Dorothea

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Dorothea (also spelled Dorothée, Dorotea or other variants) is a female given name from Greek Δωροθέα (Dōrothéa) meaning "God's Gift". It may refer to:

People[]

• Dorothea Binz (1920–1947), German concentration camp officer executed for war crimes
• Dorothea Brooking (1916–1999), British children's television producer and director
• Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), American social activist
• Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878–1960), English tennis player
• Dorothea Dunckel (1799–1878), Swedish playwright
• Dorothea Erxleben (1715–1762), first woman doctor in Germany
• Dorothea Fairbridge (1860–1931), South African novelist
• Dorothea Gerard (1855–1915), Scottish novelist
• Dorothea Hoffman (d. 1710), Swedish hat maker
• Dorothea Jordan (1761–1816), Irish actress and mistress of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom
• Dorothea Kalpakidou (born 1983), Greek discus thrower
• Dorothea Krag (1675–1754), Danish postmaster
• Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), American documentary photographer and photojournalist
• Dorothea Lasky (born 1978), American poet
• Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968), Australian poet and writer
• Dorothea Macnee (1896–1984) British socialite and mother of Patrick Macnee
• Dorothea Maria Lösch (1730–1799), Swedish marine captain
• Dorothea Ostrelska (fl. 1577) Swedish court dwarf
• Dorothea Puente (1929–2011), American serial killer
• Dorothea Röschmann (born 1967), German soprano
• Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012), American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer
• Dorothea Viehmann (1755–1816), German storyteller
• Dorothea Waddingham (1899–1936), English murderer
• Dorothea Wierer (born 1990), Italian biathlete
• Dorothea Wyss (c. 1430/32–after 1487) married Niklaus von Flüe, the patron saint of Switzerland
• Dorothée (born 1953) French singer and television presenter
• Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer (1664–1737), Dutch writer
• Dorota Nieznalska (born 1973), Polish artist
• Dorotea Bucca (1360–1436), Italian physician
• Dorotea van Fornenbergh (fl. 1647–1697), Dutch stage actress
• Doda (singer), (born Dorota Rabczewska; 1984), Polish singer-songwriter and actress
• Angela Merkel (born 1954), Chancellor of Germany, whose middle name is Dorothea
• Christina Doreothea Stuart (fl. 1774), Norwegian artist

Saints[]

• Dorothea of Alexandria (fl. 320), martyr
• Dorothea of Caesarea (fl. 311), martyr, patron saint of florists
• Dorothea of Montau (1347–1394), Roman Catholic saint, hermitess and visionary

Aristocracy[]

• Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (1670–1748), Duchess of Parma
• Dorotea Gonzaga (1449–1468), duchess consort of Milan
• Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1591-1617), Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg
• Dorothea Friederike of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1676–1731), last Countess of Hanau
• Dorothea Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1587–1609), princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst by marriage
• Dorothea Maria of Anhalt (1574–1617), Duchess of Saxe-Weimar
• Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1654–1682), German princess
• Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1674–1713), Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen
• Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst (1607–1634), princess of Anhalt-Zerbst
• Dorothea of Brandenburg (disambiguation)
• Dorothea of Bulgaria (fl. 1370–1390), Queen of Bosnia
• Dorothea of Denmark (disambiguation)
• Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511–1571), queen consort of Christian III, King of Denmark and Norway
• Dorothea of Saxony (1563–1587), Saxon princess
• Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1587–1645)
• Dorothea Susanne of Simmern (1544–1592), princess of the Electoral Palatinate, and Duchess of Saxe-Weimar by marriage
• Margravine Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1661–1705), Countess of Hesse-Darmstadt
• Princess Dorothea of Courland (1793–1862), Baltic German noblewoman
• Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1881–1967)
• Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685–1761), Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach by marriage

Fictional characters[]

• Dorothea Arnault, a famous songstress and student in the monastery in the video game Fire Emblem: Three Houses
• Dorothea Brooke, the heroine in the novel Middlemarch
• Dorotea, woman discovered in the Sierra Morena by Cardenio in Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote
• Dorothea, the subject of the song of the same name written by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift

Nautical[]

• HMS Santa Dorothea (1798), frigate
• USS Dorothea (1898), gunboat
• USS Dorothea L. Dix (AP-67), transport ship

See also[]

• Dorothy (given name)
• Thea (name)
• Tea (given name)

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