Alice
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Alice is a female given name, used primarily in English and French. It is a shortened form of Adalais, which is derived from the Germanic name "Adalheidis", and means "of nobility." Alaïs is the Old French form of the name; Alys of Vexin was also known as Alaïs. It was the fourth most popular female baby name in Sweden in 2005. [1]
Alice may refer to:
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[edit] Real people
- Alice (Italian singer)
- Alice Brock, owner of the Massachusetts eatery that inspired the Arlo Guthrie tune "Alice's Restaurant"
- Alice Liddell, the real person upon whom the eponymous heroine of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is based
[edit] Fictional characters
- Alice Ayres, fake alias name for Jane Jones (played by Natalie Portman) in the film Closer
- Alice Elliot, a fictional character from the Shadow Hearts series
- Alice the Rabbit, one of the main protagonists of the Bloody Roar fighting game series
- Alice Gunderson, a fictional character, the Quartermaines' maid on the American soap opera General Hospital
- Alice Pieszecki, a fictional character from Showtime's lesbian drama series The L Word
- Alice (Resident Evil), a fictional character
- Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), the eponymous heroine of the Lewis Carroll novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
- Alice (Dilbert character), a caffeine-crazed engineer from Scott Adams' comic strip Dilbert
- Alice Nelson, the housekeeper for the Bradys on The Brady Bunch
- Alice of Friday the 13th (movie)
- Alice, fictional character from The Tribe
[edit] Entertainment
- Alice!, a webcomic by Michael McKay-Flaming
- Alice 19th, a manga series, written by Yū Watase.
- Alice (TV series), based on the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Alice (1988 film), by Jan Svankmajer (original Czech title: Neco z Alenky) based on the Lewis Carroll story
- Alice (1990 film), by Woody Allen
- Alice (album), by Tom Waits
- Alice (Voyager episode), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager
- American McGee's Alice, a computer game inspired by Lewis Carroll's stories
- Alice (2007 film), based on the preceding game, currently in production
- Alice, I Think (TV series), Canadian comedy show on The Comedy Network
- "Alice", a song on Stevie Nicks' fourth solo album The Other Side of the Mirror
- "Alice", a single and EP by British rock band The Sisters of Mercy
- The Alice series children's books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
[edit] Geography
- Lake Alice, a lake in the U.S. state of Wyoming
- Lake Alice, the name of two lakes in New Zealand
- Alice, North Dakota, in the United States
- Alice, Eastern Cape, in South Africa
- Alice, Texas, in the United States
- Alice Acres, Texas, in the United States
- Alice Springs, Northern Territory, in Australia
- Alice's Shop, Oxford, England
[edit] Other
- Alice 97.3 (KLLC), a radio station in San Francisco owned by Infinity Broadcasting
- Alice in Chains, an alternative rock band
- 291 Alice, a Main Belt asteroid
- Alice chess, a variant of chess
- USS Alice, a pair of ships in the U.S. Navy
- The Matra Alice, an early home micro-computer marketed in France
- Alice of Alice and Bob, one of two canonical characters used in cryptography discussions
- Alice mobile robot, the "sugarcube" microrobot developed at the ASL, EPFL, Lausanne
- Alice (software), a freeware introductory object-oriented programming software produced by Carnegie-Mellon
- Alice (programming language)
[edit] People with the given name Alice
[edit] Activists
- Alice Bunker Stockham, American suffragist
- Alice Gerard, peace activist
- Alice Herz, anti-war protestor
- Alice Meynell English suffragist and poet
- Alice Milligan, Irish nationalist
- Alice Paul, American suffragist
- Alice Schwarzer, German feminist and publisher
[edit] Entertainers
[edit] Authors and Poets
- Alice Cary, poet
- Alice Fulton, poet and author
- Alice Hoffman, author of Practical Magic
- Alice McDermott, author
- Alice Duer Miller, author and poet
- Alice Munro, Canadian author
- Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
- Alice Thompson, Scottish novelist
- Alice Walker, author
[edit] Actors and Filmmakers
- Ali MacGraw, actress; real first name is Alice
- Alice Barrett, actress
- Alice Brady, actress
- Alice Cocéa, French actress
- Alice Day, actress
- Alice Faye, actress and singer
- Alice Guy-Blaché, French filmmaker
- Alice Krige South African actress
- Alice Pearce, actress
- Alice Robitaille, Canadian actress
- Alice White, actress
[edit] Musicians
- Alice Coltrane, jazz pianist
- Alice Cooper, rock musician (see also The Alice Cooper Show and Alice Cooper Goes to Hell)
- Alice Deejay, Dutch dance music artist
- Alice Nutter (musician), a member of the British music band Chumbawumba
- Alice Prin, singer and actress
- Alice Mary Smith, English composer
[edit] Royalty
- Alice of Antioch
- Alice of Cyprus
- Alice Heine, Princess of Monaco and wife of Albert I of Monaco
- Princess Alice of Albany
- Princess Alice of Battenberg
- Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
[edit] Science and Medicine
- Alice Hamilton, toxicologist
- Alice Miller, Swiss psychologist
- Alice Pruvot-Fol, French opisthobranch malacologist
- Alice Rivlin, psychologist
- Alice Wilson, Canadian geologist and paleontologist
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Alice Auma, Ugandan spiritualist and medium
- Alice Austen, photographer
- Alice Bailey, theologist and lecturer
- Alice Barnham, wife of Francis Bacon
- Alice Brown Davis, Seminole tribal chief
- Alice de Plumpton, daughter of William de Plumpton
- Alice Hanratty, Irish artist
- Alice Keppel, mistress of Edward VII of the United Kingdom
- Alice K. Kurashige, first Japanese-American woman in the United States Marine Corps
- Alice Liddell, the inspiration for the fictional character
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth, only child of Theodore Roosevelt and his wife
- Alice Lisle, a judge at the trial of Charles I of England
- Alice Maher Irish painter and sculptor
- Alice Mahon, British politician
- Alice Mak, Hong Kong artist and cartoonist
- Alice Mills, Australian Olympic swimmer
- Alice Neel, American artist
- Alice Nutter (witch), one of the Pendle Witches, executed for witchcraft in 17th century England
- Alice Orlowski, high-ranking Nazi SS officer
- Alice Parizeau, Polish journalist
- Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, wife of Theodore Roosevelt
- Alice Strike, Canadian military veteran
- Alice B. Toklas, paramour of writer Gertrude Stein
- Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton
- Alice Waters, American chef and restauranteur
- Lady Alice Boyle, wife of David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore
- Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Duchess of Glouchester
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