| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | French |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | praise or highly praiseworthy |
| Other names | |
| See also | Antoine, Antonietta, Antony, Tony, Antonius, Antonella, Antonia |
Antoinette is a given name, that is a diminutive feminine form of Antoine and Antonia (from Latin Antonius).
People with the name include:
Nobles
- Antoinette de Maignelais, Baroness of Villequier by marriage (1434–1474), mistress of Charles VII of France and later of Francis II, Duke of Brittany
- Antoinette de Bourbon (1493–1583)
- Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1696–1762)
- Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1779–1824)
- Antoinette de Mérode (1828–1864), Princess of Monaco
- Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg (1838–1908)
- Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy (1920–2011)
Artists and entertainers
- Antoinette de Beaucaire (1840–1865), Occitan language poet
- Antoinette Beumer (born 1962), Dutch film director
- Antoinette Bower (born 1932), German-born British actress
- Antoinette Cellier (1913–1981), English actress
- Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1638–1694), French poet
- Antoinette Halloran, Australian operatic soprano
- D. Antoinette Handy (1930–2002), American musician and scholar
- Antoinette Hertsenberg (born 1964), Dutch television presenter
- Antoinette Kirkwood (1930–2014), English composer
- Antoinette Miggiani (born 1937), Maltese soprano
- Antoinette Lovell Patterson (born 1970), American rapper Antoinette (rapper)
- Antoinette Perry (1888–1946), American actress and director for whom the Tony Awards are named
- Antoinette Sibley (born 1939), British ballerina
- Antoinette Sterling (1850–1904), Anglo-American vocalist
- Antoinette Taus (born 1980), Filipino-American actress
- Antoinette-Thérèse Des Houlières (1659–1718), French poet
Athletes
- Antoinette Guedia Mouafo (born 1995), Cameroonian swimmer
- Antoinette de Jong (born 1995), Dutch speed skater
- Antoinette Lucas (born 1968), American field hockey player
- Antoinette Meyer (1920–2010), Swiss alpine skier
- Antoinette Nana Djimou (born 1985), Cameroonian-French heptathlete and pentathlete
- Antoinette Uys (born 1976), South African badminton player
Politicians
- Antoinette Batumubwira (born 1956), Burundian politician
- Antoinette Montaigne, French/Central African politician and lawyer
- Antoinette Sandbach (born 1969), Welsh politician
- Antoinette Spaak (1928–2020), Belgian politician
Others
- Antoinette Bourignon (1616–1680), French-Flemish mystic and adventurer
- Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella (c. 1641–1676), French engraver
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921), first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the United States
- Antoinette Downing (1904–2001), American architect
- Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912–2003), French Resistance member and jurist
- Antoinette Fouque (1936–2014), French psychoanalyst
- Antoinette Frank (born 1971), American convicted murderer
- Antoinette Konikow (1869–1946), American physician, feminist, and radical political activist
- Antoinette Nording (1814–1887), Swedish perfume entrepreneur
- Antoinette Pirie (1905–1991), British biochemist, ophthalmologist, and educator
- Antoinette Van Leer Polk (1847–1919), American plantation owner
- Antoinette Sayeh (born 1958), Liberian economist
- Antoinette Schoar, American economist
See also
- Other feminine given names formed from "Antonius":
- Marie Antoinette (disambiguation)
References
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