Lieve is a

Dutch language Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-Europea ...

feminine name derived from the

Godelieve Saint Godelieve (also known as Godeleva, Godeliève, and Godelina; nl, Sint-Godelieve) ( 10526 July 1070) is a Flemish saint. She behaved with charity & gentleness to all, accepting an arranged marriage as was the custom, but her husband and fam ...

("dear to God"), a female 11th-century Flemish saint. The masculine given name is probably a form of

Lieven The House of Lieven ( lv, Līveni; russian: Ливен) is one of the oldest aristocratic families of Baltic Germans. History The family claims descent from Caupo of Turaida (Latvian, ''Kaupo''), the Livonian ''quasi rex'' who converted to Ch ...

.Lieven
at the Meertens Institute database of given names in the Netherlands. Both names contain the Germanic element "lief-" ("dear") and ''lief'' and ''lieve'' still retain that meaning in Dutch. People with the name include: ;Feminine *

Lieve Fransen Lieve Fransen is a senior adviser to the European Policy Centre on health, social and migration policies, and published studies on investing in social infrastructure, energy poverty and social investment. Between 2011 and 2015 she was the social p ...

(born 1950), Belgian HIV/AIDS activist *

Lieve Joris Lieve Joris (born 1953) is a Belgian non-fiction writer on the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa and China. Biography Joris was born in Belgium. After a year of studying psychology in Leuven and two years in the United States, working as an ...

(born 1953), Belgian non-fiction writer *

Lieve van Kessel Lieve van Kessel (born 15 September 1977, Amsterdam) is a Dutch field hockey player. Van Kessel won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is b ...

(born 1977), Dutch field hockey player *

Lieve Maes Lieve Maes (born 12 May 1960, in Brussels) is a Belgian politician and is affiliated to the N-VA The New Flemish Alliance ( nl, Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie, N-VA) is a Flemish nationalist and conservative political party in Belgium. The party wa ...

(born 1960), Belgian N-VA politician *

Lieve Slegers Lieve Slegers (born 6 April 1965 in Turnhout, Flanders) is a former long-distance runner from Belgium, who won the Rotterdam Marathon on 28 April 1996 clocking 2:28:06. She represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the women's 1 ...

(born 1965), Belgian long-distance runner *

Lieve Van Ermen Lieve Van Ermen (born 30 May 1948) is a Flemish politician and cardiologist. She was directly elected to the Belgian Senate by the Dutch electoral college for the Dedecker List ( nl, Lijst Dedecker) with 25,462 preferential votes in the 2007 fed ...

(born 1948), Belgian politician and cardiologist *

Lieve Wierinck Lieve Wierinck (born 3 July 1957 in Leuven) is a Belgian politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open Vld), which sits in the ALDE Group, from 2016 until 2019. She succeeded ...

(born 1957), Belgian VLD politician and MEP ;Masculine *

Lieve Geelvinck Lieve Geelvinck (28 May 1676 – 22 August 1743) was the son of Joan Geelvinck and grandson of Cornelis Geelvinck and, following them into the vroedschap, he became administrator of the Dutch East India Company and member of the Council of Stat ...

(1676–1743), Dutch administrator of the Dutch East India Company, mayor of Amsterdam *

Lieve Verschuier Lieve Pietersz Verschuier (1627–1686) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of maritime subjects. Biography He was born in Rotterdam, and is documented in Amsterdam in 1651, where he possibly learned to paint from Simon de Vlieger. He traveled to Rom ...

(1627–1686), Dutch maritime painter

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