📖 Acerca de Josefa
Josefa es la forma femenina de José y José, que significa 'Dios aumentará'; fue uno de los nombres más populares de Brasil desde los años 30 hasta los 60, especialmente en el Nordeste rural, y es honrada en el mundo hispanohablante por la heroína de la independencia mexicana Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez.
📍 Detalles
- OrigenPortuguese
- Género♀ Femenino
- SignificadoGod will increase
⭐ Personas Famosas
- Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez (La Corregidora) — Mexican independence hero (1768-1829), wife of the Corregidor of Querétaro; when authorities discovered the independence conspiracy in September 1810, she was placed under house arrest but managed to send a secret warning to Father Miguel Hidalgo; her message enabled Hidalgo to ring the Grito de Dolores on September 16, 1810, launching Mexican independence. She was imprisoned for years and is one of Mexico's most revered national heroines.
- Josefa de Óbidos — Portuguese Baroque painter (c. 1630-1684), one of the most accomplished artists of 17th-century Iberia and one of the very few women painters of the period to achieve significant recognition; her richly coloured still lifes and religious paintings show extraordinary technical mastery; her work is displayed in major Portuguese museums and she appears on a Portuguese postage stamp.
- Josefa Idem — Italian-German kayak sprint athlete (born 1964), one of the most decorated Olympians in her discipline; competed in seven Olympic Games between 1984 and 2008, winning gold at the 1996 and 2004 Olympics and multiple World Championship medals; later served as Italy's Minister for Sport (2013).
- Josefa Llanes Escoda — Filipino civic leader and social worker (1898-1945), founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines; during WWII she worked with the Philippine resistance against Japanese occupation, was captured and executed; honoured on the Philippine 1,000-peso banknote as a national heroine.