Fernande is a predominantly
French language
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feminine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
. It is the feminine form of the masculine given name
Fernand. People bearing the name Fernande include:
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Fernande Albany
Fernande Françoise Raoult, known professionally as Fernande Albany (22 December 1889, Lison – 25 November 1966, Paris), was a French actress in theatre and film.
Career
Albany appeared in many of the films of Georges Méliès.
Her work ...
(1889–1966), French actress
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Fernande Arendt (1891–), Belgian tennis player
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Fernande Baetens Fernande Baetens (1901 Antwerp – 1977) was a 20th-century Belgian Catholic feminist jurist. In 1930, she joined the National Council of Belgian Women (CNFB). She became assistant to the National Secretary in 1933 and took part in the Internation ...
(1901–1977), Belgian jurist and feminist
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Fernande Barrey
Fernande Barrey (9 January 1893 in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme – 14 July 1960 in Paris) was a French artist model and painter.
Biography
Fernande Barrey left her native Picardy in about 1908 and moved to Paris, where she survived as a child prost ...
(1893–1960), French artist's model and painter
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Fernande Bayetto (1928–2015), French alpine skier
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Fernande Bochatay (born 1946), Swiss alpine skier
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Fernande Brosseau, Canadian social activist
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Fernande Caroen (1920–1998), Belgian freestyle swimmer
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Fernande Decruck
Fernande Decruck (née Breilh) (25 December 18966 August 1954) was a French composer who composed over 40 works for the saxophone. Most well-known is her Sonata in C sharp minor for alto saxophone or viola, dedicated to Marcel Mule.
Life
Ferna ...
(1896–1954), French composer
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Fernande R.V. Duffly (born 1949), Indonesian-American lawyer and jurist
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Fernande Giroux
Fernande Giroux (died May 20, 1994) was a Canadian actress and jazz singer. She was most noted for winning the Canadian Film Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 22nd Canadian Film Awards for her performance in the film ''Red''. Her other majo ...
, Canadian actress and jazz singer
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Fernande Grudet
Fernande Grudet (6 July 1923 – 15 December 2015), also known as Madame Claude, was a French brothel keeper. In the 1960s, she was the head of a French network of call girls who worked especially for dignitaries and civil servants.
Biograp ...
(also known as Madame Claude; 1923–2015), French brothel keeper
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Fernande Keufgens
Fernande Keufgens Davis (born 14 December 1923), also known as Freddie Davis, was a Belgian resistance fighter with the during the Second World War.
Early life
Fernande Keufgens was born in Montzen, Belgium on 14 December 1923, as one of eig ...
(also known as Fernande Davis), Belgian World War II resistance member
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Fernande de Mertens
Fernande Hortense Cécile de Mertens (9 May 1850 - 24 January 1924) was a Belgian-French painter.
Life
Fernande de Mertens was the fifth of six children of the baron Edouard Mertens and his wife Sophie Lambertine Woelfling, and Fernande was th ...
(1850–1924), Belgian-French painter
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Fernande Olivier
Fernande Olivier (born Amélie Lang; 6 June 1881 – 29 January 1966) was a French artist and model known primarily for having been the model and first muse of painter Pablo Picasso, and for her written accounts of her relationship with him. Pic ...
(1881–1966), French artist's model painter
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Fernande Sadler
Fernande Sadler (7 July 1869 – 2 December 1949) was a French painter and engraver. She established the art collection at Grez-sur-Loing and became the mayor of that town in 1945.
Life
Sadler was born in 1869 in Toul.
left, Young Girls On The ...
(1869–1949), French painter and engraver
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Fernande Saint-Martin
Fernande Saint-Martin (March 28, 1927 – December 11, 2019) was a Canadian art critic, museologist, semiologist, visual arts theorist and writer. A graduate of the Université de Montréal and McGill University, her career began at ''La Presse'' ...
(1927–2019), Canadian art critic, museologist, semiologist, visual arts theorist and writer
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Fernande Tassy
Fernande Tassy (1903 – 1952) was a French fencer. She competed in the individual women's foil
Foil may refer to:
Materials
* Foil (metal), a quite thin sheet of metal, usually manufactured with a rolling mill machine
* Metal leaf, a v ...
(1903–1952), French fencer
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Fernande Tchétché (born 1988), Ivorian footballer
References
French feminine given names
Feminine given names
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