Edwige is a feminine French given name. Notable people with the name include: *

Edwige Avice Edwige Avice (born 13 April 1945 in Nevers, France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlan ...

, French politician *

Edwige Belmore Edwige, also known as Edwige Belmore (September 1957 - September 22, 2015) was a French model, singer and actor. She was considered an icon of 1980s France, and was called the "Queen of the punks". She founded and sang with the group Mathémati ...

, French model, singer, and actress *

Edwidge Danticat Edwidge Danticat (; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, ''Breath, Eyes, Memory'', was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or ...

, Haitian-American novelist *

Edwige Djedjemel Edwige Djedjemel (born 28 October 1988) is an Ivorian female professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primar ...

, Ivorian basketball player *

Edwige Fenech Edwige Fenech (, ; born 24 December 1948) is an Algerian-born Maltese-Sicilian actress and film producer. She is mostly known as the star of a series of ''commedia sexy all'italiana'' and ''giallo'' films released in the 1970s, which turned her ...

, Italian actress and film producer *

Edwige Feuillère Edwige Feuillère (born Edwige Louise Caroline Cunatti; October 29, 1907 – November 13, 1998) was a French stage and film actress. Biography She was born Edwige Louise Caroline Cunatti to an Italian architect father and an Alsace-born mo ...

, French film actress *

Edwige Gwend Edwige Gwend (born 11 March 1990) is a Cameroonean-born Italian judoka who competes in the 63 kg division. She won an individual silver medal at the 2010 European Judo Championships, 2010 European Championships, and was eliminated in the se ...

, Italian judoka *

Edwige Lawson-Wade Edwige Lawson (born May 14, 1979), also Edwige Lawson-Wade, is a French former professional women's basketball player. A point guard, Lawson started her professional career at the age of 17. She has played in Bordeaux, Aix-en-Provence, and Va ...

, French basketball player *

Edwige Pitel Edwige Pitel (born 4 June 1967) is a French racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Continental Team . Pitel was the winner of the 2003 ITU Duathlon World Championships. Pitel earned a PhD from Imperial College London in 1994 u ...

, French cyclist *

Edwige-Renée Dro Edwige-Renée Dro (born 1980s) is a writer, translator and literary activist from Côte d'Ivoire. She is co-founder of the literature collective Abidjan Lit. Career In 2014 Edwige-Renée Dro was named as one of those chosen for the Africa39 project ...

, Ivorian writer, translator and literary activist

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