Gabriella (given name)
Encyclopedia
Gabriella is an Italian
feminine
given name from the Hebrew
name Gabriel
. Girls that are named Gabriella often take on a shorter version of the name, such as Ella, Gab, Gabbi, Gabby, Gabi, Gabie or Gaby.
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
feminine
Grammatical gender
Grammatical gender is defined linguistically as a system of classes of nouns which trigger specific types of inflections in associated words, such as adjectives, verbs and others. For a system of noun classes to be a gender system, every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be...
given name from the Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
name Gabriel
Gabriel (name)
Gabriel is a given name or surname derived from the Hebrew name "Gabriel" meaning "able-bodied one of God". It was popularized by the association with the Biblical archangel Gabriel....
. Girls that are named Gabriella often take on a shorter version of the name, such as Ella, Gab, Gabbi, Gabby, Gabi, Gabie or Gaby.
Entertainment
- Gabriella CilmiGabriella CilmiGabriella Lucia Cilmi is an Australian singer-songwriter. In 2008, Cilmi was awarded six ARIA awards including Single of the Year and Best Female Artist....
(b.1991), Australian-Italian singer based in Melbourne - Gabriella GattiGabriella GattiGabriella Gatti was an Italian operatic soprano, primarily based in Italy and associated with the Italian repertory.Born Gabriella Pesci in Rome, where she studied voice and piano....
(1908–2003), Italian operatic soprano - Gabriella PessionGabriella Pession- Biography :She was born and lived until the age of seven years in the United States, before embarking on a career as an actress. She has practiced figure skating at a competitive level.-Theater :...
(b.1977), Italian actress - Gabriella FoxGabriella FoxGabriella Fox is an American pornographic actress from Los Angeles, California. Her career in pornographic films began at Digital Playground in 2008. Fox, who is represented by Shy Love's Adult Talent Managers, appears in a featured role in Tickle Me Pink's video, Typical. A sexually explicit...
(b.1989), American pornographic actress - Gabriella WildeGabriella WildeGabriella Wilde is an English actress.Wilde was born in Hampshire. Her parents are businessman John Austen Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe and Vanessa Mary Theresa Hubbard, the former wife of socialite Sir Dai Llewellyn, 4th Baronet...
(b.1989), British actress - Gabriella HallGabriella HallGabriella Hall is a model and actress from Los Angeles best known for her appearances in Cinemax TV shows and movies such as Erotic Confessions and Beverly Hills Bordello. To date, she has appeared in over 58 TV shows and movies...
(b.1966) (aka. Gabriella Skye and Laura Saldivar), model and actress - Gabriella MartinelliGabriella MartinelliGabriella Martinelli is an Italian-Canadian film and television producer. She is president and CEO of Toronto-based Capri Films Inc., a vertically integrated production and distribution company that she founded in 2000....
, Italian-Canadian film and television producer - Gabriella BrumGabriella BrumGabriella Brum of Germany won the 1980 Miss World beauty pageant and resigned 18 hours later, initially claiming her boyfriend disapproved. She stated that this was because of the pressure from the news media, though there were also allegations that she had posed nude in a magazine...
(b.1960), German model who won the 1980 Miss World beauty pageant - Gabriella LicudiGabriella LicudiGabriella Licudi is a Moroccan-born British former actress.Born in Casablanca while her father, a Greek naval engineer, was stationed there, Gabriella Licudi was educated in England, France and Spain before settling permanently in England at the age of fifteen...
(b.1943), Moroccan-b.British former actress - Gabriella PallottaGabriella PallottaGabriella Pallotta is an Italian film actress. She appeared in 22 films between 1956 and 1974. For the film The Pigeon That Took Rome she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress....
(b.1938), Italian film actress - Gabriella FerriGabriella FerriGabriella Ferri was an Italian singer born in Rome.Ferri's career began in a Milan nightclub in 1963. By 1965, she had successfully broke onto the Rome singing scene by singing popular Roman songs. One of her biggest hits was "Sempre" . During her career, she also performed Neapolitan and Latin...
(1942–2004), Italian singer whose self titled album was released in 1970 - Gabriella CristianiGabriella CristianiGabriella Cristiani is an Italian film editor with about twenty feature film credits. She has had a notable collaboration with director Bernardo Bertolucci. Early in her career she assisted editor Franco Arcalli on two of Bertolucci's films, Last Tango in Paris and 1900...
(b.1950), Italian film editor who won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Film Editing - Gabriella GiorgelliGabriella GiorgelliGabriella Giorgelli is an Italian film actress. She appeared in 70 films between 1962 and 1998. She also appeared in many photo comics including Sadistik and is interviewed in the new film The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal....
(b.1942), Italian film actress
Literature and art
- Gabriella CsireGabriella CsireGabriella Csire is a Hungarian writer, children's literature author.- Life :At the age of two she moved with her parents to Kolozsvár/Cluj, where she graduated from high school . Later she graduated from the former Bolyai University , at the departament of Hungarian Language and Literature...
(b.1938), Hungarian children's literature author - Gabriella AmbrosioGabriella AmbrosioGabriella Ambrosio is an Italian author and former journalist. She has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Naples and is a former Communications Professor at La Sapienza University in Rome....
(b.1954), Italian author and former journalist - Gabriella PorporaGabriella PorporaGabriella Porpora is willing to continue her artwork in the steps of Avant-garde art movements, in artworks that are experimental or innovative, pushing the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo....
(b.1942), Italian painter who co-founded the Gruppo 12 art movement - Gabriella HåkanssonGabriella HakanssonGabriella Hakansson, born 1968, is a Swedish novelist. Her books are renowned for their great psychological originality, complex plots, gothic sense of humour and claustrophobic mapping of the human mind. They have been translated into German, Czech, Danish and Norwegian.Hakansson is also a...
(b.1968), Swedish novelist - Gabriella GoligerGabriella GoligerGabriella Goliger is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She won the Journey Prize in 1997 for her short story "Maladies of the Inner Ear", and has since published two books, Song of Ascent in 2001 and Girl Unwrapped in 2010....
, Canadian novelist and short story writer who published books in 2001 and 2010 - Princess Maria Gabriella of SavoyPrincess Maria Gabriella of SavoyPrincess Maria Gabriella of Savoy is a Savoyard princess and noted historian of Italy...
(b.1940), daughter of Italy's last king, and an historian - Lady Gabriella WindsorLady Gabriella WindsorThe Lady Gabriella Marina Alexandra Ophelia Windsor , known both professionally and personally as Ella Windsor, is an English freelance feature writer, and the only daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent .Her paternal great grandparents were King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of...
(b.1981) (aka Ella Windsor), English journalist and a member of the British Royal Family
Sports
- Gabriella ParuzziGabriella ParuzziGabriella Paruzzi is a retired Italian cross-country skier who competed from 1991 to 2006 and formerly skied with the C.S. Forestale club. She skied in World Cup events, and won the Women's Overall World Cup in 2004....
(b.1969), retired Italian cross-country skier who competed from 1991 to 2006 - Gabriella KainGabriella KainGabriella Kain is a Swedish handball goalkeeper. She currently plays for the club KIF Vejen and on the Swedish national team. She competed at the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship where the Swedish team placed second.-References:...
(b.1981), Swedish handball goalkeeper - Gabriella SzucsGabriella SzűcsGabriella Szűcs is a Romanian-born Hungarian handballer playing for Debreceni VSC and the Hungarian national team.-Career:...
(b.1984), Hungarian handball player - Gabriella SzabóGabriella SzabóGabriella Szabó is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing....
(b.1986), Hungarian sprint canoer who won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Gabriella SilvaGabriella SilvaGabriella M. Silva is a Brazilian butterfly swimmer and Olympian. As of October 2008, she is the South American and Brazilian record holder in the long-course 100 fly....
(b.1988), Brazilian butterfly swimmer and model - Gabriella DorioGabriella DorioGabriella Dorio is an Italian former athlete and Olympic gold winner. She first participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics, placing fourth in the 1500 metres race...
(b.1957), Italian runner and 1984 Olympic gold medal winner - Gabriella FagundezGabriella FagundezGabriella Fagundez is a Swedish swimmer. She currently holds 400 m freestyle , 800 m and 1500 m freestyle national records.-Long course :...
(b.1985), Swedish swimmer who holds several national records
Religion and history
- Blessed Sister Maria Gabriella SaghedduMaria Gabriella SaghedduBlessed Sister Maria Gabriella Sagheddu was a Trappist nun. She was born in Sardinia in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in the Trappist monastery of Grottaferrata in 1939...
(1914–1939), Italian Trappist nun
Fictional characters
- Gabriella Dante, character in the 1999 – 2007 cable TV series The SopranosThe SopranosThe Sopranos is an American television drama series created by David Chase that revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads...
- Gabriella, deafmute Latina mermaid in a couple of episodes of the 1992 – 1994 Little MermaidThe Little Mermaid (TV series)The Little Mermaid is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation based on the 1989 Disney film of the same name. It features the adventures of Ariel as a mermaid prior to the events of the film. This series is the first Disney television series to be spun...
animated TV series - Gabriella Montez, character in the 2006 – 2008 Disney channel High School MusicalHigh School Musical (film series)The High School Musical film series consists of three Disney musical films directed by Kenny Ortega and created by Peter Barsocchini. It stars Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, and Monique Coleman. The original film was released simply as a Disney Channel...
movie series
See also
- Gabriela (given name)Gabriela (given name)Gabriela is the Spanish feminine form of the Hebrew name Gabriel.-Entertainment:*"Gabriela", Mexican guitarist of the duo Rodrigo y Gabriela who specializes in a rhythmic acoustic guitar style...
- Gabrielle (given name)Gabrielle (given name)Gabrielle is the French feminine form of Gabriel, which means "hero of god" or "God is my might" in Hebrew.-People with the given name Gabrielle:*Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel , an influential French fashion designer...
- Gabriel (name)Gabriel (name)Gabriel is a given name or surname derived from the Hebrew name "Gabriel" meaning "able-bodied one of God". It was popularized by the association with the Biblical archangel Gabriel....