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Monique is a female given name. It is the French form of the name
Monica Monica may refer to: People *Monica (actress) (born 1987), Indian film actress *Monica (given name), a given name (including a list of people and characters with the name) *Monica (singer) (born 1980), American R&B singer, songwriter, producer, ...
. The name has enjoyed some popularity in the
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since about 1955, and is less common in other English-speaking countries except for
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although mostly used by French speakers in
Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
and is rare in the English parts of Canada.


Notable people named Monique


Acting

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Monique Chaumette Monique Chaumette (born 4 April 1927) is a French actress. She appeared in more than forty films since 1958. She was married to Philippe Noiret Philippe Noiret (; 1 October 1930 – 23 November 2006) was a French film actor. Life and career No ...
(born 1927), French actress *
Monique Coleman Adrienne Monique Coleman (born November 13, 1980) is an American actress known for her role in Disney's ''High School Musical'' movies, in which she plays Taylor McKessie. Early life and education Adrienne Monique Coleman was born in Orangebu ...
(born 1980), American actress, singer, and dancer * Monique Gabriela Curnen (born 1970), American actress * Monique Gabrielle (born 1963), American actress * Mo'Nique Hicks (born 1967), American actress and comedian *
Monique Leyrac Monique Leyrac, (26 February 1928 – 15 December 2019) was a Canadian singer and actress who popularized many songs by French-Canadian composers. Early life Leyrac was born Monique Tremblay in Montreal, Quebec.Alexis Luko, Rachelle Taylor an ...
(1928-2019), Canadian singer and actress * Monique Mélinand (1916–2012), French actress * Monique Mercure (born 1930), Canadian actress *
Monique Mojica Monique Mojica ( Kuna and Rappahannock) is a playwright, director, and actor based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was born in New York City, but came to Canada as founding member of Native Earth Performing Arts. She has appeared in several ...
, Canadian playwright, director, and actor *
Monique Noel Monique is a female given name. It is the French form of the name Monica. The name has enjoyed some popularity in the United States since about 1955, and is less common in other English-speaking countries except for Canada although mostly used ...
(born 1967), American glamour model and actress *
Monique van de Ven Monica Maria Theresia "Monique" van de Ven (; born 28 July 1952) is a Dutch actress and director. Life and career From 1973 until 1988 she was married to Dutch cinematographer and director Jan de Bont, with whom she lived in Los Angeles for a n ...
(born 1952), Dutch actress and film director * Monique Heart (born 1986), the stage name of American drag queen Kevin Richardson * Monique Williams, actress in Australian television series ''
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Music

* Monique Brumby (born 1974), Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer * Monique Buzzarté (born 1960), American composer, trombonist, and activist * Monique Haas (1909–1987), French pianist * Monique Melsen (born 1951), Luxembourgian singer * Monique Powell, singer for American ska band
Save Ferris Save Ferris is an American ska punk band formed circa 1995 in Orange County, California, United States. Their name is a reference to the 1986 film ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off''. In 1995, the band began to perform underground venues in Southern Cal ...
* Monique Rhodes, New Zealand singer, songwriter, and producer


Politics

* Monique Cerisier-ben Guiga (1942–2021), French politician *
Monique D. Davis Monique Dionne Davis (née McKay; born August 19, 1936) is an American educator and Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 27th District since 1987 (elected on November 4, 1986). Born in Chicago, Illinois, ...
(born 1936), American politician *
Monique Guay Monique Guay (born October 27, 1959) is a Quebec politician. She was the Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament for the riding of Rivière-du-Nord. Born in L'Île-Bizard, Quebec, she was an administrator and businesswoman before she was first ele ...
(born 1959), Quebec politician * Monique Iborra (born 1945), French politician *
Monique Koeyers-Felida Monique H. Koeyers-Felida (23 April 1967 – 15 August 2016) was a Curaçaoan politician of the Movement for the Future of Curaçao. She was a member of the Estates of Curaçao between 2010 and 2015. She was focused on matters related to education, ...
(1967–2016), Curaçaoan politician *
Monique Landry Monique Landry (born December 25, 1937) is a former Canadian politician. Career Member of Parliament A physiotherapist and administrator, Landry was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1984 general election that brough ...
(born 1937), Canadian politician *
Monique Limon Monique Limon (born 5 December 1953 in Paris) is a French educator and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a member the National Assembly (France), National Assembly from 2017 to 2022 French legislative election, 2022, ...
(born 1953), French politician *
Monique Limón Monique Limón (born October 30, 1979) is an American politician serving as a member of the California State Senate. She is a Democrat representing the 19th Senate District, encompassing all of Santa Barbara County, as well as over half of Ve ...
(born 1979), American politician *
Monique Orphé Monique Orphé (born 15 October 1964 in Saint-Denis, Réunion) is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party (PS), she was a Deputy in the National Assembly from Réunion between 2012 and 2017. Biography Teacher by profession, Moniqu ...
(born 1964), French politician *
Monique Papon Monique Papon (5 October 1934 – 6 June 2018) was a French politician who was member of the Senate of France, representing the Loire-Atlantique department. She was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement; most recently she served as a vice-p ...
(1934–2018), French politician *
Monique Pauzé Monique Pauzé is a Canadian politician who was elected to the House of Commons in the 2015 election from the electoral district of Repentigny. Initially elected as a member of the Bloc Québécois, she, along with six other Bloc MPs, resigned ...
, Quebec politician *
Monique Richard Monique Richard (born December 12, 1947) is a Quebec politician. She is a member of the National Assembly of Quebec, representing the district of Marguerite-D'Youville. She was elected in the 2008 provincial election. She is a member of the Part ...
(born 1947), Quebec politician *
Monique Smith (Canadian politician) Monique M. Smith (born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2011 who represented the riding of Nipissing. She was a cabinet minister in the government of Dalt ...
(born 1965), Ontario politician * Monique Vézina (born 1935), Canadian politician *
Monique de Vries Monique de Vries is a Dutch politician and has been with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy since 1973. From the period 1994-2003 she was the Secretary of State of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. and a member of the Hous ...
(born 1947), Dutch politician * Monique Wilson (politician), Saban politician


Sports

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Monique Adamczak Monique Adamczak (born 21 January 1983) is an Australian professional tennis player. Her favourite surface is grass. She has specialised in doubles and has been coached by Tony Roche, former coach of Roger Federer. Adamczak made her debut as ...
(born 1983), Australian professional tennis player *
Monique Angermüller Monique Angermüller (born 27 January 1984) is a retired German speed skater who represented Germany at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She participated in the 500, 1000, and 1500 Year 1500 (Roman numerals, MD) was a leap year starting on Wed ...
(born 1984), German speed skater * Monique de Bruin (born 1965), Dutch cyclist * Monique de Bruin (born 1977), American fencer *
Monique Burkland Monique Marie Matthews ( Burkland, born August 11, 1989) is an American Paralympic volleyballist. Early life Burkland was born in Reno, Nevada. She graduated from Plainview High School in 2008 where she used to be all-state softball player. Th ...
(born 1989), American Paralympic volleyball player *
Monique Cabral Monique Cabral (born December 9, 1986) is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main isl ...
(born 1986), Trinidadian sprinter *
Monique Conti Monique Conti (born 9 December 1999) is an Australian rules footballer and basketballer. Conti currently plays for the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW), having previously played for the Western Bulldogs from 2018 to 2019, and ...
(born 1999), Australian basketball player *
Monique Drost Monique Drost (born 8 October 1964) is a retired Dutch swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 1981 European Aquatics Championships The 1981 European Aquatics Championships were held in an indoor pool (50 m) i ...
(born 1964), Dutch swimmer *
Monique van de Elzen Monique Annette van de Elzen (born 17 July 1967) is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level. Van de Elzen scored a hat-trick on her Football Ferns debut in a 3–0 win over a Hawaii X1 12 December ...
(born 1976), New Zealand footballer *
Monique Éwanjé-Épée Monique Éwanjé-Épée Lewin (née Éwanjé-Épée, formerly Tourret; born 11 July 1967) is a retired French track and field athlete who competed in the 60m hurdles and 100m hurdles, and is the co-holder (as of 2016) of the French records in ath ...
(born 1967), French track and field athlete *
Monique Ferreira Monique Andrade Ferreira (born 29 June 1980 in Rio de Janeiro) is a freestyle swimmer from Brazil. A member of Santos. International career She represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and 2008 Summer Olymp ...
(born 1980), Brazilian freestyle swimmer * Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt (born 1968), German speed skater *
Monique Gladding Monique Gladding (born 17 June 1981) is a South African-born British diver. She competed for Great Britain in the 10 metre platform event at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and ...
(born 1981), British diver *
Monique Hennagan Monique Hennagan (born May 26, 1976, in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. She won her first relay medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships and her second in 2003. Monique Hennagan gradua ...
(born 1976), American track and field athlete *
Monique Hirovanaa Monique Hirovanaa (born 25 May 1966) is a former female rugby union player. She played for and Auckland. She was in the squad that won the 1998 Women's Rugby World Cup and the 2002 Women's Rugby World Cup. In 2018, Hirovanaa was inducted into th ...
(born 1966), New Zealand rugby player * Monique Hoogland (born 1967), Dutch badminton player *
Monique Iannella Monique Iannella (born 1 August 1996) is an Australian football (soccer) player, who played in the Australian W-League for Adelaide United and Melbourne City and in the American college system for the Texas Longhorns and for the Hofstra Pride ...
(born 1996), Australian professional footballer *
Monique Jansen Monique Jansen (born 3 October 1978, Harderwijk) is a Dutch athlete specializing in the discus throw. She competed for the Netherlands at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also ...
(born 1978), Dutch discus thrower *
Monique Kauffmann Monique Kauffman (born in The Hague) is a Dutch road bicycle racing, road cyclist, track cycling, track cyclist and speed skating, speed skater. Personal In 1979 she moved with her parents from The Hague to Kijkduin. Career Road cycling On the ...
(born 1963), Dutch road cyclist and speed skater * Monique Knol (born 1964), Dutch racing cyclist * Monique Leroux (1938–1985), French fencer * Monique Merrill (born 1969), American ski mountaineer and mountain biker * Monique Murphy (born 1994), Australian swimmer *
Monique Olivier Monique Olivier (born 13 May 1998 in South Africa) is a national record-holding swimmer from Luxembourg. She attends the International School of Luxembourg in Luxembourg City and has swum for Luxembourg at several international competitions, in ...
(born 1998), Luxembourgian swimmer *
Monique Riekewald Monique Riekewald (born 3 August 1979 in Suhl) is a German skeleton racer who has competed since 1997. She won a gold medal in the mixed bobsleigh-skeleton team event at the 2007 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz St. Moritz (also german: ...
(born 1979), German skeleton racer * Monique Williams (born 1985), New Zealand sprinter *
Monique de Wilt Monique de Wilt (born 31 March 1976, in 's-Hertogenbosch) is a former Netherlands, Dutch Track and field, athlete, specializing in the pole vault. She is a 14-time national champion in that event. She won the silver medal at the 1999 Summer Univer ...
(born 1976), Dutch pole vaulter


Other fields

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Monique Alexander Monique Alexander is an American pornographic actress, nude model, and 2017 AVN Hall of Fame inductee. Alexander has also been an advocate for free speech and sex education, and has appeared on ''Fox News'' and in a debate at Yale University a ...
(born 1982), American pornographic actress *
Monique Bégin Monique Bégin, (born March 1, 1936) is a Canadian academic and former politician. Early life Bégin was born in Rome and raised in France and Portugal before emigrating to Canada at the end of World War II. She received a MA degree in soc ...
(born 1936), Canadian academic and former politician *
Monique de Bissy Monique de Bissy (married Schimmelpenninck; 13 March 1923 – 17 November 2009) was a French-Belgian resistance member during World War II. She was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium and died in Montpellier, France. Belgian Resistance Monique de Biss ...
(1923–2009), French-Belgian World War II resistance member * Monique Boekaerts (born 1946), Belgian educationalist * Monique Charbonneau (1928–2014), Canadian artist *
Monique Ganderton Monique Ganderton (born August 6, 1980) is a Canadian stunt performer and actress who works in television and film. Ganderton was born in Edmonton, Alberta. She started out in modeling before moving to stunt work. Standing 5 ft 11 in (1.8 m) ta ...
(born 1980), Canadian stuntwoman * Monique Lhuillier (born 1971), Filipino-American fashion designer *
Monique Péan Monique Péan (born wikt:circa, c. 1981) is an American artist whose practice is focused on fine jewelry, sculpture, painting and furniture. Her studio is based in New York City. Her work explores themes of space, temporality, identity, and origin ...
(born c. 1981), American fine jewelry designer *
Monique Pinçon-Charlot Monique Pinçon-Charlot (born 15 May 1946, in Saint-Étienne, France) is a French sociologist, research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) until 2007, year of her retiring, attached to the Research Instit ...
(born 1946), French sociologist *
Monique Régimbald-Zeiber Monique Régimbald-Zeiber (born April 24, 1947) is a Canadian painter. Life and work Monique Régimbald-Zeiber was born in Sorel-Tracy, Sorel, Quebec. From 1972 until 1973 she studied Russian literature at Moscow State University before returnin ...
(born 1947), Canadian painter *
Monique de Roux Monique de Roux (born 1946 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French painter and engraver. She lives and works in Spain. Biography Sister of the writer Dominique de Roux, of the sailor Jacques de Roux, of the lawyer and politician Xavier de Roux a ...
(born 1946), French painter and engraver *
Monique Schwitter Monique Schwitter (born 2 March 1972) is a Swiss writer and actress. Life and career Schwitter was born in Zürich, Switzerland. She studied stage direction and theater at the Mozarteum Salzburg from 1993 to 1997. Having graduated, she worked ...
(born 1972), Swiss writer and actress *
Monique Sené Monique Sené (born February 14, 1936) (née Moirez) is a nuclear physicist and one of the co-founders of the '' Groupement des scientifiques pour l'information sur l'énergie nucléaire'' (GSIEN) (Association of Scientists for Information on Nuc ...
, French nuclear physicist *
Monique Truong Monique T.D. Truong (born May 13, 1968, in Saigon in South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. She has written multiple books, and her ...
(born 1968), Vietnamese-American writer *
Monique Vinh Thuy Monique Vinh Thuy (born Monique Baudot, 30 April 1946 – 27 September 2021) was the widow of the last Emperor of Vietnam, Bảo Đại. Biography In 1969, Monique Baudot, a French citizen who was then working in the press department of the Dem ...
(born 1946), widow of Vietnamese emperor Bảo Đại *
Monique Wadsted Monique Wadsted is a Swedish lawyer. She is a partner at Bird & Bird in Stockholm. Career Wadsted received an LLM from Stockholm University in 1988 and clerked for the Stockholm District Court in 1989–90. Before moving to Bird & Bird, she was ...
(born 1957), Swedish lawyer *
Monique Wittig Monique Wittig (; July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003) was a French author, philosopher and feminist theorist who wrote about abolition of the sex-class system and coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". Her seminal work is titled ''The Straigh ...
(1935–2003), French writer and feminist theorist *
Monique Wright Monique Wright (born 18 May 1973) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. Wright is currently co-host of ''Weekend Sunrise''.
(born 1973), Australian journalist and television personality *
Norodom Monineath Norodom Monineath Sihanouk ( km, នរោត្ដម មុនីនាថ សីហនុ, ; born Paule Monique Izzi; 18 June 1936) is the queen mother of Cambodia. She was queen consort of Cambodia from 1993 to 2004, as the wife of King No ...
(born 1936), queen mother of Cambodia, sometimes referred to as ''Queen Monique''


Fictional characters

* Monique, friend of
Kim Possible ''Kim Possible'' is an American animated action comedy-adventure television series created by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle for Disney Channel. The title character is a teenage girl tasked with fighting crime on a regular basis while coping wi ...
* Monique, a cat villager from the video game series Animal Crossing *
Monique Jeffries Detective Monique Jeffries is a fictional character played by Michelle Hurd in the American crime drama television series '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' on NBC. A regular character during the first season, Jeffries is a tough and street-w ...
, character in American crime drama television series ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' * Monique Pollier,
Orson Hodge Orson Hodge is a fictional character on the ABC television series ''Desperate Housewives''. The character is played by Kyle MacLachlan. Orson is introduced in the final episodes of the second season of the series, and becomes the main mystery of ...
's deceased mistress in ''
Desperate Housewives ''Desperate Housewives'' is an American comedy-drama soap opera television series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry, Cherry Productions. It aired for eight seasons on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from Octobe ...
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See also

* Monica (given name) * * {{given name French feminine given names