Blanchett or Blanchette is a given name or surname of French origin.

People with this surname include:

  • Andrulla Blanchette (born 1966), a female bodybuilder
  • Cate Blanchett (born 1969), Australian actor
  • Christopher Blanchett (born 1982), English broadcast journalist
  • Danny Blanchett (born 1987), footballer
  • Ian Neale Blanchett (born 1975), Australian born English cricketer
  • Jude Blanchette, American foreign policy analyst and China specialist
  • Louis Blanchette (1739–93), explorer and founder of Saint Charles, Missouri
  • Oliva Blanchette (1929–2021), American philosopher
  • Peter Blanchette (born 1960) American musician, inventor of the archguitar.
  • Patricia Blanchette, American philosopher

People with this given name include:

  • Blanchette Brunoy (1915–2005), actress
  • Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller (1909–92), wife of John D. Rockefeller III
  • The heroine of Eugène Brieux's 1892 play Blanchette.

Wine grapes

Several French wine grapes have Blanchette as a synonym. These include:

  • Chasselas, another name for the wine grape Blanchette
  • Canari noir, another name for the wine grape Blanchette rouge
  • Mondeuse blanche, a wine grape which is also known as Blanchette
  • Verdesse, another wine grape which is also known as Blanchette

Other uses

  • Blanchette Cemetery, Beaumont, Texas is the resting-place of Blind Willie Johnson (1897–1945), Baptist minister and bluesman