Pelagie (name)

A painted portrait of a young white woman with dark curly hair, wearing a flowing green and gold dress with bare arms

"Portrait of Pelagie Sapiezyna née Potocka" by Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun

Pelagie (or Pélagie) is a name, a French form of the Greek Pelagia, The name refers to a saint of the early Christian Church called Pelagia.

People

• Pelagie Doane (1906–1966), American illustrator and writer
• Pélagie Gbaguidi (born 1965), Beninese artist
• Pélagie Uwera (born 1974), Rwandan politician
• Joseph-Marie-Pélagie Havard (1790–1838) French bishop, missionary in Vietnam
• Nora Coton-Pélagie (born 1988), French footballer

Other uses

• Pélagie, a Canadian musical first produced in 2004
• Pelagie Islands
• Sainte-Pélagie Prison, a prison in Paris, used from 1790 to 1899
• Pélagie-la-Charrette (1979), a novel by Antonine Maillet

See also

• Pelagia (disambiguation)
• Marina (given name)