ALICE (GIVEN NAME)

'Alice' is a female given name, used primarily in English and French. It is a shortened form of Adalais, which is derived from the Germanic name "Adalheidis", and means "of nobility." 'Alaïs' is the Old French form of the name; Alys of Vexin was also known as Alaïs. It was the fourth most popular female baby name in Sweden in 2005. [1] In Japan, it is gaining popularity as "Arisu."

Contents

People

Activists

Entertainers

Authors and Poets

Actors and Filmmakers

Musicians

Royalty

Science and Medicine

Miscellaneous

Fictional characters

People

Activists

★ Alice Bunker Stockham, American suffragist

★ Alice Gerard, peace activist

★ Alice Herz, anti-war protestor

★ Alice Meynell English suffragist and poet

★ Alice Milligan, Irish nationalist

★ Alice Paul, American suffragist

★ Alice Schwarzer, German feminist and publisher

Entertainers

Authors and Poets

★ Alice Cary, poet

★ Alice Fulton, poet and author

★ Alice Hoffman, author of ''Practical Magic''

★ Alice McDermott, author

★ Alice Duer Miller, author and poet

★ Alice Munro, Canadian author

★ Alice Sebold, author of ''The Lovely Bones''

★ Alice Thompson, Scottish novelist

★ Alice Walker, author

Actors and Filmmakers

★ Ali MacGraw, actress; real first name is Alice

★ Alice Barrett, actress

★ Alice Brady, actress

★ Alice Cocéa, French actress

★ Alice Day, actress

★ Alice Faye, actress and singer

★ Alice Guy-Blaché, French filmmaker

★ Alice Krige South African actress

★ Alice Pearce, actress

★ Alice Robitaille, Canadian actress

★ Alice White, actress

Musicians

★ Alice (Italian singer)

★ Alice Coltrane, jazz pianist

★ Alice Cooper, rock musician (see also ''The Alice Cooper Show'' and ''Alice Cooper Goes to Hell'')

★ Alice Deejay, Dutch dance music artist

★ Alice Nutter (musician), a member of the British music band Chumbawumba

★ Alice Prin, singer and actress

★ Alice Mary Smith, English composer

Royalty

★ Alice of Antioch

★ Alice of Cyprus

★ Alice Heine, Princess of Monaco and wife of Albert I of Monaco

★ Princess Alice of Albany

★ Princess Alice of Battenberg

★ Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

Science and Medicine

★ Alice Hamilton, toxicologist

★ Alice Miller, Swiss psychologist

★ Alice Pruvot-Fol, French opisthobranch malacologist

★ Alice Rivlin, psychologist

★ Alice Wilson, Canadian geologist and paleontologist

Miscellaneous

★ Alice Auma, Ugandan spiritualist and medium

★ Alice Austen, photographer

★ Alice Bailey, theologist and lecturer

★ Alice Barnham, wife of Francis Bacon

★ Alice Brock, owner of the Massachusetts eatery that inspired the Arlo Guthrie tune "Alice's Restaurant"

★ Alice Brown Davis, Seminole tribal chief

★ Alice Hanratty, Irish artist

★ Alice Keppel, mistress of Edward VII of the United Kingdom

★ Alice K. Kurashige, first Japanese-American woman in the United States Marine Corps

★ Alice Liddell, the real person upon whom the eponymous heroine of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' is based

★ Alice Roosevelt Longworth, only child of Theodore Roosevelt and his wife

★ Alice Lisle, a judge at the trial of Charles I of England

★ Alice Maher Irish painter and sculptor

★ Alice Mahon, British politician

★ Alice Mak, Hong Kong artist and cartoonist

★ Alice Mills, Australian Olympic swimmer

★ Alice Neel, American artist

★ Alice Orlowski, high-ranking Nazi SS officer

★ Alice Parizeau, Polish journalist

★ Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, wife of Theodore Roosevelt

★ Alice Strike, Canadian military veteran

★ Alice B. Toklas, paramour of writer Gertrude Stein

★ Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton

★ Alice Waters, American chef and restauranteur

★ Alice Whitty, Canadian high jumper

★ Lady Alice Boyle, wife of David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore

★ Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Duchess of Gloucester

Fictional characters

★ Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), the eponymous heroine of the Lewis Carroll novels ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' and ''Through the Looking-Glass''

★ Alice (Dilbert character), a caffeine-crazed engineer from Scott Adams' comic strip ''Dilbert''

★ Alice (Resident Evil), a fictional character

★ Alice, fictional character from ''The Tribe''

★ Alice Ayres, fake alias name for Jane Jones (played by Natalie Portman) in the film ''Closer''

★ Alice Elliot, a fictional character from the ''Shadow Hearts'' series

★ Alice of Friday the 13th (movie)

★ Alice Gunderson, a fictional character, the Quartermaines' maid on the American soap opera ''General Hospital''

★ Alice Hyatt, protagonist on the American sitcom ''Alice''

★ Alice Kramden, long-suffering wife of Ralph on the American sitcom ''The Honeymooners''

★ Alice Nelson, the housekeeper for the Bradys on ''The Brady Bunch''

★ Alice Pieszecki, a fictional character from Showtime's lesbian drama series ''The L Word''

★ Alice the Rabbit, one of the main protagonists of the Bloody Roar fighting game series

★ Alice Cullen (fictional), an important character in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series.

★ Alice Longbottom, mother of Neville Longbottom in the popular fictional Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.

★ Alice Johnson (character), an important character in the Nightmare on Elm Street series.