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, the feminine of the name Pascal. The same spelling is also an

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form of the masculine name ''Pascal'', and an Italian surname derived from the given name. Pascale derives from the

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''paschalis'' or ''pashalis'', which means "relating to

Easter Easter, also called Pascha ( Aramaic: פַּסְחָא , ''paskha''; Greek: πάσχα, ''páskha'') or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in t ...

", ultimately from ''pesach'', the Hebrew name of the feast of

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. Notable people with the name include:

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Pascale Armand Pascale Armand is an American actress. She has appeared in off Broadway and Broadway productions, most notable '' Eclipsed'', for which she received Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Life and career Armand was born in ...

, American actress * Pascale Audret, French actress *

Pascale Bussières Pascale Bussières (born June 27, 1968) is a French Canadian actress. Her credits include ''Sonatine (1984 film), Sonatine'' (1984), ''Eldorado (1995 film), Eldorado'' (1995), ''When Night Is Falling'' (1995), ''August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août s ...

, French Canadian actress * Pascale Carayon, French-American industrial engineer * Pascale Cossart, French bacteriologist *

Pascale Criton Pascale Criton (born 1954) is a French composer of contemporary music, and musicologist. She is particularly known for exploiting very dense microtonal scales such as 1/12 tone or 1/16 and beyond for the particular perception properties they imply ...

, French composer * Pascale Dorcelus (born 1979), Canadian weightlifter *

Pascale Ferran Pascale Ferran (; born 17 April 1960) is a French film director and screenwriter. In 2007, her film '' Lady Chatterley'' won five César Awards including Best Film, Best Cinematography and Best Adaptation. Her 2014 film '' Bird People'' was se ...

, French film director *

Pascale Garaud Pascale Garaud is a French astrophysicist and applied mathematician interested in fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and their applications to astrophysics and geophysics. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Californi ...

, French-American astrophysicist *

Pascale Grand Pascale Grand (born August 12, 1967 in Montreal, Quebec) is a retired female racewalker from Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atl ...

, Canadian athletic competitor *

Pascale Haiti Pascale Haiti is a former politician and government minister from French Polynesia. Biography Haiti held the position of Minister of Handicrafts in the French Polynesian government. In 2009 Haiti was arrested as part of an investigation into c ...

, politician and government minister from French Polynesia *

Pascale Hutton Pascale Hutton (born June 14, 1979Pascale Hutton's bio
at www.northernstars.ca) i ...

, Canadian actress *

Pascale Küffer Pascale Küffer is a Swiss footballer who plays for the Swiss side FC Zurich. International career Küffer has represented Switzerland at youth level at the 2011 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship The UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, UEFA ...

, Swiss footballer *

Pascale Machaalani Pascale Bechara Machaalani (; born 27 March 1967) is a Lebanese singer and actress. Her debut album ''Sahar Sahar'' rose her to stardom throughout the Middle East, making Mashalaani one of the most successful female artistes in 1990s Lebanon. ...

, Lebanese singer and actress *

Pascale Montpetit Pascale Montpetit (born 28 July 1960) is a French Canadian actress. In 1990 she won a Best Actress Genie Award for Darrell Wasyk's '' H''. In 2002 she had a Genie Award for best actress in a supporting role for Mario Azzopardi Mario Philip Az ...

, French Canadian actress *

Pascale Ogier Pascale Marguerite Cécile Claude Colette Nicolas (26 October 1958 – 25 October 1984), better known as Pascale Ogier, was a French actress. She won the Volpi Cup, and posthumously received a César Award nomination for her role in the 1984 f ...

, French actress *

Pascale Paradis Pascale Paradis-Mangon (born 24 April 1966) is a former professional tennis player from France. Paradis was the World Junior Champion in women's singles in 1983. Although she failed to reach the heights predicted for her at that time, she did ...

, French tennis player *

Pascale Petit (actress) Pascale Petit (born Anne-Marie Pettit; 27 February 1938) is a French actress. She appeared in more than fifty films from 1957 to 2001. Biography Working as a hairdresser, she entered films when her beauty was noticed by actress Françoise Lugag ...

(born 1938), French actress *

Pascale Petit (poet) Pascale Petit (born 20 December 1953), is a French-born British poet of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. She was born in Paris and grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist fo ...

(born 1953), French poet *

Pascale Piera Pascale Piera (born 23 February 1967) is a French politician of the National Rally who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. She previously served as an investigating judge, and became known for her indictment of Jean-Christop ...

, French politician *

Pascale Quiviger Pascale Quiviger (born 1969) is a Canadian writer and artist. Raised and educated in Quebec, she is currently based in the United Kingdom, where she writes, paints, teaches visual arts and practices hypnotherapy. Quiviger is married to former Briti ...

, Canadian writer and artist *

Pascale Sablan Pascale Sablan (born 1983) is an American architect and designer. She is the CEO at Adjaye Associates, New York Studio and became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2021. Sablan advocates on behalf of women and BIPOC people in ...

, African-American architect * Pascale Sourisse, French businesswoman * Pascale Stöcklin, Swiss pole vaulter *

Pascale Trinquet Pascale Trinquet (born 11 August 1958 in Marseille) is a French fencing, fencer and Olympic champion in Foil (fencing), foil competition. She won a gold medal in the foil (fencing), foil event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

, French fencer *Pascale Vignaux, French fencer *Pascale Voltaire, German DJ

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* Anie Pascale, Canadian actress * Ernesto De Pascale, Italian journalist *

Jan Pascale Jan Pascale is an American set decorator who has won an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award . She has worked on over 50 different TV shows and films since 1982. She won her Emmy 2001 for the TV show ''Boston Public''. She was nominated at ...

, American set decorator * Lorraine Pascale, British former model *

Ricardo Pascale Ricardo Pascale Cavalieri (29 August 1942 – 26 January 2024) was a Uruguayan economist, professor, and sculptor. Biography A man close to the Colorado Party, he chaired the Central Bank of Uruguay from 1985 to 1990 and from 1995 to 1996, du ...

, Uruguayan economist and sculptor * Ronnie Pascale, American soccer player * Abri Pascale, (born 2006) Badd mff

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