Monique
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Monique is a female given name, the original form of Monica
. It has also been regularly used in English speaking countries since at least the 1950s.
In music:
In Canadian politics:
In other fields:
Monica (given name)
Monica is a female given name with many variant forms, including Monca, Monicka, Monika, Monike, Moniqua, Monique, Moneca, Mónika and Monnica.- History :...
. It has also been regularly used in English speaking countries since at least the 1950s.
Notable women named Monique
In acting:- Gabrielle Monique UnionGabrielle UnionGabrielle Monique Union is an American actress and former model. Among her notable roles is as the cheerleader opposite Kirsten Dunst in the film Bring it On. Union starred opposite Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the blockbuster film Bad Boys II and played a medical doctor in the CBS drama...
, American actress (Bring it On and Bad Boyz II) - MoniqueMonique (porn star)Monique is an African-American pornographic actress. She has performed in over 300 movies, and directed the Monique's Sexaholics series.-Awards:*2001 AVN Award nominee – Best Anal Sex Scene, Video – The Voyeur #17...
, American erotic actress - Monique AlexanderMonique AlexanderMonique Alexander is an American pornographic actress and nude model.-Career:Alexander began working in the adult industry as a stripper in Sacramento when she was 18, to supplement her daytime earnings as a receptionist. She appeared in several adult magazines with her first photo shoot being...
, American erotic actress - Monique GabrielleMonique GabrielleMonique Gabrielle is an American model and actress.Gabrielle was the Penthouse Pet of the Month for December 1982 and appeared in Bachelor Party in 1984. Since then, she has had a career as a B-movie actress. Many of Gabrielle's films have had overtly erotic overtones...
, American actress (Bad Girls IV and Amazon Women on the Moon) - Monique ColemanMonique ColemanAdrienne Monique Coleman is an American actress, dancer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known for her co-starring role in Disney's High School Musical movies, in which she plays Taylor McKessie. Coleman also had a recurring role on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, as a school girl named...
, American actress (High School Musical) - Mo'Nique Imes-JacksonMo'Nique Imes-JacksonMonica Imes Hicks , known professionally as Mo'Nique, is an American comedienne and actress. Mo'Nique rose to fame in the UPN series The Parkers while making a name as a stand-up comedian hosting a variety of venues, including Showtime at the Apollo...
, American actress and comedian (Precious and Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins) - Monique LeyracMonique LeyracMonique Leyrac, is a Canadian singer and actress from Quebec. Born Monique Tremblay in Montreal, Quebec 1928. She was the first great international star from French Canada. Using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943...
, Canadian singer and actress from Quebec - Monique MercureMonique MercureMonique Mercure, is a Canadian actress.-Career:Mercure was born in Montreal, Quebec. At the 1977 Cannes Film Festival she won the award for Best Actress for the film J.A. Martin Photographer...
, Canadian actress (b. 1930)
In music:
- Monique BuzzartéMonique BuzzartéMonique Buzzarté is a composer, trombonist, and activist who coordinated a worldwide effort on behalf of the International Alliance for Women in Music , leading to the admission of women as members of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1997.Specializing in contemporary music, she has commissioned works...
, American composer, trombonist, and activist - Monique HaasMonique HaasMonique Haas was a French pianist.Born in Paris, she studied at the Conservatoire there with Joseph Morpain and Lazare Lévy, taking a Premier Prix in 1927. She went on to study with Rudolf Serkin and Robert Casadesus. She was married to the French-Romanian composer Marcel Mihalovici...
, French pianist - Monique (Chinese: 林慧萍, Lin Hui-ping), singer from Taiwan (b. 1963)
In Canadian politics:
- Monique GuayMonique GuayMonique Guay is a Quebec politician. She was the Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament for the riding of Rivière-du-Nord....
, Quebec politician - Monique RichardMonique RichardMonique Richard is a Quebec politician. She is a member of the National Assembly of Quebec, representing the district of Marguerite-D'Youville. She was elected in the 2008 provincial election. She is a member of the Parti Québécois and served as president of that party from 2005 to 2008.She is a...
, former Quebec labour union leader - Monique SmithMonique SmithMonique M. Smith is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Nipissing for the Liberal Party...
, Canadian politician - Monique VézinaMonique VézinaMonique Vézina, PC is a former Canadian politician. She now works with a Non-governmental organization in the field of international development....
, Canadian politician
In other fields:
- Monique AdamczakMonique AdamczakMonique Adamczak is an Australian professional tennis player. She is coached by Roger Federer's former coach, Tony Roche. Adamczak's favourite surface is grass....
, Australian professional tennis player - Monique BéginMonique BéginMonique Bégin, PC, OC, FRSC is an academic and former Canadian politician.Begin was born in Rome and raised in France and Portugal before immigrating to Canada at the end of World War II...
, Canadian academic - Monique HennaganMonique HennaganMonique Hennagan is an American athlete, who mainly competes in the 400 meters. She won her first relay medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships and her second in 2003....
, American athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres - Monique KnolMonique KnolMonique Knol is a retired racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who won a medal in two consecutive Summer Olympics , starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. There she won the road race, taking a bronze in the same event four years later in Barcelona, Spain.-References:...
, Dutch cyclist - Monique LhuillierMonique LhuillierDiane Monique Lhuillier is a fashion designer most prominently known for bridal wear. She owns a couture fashion house based in Los Angeles, California....
, Filipino-American fashion designer - Monique TruongMonique TruongMonique T.D. Truong is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Truong left Vietnam for the United States in 1975 and graduated from high school in Houston, Texas...
, Vietnamese-American writer living in Brooklyn, New York - Monique Vinh ThuyMonique Vinh ThuyPrincess Thai Phương is the widow of the last Emperor of Vietnam, Bảo Đại.-Biography:In 1969, Monique Baudot, a French citizen who was then working in the press department of France's embassy in Zaire, met Emperor Bảo Đại in Paris, France...
, the widow of Vietnamese emperor Bảo ĐạiBảo ĐàiBảo Đài is a commune and village in Lục Nam District, Bac Giang Province, in northeastern Vietnam.-References:... - Monique WittigMonique WittigMonique Wittig was a French author and feminist theorist who wrote about overcoming socially enforced gender roles and who coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". She published her first novel, L'Opoponax, in 1964...
, French feminist theorist - HRH Norodom Monineath SihanoukNorodom Monineath SihanoukQueen Mother Norodom Monineath was born on June 18, 1936, in Saigon, Vietnam. She is the wife of HM King Father Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia whom she married in April 1952...
, queen mother of CambodiaCambodiaCambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...
, wife of Norodom SihanoukNorodom SihanoukNorodom Sihanouk regular script was the King of Cambodia from 1941 to 1955 and again from 1993 until his semi-retirement and voluntary abdication on 7 October 2004 in favor of his son, the current King Norodom Sihamoni...
, born Paule-Monique Izzi, sometimes referred to as Queen Monique
Fictional characters
- Monique, friend of Kim PossibleKim PossibleKim Possible is an American animated television series about a teenage crime fighter who has the task of dealing with worldwide, family, and school issues every day. The show is action-oriented, but also has a light-hearted atmosphere and often lampoons the conventions and clichés of the...
- Monique Pollier, Orson Hodge's deceased mistress in Desperate HousewivesDesperate HousewivesDesperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...