Georgiana is a Catalan, English, Greek, and Romanian name. It is a variation of the female names Georgina and Georgia. It comes from the Greek word (), meaning "farmer". A variant spelling is Georgianna.

List of persons with the given name Georgiana

  • Georgiana Astley (1796–1835), English daughter of Sir Henry Dashwood, MP
  • Georgianna Behm, American politician
  • Georgiana Blankenship (1861–1936), American writer
  • Georgiana Bloomfield, Baroness Bloomfield (1822–1905), British courtier and author
  • Georgiana Bonser (1898–1979), British physician
  • Georgiana Buller (1884–1953), English hospital administrator
  • Georgiana Burne-Jones (1840–1920), artist, wife and biographer of Edward Burne-Jones
  • Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806)
  • Georgiana Chatterton (1806–1876), English aristocrat, traveler, and author
  • Georgiana Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, (1764–1838)
  • Lady Georgiana Curzon (1910–1976), English socialite
  • Georgiana Fanny Shipley Daniell (1836–1894), British philanthropist
  • Georgiana Drew (1856–1893), American actress and comedian, a member of the Barrymore acting family
  • Georgiana Dvorak-Theobald (1884-1971), American ophthalmologist
  • Lady Georgiana Fullerton (1812–1885), English novelist, philanthropist, and biographer
  • Georgiana Harcourt (1807–1886), writer and translator
  • Georgiana Finch-Hatton, Countess of Winchilsea, (1791–1835)
  • Georgiana Hill (1858-1924), British social historian and women's rights activist
  • Georgiana Klingle Holmes (1841–1940), American poet and painter
  • Georgiana Houghton (1814–1884), British artist and spiritualist medium
  • Georgiana Burne-Jones (1840–1920), British painter and engraver
  • Georgiana Keate (1771 (probably)–1850), English painter
  • Georgiana Goddard King (1871–1939), American Hispanist and medievalist
  • Georgiana Leicester, Baroness de Tabley (1794–1859), English aristocrat
  • Georgiana Lobonț (born 1994), Romanian singer
  • Georgiana McCrae (1804–1890), English-Australian painter and diarist
  • Georgiana Molloy (1805–1843), English-Australian botanical collector
  • Georgiana Hare-Naylor (1755–1806), English painter and art patron
  • Georgiana Rolls, Baroness Llangattock (c.1837–1923), socialite and enthusiast for Nelson
  • Georgiana Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1781–1853), British aristocrat and patron of the arts
  • Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1809–1884)
  • Georgiana Simpson (1865–1944), African-American philologist
  • Georgiana Solomon (1844–1933), British educator and campaigner
  • Georgiana Somerset, Marchioness of Worcester (1792–1821)
  • Georgiana Spencer, Countess Spencer (1737–1814), English philanthropist
  • Georgiana Teodorescu (born 1985), Romanian politician
  • Georgiana Young (1924–2007), American actress
  • Georgiana Zornlin (1800–1881), English artist and writer

Fictional characters

  • Georgiana Darcy, younger sister of one of the main characters in Pride and Prejudice
  • Georgiana Pirrip, the mother of Pip in Charles Dickens‘s "Great Expectations"
  • Georgiana, wife of Aylmer in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark"
  • Georgiana Reed, cousin of Jane Eyre in Charlotte Brontë's novel of the same name.

Dramatic works

  • Georgiana (2019), an opera pasticcio based on the life of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806) commissioned by the Buxton Festival.

Territories

  • Georgiana, a colony proposed by Phineas Lyman for establishment in the Natchez district of British West Florida.

List of persons with the given name Georgianna

  • Georgianna Bell, a pen name of the author Anne Rundle
  • Georgianna Bishop (1878–1971), American golfer
  • Georgianna Hiliadaki, Greek chef
  • Georgianna Hopley (1858–1944), better known as Georgia Hopley, American journalist and temperance advocate
  • Georgianna Lincoln (born 1943), American politician and businesswoman
  • Georgianna Robertson (born 1972), Jamaican model and actress
  • Georgianna Stout (born 1967), American graphic designer
  • Georgianna Kathleen Symonette (1902–1965), Bahamian suffragist

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