Blanche

Blanche Yurka (born Blanch Jurka, 1887 – 1974) was an American stage and film actress and director. She was an opera singer with minor roles at the Metropolitan Opera and later became a stage actress, making her Broadway debut in 1906 and established herself as a character actor of the classical stage, also appearing in several films of the 1930s and 1940s.

American actress Rue McClanahan championed a stunning performance as Blanche Devereaux from the award-winning series, The Golden Girls.

Blanche Kelso Bruce (March 1, 1841 – March 17, 1898) was born into slavery in Prince Edward County, Virginia and went on to become a politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881. He was the first elected African-American senator to serve a full term.

Blanche was the name of Joan Crawford's character in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.

Blanche Ravalec is a French actress, dubbing artist and a former stewardess. Ravalec is well known for her role as Dolly, Jaws' girlfriend in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. Beyond this, however, she has made over seventy appearances in French-language TV and film. Among her English-to-French dubbing work is as "Christina McKinney" in Ugly Betty, as "Emily Waltham" in Friends and as "Bree Van de Kamp" in Desperate Housewives. She also provides voices for the French dub of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.

Blanche (born as: Ellie Delvaux) is a Belgian singer and songwriter. She will represent Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Ukraine. Blanche previously competed on season five of The Voice Belgique, where she was a member of Team Cats on Trees.

In Pokemon Go, this is the name of the leader of Team Mystic.

Comedian Iliza Shlesinger named her dog Blanche.

Blanche of Lancaster was the first wife of John of Gaunt and mother of king Henry IV of England.

Blanche (1290-1294) was the daughter of King Philippe IV of France and his wife Johanna.

Blanche (1278-1305) was the daughter of King Philippe III of France and his second wife Maria.

Blanche (1312-1358) was the daughter of King Philippe V of France and his wife Joan of Burgundy.

Blanche (1328-1382) was the daughter of King Charles IV of France and his third wife Jeanne.

Blanche was the oldest daughter of King Jean II of France and his second wife Jeanne.

Blanche (1392-1409) was the oldest daughter of King Henry IV of England and his wife Mary.

Blanche was the name of a daughter of King Edward III of England and his wife Philippa of Hainaut.

Blanche was also the name of another daughter of King Louis IX of France and his wife Margaret of Provence. She was named after her older, deceased sister.

Blanche (1240-1243) was the oldest daughter of King Louis IX of France and his wife Margaret of Provence.

Blanche was the oldest daughter of King Louis VIII of France and was named after her mother Blanca of Castile. She died young.

In the book Jane Eyre there's a character named Blanche Ingram.

Blanche "Betty" Stuart Scott was among the first female aviators in the United States. She was the first female test pilot in the US, and the second woman to drive an automobile across the country, in 1910. She was also the first woman to fly in a jet airplane, in 1948. Go Blanche go!

In 1894, Blanche Douglass Leathers became the first woman master and steamboat captain on the Mississippi River. She was known as "The Angel of the Mississippi".

Blanche Brier is one of the main characters in the Fairy Tale Novels series by Regina Doman. She is a modern-day character who correlates both with Snow White in "Snow White and Rose Red" and Snow White in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves".

Blanche de la Force is the main character in the novel The Song at the Scaffold by Gertrud von de Fort. I think it may have been a play or movie at some time as well.

Blanche Sweet (June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986) was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry.

Snow White's name is Blanche-Neige in French.

Blanche Ingram is a character in Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre.

Blanche was the name of a loose woman on "The Golden Girls."

Blanche is the fallen southern belle of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire."