Famous People with Name Adrienne

Adrienne Jo Barbeau            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Adrienne Jo Barbeau: is an American television, film, character and musical theater actress. Barbeau came to prominence through her role as Bea Arthur's divorced daughter, Carol Trainer, in the 1970s sitcom, Maude, and in several early 1980s horror and science fiction films.

Adrienne Cecile Rich            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Adrienne Cecile Rich: is an American poet, essayist and feminist.In 1951, the year she graduated from Radcliffe College, Adrienne Rich received the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, which led to the publication of her first book, A Change of World. The contest judge for that year, poet W. H. Auden, wrote an introduction to this volume. The following year, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled to Europe, then married Harvard University economist Alfred H. Cohen in 1953. Three years later, she published her second volume, The Diamond Cutters, yet it wasn't until her third volume, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, which appeared in 1963, that she gained national prominence.

Adrienne Louise Clarkson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Adrienne Louise Clarkson: is an accomplished Canadian journalist and stateswoman. From October 7, 1999 to September 27, 2005 she served as the 26th Governor General of Canada (representing Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada): she was the first Chinese Canadian and second woman to hold this position, the first being Jeanne Sauv

Adrienne Eliza Bailon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Adrienne Eliza Bailon: the oldest member of the singing group The Cheetah Girls with Kiely Williams and Sabrina Bryan, formerly a member of the now disbanded girl group 3LW also with Williams. Her mother is from Puerto Rico and her father is from Ecuador. In acting she is most known for a recurring role on the Disney Channel Original Movie The Cheetah Girls as Chanel.

Adrienne Lecouvreur            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Adrienne Lecouvreur: a French actress.She was credited with having developed a more natural, less stylized, type of acting[citation needed].She had a romance with Maurice de Saxe, which ended in tragedy when she was apparently poisoned by her rival, Maria Karolina Sobieska, Duchess of Bouillon. The refusal of the Catholic Church to give her a Christian burial moved her friend Voltaire to write a bitter poem on the subject.