Bianca
Bianca is a feminine given name. It means "white" and is an Italian cognate of Blanche. It is known in the Anglosphere as a character in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. It came to greater notice in the 1970s, due to public figures such as Bianca Jagger.
Variants
People
Medieval period
- Bianca Lancia, Italian noble
- Bianca of Savoy, Lady of Milan by marriage
- Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan
- Bianca Maria Sforza, Holy Roman Empress, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Bianca Giovanna Sforza,, Countess of Bobbio and Voghera, wife of Galeazzo Sanseverino
- Bianca Cappello, Grand Duchess of Tuscany
A–K
- Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player
- Bianca Atzei, Italian singer
- Bianca Balti, Italian model
- Bianca Beauchamp, Canadian model
- Bianca Belair, American professional wrestler
- Bianca Bianchi, stage name of Bertha Schwarz, German/Austrian opera soprano
- Bianca Bin, Brazilian actress
- Bianca Borgella, Canadian para-athlete
- Bianca Brandolini d’Adda, Italian socialite
- Bianca Butler, American ice skater
- Bianca Bustamante, Filipina racing driver
- Bianca Byington, Brazilian actress
- Bianca Carstensen, Danish rower
- Bianca Casady, American musical artist
- Bianca Castanho, Brazilian actress
- Bianca Censori, Australian architect and model
- Bianca Chatfield, Australian netball player
- Bianca Chiminello, Australian model and actress
- Bianca Collins, American actress
- Bianca Comparato, Brazilian actress
- Bianca de Vera, Filipina actress
- Bianca Del Rio, American drag queen
- Bianca Devins, American murder victim
- Bianca Dittrich, German rhythmic gymnast
- Bianca Ferguson, American actress
- Bianca Froese-Acquaye, German artist and author
- Bianca Gascoigne, British model and TV personality
- Bianca Gonzalez, Filipina TV personality
- Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan actress, social and human rights advocate
- Bianca Kajlich, American actress
- Bianca Kappler, German long jumper
- Bianca King, Canadian–Filipina actress, model
L–Z
- Bianca Lamblin, French writer
- Bianca Langham-Pritchard, Australian field hockey player
- Bianca Manalo, Filipina actress and beauty pageant titleholder
- Bianca Marroquín, Mexican actress
- Bianca Mayer, German musician and singer
- Bianca Lawson, American actress
- Bianca Mendonça, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast
- Bianca Netzler (cyclist), New Zealand cyclist representing Samoa
- Bianca Netzler (field hockey), Australian field hockey player
- Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Nigerian beauty queen, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and businesswoman; wife of former Biafran President, Chukuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
- Bianca Noel Piper, American missing person
- Bianca Răzor, Romanian sprinter
- Bianca Rinaldi, Brazilian actress
- Bianca Ryan, American singer
- Bianca Solorzano, American TV journalist
- Bianca Szíjgyártó, Hungarian ice dancer
- Bianca Tiron, Romanian handballer
- Bianca Umali, Filipina actress, model
- Bianca van Rangelrooy, New Zealand artist
- Bianca Weiß, German field hockey player
- Bianca Williams, American anthropologist
- Bianca Williams, British athlete
Fictional characters
- Bianca (Othello), from William Shakespeare's play Othello
- Bianca Minola, from William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew
- Bianca Stratford, in the 1999 movie based on The Taming of the Shrew, 10 Things I Hate About You
- A character from Bianca e Fernando, an 1828 opera by Vincenzo Bellini
- Bianca, played by Mariah Carey in the video for her 1999 single "Heartbreaker" and in "Boy (I Need You)"
- Bianca (That's So Raven), from the American TV series That's So Raven
- Bianca Castafiore, recurring character in The Adventures of Tintin
- Bianca DeSousa, in Degrassi
- Bianca di Angelo, a minor character in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan
- Bianca Jackson, from the British soap opera EastEnders
- Bianca Montgomery, from the American soap opera All My Children
- Bianca Solderini, in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles
- Miss Bianca, from The Rescuers books by Margery Sharp and the animated films The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under
- Bianca Erdmann, a pre-pubescent nymphomaniac in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow
- Bianca Reyes, mother of Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) in the DC Comics continuum
- Bianca Scott, from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
- Bianca, the name of Varric's crossbow in Dragon Age II
- Bianca, an anatomically correct doll in Lars and the Real Girl
- Bianca, from the movie Pokémon Heroes
- Bianca, in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
- Bianca, rival character in Pokémon Black and White
- Bianca, from the American TV series Henry Danger
- Bianca Piper, from the book and movie The Duff
- Bianca, from the TV series Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Bianca Lussi, another main character from the TV series Maggie & Bianca: Fashion Friends
- Bianca, a character and former villain from Spyro: Year of the Dragon
- Bianca, from Dragon Quest
- Bianca Dupree, from the 1987 cartoon Beverly Hills Teens
- Bianca Bikini, villain from ''The Powerpuff Girls''
Other uses
- Bianca (moon), a moon of Uranus