Cornelia (name)

Historical women with the name

• Cornelia Africana, mother of the Gracchi
• Cornelia, first wife of Julius Caesar
• Cornelia, a Christian saint martyred with Anesius
• Cornelia Metella, daughter of Metellus Scipio
• Cornelia Salonina, wife of Roman Emperor Gallienus
• Cornelia van Cortlandt, the mother of General Philip Schuyler and grandmother of Angelica, and Eliza, the wife of General Alexander Hamilton, 1st Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, as well as others.

  Modern women with the name

• Cornelia Lister, Swedish tennis player
• Cornelia Bargmann, American neurobiologist
• Cornelia "Conny" van Bentum, Dutch swimmer
• Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom, Dutch World War II resistance member
• Cornelia "Kea" Bouman, Dutch tennis player
• Cornelia Bürki, Swiss long-distance runner
• Cornelia Brandolini d'Adda, Italian fashion director
• Cornelia Clapp, American zoologist and marine biologist
• Cornelia Denz, German physicist
• Cornelia Hubertina "Neel" Doff, Dutch-Belgian writer
• Cornelia Druţu, Romanian mathematician
• Cornelia Dumler, German volleyball player
• Cornelia Elgood, British physician
• Cornelia Emilian, Romanian women's activist
• Cornelia Frances, English-Australian actress
• Cornelia Funke, German children's writer
• Cornelia Nycke Groot, Dutch handball player
• Cornelia Hanisch, German fencer
• Cornelia Collins Hussey, American philanthropist, writer
• Cornelia Hütter, Austrian alpine skier
• Cornelia Jane Matthews Jordan, American poet, lyricist
• Cornelia "Corrie" Laddé, Dutch swimmer
• Cornelia Catharina de Lange, Dutch pediatrician
• Cornelia F. Maury, American pastel artist
• Cornelia van Marle, Dutch painter
• Cornelia van Meijgaard, Dutch actress, singer, and cabaretière known as "Conny Stuart"
• Cornelia van der Mijn, Dutch lower painter
• Cornelia "Cora" van Nieuwenhuizen, Dutch politician, MEP
• Cornelia van Nijenroode, Dutch merchant in the Dutch East Indies
• Cornelia "Keetie" van Oosten-Hage, Dutch cyclist
• Cornelia Oschkenat, East German hurdler
• Cornelia Parker, British artist
• Cornelia Polit, East German backstroke swimmer
• Cornelia "Conny" Pröll, Austrian alpine skier
• Cornelia de Rijck, Dutch painter
• Cornelia Scheffer, Dutch painter and portrait miniaturist
• Cornelia Schlosser, sister of Johann von Goethe
• Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress, humorist, and playwright
• Cornelia Tăutu, Romanian composer
• Cornelia Toppen, Dutch Orangist and the instigator of the 1784 riots of Rotterdam
• Cornelia van der Veer, Dutch poet
• W. Cornelia "Cornélie" van Zanten, Dutch opera singer, singing teacher and author

  Fictional characters

• Cornelia Hale, the Guardian of Earth in the W.i.t.c.h. comics and TV-series
• Blair Cornelia Waldorf, a fictional character in the TV-series Gossip Girl
• Cornelia li Britannia, a fictional character in the anime series Code Geass
• Cornelia, fictional character from the book and film Sune's Summer