Georgiana is a Catalan, English, Greek and Romanian name. It is the feminine form of the male name George and a variation of the female names Georgina and Georgia. It comes from the Greek word Γεώργιος (Geórgios), meaning "farmer".^[1] A variant spelling is Georgianna.

List of persons with the given name Georgiana

• Georgiana Buller (1884–1953), English hospital administrator
• Georgiana Birțoiu (born 1989), Romanian footballer
• Georgiana Burne-Jones (1840–1920), artist, wife and biographer of Edward Burne-Jones
• Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806)
• Georgiana Drew (1856–1893), American actress and comedian, a member of the Barrymore acting family
• Lady Georgiana Fullerton (1812–1885), English novelist, philanthropist, and biographer
• Georgiana Harcourt (1807–1886), writer and translator
• Georgiana Hill (1858-1924), British social historian and women's rights activist
• Georgiana Goddard King (1871–1939), American Hispanist and medievalist
• Georgiana McCrae (1804–1890), English-Australian painter and diarist
• Georgiana Molloy (1805–1843), English-Australian botanical collector
• Georgiana Rolls, Baroness Llangattock (c.1837–1923), socialite and enthusiast for Nelson

Fictional characters

• Georgiana Darcy, younger sister of one of the main characters in Pride and Prejudice
• Georgiana Pirrip, the mother of Pip in Charles Dickens‘s "Great Expectations"
• Georgiana, wife of Aylmer in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark"
• Georgiana Reed, cousin of Jane Eyre in Charlotte Brontë's novel of the same name.

Dramatic works

• Georgiana (2019), an opera pasticcio based on the life of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806) commissioned by the Buxton Festival.

Territories

• Georgiana, a colony proposed by Phineas Lyman for establishment in the Natchez district of British West Florida.

List of persons with the given name Georgianna

• Georgianna Bell, a pen name of the author Anne Rundle
• Georgianna Bishop (1878–1971), American golfer
• Georgianna Hiliadaki, Greek chef
• Georgianna Hopley (1858–1944), better known as Georgia Hopley, American journalist and temperance advocate
• Georgianna Lincoln (born 1943), American politician and businesswoman
• Georgianna Robertson (born 1972), Jamaican model and actress
• Georgianna Stout (born 1967), American graphic designer
• Georgianna Kathleen Symonette (1902–1965), Bahamian suffragist

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