Cordelia

William Frederick Yeames,Cordelia, 1888
Gender	Feminine
Language	English
Origin
Word/name	uncertain; possiblyrelated to the wordcordial (literally "heartfelt, from theheart")
Meaning	allegedly "heart" or "daughter of the sea(-god)", Jewel of the Sea (Welsh)
Other names
Nicknames	Delia, Dilly, Rory, Cordy, Lia, Danny
Related names	Cordeilla, Cordélia, Cordell, Cordilla, Cordoylla,Cordula,Creurdilad

Cordelia is a femininegiven name. It was borne by thetragic heroine ofShakespeare'sKing Lear (1606), a character based on thelegendary queenCordelia.^[1] The name is of uncertain origin. It is popularly associated withLatincor (genitivecordis) "heart", and has also been linked with the Welsh nameCreiddylad, allegedly meaning "jewel of the sea", but it may derive from the Frenchcoeur de lion "heart of a lion".^{[citation needed]}

• Cordelia of Britain, legendary queen of the Britons, youngest daughter of King Leir
• Cordelia Agbebaku (1961–2017), Nigerian academic and former vice-chancellor of Ambrose Alli University
• Cordelia Botkin (1854–1910), American murderer
• Cordelia Bugeja (born 1976), British actress
• Cordelia Cameron, Australian actor-manager
• Cordelia Camp, American educator
• Cordelia Candelaria (born 1943), American educator and writer
• Cordelia Throop Cole (1833–1900), American social reformer
• Cordelia Elizabeth Cook (1919–1996), American combat nurse
• Cordelia Adams Crawford (1865–1943), American pioneer and healer
• Cordelia Edvardson (1929–2012), German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor
• Cordelia Fine (born 1975), British academic psychologist and writer
• Cordelia Agnes Greene (1831–1905), physician, philanthropist and suffragist from Upstate New York
• Cordelia Griffith (born 1995), English cricketer
• Cordelia Gundolf (1917–2008), German academic and educator
• Cordelia Harvey (1824–1895), First Lady of Wisconsin Governor Louis Harvey, known for founding Civil War Orphans' homes and advocating for war field hospital conditions
• Cordelia Hawkins, eponym of the U.S. town ofCordele, Georgia
• Cordelia Hood (1913–2011), American counter-intelligence agent
• Cordelia Howard (1848–1941), American child actress
• Cordelia James, Baroness James of Rusholme (1912–2007), British educator and justice of the peace
• Cordelia Knott (1890–1974), wife ofWalter Knott and founder of Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant at Knott's Berry Farm
• Cordelia Scaife May (1928–2005), American heiress and philanthropist
• Cordelia Mendoza, American antiquarian and appraiser
• Cordelia Oliver (1923–2009), Scottish journalist, painter and art critic
• Cordelia Schmid (born 1967), German computer vision researcher
• Cordelia Stanwood (1865–1958), American ornithologist, wildlife photographer, artisan and writer
• Cordelia Strube (born 1960), Canadian playwright and novelist
• Cordelia Urueta (1908–1995), Mexican artist
• Cordelia Wege (born 1976), German actress
• Cordelia Wilson (1873–1953), American painter of New Mexico and American Southwest landscapes

• Cordelia (King Lear), a central character in William Shakespeare's tragic playKing Lear
• Cordelia, the character who is the object of seduction in Kierkegaard'sThe Seducer's Diary (a long section in his bookEither/Or)
• Cordelia, the main character of the eponymous Dutch adult comic strip by Belgian cartoonist "ILAH" (Inge Heremans)
• Cordelia, character in James Lapine and William Finn's 1990 off-Broadway musicalFalsettoland and later its two Broadway revivals, renamedFalsettos
• Cordelia Frost, character in MARVEL's "Emma Frost" comics, Emma's sister
• Cordelia, wife of Dan Mulligan in a series of musicals written and produced byEdward Harrigan

• Cordelia Capulet, Japanese anime character in "Romeo x Juliet"
• Cordelia Gallo, Japanese anime character in "Gosick"
• Cordelia Glauca, Japanese anime character inTantei Opera Milky Holmes
• Cordelia, Japanese anime character inDiabolik Lovers

• Cordelia, the titular character in the silent filmCordelia the Magnificent
• Cordelia Abbott, in the television soap operaThe Young and The Restless
• Cordelia Chase, in the television seriesBuffy the Vampire Slayer andAngel
• Cordelia Cupp, in the mystery television seriesThe Residence
• Cordelia Foxx, character inAmerican Horror Story: Coven
• Cordelia "Cody" Latimer, character in the New Zealand comedy-drama seriesGo Girls.
• Cordelia Winthrop Scott, from the 2011 filmMonte Carlo, played by Selena Gomez
• Cordelia Thornberry, inThe Wild Thornberrys

• InKierkegaard'sEither/Or in the section ofDiary of a Seducer
• InAnne of Green Gables, Anne requests that she be called Cordelia rather than Anne
• Cordelia Blake, title character of theWinston Graham novelCordelia (1949)
• Cordelia Flakk, in Jasper Fforde'sLost in a Good Book
• Lady Cordelia Flyte, inBrideshead Revisited (1945) byEvelyn Waugh
• Cordelia Geard, inJohn Cowper Powys's novelA Glastonbury Romance (1932)
• Cordelia Gray, in two books byP.D. James
• Cordelia Kenn, in Aidan Chambers' novelThis Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn (2005)
• Cordelia Ransom, in theHonorverse novels by David Weber
• The main character of the short story "Cordelia the Crude" byWallace Thurman
• Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan in theVorkosigan Saga byLois McMaster Bujold
• Cordelia Carstairs, protagonist ofThe Last Hours series byCassandra Clare

• Cordelia, a playable character inFire Emblem Awakening
• Cordelia, final boss inPanel de Pon
• Cordelia, youngest daughter of King Regna, inTriangle Strategy

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