Dorothea
Dorothea, also spelt Dorothee, Dorothée, and Dorotea, is a female given name from Greek Δωροθέα meaning "god's gift". In English it is more commonly spelt Dorothy.
People with this name include:
Aristocracy
- Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, Duchess of Parma
- Dorotea Gonzaga, Duchess consort of Milan
- Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg
- Dorothea Friederike of Brandenburg-Ansbach, last Countess of Hanau
- Dorothea Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst by marriage
- Dorothea Maria of Anhalt, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar
- Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, German princess
- Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen
- Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst
- Dorothea of Brandenburg (disambiguation)
- Dorothea of Bulgaria, Queen of Bosnia
- Dorothea of Denmark (disambiguation)
- Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen consort of Christian III, King of Denmark and Norway
- Dorothea of Saxony, Saxon princess
- Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg
- Dorothea Susanne of Simmern, princess of the Electoral Palatinate, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar by marriage
- Margravine Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Countess of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Princess Dorothea of Courland, Baltic German noblewoman
- Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach by marriage
Saints
- Dorothea of Alexandria, martyr
- Dorothea of Caesarea, martyr, patron saint of florists
- Dorothea of Montau, Roman Catholic saint, hermitess and visionary
Other people
First name
- Dorotea Bucca, Italian physician
- Dorotea van Fornenbergh, Dutch stage actress
- Dorothea Binz, German concentration camp officer executed for war crimes
- Dorothea Brooking, British children's television producer and director
- Dorothea H. Denslow, American sculptor, educator
- Dorothea Dix, American social activist
- Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player
- Dorothea Dunckel, Swedish playwright
- Dorothea Erxleben, first woman doctor in Germany
- Dorothea Fairbridge, South African novelist
- Dorothea Gerard, Scottish novelist
- Dorothea Hoffman, Swedish hat maker
- Dorothea Barth Jörgensen, Swedish fashion model
- Dorothea Jordan, Irish actress and mistress of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom
- Dorothea Kalpakidou, Greek discus thrower
- Dorothea Krag, Danish postmaster
- Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer and photojournalist
- Dorothea Lasky, American poet
- Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet and writer
- Dorothea Macnee British socialite and mother of Patrick Macnee
- Dorothea Maria Lösch, Swedish marine captain
- Dorothea Nelson, American librarian
- Dorothea Nicolai, German costume designer, stage designer
- Dorothea Ostrelska Swedish court dwarf
- Dorothea Phillips, British actress
- Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
- Dorothea Röschmann, German soprano
- Dorothea Schwarz, Austrian luger
- Dorothea Tanning, American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer
- Dorothea Viehmann, German storyteller
- Dorothea Waddingham, English murderer
- Dorothea Wieck, German actress
- Dorothea Wierer, Italian biathlete
- Dorothea Wyss married Niklaus von Flüe, the patron saint of Switzerland
- Dorothee Bär, German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria
- Dorothee Hess-Maier, semi-retired German publisher
- Dorothee Kern, German biochemist and academic, former basketball player for the East German team
- Dorothee Mields, German soprano concert singer
- Dorothee Sölle, German liberation theologian
- Dorothee Stapelfeldt, German politician of the Social Democratic Party
Middle name
- Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer, Dutch writer
- Angela Dorothea Merkel, former Chancellor of Germany
- Christina Doreothea Stuart, Norwegian artist
Single name
- Dorothée French singer and television presenter
Fictional characters
- 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 by Taylor Swift
- Dorothea Arnault, a playable character from the video game Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
- Dorotea Benedetti, a character from the novel Pattern Recognition
- Dorothea Brooke, the heroine in the novel Middlemarch
- Dorotea Senjak, character in Glen Cook's The Black Company series