Antoinette Explained

Gender:	Female
Language:	French
Meaning:	praise or highly praiseworthy
See also:	Antoine, Antonietta, Antony, Tony, Antonius, Antonella, Antonia

Antoinette is a given name, that is a diminutive feminine form of Antoine and Antonia (from Latin Antonius).

People with the name include:

Nobles

Antoinette de Maignelais, Baroness of Villequier by marriage (1434–1474), mistress of Charles VII of France and later of Francis II, Duke of Brittany
Antoinette de Bourbon (1493–1583)
Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1696–1762)
Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1779–1824)
Antoinette de Mérode (1828–1864), Princess of Monaco
Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg (1838–1908)
Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy (1920–2011)

Antoinette de Beaucaire (1840–1865), Occitan language poet
Antoinette Beumer (born 1962), Dutch film director
Antoinette Bower (born 1932), German-born British actress
Antoinette Cellier (1913–1981), English actress
Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1638–1694), French poet
Antoinette Halloran, Australian operatic soprano
D. Antoinette Handy (1930–2002), American musician and scholar
Antoinette Hertsenberg (born 1964), Dutch television presenter
Antoinette Kirkwood (1930–2014), English composer
Antoinette Miggiani (born 1937), Maltese soprano
Antoinette Lovell Patterson (born 1970), American rapper Antoinette (rapper)
Antoinette Perry (1888–1946), American actress and director for whom the Tony Awards are named
Antoinette Sibley (born 1939), British ballerina
Antoinette Sterling (1850–1904), Anglo-American vocalist
Antoinette Taus (born 1980), Filipino-American actress
Antoinette-Thérèse Des Houlières (1659–1718), French poet

Antoinette Guedia Mouafo (born 1995), Cameroonian swimmer
Antoinette de Jong (born 1995), Dutch speed skater
Antoinette Lucas (born 1968), American field hockey player
Antoinette Meyer (1920–2010), Swiss alpine skier
Antoinette Nana Djimou (born 1985), Cameroonian-French heptathlete and pentathlete
Antoinette Uys (born 1976), South African badminton player

Antoinette Bonner (1892–1920), Romanian American jewel thief
Antoinette Bourignon (1616–1680), French-Flemish mystic and adventurer
Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella (–1676), French engraver
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921), first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the United States
Antoinette Candia-Bailey (1974–2024), American academic administrator
Antoinette Downing (1904–2001), American architect
Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912–2003), French Resistance member and jurist
Antoinette Fouque (1936–2014), French psychoanalyst
Antoinette Frank (born 1971), American convicted murderer
Antoinette Konikow (1869–1946), American physician, feminist, and radical political activist
Antoinette Nording (1814–1887), Swedish perfume entrepreneur
Antoinette Pirie (1905–1991), British biochemist, ophthalmologist, and educator
Antoinette Van Leer Polk (1847–1919), American plantation owner
Antoinette Sayeh (born 1958), Liberian economist
Antoinette Schoar, American economist