Livia (given name)
Livia was the wife of Augustus and the most powerful woman in the early Roman Empire. Livia is a female name of Latin origin, meaning "blue," or of Hebrew origin meaning "garland." From Roman times, this was the female derivative of the family name Livius. Livia is a common feminine given name in countries such as Brazil, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, Cuba, France, Romania and Hungary. A variation spelled Livija is also used in Lithuania and Latvia.
Livia was a literary favorite from the sixteenth century, appearing in the plays of John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton, and playing a minor role in Romeo and Juliet. Anna Livia Plurabelle is the name of a character in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
People
Ancient world
- Livia (mother of Cato), mother of Cato the Younger and grandmother of Marcus Iunius Brutus the Younger
- Livia Ocellina, second wife of the Roman Emperor Galba’s father
- Livia Orestilla, Roman empress of Emperor Caligula
- Livia Medullina Camilla, second fiancee of the future emperor Claudius
Other
- Livia Altmann, Swiss ice hockey player
- Lívia Andrade, Brazilian actress and TV presenter
- Livia Brito, Cuban-Mexican actress
- Līvija Endzelīna, Latvian painter
- Livia Frege, German soprano singer
- Livia Giuggioli, Italian film producer
- Lívia Járóka, Hungarian politician
- Livia Klausová, Czech economist
- Livia Lancelot, French motocross racer
- Livia Millhagen, Swedish actress
- Lívia Mossóczy, Hungarian table tennis player
- Livia Pirocchi Tonolli, Italian freshwater biologist
- Lívia Renata Souza, Brazilian MMA artist
- Lívia Rév, Hungarian musician
- Lívia Rusz, Romanian-Hungarian graphic artist
- Livia Turco, Italian politician
- Livia Zita, Hungarian graphic designer and singer, and the wife of King Diamond
- Livia d'Arco, Italian singer
Fictional characters
- Livia Beale, on the television drama Journeyman
- Livia Frye, on the soap opera All My Children
- Livia Soprano, on the television series The Sopranos
- Livia, a name adopted by a character in the television action series Xena: Warrior Princess
- Livia Blackthorn, in Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter Chronicles
- Livia Burlando, on the television series ‘’Inspector Montalbano’’