Lillian (name)

Lillian (can also be spelled Lilian, Lilliann, or Lilliane) is a female given name. It is Latin, meaning 'Lilium' (lily). In French, Lilian (French pronunciation: ​[li.ljɑ̃]) is the male form of the name, while Liliane is the female form. The first time this name became popular was in the early 1700s with the expansion of the French colonial empire around the world.

People[]

• Princess Lilian of Belgium (1916–2002), wife of King Leopold III of Belgium
• Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (1915–2013), wife of Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland of Sweden
• Lillian B. Allen (1904-1994), Canadian painter
• Lillian Allen (born 1951), Canadian dub poet, musician, and writer
• Lillian Alling, walked from New York to the Bering Strait in the 1920s
• Lilian Bennett (1922–2013), British businesswoman
• Lilian Calmejane (born 1992), French cyclist
• Lillian Chrystall (born 1926), New Zealand architect
• Lilian Constantini (1902–1982), born Liliane Chapiro-Volpert, French actress
• Lillian Crombie (born 1958), Australian actress and dancer
• Lilian Dikmans Australian model, Muay Thai fighter
• Lillian Disney (1899–1997), widow of Walt Disney
• Lilian Edirisinghe (1922-1993), Sri Lankan Sinhala actress
• Lillian Elidah, Zambian chef
• Lilian Fowler (1886–1954), Australian politician
• Lilian Garcia (born 1966), American singer and ring announcer
• Lillian Gish (1893–1993), American actress
• Lillian Greene-Chamberlain (born 1941), American sprinter
• Lilian Greenwood (born 1966), British politician
• Lilian Greuze (1890–1950), French model
• Lilian Helder (born 1973), Dutch politician
• Lillian Hellman (1905–1984), American playwright
• Lillian Herlein (1895–1971), American actress and singer
• Lillian Hoban (1925–1998), American author
• Lilian Laslandes (born 1971), French footballer
• Lillian Lawrence (1868–1926), American theatre and silent film actress
• Lilian Lee (born 1959), Chinese author
• Lilian Mercedes Letona (1954–1983), Salvadoran guerrilla and revolutionary
• Lilian Leveridge (1879–1953), teacher, writer
• Lillian Metge née Grubb (1871–1954), Anglo-Irish suffragette and women's rights campaigner
• Lilian Moore (1909–2004), American author of children's books, teacher and poet

• Lillian Nakate (born 1978), Ugandan civil engineer and politician
• Lilian Ngoyi (1911-1980), South African anti-apartheid activist
• Lillian Offitt (1938–2020), American blues and R&B singer
• Lillian Palmer (disambiguation), multiple people
• Lilian Prunet (born 1978), French ice hockey player
• Lillian Randolph (1914/1915–September 12, 1980), American actress and singer
• Lilian Rolfe (1914–1945), Allied secret agent in World War II
• Lillian Smith (author) (1897–1966), American author
• Lillian Carpenter Streeter (1854-1935), American social reformer, clubwoman, author
• Lilian Thuram (born 1972), French footballer
• Lilian Uchtenhagen (1928–2016), Swiss economist and politician
• Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer (1892–1986), American artist, architect, and women's rights activist
• Isidore Lillian (1882-1960), American Yiddish Theatre playwright and lyricist
• Lillian Wald (1867–1940), founder of American community nursing
• Lillian Walker (1887–1975), American actress
• Lillian Worth (1884–1952), American actress
• Lillian Pulitzer Rousseau (1931–2013), American fashion designer
• Lillian Yarbo (1905–1996), American actress, dancer and singer

Fictional characters[]

• Lillian, a character in the American sitcom television series Charles in Charge
• Lillian DeVille, from the nickelodeon TV series Rugrats and All Grown Up!
• Lillian Rearden, character in the book Atlas Shrugged
• Lillian Kaushtupper, landlady of Kimmy and Titus in the Netflix original series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
• Lilly Truscott, from Hannah Montana
• Lillian van der Woodsen, mother of Serena van der Woodsen in the Gossip Girl series
• Queen Lilian, mother of Fiona in the Shrek series

See also[]

• All pages with titles beginning with Lillian
• All pages with titles containing Lillian
• Lily (name)

References[]

• Baby Name Lilian – Origin and Meaning of Lilian
• Origin and Meaning of the Name Lilian

External links[]

• Variant forms of Lilian
• What does Lilian mean?

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