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* Violette Cordery (1900–1983), British racing driver * Violette Huck (born 1988), French tennis player *

Violette Lecoq Violette Lecoq (1912 – 2003) was a French nurse, illustrator, and a resistance member during World War II. She is known for her drawings from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, which were also used as evidence at the first Ravensbrück Tria ...

(1912–2003), French nurse, illustrator and resistance member during World War II *

Violette Leduc Violette Leduc (7 April 1907 – 28 May 1972) was a French writer. Early life and education She was born in Arras, Pas de Calais, France, on 7 April 1907. She was the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl, Berthe Leduc, and André Debaralle ...

(1907–1972), French author * Violette Morris (1893–1944), French multi-sport athlete, and spy and collaborator for the Germans during World War II *

Violetta Napierska Violetta Napierska (sometimes ''Violette Napierska'') was a film actress. Most of her acting career she worked in German silent films, often with Béla Lugosi (with whom she had a romantic relationship for a time), Lee Parry and director Richard ...

(1890–1968), sometimes spelled Violette, actress in German silent films *

Violette Szabo Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC ( née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – February 1945) was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. On her second mission ...

(1921–1945), British Second World War agent in German-occupied France * Violette Trépanier (born 1945), politician in Quebec, Canada *

Violette Verdy Violette Verdy (born Nelly Armande Guillerm; 1 December 1933 – 8 February 2016) was a French ballerina, choreographer, teacher, and writer who worked as a dance company director with the Paris Opera Ballet in France and the Boston Ballet in t ...

(1933–2016), French ballerina and director of dance companies * Violette Wautier (born 1993), Thai singer-songwriter and actress

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Banks Violette Banks Violette (born 1973) is an artist based in Ithaca, New York. Biography Violette was born in Ithaca, New York and studied at the School of the Visual Arts in New York earning at BFA in 1998, and graduated with an MFA from Columbia Univer ...

(born 1973), American artist * Cyndy Violette (born 1959), American poker player * Dave Violette (born 1963), American curler * Lorne J. Violette (1884–?), Canadian politician *

Tom Violette Tom Violette (born October 26, 1960) is an American curler from Issaquah, Washington and Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He is a , a two-time United States men's curling champion (1990, 1992), and a 2015 World Seniors gold medalist. Teams Personal ...

(born 1960), American curler

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* Violette Leduc, protagonist of the 2013 biographical drama film '' Violette'' * Title character of ''

Violette Nozière ''Violette Nozière'' is a 1978 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran. The film, based on a true French murder case in 1933, is about an eighteen-year-old girl named Violette and her en ...

'', a 1978 French crime film * Violette Honfleur, on the 1980 ''

Peanuts ''Peanuts'' is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz. The strip's original run extended from 1950 to 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. ''Peanuts'' is among the most popular and infl ...

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Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!) ''Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)'' is a 1980 American animated adventure comedy film produced by United Feature Syndicate and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Bill Melendez and Phil Roman. It was the fourth ful ...

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Viorica Viorica is a Romanian female given name, derived from Romanian ''vioară'', a violet (flower). Notable people with the name include: * Viorica Agarici, a Romanian nurse, the chairwoman of the local Red Cross in the city of Roman during World War ...

, a female given name * ''Le roman de la violette'' ("The Romance of the Violet"), a medieval poem by

Gerbert de Montreuil Gerbert de Montreuil was a 13th-century French poet from the north of France. He wrote ''Le Roman de la violette'' or ''Gérard de Nevers'',Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, French, 1553, f. 288r-325v one of the most outstanding medieval ...

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