Gisele (given name)
Appearance
Pronunciation | /ʒizɛl/ |
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Gender | Female |
Origin | |
Word/name | Old German |
Meaning | "Pledge" |
Other names | |
Related names | Gisela, Giselle |
Gisele or Gisèle is a given name. The name is from Old German gesel meaning to "pledge" and variant of Giselle, Gisela etc.
Notable people with the name include:
Gisele
[edit]- Gisele Ben-Dor (born 1955), American Israeli orchestra conductor of Uruguayan origin
- Gisele Bennett, American Professor of Electrical Engineering
- Gisele Bomentre, Brazilian belly dancer and Brazilian Arabic singer
- Gisele Bündchen (born 1980), Brazilian supermodel
- Gisele Barreto Fetterman, Brazilian-American activist
- Gisele Jackson, American house music diva
- Gisele MacKenzie (1927–2003), Canadian singer
- Gisele Marvin (born 1987), American ice hockey player
- Gisele Miró (born 1968), Brazilian tennis player
- Gisele de Oliveira (born 1980), Brazilian triple jumper
Gisèle
[edit]- Gisèle Barreau (born 1948), French composer
- Gisèle Biémouret (born 1952), French politician and member of the National Assembly of France
- Gisèle Bienne (born 1946), French writer and novelist
- Gisèle Caille, French racing cyclist
- Gisèle Casadesus (1914–2017), French actress
- Gisèle d'Estoc (1845-1894), French writer, sculptor, feminist
- Gisèle Freund (1908-2000), German-born French photographer
- Gisèle Gautier (born 1938), French politician and a member of the Senate of France
- Gisèle Halimi (1927-2020), French-Tunisian lawyer, feminist activist and essayist
- Gisèle Lagacé (born 1970), Canadian webcomic creator
- Gisèle Lalonde (1933–2022), mayor of the city of Vanier from 1985 to 1991
- Gisèle Lamoureux, Canadian photographer, botanist and ecologist from Quebec
- Gisèle Lestrange (1927–1991), French graphic artist
- Gisèle Mendy (born 1979), Senegalese judoka
- Gisèle Meygret (1963–1999), French fencer
- Gisèle Ory (born 1956), Swiss politician from the Canton of Neuchâtel
- Gisèle Pascal (1921–2007), French actress and a former lover of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
- Gisèle Pineau (born 1956), French novelist, writer and former psychiatric nurse
- Gisèle Prassinos (1920–2015), French writer of Greek heritage, associated with the surrealist movement
- Gisèle Printz (born 1933), French politician and member of the Senate of France
- Gisèle Wulfsohn (1957–2011), South African photographer