Delphine (given name)

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Delphine is a feminine Francophone given name, a form of the Latin Delphina, meaning woman from Delphi. Delphine of Glandèves was a 14th-century nun from Provence. Notable people with the name include:

* Delfina Potocka (1807–1877), Polish countess, a friend and muse to artists Frédéric Chopin and Zygmunt Krasiński
* Delphine Arnault (born 1975), French businesswoman, director and executive vice president of Louis Vuitton (LVMH Group)
* Delphine Atangana (born 1984), Cameroonian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres
* Delphine Batho (born 1973), French politician
* Delphine Biscaye, French mechanical engineer and designer
* Delphine Blanc (born 1983), French football player
* Princess Delphine of Belgium (born 1968), illegitimate daughter of King Albert II of Belgium and Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps
* Delphine Cascarino (born 1997), French professional football player, 5-time UEFA Women's Champions League winner
* Delphine O (born 1985), French-Korean politician and former MP for Paris for Renaissance
* Delphine Chanéac (born 1978), French actress
* Delphine Combe (born 1974), French sprinter
* Delphine de Custine (1770–1826), French literary and society figure
* Delphine Ernotte (born 1966), French businesswoman
* Delphine de Girardin (1804–1855), French author under the pen name Vicomte Delaunay
* Delphine Galou (born 1977), French-born contralto
* Delphine Gény-Stephann (born 1968), French engineer, current Secretary of State under Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire
* Delphine Gleize (born 1973), French film director and screenwriter
* Delphine Minoui (born 1974), French-Iranian investigative journalist, social scientist and author
* Delphine Hanna (1854–1941), American physical education professor
* Delphine Horvilleur (born 1974), prominent French rabbi, co-leader of the Liberal Jewish Movement of France
* Delphine LaLaurie (1787–1849), New Orleans socialite and murderer
* Delphine Lecompte (born 1978), Flemish poet
* Delphine Levy (1969–2020), French manager of cultural institutions
* Delphine Lingemann (born 1972), French politician
* Delphine Neid, a bassist in the band The Nuns
* Delphine Oggeri (born 1973), French ski mountaineer
* Delphine Py-Bilot (born 1979), professional French triathlete
* Delphine Seyrig (1932–1990), French actress
* Delphine Anderson Squires (1868-1961), American suffragist and journalist
* Delphine de Vigan (born 1966), Award-winning French novelist
* Delphine Wespiser (born 1992), Miss Alsace 2011 and Miss France 2012
* Delphine Zanga Tsogo (1935–2020), Cameroonian writer and politician
* Belle Delphine (born 1999), Mary-Belle Kirschner, professionally known as Belle Delphine, South African-born English internet celebrity, pornographic actress, model, and YouTuber

## Fictional characters

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* Delphine d'Albémar, titular heroine in the eponymous Delphine, infamous epistolary novel by Germaine de Staël
* Delphine de Nucingen, recurrent character in Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie Humaine
* Delphine, one of the two young farmgirls, Delphine and Marinette, narrating their adventures in Marcel Aymé's Les Contes du Chat Perché (1934-1946) - translated in English as The Magic Pictures and The Wonderful Farm.
* Captain Delphine Angua von Überwald, a character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld
* Delphine, a character in Power Rangers
* Delphine, a character in the 2011 game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
* Delphine Cormier, a character on Orphan Black played by Évelyne Brochu
* Delphine Lasalle, undercover French intelligence agent in the 2017 film Atomic Blonde
* Delphine Day, a character from ITV's Mr Selfridge
* Delphine Donkey, a character in the British children's cartoon Peppa Pig
* Delphine, a character from ITV TV series Plebs
* Delphine Watzka, the protagonist of the 2003 novel The Master Butchers Singing Club
* Delphine Gaither, the narrator of Rita Williams-Garcia's 2010 novel One Crazy Summer and its sequels.
* Delphine Lacroix a character from Netflix's TV series Anne with an E

## See also

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* Delphine (disambiguation)

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