Dorothea (also spelled Dorothée, Dorotea or other variants) is a female given name from Greek language, Greek (Dōrothéa) meaning "God's Gift". It may refer to:

People

* Dorothea Binz (1920–1947), German concentration camp officer executed for war crimes * Dorothea Brooking (1916–1999), British children's television producer and director * 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 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 Ostrelska (fl. 1577) Swedish court dwarf * 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 Wierer (born 1990), Italian biathlete * Dorothea Wyss (–after 1487) married Niklaus von Flüe, the patron saint of Switzerland * Dorothée (born 1953) French singer and television presenter * Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer (1664–1737), Dutch writer * Dorota Nieznalska (born 1973), Polish artist * Dorotea Bucca (1360–1436), Italian physician * Dorotea van Fornenbergh (fl. 1647–1697), Dutch stage actress * Doda (singer), (born Dorota Rabczewska; 1984), Polish singer-songwriter and actress * Angela Merkel (born 1954), Chancellor of Germany, whose middle name is Dorothea * Christina Doreothea Stuart (fl. 1774), Norwegian artist * Dorothea Barth Jörgensen (born 1990), Swedish fashion model

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

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 Electoral Palatinate, and 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

Fictional characters

* Dorothea Arnault, a character from the video game ''Fire Emblem: Three Houses'' * Dorothea Brooke, the heroine in the novel ''Middlemarch'' * Dorotea, woman discovered in the Sierra Morena by Cardenio in Miguel de Cervantes' novel ''Don Quixote'' * Dorothea, the subject of Dorothea (song), the song of the same name written by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift * Dorotea Benedetti, a character from the novel ''Pattern Recognition (novel), Pattern Recognition'' by William Gibson

Nautical

* HMS Santa Dorothea (1798), HMS ''Santa Dorothea'' (1798), frigate * USS Dorothea (1898), USS ''Dorothea'' (1898), gunboat * USS Dorothea L. Dix (AP-67), USS ''Dorothea L. Dix'' (AP-67), transport ship

People

Saints

Aristocracy

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Nautical

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