Pauline (given name)
Pauline is a female given name. It was originally the French form of Paulina, a female version of Paulinus, a variant of Paulus meaning the little, hence the younger.
The corresponding form for the name in Italian is Paolina. In Russian, the corresponding names are Павли́на and Поли́на. A Finnish form of the name is Pauliina; in Greece it is Παυλίνα,. In French, other diminutives of Paula exist, namely Paulette and Pauletta.
People
- Pauline Adams, Irish-American suffragist
- Pauline Ado, French professional surfer
- Pauline Alderman, US musicologist and composer
- Pauline Allen, Australian scholar of early Christianity
- Pauline Amelinckx, Filipina model
- Pauline Amos, British performance artist
- Pauline Antoine-Prospere, Saint Lucian politician
- Pauline Armitage, Northern Ireland politician
- Pauline Ashwell, pseudonym of British author Pauline Whitby
- Pauline Auzou, French painter
- Pauline Morrow Austin, US meteorologist
- Pauline Baards, a stage name of Italian actor Paola Barbara
- Pauline Gardiner Barber, Canadian social anthropologist
- Pauline Bart, American sociologist
- Pauline Irene Batebe, Ugandan engineer
- Pauline Baynes, English illustrator
- Pauline Bebe, French rabbi
- Pauline Bell, winner of the second Scripps National Spelling Bee champion
- Pauline Benda, French actress better known as Simone Le Bargy
- Pauline Bennett, British DJ and rapper also known as Jazzi P
- Pauline Bern, New Zealand jeweller
- Pauline Betz, US professional tennis player
- Pauline Bewick, Irish artist
- Pauline Bird-Hart, British rower
- Pauline Biscarat, French rugby sevens player
- Pauline Black, English singer
- Pauline Bøgelund, Danish handball player
- Pauline Bonaparte, Italian noble
- Pauline Boty, British painter
- Pauline Boutal, French-born Canadian artist, theatrical designer, actress and educator
- Pauline Bremer, German footballer
- Pauline Browes, Canadian politician
- Pauline Powell Burns, African-American artist
- Pauline Cafferkey, Scottish nurse
- Pauline Cassin Caro, French novelist
- Pauline Chalamet, American actress, writer, and director
- Pauline Chan Bo-Lin, Hong Kong actress
- Pauline Clarke, English author
- Pauline Atherton Cochrane, American librarian
- Pauline Collins, English actress
- Pauline Cope, English footballer
- Pauline Marie Armande Craven, French author
- Pauline Smith Crenshaw, American historian and socialite
- Pauline Croze, French singer and musician
- Pauline Curley, American actress
- Pauline Curnier Jardin, French visual artist
- Pauline Cushman, US actress and spy
- Pauline Davis (politician), US politician
- Pauline Davis-Thompson, Bahamian sprinter
- Pauline de Ahna, German singer
- Pauline de Lézardière, French historian
- Pauline de Meulan, French writer
- Pauline de Rothschild, writer and fashion designer
- Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord, French noble
- Pauline Déroulède, French wheelchair tennis player
- Pauline Donalda, Canadian singer
- Pauline Ducruet, Monegasque noble
- Pauline Dunwell Partridge, American writer
- Dame Pauline Engel, New Zealand educator and Catholic nun
- Pauline Fisk, British children's author
- Pauline Flanagan, Irish actress
- Pauline Fréchette, poet, dramatist, journalist, nun
- Pauline Frederick, US actor
- Pauline Frost, Canadian politician
- Pauline Gardiner, New Zealand politician
- Pauline Garon, US actor
- Pauline Gedge, Canadian novelist
- Pauline Green, European politician
- Pauline Gregg, British historian
- Pauline Hanson, Australian politician
- Pauline Heßler, German ski jumper
- Pauline Holdstock, British-Canadian writer
- Pauline Hopkins, African-American novelist
- Pauline von Hügel, Italian-born Austrian baroness; British writer, philanthropist
- Pauline Jacobus, US studio potter
- Pauline-Marie Jaricot, French founder of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith and the Living Rosary Association.
- Pauline Jewett, Canadian politician
- E. Pauline Johnson, Canadian writer and performer
- Pauline Johnson (actress), English film actor
- Pauline Julien, Canadian singer
- Pauline Kael, US film critic
- Pauline Njeri Kahenya, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Pauline Koner, US dancer and choreographer
- Pauline Konga, Kenyan runner
- Pauline Kingi, Māori community leader
- Pauline LaFon Gore, mother of former US Vice President Al Gore and the wife of former US Senator Albert Gore Sr.
- Pauline Lafont, French actor
- Pauline Lecarpentier, French freestyle wrestler
- Pauline Lefèvre-Utile founded the LU (biscuits) company in 1854.
- Pauline Arnoux MacArthur, American clubwoman and writer
- Pauline Gracia Beery Mack, US chemist
- Pauline Maier, US historian
- Pauline Mailhac, Austrian-German opera singer
- Pauline Félicité de Mailly, French noble
- Pauline Marois, Canadian politician
- Pauline Mills McGibbon, Canadian politician
- Pauline McLynn, Irish actor
- Pauline McNeill Scottish politician
- Pauline Melville, Guyanese-born writer and actor
- Pauline Menczer, Australian surfer
- Pauline Mendoza, Filipina actress and model
- Pauline von Metternich, Austrian socialite
- Anna Milder-Hauptmann, Austrian singer
- Pauline Moran, English actor
- Pauline Musters, the shortest woman ever recorded
- Pauline Ngan Po-ling, Chinese politician
- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones, BBC Governor and Chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee
- Pauline Newstone, Canadian voice actor
- Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Rwandan politician and war criminal
- Pauline Oliveros, US composer and accordionist
- Pauline O'Neill (disambiguation)
- *Pauline O'Neill (sister), first president of Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana
- *Pauline O'Neill (suffrage leader), suffrage leader, Arizona state legislator, and widow of Buckey O'Neill
- Princess Pauline of Orange-Nassau, Dutch noble
- Pauline Pantsdown, stage name of Australian satirist Simon Hunt
- Pauline Parker, New Zealander murderer
- Pauline Parmentier, French tennis player
- Pauline-Euphrosine Paul, French ballet dancer also known as Madame Montessu
- Pauline Pearce, British activist
- Pauline Periwinkle, American journalist, poet, teacher, feminist
- Pauline Perlmutter Steinem, American suffragist
- Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, British politician
- Pauline Pfeif, German diver
- Pauline Pfeiffer, American journalist
- Pauline Phelps, American writer
- Pauline Phillips, US writer of Dear Abby
- Pauline Picard, Canadian politician
- Pauline Polaire, Italian actor
- Pauline Prior-Pitt, British poet
- Pauline Quirke, English actress
- Pauline Reade, British murder victim
- Pauline Réage, pseudonym of French journalist Anne Desclos
- Pauline Richards, Australian politician
- Pauline Robertson, Scottish field hockey player
- Pauline Rochefort, Canadian politician
- Pauline Roland, French feminist and socialist
- Pauline Dohn Rudolph, US painter
- Pauline Sabin, US prohibition repeal leader and Republican party official
- Pauline Scanlon, Irish singer
- Pauline Schmidt, Danish magician
- Pauline Agassiz Shaw, US philanthropist and social reformer
- Pauline Small, Crow tribal politician
- Pauline Smith, South African novelist
- Pauline Staegemann, Prussian socialist, feminist and trade unionist
- Pauline Stainer, English poet
- Pauline Starke, US actor
- Pauline B. Story, American composer
- Pauline Anna Strom, US composer and synthesist better known as Trans-Millenia Consort
- Pauline Tallen, Nigerian politician
- Pauline Tennant, British actress
- Pauline Thompson, New Zealand painter
- Pauline Thys, French composer and librettist
- Pauline Tompkins, president of Cedar Crest College
- Pauline Tratz, German gymnast
- Pauline, Lady Trevelyan, English painter
- Pauline Trigère, Franco-American fashion designer
- Pauline Tully, Irish politician
- Pauline Turner, Scottish actress
- Pauline Vanier, Canadian vice-regal consort
- Pauline (singer), French singer
- Pauline Viardot, French singer
- Pauline Wagner, American actress, dancer and glamour girl
- Pauline Wayne, US President Taft's cow
- Pauline Payne Whitney, US heiress
- Pauline van der Wildt, Dutch swimmer
- Pauline of Württemberg (disambiguation)
- *Pauline Therese of Württemberg, daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg and third wife of King William I of Württemberg
- *Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810–1856), daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg and second wife of William, Duke of Nassau
- *Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1877–1965), daughter of William II of Württemberg and wife of William Frederick, Prince of Wied
- Pauline A. Young, African-American teacher, activist, and humanitarian
Fictional characters
- Ms. Pauline Fleming, a character from the 1988 film Heathers, and it's musical and TV adaptations
- Pauline Fowler, a character from the British soap opera EastEnders, portrayed by Wendy Richard
- Pauline, a character in Nintendo's Donkey Kong and Mario franchises