Venetia is a feminine English given name. It may refer to:

People

* Venetia Burney (1919–2009), the girl who named the planet Pluto *

Venetia Dearden Venetia Dearden (born 1975) is a British photographer and filmmaker. Her books include ''Somerset Stories, Fivepenny Dreams'' (2008), ''Glastonbury, Another Stage'' (2010), ''Mulberry 40 Years'' (2011) and ''Eight Days'' (2012). Dearden had a sol ...

(born 1975), English photographer * Venetia James (1861–1948), London society hostess and racehorse breeder *

Venetia Stanley Venetia Anastasia Digby (née Stanley) (December 1600 – 1 May 1633) was a celebrated beauty of the Stuart period and the wife of a prominent courtier and scientist, Kenelm Digby. She was a granddaughter of Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Nort ...

(1600–1633), Elizabethan Catholic and wife of Kenelm Digby * Venetia Stanley (1887–1948), British aristocrat and socialite remembered for her 1910–15 correspondence with

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H. H. Asquith Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom f ...

Venetia Stevenson Joanna Venetia Invicta Stevenson (10 March 1938 – 26 September 2022) was an English actress. Early life Born in 1938 in London, England, as Joanna Venetia Invicta Stevenson, she was the daughter of film director Robert Stevenson and actress ...

(1938–2022), English-American actress *

Venetia Williams Venetia Williams (born 10 May 1960) is an English racehorse trainer specialising in National Hunt racing. She is based at stables at Aramstone in Herefordshire, England. Williams was born at Scorrier House, Cornwall and began as a racehorse tra ...

(born 1960), British racehorse trainer

Fictional characters

*Venetia Lanyon, heroine of Georgette Heyer's Regency Romance novel'' Venetia'' {{given name English feminine given names Feminine given names