Adeline (given name)
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Adeline is a feminine given name meaning 'noble' or 'nobility'; it is of German origin and derived from Old High German adal "noble."{{Cite web | title = ▷ Vorname Adeline: Herkunft, Bedeutung & Namenstag | url = https://www.vorname.com/name,Adeline.html | access-date = 2023-02-11 | website = vorname.com | language = de | last1 = Hanks | first1 = Patrick | authorlink = Patrick Hanks | last2 = Hardcastle | first2 = Kate | last3 = Hodges | first3 = Flavia | title = A Dictionary of First Names | publisher = Oxford University Press | series = Oxford paperback reference | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-0-19-861060-1 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9nd05X_awIgC&pg=PT45 | access-date = 2018-11-19 | page = 45 | url = https://nameberry.com/babyname/adeline | title = Adeline | website = Nameberry | access-date = 2022-12-22
Notable people with the name include:
- Adeline Pond Adams (1859–1948), American writer and wife of Herbert Adams
- Adeline, Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre (1825–1915), wife of James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
- Adeline André, French fashion designer and the head of one of the ten haute couture design houses in Paris
- Adeline Bourne (1873–1965), Anglo-Indian actress, suffragette, and charity worker
- Adeline Canac (born 1990), French pair skater, currently skating with Yannick Bonheur
- Adeline Chapman (1847–1931), English campaigner for women's suffrage
- Adeline Genée DBE (1878–1970), Danish/British ballet dancer
- Adeline Geo-Karis (1918–2008), Republican politician and a member of the Illinois Senate for the 31st District
- Adeline Hazan (born 1956), French politician, MEP for the east of France, and mayor of Reims since March 2008
- Adeline Kerrar (1924–1995), infielder and catcher, played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1944
- Adeline Knapp (1860–1909), American journalist, author, social activist, environmentalist, and educator
- Adeline Masquelier (born 1960), Associate professor of anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Adeline McKinlay, American tennis player of the end of the 19th century
- Adeline Miller, alias Adeline Furman, American madam and prostitute
- Adeline Rittershaus (1876–1924), philologist, a scholar in Old Scandinavian literature, and champion for the equality of women
- Frances Adeline "Fanny" Seward (1844–1866), daughter of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward
- Frances Adeline Seward (1805–1865), born in 1805, the daughter of Judge Elijah Miller and Hannah Foote Miller
- Louise Adeline Weitzel (1862–1934), German-American writer
- Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1824–1906), American poet and writer of books for girls
- Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), British modernist author
- Adeline Wuillème (born 1975), French foil fencer who competed in three Olympic games
- Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese-American author and physician
- Adeline Zachert (1876–1965), Russian-born American librarian
- Lisa Adeline Mainiero, American writer and management professor
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