Adele (given name)
Adele is a feminine given name meaning 'nobility'. It derives from German Adel meaning 'nobility' or adal, 'noble'. In Italy its name day is 24 December in honor of Adela of Pfalzel.
Its male form is the Germanic given name Adel.
The name, also spelled Adel, is also in use in Israel, where it stands for the Hebrew phrase esh dat lamo or a fiery law unto them, used in reference to the Torah.
People with the given name
A–F
- Adèle of Champagne, French queen consort
- Adèle Charvet, French mezzo-soprano
- Adèle of Dreux, French countess
- Adele of Meaux, French countess
- Adele of Valois, French countess
- Adele of Vermandois, French countess
- Adele Addison, American singer
- Adele Adkins, professionally known just as Adele, English singer-songwriter
- Adele Ajosun, Oba of Lagos
- Adèle Almati, German-Swedish opera singer
- Adèle Anderson, British singer
- Adele Änggård, British-Swedish costume and stage designer
- Adele Anthony, Australian musician
- Adele Arakawa, American news anchor
- Adele Astaire, American singer and dancer
- Adelle August, American movie actress
- Adele Laeis Baldwin, American singer
- Adèle Bayer, Belgian missionary
- Adelle Blackett, Canadian legal scholar
- Adele Boyd, American field hockey player
- Adele Broadbent, New Zealand children's author
- Adele Carles, Australian politician
- Adèle Castillon, French singer and actress
- Adèle Christiaens, Belgian fencer
- Adele Clarke, American sociologist
- Adele Cutler, English-born New Zealand and American statistician
- L. Adele Cuinet, pioneer American dental surgeon
- Adelle Davis, American author
- Adele DeGarde, American actress
- Adele DeLeeuw, American writer
- Adele Diamond, Canadian psychologist
- Adele Dixon, English actor
- Adele Dunlap, American teacher and nation's oldest living person at the time of her death
- Adele Duttweiler, Swiss philanthropist
- Adèle Exarchopoulos, French actress
- Adele Faccio, Italian politician
- Adele Farina, Australian politician
- Adele Ferguson, Australian investigative journalist
- Adele Fifield, Canadian director
G–R
- Adele Garrison, American writer
- Adèle Geras, English writer
- Adele Girard, American jazz harpist
- Adele Givens, American actress
- Adele Goldberg (linguist), American linguist
- Adele Goldberg (computer scientist), American computer scientist
- Adele Goldstine, American computer scientist
- Adele Khoury Graham, Lebanese educator
- Adele Griffin, American writer
- M. Adelle Hazlett, American women's suffrage leader
- Adèle Haenel, French actress
- Adele C. Howells, American general president of the Primary
- Adèle Hugo, French diary writer and daughter of author Victor Hugo
- Adèle Isaac, French opera singer
- Adele James, British actor and screenwriter
- Adele Jergens, American actress
- Adele Kern, German soprano opera and operetta singer
- Adèle Kindt, Belgian painter
- Adele King, Irish entertainer
- Adele Kurzweil, Austrian Holocaust victim
- Adèle Caby-Livannah, African writer
- Adelle Lutz, American artist
- Adele Mara, American actress
- Adele Marcus, American pianist
- Adele Megann, Canadian writer
- Adele Morales, American painter and memoirist
- Adele Nicoll, Welsh shot putter, discus thrower and bobsledder
- Adele aus der Ohe, German pianist and composer
- Adelle Onyango, Kenyan radio presenter
- Adele Parks, English novelist
- Adele Passy-Cornet, German opera singer
- Adele W. Paxson, American socialite
- Adele Racheli, Italian engineer, co-founder of patent protection office
- Adele Raemer, American-Israeli blogger
- Adele Ramos, Belizean poet, author, journalist and publisher
- Adele Reinhartz, Canadian academic
- Adele Roberts, British radio DJ and television personality
- Adel Rootstein, British mannequin designer
- Adele Rose, British television writer
- Adele Rova, Fijian swimmer
S–Z
- Adele Emily Sandé, known as Emeli Sandé, Scottish singer-songwriter
- Adele Sandrock, German actress
- Adele Silva, British soap actress
- Adele Simpson, American fashion designer
- Adele Spitzeder, German actor, folk singer and confidence trickster
- Adele Stolte, German soprano singer
- Adelle Stripe, English poet
- Adele Stürzl, Austrian resistance fighter
- Adelle Tracey, American-born middle-distance runner
- Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon, French nun
- Adele Tucker, Bermudian schoolteacher and trade unionist
- Adele Ann Wilby, Australian activist
- Adelle Waldman, American writer
- Adèle Wetterlind, Swedish educator and suffragist
- Adele Wiseman, Canadian author
- Adele Wong, Singaporean actress
Fictional characters
- Adele Airota, mother-in-law of the narrator Elena in the Neapolitan Novels
- Adele Azupadi, a character in the TV series The Story of Tracy Beaker
- * Elena's daughter, also named Adele Airota, but always called Dede
- Adèle Blanc-Sec, main character of Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec written by Jacques Tardi
- Adele Ferguson, a character in the novel Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
- Adele Mundy, Communications Officer, librarian, and spy in David Drake's RCN Series of space opera novels
- Adèle Ratignolle, a standard of feminine beauty in the American classic The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- Adele Stackhouse, Sookie's grandmother in True Blood
- Adèle Varens, the young French ward of Mr. Rochester in the novel Jane Eyre and its adaptations