// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did Livia say to her date? Liv for the moment.
Livia was the wife of Augustus and the most powerful woman in the early Roman Empire. Livia is a female name of Latin origin, meaning "blue," or of Hebrew origin meaning "garland."[citation needed] From Roman times, this was the female derivative of the family name Livius. Livia is a common feminine given name in countries such as Brazil, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, Cuba, France, Romania and Hungary. A variation spelled Livija is also used in Lithuania and Latvia.
Livia was a literary favorite from the sixteenth century, appearing in the plays of John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton, and playing a minor role in Romeo and Juliet. Anna Livia Plurabelle is the name of a character in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
People
[edit]Ancient world
[edit]- Livia (mother of Cato) (c. 120 BC – c. 92 BC), mother of Cato the Younger and grandmother of Marcus Iunius Brutus the Younger
- Livia Ocellina (fl. 1st century BC), second wife of the Roman Emperor Galba’s father
- Livia Orestilla, Roman empress (in 37 or 38) of Emperor Caligula
- Livia Medullina Camilla (fl. 1st century), second fiancee of the future emperor Claudius
Other
[edit]- Livia Leu Agosti (born 1961), Swiss diplomat
- Livia Altmann (born 1994), Swiss ice hockey player
- Lívia Andrade (born 1983), Brazilian actress and TV presenter
- Livia Brito (born 1986), Cuban-Mexican actress
- Līvija Endzelīna (1927–2008), Latvian painter
- Livia Frege (1818–1891), German soprano singer
- Livia Giuggioli (born 1969), Italian film producer
- Lívia Járóka (born 1974), Hungarian politician
- Livia Kaiser (born 2004), Swiss figure skater
- Livia Klausová (born 1943), Czech economist
- Livia Lancelot (born 1988), French motocross racer
- Livia Millhagen (born 1973), Swedish actress
- Lívia Mossóczy (1936–2017), Hungarian table tennis player
- Livia Peng (born 2002), Swiss footballer
- Livia Pirocchi Tonolli (1909–1985), Italian freshwater biologist
- Lívia Renata Souza (born 1991), Brazilian MMA artist
- Lívia Rév (1916–2018), Hungarian musician
- Lívia Rusz (1930–2020), Romanian-Hungarian graphic artist
- Livia Turco (born 1955), Italian politician
- Livia Zita (born 1984), Hungarian graphic designer and singer, and the wife of King Diamond
- Livia d'Arco (c. 1565–1611), Italian singer
Fictional characters
[edit]- Livia Beale, on the television drama Journeyman
- Livia Frye, on the soap opera All My Children
- Livia Soprano, on the television series The Sopranos
- Livia (see Eve (Xena)), a name adopted by a character in the television action series Xena: Warrior Princess
- Livia Blackthorn, in Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter Chronicles
- Livia Burlando, on the television series ‘’Inspector Montalbano’’
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles beginning with Livia
- All pages with titles containing Livia
- Livia (disambiguation)
- Livilla, Roman noblewoman
This page or section lists people that share the same given name.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.