Dorothea

Dorothea is a female given name from Greek Δωροθέα (Dōrothéa) meaning "God's Gift". It may refer to:

People

Saints

• Dorothea of Alexandria (fl. 320), martyr
• Dorothea of Caesarea (fl. 311), martyr, patron saint of florists
• Dorothea of Montau (1347–1394), Roman Catholic saint, hermitess and visionary

Aristocracy

• Margravine Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1661–1705), Countess of Hesse-Darmstadt
• Dorothea Friederike of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1676–1731), last Countess of Hanau
• Dorothea Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1587–1609), princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst by marriage
• Dorothea Maria of Anhalt (1574–1617), Duchess of Saxe-Weimar
• Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1654–1682), German princess
• Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1674–1713), Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen
• Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst (1607–1634), princess of Anhalt-Zerbst
• Archduchess Dorothea of Austria (born 1920), Archduchess and Princess of Austria and Princess of Hungary, Bohemia, and Tuscany
• Dorothea of Brandenburg (disambiguation)
• Dorothea of Bulgaria (fl. 1370–1390), Queen of Bosnia
• Princess Dorothea of Courland (1793–1862), Baltic German noblewoman
• Dorothea of Denmark (disambiguation)
• Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1881–1967)
• Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511–1571), queen consort of Christian III, King of Denmark and Norway
• Dorothea of Saxony (1563–1587), Saxon princess
• Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685–1761), Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach by marriage
• Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1587–1645)
• Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (1670–1748), Duchess of Parma
• Dorothea Susanne of Simmern (1544–1592), princess of the Electorate of the Palatinate, and Duchess of Saxe-Weimar by marriage
• Dorothea von Biron (1793–1862), Baltic German noblewoman
• Dorotea Gonzaga (1449–1468), duchess consort of Milan

Others

• Angela Dorothea Merkel (born 1954), Chancellor of Germany
• Dorota Nieznalska (born 1973), Polish artist
• Dorota Rabczewska (born 1983), Polish rock singer
• Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), American social activist
• Dorothea Lambert Chambers (1878-1960), English tennis player
• Dorothea Erxleben (1715–1762), first woman doctor in Germany
• Dorothea Jordan (1761–1816), Irish actress and mistress of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom
• Dorothea Krag (1675–1754), Danish postmaster
• Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), American documentary photographer and photojournalist
• Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer (1664–1737), Dutch writer
• Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968), Australian poet and writer
• Dorothea Maria Lösch (1730–1799), Swedish marine captain
• Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer
• Dorotea Bucca (1360-1436), Italian physician
• Dorotea van Fornenbergh (fl. 1647–1697), Dutch stage actress
• Maria Dorothea Dunckel (1799–1878), Swedish playwright

Places

• Dorothea, United States Virgin Islands, a settlement
• Dorothea Quarry, a flooded quarry in the Nantlle Valley, Gwynedd
• Fort Dorothea, a late 17th-early 18th century settlement on the Brandenburger Gold Coast in west Africa
• 339 Dorothea, an asteroid
• Dorotea Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden
  • Dorotea, seat of the Municipality

Other uses

• Dorothea Brooke, heroine of George Eliot's 1874 novel Middlemarch
• USS Dorothea (1898), US Navy gunboat

See also

• Dorothy (disambiguation)
• Sophia Dorothea (disambiguation)
• Thea (name)
• Tea (given name)