Magdalene (given name)
Magdalena is a female first name.
Origin and Meaning of the Name
- Ancient Greek: the root end of Magdala ( place on the Sea of Galilee, can be translated as tower ), see Mary Magdalene
Variants
- Alena
- Alenka ( Slovenian)
- Alenn
- Anna Lena
- Madalenn ( Breton )
- Maddalena, Maddalina ( Italian)
- Madeleine, Madelon (French), Magdeleine
- Madelaine
- Made Lena (Spanish, Portuguese)
- Madelene ( German, derived from the French )
- Madeline, Madline, Magdalen, Maud (English)
- Madi ( Bern German )
- Madlaina, Madleina (Romansh )
- Madlena ( Upper Sorbian, German )
- Madlene, Madlen ( German )
- Madlenka, Lenka ( Czech, Sorbian )
- Mady, Maddy, Maddie, Koseformen in different languages
- Madzia ( Polish diminutive ), also Magdusia, Magdunia, Magdeczka
- Magda
- Magdalawit ( Eritrean, Ethiopian )
- Magdalen (English)
- Magdalena ( Bulgarian, German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Romanian)
- Magdalene ( German, English)
- Magda Lenka ( Polish)
- Magdalina Магдалина (Russian)
- Magdolna ( Hungarian)
- Magga, Maggie, Maggy ( short forms )
- Malena ( Spanish)
- Madalina ( Romanian)
- Malene ( Scandinavian)
- Malin, Malin ( Swedish)
- Malina ( German )
- Marlene ( German )
- Talena ( Latvian, Scottish), heroine in the science fiction - cycle Gor by John Norman
- Magdalena, Marlena, Maralena, Madlena (Albanian )
- Marleen
Short forms:
- Lena, Leni ( by Helena )
Name-day
Name Days are:
- May 25 to Maria Magdalena de Pazzi († May 25, 1607 )
- July 22 by Mary Magdalene
Famous names winners
- (Magdalena ) Sophie Barat ( 1779-1865 ), founder of the Catholic women's Order of the Sacred Heart Sisters
- Magda Bäumken (1890-1959), German People's Actress
- Magda Goebbels (1901-1945), of the Nazi propaganda to " German ideal woman " highly stylized wife of Joseph Goebbels
- Magda Schneider (1909-1996), German actress
- Magdalena Strompach (1919-1988), Slovak painter, restorer and educator
- Magdalena Abakanowicz ( born 1930 ), Polish artist
- Madeleine Albright ( born 1937 ), American politician
- Magdalena Müller (1941-2004), German sports journalist and television presenter
- Magdalen Nabb (1947-2007), British crime and children's book author
- Madeleine Sauveur (* 1951), German cabaret artist
- Magdalena Ritter ( b. 1957 ), German actress
- Magdalena Forsberg (born 1967 ), Swedish biathlete
- Magdalena von Rudy ( b. 1973 ), Polish artist
- Magdalena Maleeva ( b. 1975 ), Bulgarian tennis player
- Magda (* 1975), DJ in the electronic music scene
- Magdalena Brzeska (born 1978 ), Polish - German gymnast
- Madeleine of Sweden ( b. 1982 ), daughter of King Carl XVI. Gustaf of Sweden and Queen Silvia of Sweden
- Magdalena Turba (* 1983), German voice actor
- Magdalena Neuner ( * 1987), German biathlete
- Madeleine McCann (* 2003), Missing British child
Nobleman named Magdalena
- Magdalene of Saxony (1507-1534), wife of Joachim II of Brandenburg
- Archduchess Magdalena of Austria (1532-1590), founder and Abbess of the Ladies pin in Hall in Tirol
- Magdalene of Lippe (1552-1587), by marriage, the first Landgrave of Hesse- Darmstadt
- Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia (1586-1659), daughter of Albrecht Friedrich of Prussia
- Magdalene von Hessen- Kassel (1611-1671), Princess of Hesse- Kassel and by marriage Altgräfin Salm- Reifferscheid
- Magdalena Sibylle of Brandenburg- Bayreuth (1612-1687), daughter of Christian von Brandenburg -Bayreuth
- Magdalena Sibylle of Saxony (1617-1668), Duchess of Saxe- Altenburg
- Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe- Weissenfels (1648-1681), Duchess of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg
- Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse- Darmstadt (1652-1712), married to Wilhelm Ludwig of Württemberg
- Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe- Weissenfels (1673-1726), Duchess of Saxe- Eisenach
- Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt- Zerbst (1679-1740), Duchess of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg
First name Maddalena
- Maddalena Visconti (c. 1366, † 1404), as the second wife of Duke Frederick Duchess of Bavaria
- Maddalena Kerrh, ( born October 11, 1938) German actress
Forms of literature
- Madeline, Ludwig Bemelmans picture book series of
- Lene ( Magdalene ) Nimptsch, main character in Trials and Tribulations of Theodor Fontane
- Magdalena, folk play by Ludwig Thoma from 1912
More
- Hurricane Madeline, tropical cyclone in 1998
- (318 ) Magdalena, asteroid of the outer main asteroid belt
- Río Magdalena River in Colombia
- Magdalena ( Beni ), a town in Bolivia