Laurette (given name)

Laurette is a female given name, a diminutive of the name Laura.

People with this name

• Laurette, wife of 12th century European nobleman Henry IV, Count of Luxembourg
• Laurette, daughter of 12th century European nobleman Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut
• Laurette, the model for Matisse painting The Painter and His Model
• Laurette de Commercy, wife of 13th century European nobleman John, Count of Chalon
• Laurette Marcia Laura Gemser (born 1950), Indonesian-Dutch actress, model and costume designer
• Laurette Goldberg (1932–2005), founder of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco
• Laurette Koellner, American business executive
• Laurette de Looz, wife of 12th century European nobleman Theobald I, Count of Bar
• Laurette Luez (1928–1999), American actress and model
• Laurette Maritz (born 1964), South African professional golfer
• Laurette Onkelinx (born 1958), Belgian politician
• Laurette Huggins Reviere (died 1992), American victim of serial killer Nathaniel White
• Laurette Séjourné (1911–2003), Mexican archeologist and ethnologist
• Laurette Spang-McCook (born 1951), American television actress
• Laurette Stivers, British-based American singer-songwriter
• Laurette Taylor (1883–1946), American stage and silent film star
• Laurette Tuckerman (born 1956), French and American mathematical physicist

Fictional characters

• Laurette, title character in 18th-century English gothic novel The Orphan of the Rhine
• Laurette, in 19th-century French novel Servitude et grandeur militaires
• Laurette, in Belgian opéra comique Richard Coeur-de-lion
• Laurette, in French opéra comique La chanson de Fortunio
• Laurette, in Italian opéra comique Le peintre amoureux de son modèle (not about Matisse)
• Laurette, in French opérette Le docteur Miracle
• Laurette, in 1941 American novel What Makes Sammy Run?
• Laurette Fillbrandt, in American radio soap opera Girl Alone
• Laurette de Latour, in 1955 swashbuckler film The Purple Mask
• Laurette Sincee, in 1946 American play Another Part of the Forest
• Laurette Wilder, in 1995 film In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy

See also

• Loretta
• Madame Laurette Messimy, in List of rose cultivars named after people