📖 À propos Dorothy
Dorothy est la forme anglaise de Dorothée ("don de Dieu"). Il a régné au 2e-3e rang aux USA pendant quinze ans (1912-1927). À jamais lié à Dorothy Gale d'Oz et à l'esprit acéré de Dorothy Parker, c'est un prénom d'une profonde résonance culturelle américaine.
🔀 Variantes et Prénoms Associés
⭐ Personnes Célèbres
- Dorothy Gale — Fictional heroine of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), immortalized by Judy Garland in the 1939 film — her ruby slippers and "There's no place like home" are icons of American culture
- Dorothy Parker — American poet, writer, and critic whose devastating wit made her the queen of the Algonquin Round Table, known for lines like "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses"
- Dorothy Hodgkin — British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1964) for determining the structures of important biochemical substances including penicillin and vitamin B12 using X-ray crystallography
- Dorothy Dandridge — American actress and singer who became the first African American woman nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones (1954), breaking Hollywood's racial barriers