Venetia
Italian place-name
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Venetia Origin and Meaning
The name Venetia is a girl's name of Italian origin.
Venetia, the name of the region encompassing Venice, has a radiant, picturesque authenticity, as do the related Venezia and Venice.
Venetia is the title of a novel by Benjamin Disraeli centering on the character Venetia Herbert, and Venetia Anastasia Stanley was a famous seventeenth century beauty.
Verona is another pretty Italian place name possibility.
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Famous People Named Venetia
- Venetia Anastasia StanleyEnglish beauty; wife of scientist/adventurer Sir Kenelm Digby ("putting her notorious life behind her and becoming a model wife")
- Venetia Mary StanleySmith Kajiyama, English aristocrat turned expatriate living in Japan known for her NHK television show "At Home with Venetia in Kyoto".
- Venetia Katharine Douglas BurneyEnglish mathematician who named the planet Pluto as a schoolgirl in 1930
- Venetia Scottfashion editor/stylist/photographer
- Venetia DeardenEnglish photographer
- Venetia BoweIrish actress
- (Joanna) Venetia Invicta StevensonAnglo,American actress
- (Beatrice) Venetia Stanley MontaguEnglish socialite; descendant of Venetia Stanley
- Rosalind Venetia Lane Fox PittRivers, English biochemist
Venetia in Pop Culture
- Venetia (1837)novel by Benjamin Disraeli
- Venetia Lanyonmain character in "Venetia" (1958) by Georgette Heyer
- Venetia Grime Cartercharacter in Sophie Kinsella's "Shopaholic" series
- Venetia Yewbeamcharacter in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King"
- Venetia Scottcharacter in book/film "The Man Who Lost Himself"