Dorothea, also spelt Dorothee (German), Dorothée (French), and Dorotea, is a female given name from Greek (Dōrothéa) meaning "god's gift". In English it is more commonly spelt Dorothy. People with this name include:

Aristocracy

* Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (1670–1748), Duchess of Parma * Dorotea Gonzaga (1449–1468), Duchess consort of Milan * Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1591–1617), Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg * Dorothea Friederike of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1676–1731), last Countess of Hanau * Dorothea Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1587–1609), Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst by marriage * Dorothea Maria of Anhalt (1574–1617), Duchess of Saxe-Weimar * Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1654–1682), German princess * Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1674–1713), Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen * Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst (1607–1634), Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst * Dorothea of Brandenburg (disambiguation) * Dorothea of Bulgaria (fl. 1370–1390), Queen of Bosnia * Dorothea of Denmark (disambiguation) * Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511–1571), queen consort of Christian III, King of Denmark and Norway * Dorothea of Saxony (1563–1587), Saxon princess * Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1587–1645) * Dorothea Susanne of Simmern (1544–1592), princess of the

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, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar by marriage * Margravine Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1661–1705), Countess of Hesse-Darmstadt * Princess Dorothea of Courland (1793–1862), Baltic German noblewoman * Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1881–1967) * Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685–1761), Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach by marriage

Saints

* Dorothea of Alexandria (fl. 320), martyr * Dorothea of Caesarea (fl. 311), martyr, patron saint of florists * Dorothea of Montau (1347–1394), Roman Catholic saint, hermitess and visionary

Other people

First name

* Dorotea Bucca (1360–1436), Italian physician * Dorotea van Fornenbergh (fl. 1647–1697), Dutch stage actress * Dorothea Binz (1920–1947), German concentration camp officer executed for war crimes * Dorothea Brooking (1916–1999), British children's television producer and director * Dorothea Coelho, American game show host * Dorothea H. Denslow (1900–1971), American sculptor, educator * Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), American social activist * Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878–1960), English tennis player * Dorothea Dunckel (1799–1878), Swedish playwright * Dorothea Erxleben (1715–1762), first woman doctor in Germany * Dorothea Fairbridge (1860–1931), South African novelist * Dorothea Gerard (1855–1915), Scottish novelist * Dorothea Hoffman (d. 1710), Swedish hat maker * Dorothea Barth Jörgensen (born 1990), Swedish fashion model * Dorothea Jordan (1761–1816), Irish actress and mistress of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom * Dorothea Kalpakidou (born 1983), Greek discus thrower * Dorothea Krag (1675–1754), Danish postmaster * Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), American documentary photographer and photojournalist * Dorothea Lasky (born 1978), American poet * Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968), Australian poet and writer * Dorothea Macnee (1896–1984) British socialite and mother of Patrick Macnee * Dorothea Maria Lösch (1730–1799), Swedish marine captain * Dorothea Nelson (1903–1994), American librarian * Dorothea Nicolai (born 1962), German costume designer, stage designer * Dorothea Ostrelska (fl. 1577) Swedish court dwarf * Dorothea Phillips (born 1928), British actress * Dorothea Puente (1929–2011), American serial killer * Dorothea Röschmann (born 1967), German soprano * Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012), American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer * Dorothea Viehmann (1755–1816), German storyteller * Dorothea Waddingham (1899–1936), English murderer * Dorothea Wieck (1908–1986), German actress * Dorothea Wierer (born 1990), Italian biathlete * Dorothea Wyss (–after 1487) married Niklaus von Flüe, the patron saint of Switzerland * Dorothee Bär (born 1968), German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) * Dorothee Hess-Maier, semi-retired German publisher * Dorothee Kern (born 1966), German biochemist and academic, former basketball player for the East German team * Dorothee Mields (born 1971), German soprano concert singer * Dorothee Sölle (1929–2003), German liberation theologian * Dorothee Stapelfeldt (born 1956), German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD)

Middle name

* Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer (1664–1737), Dutch writer * Angela Dorothea Merkel (born 1954), former Chancellor of Germany * Christina Doreothea Stuart (fl. 1774), Norwegian artist

Single name

* Dorothée (born 1953) French singer and television presenter

Fictional characters

* Dorotea, woman discovered in the Sierra Morena by Cardenio in Miguel de Cervantes' novel ''

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'' * Dorothea, the subject of the song of the same name by Taylor Swift * Dorothea Arnault, a playable character from the video game '' Fire Emblem: Three Houses'' and '' Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes'' * Dorotea Benedetti, a character from the novel ''

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'' * Dorothea Brooke, the heroine in the novel '' Middlemarch'' * Dorotea Senjak, character in Glen Cook's '' The Black Company'' series

References

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