a Bachelor of B ...
(born 1961), U.S. politician
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Yvette Andréyor
Yvette Andréyor (born Yvette Louise Pauline Royé, 6 August 1891 – 30 October 1962) was a French actress most popular in the era of silent film. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1910 and 1962.
Biography
Yvette Louise Pauline R ...
(1891–1962), French silent film actress
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Yvette Baker
Yvette Baker (born Yvette Hague, 1968) is Britain's most successful orienteer. At the 1999 World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Inverness she won the short-distance event.
Orienteering
Already at the early age of 15, she won the Elit ...
(born 1968), British orienteer
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Yvette Barbaza
Yvette Barbaza (29 March 1914 – 26 August 2009), was a French geographer, professor of geography and researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Yvette Barbaza devoted the later years of her career to the study of th ...
(1914–2009), French geographer
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Yvette Biro
Yvette Biro (April 3, 1930, Budapest) is a Hungarian-American essayist, screenwriter and Professor Emeritus at New York University Graduate Film School (NYU).
Her early books on the aesthetics of film were first published in her native Hungar ...
, Hungarian essayist, screenwriter, and professor emerita
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Yvetta Blanarovičová
Yvetta Blanarovičová (born 24 September 1963) is a Slovak actress and singer. At the 1994 Thalia Awards she won the category of Best Actress in an Opera, Opereta or Musical, for her performance in the musical ''My Fair Lady''.
Selected filmog ...
, Slovak actress and singer
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Yvette Borup Andrews
Yvette Borup Andrews (February 28, 1891 – April 12, 1959) was an American photographer associated with the American Museum of Natural History. With the museum's director, Roy Chapman Andrews, she traveled to Central Asia twice during 1916–18 ...
(1891–1959), American photographer
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Yvette Brind'Amour
Yvette Brind'Amour, (November 30, 1918 – April 4, 1991) was a Canadian actress.
In 1949, she co-founded, with Mercedes Palomino, the Théâtre du Rideau Vert, Quebec's oldest French theatre, in Montreal where she was born. She was artistic d ...
(1918–1992), Canadian actor
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Yvette Cason
Yvette Cason is an American television, theatre, and film actress, and a former Miss Black America from Washington, D.C.
Career
Cason was an understudy for the character of Effie White in the original 1981 Broadway musical ''Dreamgirls'', 1985 ...
, U.S. film and television actress
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Yvette Chauviré
Yvette Chauviré (; 22 April 1917 – 19 October 2016) was a French prima ballerina assoluta and actress. She is often described as France's greatest ballerina, and was the mentor of another pair of well-known prima ballerinas named, Sylvie Guill ...
(1917–2016), French prima ballerina
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Yvette Clarke
Yvette Diane Clarke (born November 21, 1964) is an American politician serving as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for New York's 9th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party (United States ...
(born 1964), U.S. politician
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Yvette Cooper
Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) is a British politician who has served as Home Secretary since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, Cooper has been Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), member of parliament (MP) for Po ...
(born 1969), British politician
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Yvette Coppersmith
Yvette Coppersmith (born 1980) is an Australian painter; she specialises in portraiture and still life. In 2018 she won the Archibald Prize with a self-portrait, in the style of George Lambert.
Coppersmith studied at the Victorian College of t ...
(born 1980), Australian artist
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Yvette D'Ath
Yvette Maree D'Ath (born 26 July 1970) is an Australian politician. She served as the Labor member for Redcliffe in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2014 until her retirement in 2024. D'Ath served as Attorney-General and Minister for ...
(born 1970), Australian politician
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Yvette Devereaux
Yvette Devereaux is an American violinist, conductor and Director at the South Pasadena Music Center and Conservatory in Pasadena, California.Yvette Espinosa (1911–1992), English ballerina and ballet teacher
* Yvette Estermann (born 1967), Swiss politician
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Yvette Fielding
Yvette Paula Fielding (born 23 September 1968) is an English television presenter, producer, actress, writer and paranormal investigator. In 1987, aged 18, she became the youngest presenter on the BBC television programme '' Blue Peter''. With h ...
(born 1968), British broadcaster and actress
* Yvette Flores, U.S. child actress for the Kidsongs videos and TV show
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Yvette Flunder
Yvette A. Flunder (born July 29, 1955) is an American womanist, preacher, pastor, activist, and singer from San Francisco, CA. She is the senior pastor of the City of Refuge United Church of Christ in Oakland, California and Presiding Bishop of ...
(born 1955), U.S. bishop and singer
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Yvette Fontaine
Yvette Fontaine (born 3 June 1946) is a Belgian former racing driver.
Career
Born on 3 June 1946 in Hasselt, Belgium, Fontaine grew up with her parents near the Circuit Zolder, Zolder race track and thus came into contact with motorsport at an ...
(born 1946), Belgian racing driver
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Yvette Freeman
Yvette Freeman is an American actress, singer and director. Predominantly active as a stage actress, she made her Broadway debut in 1979 in the original production of '' Ain't Misbehavin. She won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by ...
(born 1957), U.S. actress
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Yvette Giraud
Yvette Giraud (16 September 1916 – 3 August 2014) was a French traditional pop singer.
Career
Giraud began singing in 1946 with "Mademoiselle Hortensia", or ''La Danseuse est Créole''. With her husband, former ''Compagnon de la Chanson'' Ma ...
(1916–2014), French singer
* Yvette Girouard, U.S. softball coach
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Yvette Guilbert
Yvette Guilbert (; born Emma Laure Esther Guilbert, 20 January 1865 – 3 February 1944) was a French cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Époque.
Biography
Emma Laure Esther Guilbert was born in Paris on 20 January 1865 to a modestly w ...
(1867–1944), French cabaret singer and actress
* Yvette Higgins (born 1978), Australian water polo player
* Yvetta Hlaváčová (born 1975), Czech swimmer
* Yvette Jaggi (born 1941), Swiss politician
* Yvette Jarvis, U.S./Greek athlete, politician, actress and model
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Yvette Kane
Yvette Kane (née Pregeant; born October 11, 1953) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Early life and education
Kane was born in Donaldsonville, Louisiana. After g ...
(born 1953), U.S. judge
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Yvette Kong
Yvette Kong (born 18 January 1993) is a Hong Kong competitive Olympic swimmer.
She qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and was selected to represent Hong Kong in the women's 100 metre breaststroke, 200 metre breaststroke, a ...
(born 1993), Hong Kong competitive Olympic swimmer
* Yvette Lapointe (1912-1994), Canadian pioneer of Quebec comics
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Yvette Lee Bowser
Yvette Denise Lee Bowser (born June 9, 1965) is an American television writer and producer best known for creating the Fox sitcom ''Living Single''. With ''Living Single'', she became the first African-American woman to develop her own primetime s ...
(born 1965), U.S. television writer and producer
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Yvette Lewis (athlete)
Yvette Lewis (born March 16, 1985) is a German-born American track and field athlete who competes for Panama in the 100 meter hurdles and the triple jump. She represented the United States in international competition until October 2012 when s ...
(born 1985), Panamaian track and field athlete
* Yvette Lu, Canadian independent film and stage actress, singer, composer, writer and producer
* Yvette Marie Stevens (born 1953), American singer, better known as Chaka Khan
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Yvette Michele
Michele Yvette Bryant (born December 17, 1968), known professionally as Yvette Michele, is an American Contemporary R&B, R&B singing, singer.
Career
Michele released her debut album, ''My Dream'', on August 26, 1997 on the RCA Records, RCA rec ...
(born 1972), U.S. R&B singer
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Yvette Mimieux
Yvette Carmen Mimieux (January 8, 1942 – January 18, 2022) was an American film and television actress who was a major star of the 1960s and 1970s. Her breakout role was in ''The Time Machine'' (1960). She was nominated for three Golden Globe ...
(1942–2022), U.S. film and television actress
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Yvette Nicole Brown
Yvette Nicole Brown (born August 12, 1971) is an American actress. She starred as Shirley Bennett on the NBC sitcom ''Community'', as Dani in the 2015 reboot of '' The Odd Couple'' on CBS, and as Dina Rose on the ABC sitcom '' The Mayor''. Br ...
(born 1971), U.S. actress
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Yvette Nipar
Yvette Nipar (born 1964) is an American actress best known for such films and television series as ''21 Jump Street'', '' RoboCop: The Series'', '' CSI: Miami'', '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' and ''Ski Patrol
Ski patrols are organization ...
(born 1964), American actress
* Yvette of Huy (1158–1228), Christian prophetess and anchoress
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Yvette Overdyck
Yvette Overdyck is a New Zealand architect.
Biography
Overdyck completed a degree in architecture at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland. She has worked at Herbst Architects and Stevens Lawson Architects, where she was a senior associ ...
, New Zealand architect
* Yvette Rekangali, Gabonese politician
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Yvette Roudy
Yvette Roudy (born 10 April 1929) is a French politician. She served as a member of the National Assembly from 1986 to 1993, and from 1997 to 2002, representing Calvados. She was the Minister of Women's Rights from 1981 to 1986. She sponsor ...
(born 1929), French politician
*Yvette Sylvander, one half of Swedish cover model twins
Yvette and Yvonne Sylvander
Yvette and Yvonne Sylvander are Swedish twins who were the cover models who appeared as the first multi-subject ''Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
The ''Sports Illustrated'' Swimsuit Issue is published annually by American magazine ''Sports ...
* Yvette Tollar, Canadian jazz vocalist
* Yvette Vickers (1928–2010s), U.S. actress, pin-up model and singer
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Yvette Williams
Dame Yvette Winifred Corlett (née Williams; 25 April 1929 – 13 April 2019) was a New Zealand track-and-field athlete who was the first woman from her country to win an Olympic gold medal and to hold the world record in the women's long jum ...
(1929–2019), New Zealand athlete
* Yvette Wilson (1964–2012), U.S. comedian and actress
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Yvette Young
Yvette Young (born June 28, 1991) is an American musician from San Jose, California. She is the front-woman for the math rock band Covet. In 2023, ''Rolling Stone'' named Young the 155th greatest guitarist of all time.
History
Young is of Chines ...
, American musician
Fictional characters
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Yvette Carte-Blanche
This is a list of all main and recurring characters of BBC television's sitcom Allo 'Allo!'' that ran for 85 episodes from 1982–1992.
Overview
René Artois
René Francois Artois (Gorden Kaye) – The local café proprietor who, whilst ...
, a fictional character in the British comedy series
'Allo 'Allo!
''Allo 'Allo!'' is a British sitcom television series, created by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, starring Gorden Kaye, Carmen Silvera, Guy Siner and Richard Gibson. Originally broadcast on BBC1, the series focuses on the life of a Frenc ...
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*Yvette, the codename of the fictional organiser of the Belgian escape organisation for allied bomber pilots, ''Lifeline'', in the BBC television series '' Secret Army''
*Yvette Saywell, the protagonist of D.H. Lawrence's '' The Virgin and the Gipsy''
*Yvette, the maid and secondary character in the movie ''
Clue
Clue may refer to:
* Clue (information) – a piece of information bringing someone closer to a conclusion.
People with the name
* DJ Clue (born 1975), mixtape DJ
* Fredy Clue (born 1994 or 1995), Swedish artist and musician
* Oliver Clue
* ...
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*Yvette, one of the main six
Groovy Girls
Groovy Girls was a line of fashion dolls manufactured by the American toy company Manhattan Toy and launched in 1998. Each year new dolls were produced until 2019.
History
Groovy Girls launched in 1998 as a wholesome, funky alternative to Barbi ...
, a doll series manufactured by Manhattan Toy
*Yvette Durelle, the
title character
The title character in a narrative work is one who is named or referred to in the title of the work. In a performed work such as a play or film, the performer who plays the title character is said to have the title role of the piëce. The title o ...
's love interest in
Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are ''The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (novel), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' (1959) and ''Barney's Version (novel), Barney's Versi ...
Dragon Age Inquisition
''Dragon Age: Inquisition'' is a 2014 action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts. The third major game in the ''Dragon Age'' franchise, ''Inquisition'' is the sequel to ''Dragon Age II'' (2011). The stor ...
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*Yvette Samoris by Guy De Maupassant
*Yvette Woodgrove, supporting character in ''
Futari wa Pretty Cure
, also sometimes stylized as ''PreCure'', is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation and the first installment in the '' Pretty Cure'' metaseries created by Izumi Todo. It aired on ANN, with 96 episodes across two ...