Camille (given name)

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Camille
Pronunciation/kəˈmɪl/
French: [kaˈmij]
GenderFemale, male
Origin
Word/name"acolyte" (young cult officiant);[1] a Latin cognomen

Camille is a male and female given name.

History[]

The form Camille was later associated with the heroine of Dumas' The Lady of the Camellias (1848), which served as the basis for Verdi's opera La Traviata and several films. In Dumas' novel, Camille is not the given name of the heroine; this name was applied to her in derived works in the English-speaking world, presumably because of the similarity in sound to the floral name Camellia (which was coined by Linnaeus (1753) after the name of the Czech Jesuit missionary Georg Joseph Kamel).

The name Camille was given to the heroine as early as in a silent film of 1915, but it became widely known (and led to the increased popularity of the given name in the United States) with Greta Garbo's Camille of 1936.

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Fictional characters[]

  • Camille Raquin, Thérèse's first husband in Zola's Thérèse Raquin
  • Camille (1936 film)
  • Princess Camille, protagonist of Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
  • Camille, the main villainess in Power Rangers Jungle Fury
  • Camille Montes, the lead Bond girl in the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace
  • Camille, a pseudonym used by Prince during the late 1980s and early 1990s
  • Camille Leon, a fictional shapeshifting character from Kim Possible portrayed by Ashley Tisdale
  • Camille Saroyan, character of the TV series Bones
  • Camille the Wood Elf, character in Troll Tales
  • Camille Bordey, a detective sergeant in the BBC series Death In Paradise
  • Camille, a main character in the French TV series Les Revenants
  • Kamille Bidan, the protagonist of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
  • Camille Preaker, protagonist of Sharp Objects
  • Camille, a fighter style champion in League of Legends
  • Camille O'Connell, see List of The Originals characters
  • Camille Valentini, an assistant and later junior agent in Call My Agent!
  • Camille Wallaby, a character in Alfred Hedgehog

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