Beatriz

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Gender Female Related names Beatrix, Beatrice		Word/name Latin
Meaning brings joy, brings happiness to others Region of origin Spain, Latin America, Portugal

Beatriz ([βiɐˈtɾiʒ]) is a Spanish, Galician and Portuguese female first name. It corresponds to the Latin name Beatrix and the English and Italian name Beatrice. The name in Latin means 'brings joy' and in other languages also means 'she who brings others happiness'.

Beatriz may refer to:

Given name

Infanta Beatriz of Spain (1909–2002), daughter of Spain's King Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenie of Battenburg

Beatriz de Suabia (1203–1235), Queen of Castile and Queen of Leon

Beatriz de Dia (born c. 1140), the most famous of the trobairitz, female troubadours

Beatriz Alas, a Communist candidate in the 2004 Canadian elections

Beatriz Allende (1943–1977), a Chilean Socialist politician and revolutionary

Beatriz Pereira Alvim (1380–1415), first Duchess of Braganza

Beatriz da Conceição (1939–2015), fadista

Beatriz Batarda (born 1974), a Portuguese actress

Beatriz Carvajal (born 1949), a Spanish actress

Beatriz Colomina, an architecture historian

Beatriz Corredor (born 1968), a Spanish lawyer and politician

Beatriz Costa (1907–1996), a Portuguese actress

Beatriz Cruz (born 1980), a retired track and field athlete

Beatriz Parra Durango (born 1940), an Ecuadorian classical soprano

Beatriz Enríquez de Arana (1467–1521), the mistress of Christopher Columbus

Beatriz Fajardo de Mendoza y de Guzmán (1619–1678), Baroness of Polop and Benidorm

Beatriz Fernández (born 1985), a Spanish handball player

Beatriz Galindo (c. 1465–1534), a Spanish physician and educator

Beatriz Gomes (born 1979), a Portuguese sprint canoer

Beatriz Guido (1924–1988), an Argentine novelist and screenwriter

Beatriz Jaguaribe, a Brazilian communications professor and editor

Beatriz Lucero Lhuillier, a Philippine athlete who won Olympic medals in gymnastics and taekwondo

Beatriz Luengo (born 1982), a Spanish actress, singer and dancer

Beatriz Manchón (born 1976), a Spanish sprint canoer

Beatriz Marinello (born 1964), a chess player born in Chile but living in the United States

Beatriz Merino (born 1947), the only female prime minister of Peru

Beatriz Michelena (1890–1942), an American silent film actress

Beatriz Milhazes (born 1960), a Brazilian artist

Beatriz Azurduy Palacios (1952–2003), a Bolivian motion picture director

Beatriz Paredes Rangel (born 1953), a Mexican politician

Beatriz Pascual (born 1982), a Spanish race walker

Beatriz Canedo Patiño, a Bolivian fashion designer

Beatriz Sarlo (born 1942), an Argentine literary and cultural critic

Beatriz Saw (born 1985), one of the season 2 Pinoy Big Brother housemates

Beatriz Segura (born 1975), a Spanish actress

Beatriz Sheridan (1934–2006), a Mexican actress and director

Beatriz Stix-Brunell (born 1993), a ballerina

Beatriz Villacañas (born 1964), a poet, essayist and literary critic

Beatriz Zavala (born 1957), a Mexican politician

Ana Beatriz Barros (born 1982), a Brazilian model

Ana Martín (born 1947), a Mexican actress born Beatriz Solorzano

Dona Beatriz (1684–1706), a Congolese prophet known as Kimpa Vita

Gigi Fernández (born 1964), a former tennis player

Margarita Beatriz Luna (born 1956), a Mexican judge

María Beatriz Nofal, an Argentine economist

Marta Beatriz Roque (born 1945), a Cuban economist and dissident

Surname

Ana Beatriz (born 1985), a Brazilian racing driver known as Bia Figueiredo

Stephanie Beatriz, an American actress

Fictional characters

Beatriz DaCosta, a DC Comics superhero with the alternate identity

Beatriz Aurora Pinzón Solano, the title character of the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea

Beatriz Garcia, aka Penny Century, a fictional character in the comic book series Love and Rockets, by Los Bros Hernandez

References

Beatriz Wikipedia

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