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Lillian / Lilian Gender Female Language(s)
Latin
Name day July 27 Meaning
Lilium /Lilies Nickname(s) Lilly, Lily Related names Lilliana, Lilian, Lilianne, Liliane, Lillian
Lillian , also spelt Lilian , Lilliann , or Lilliane , is a female
given name . Its origin is the
Latin word
Lilium (lily).[
citation needed ]
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.[
citation needed ]
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 (1926–2022), New Zealand architect
Lilian Constantini (1902–1982), born Liliane Chapiro-Volpert, French actress
Lillian Copeland (1904–1964), American Olympic discus champion; set world records in discus, javelin, and shot put
Lillian Crombie (1958–2024), Australian actress and dancer
Lilian Dikmans (born 1985), 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
Lillian Hoxie Picken (1852–1913), American educator and textbook compiler
Lilian Prunet (born 1978), French ice hockey player
Lillian Pulitzer Rousseau (1931–2013), American fashion designer
Lillian Randolph (1898–1980), 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
Lillian Vickers-Smith (1896–1971), Florida sports editor
Lilian Virgin (born 1939), Swedish politician
Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer (1892–1986), American artist, architect, and women's rights activist
Lillian Wald (1867–1940), founder of American community nursing
Lillian Walker (1887–1975), American actress
Lilian Wells (1911-2001), Australian Congregational and Uniting Church of Australia church leader
Lillian Wheeler (1880–1905), Australian actress
Lillian Worth (1884–1952), American actress
Lillian Yarbo (1905–1996), American actress, dancer and singer
Fictional characters
Lilian, the secondary protagonist from the 2023
concept album
Anno 1696 by Finnish
melodic death metal band
Insomnium
Lillian, a character in the American sitcom television series
Charles in Charge
Lilian, the English name of Yuriko from the 2004 animated series
Futari wa Pretty Cure
Cure Lillian, a main character in the series
Wonderful PreCure!
Lillian DeVille , from the Nickelodeon TV series
Rugrats and
All Grown Up!
Lillian Kaushtupper , landlady of Kimmy and Titus in the Netflix original series
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Queen Lilian , mother of Fiona in the
Shrek series
Lillian Rearden , character in the book
Atlas Shrugged
Lilly Truscott , from Hannah Montana
Lillian van der Woodsen , mother of Serena van der Woodsen in the
Gossip Girl series
Lillian Garner, character in the book
Beloved
See also
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