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Lucille

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ401894 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lucille is a female given name of French origin and may refer to:

People with the given name

Lucille Roybal-Allard (born 1941), American politician

Lucille Ball (1911–1989), American actress best known for the television series I Love Lucy

Lucille Benson (1914–1984), American actress

Lucille Berrien (1928–2026), American political activist

Lucille Bliss (1916–2012), American actress

Lucille Bogan (1897–1948), American singer and songwriter

Lucille Bremer (1917–1996), American actress and dancer

Lucille Carlisle (1895–1958), American actress

Lucille Cavanagh (1895–1983), American dancer and singer

Lucille Charuk (born 1989), Canadian volleyball player

Lucille Collard, Canadian politician

Lucille Teasdale-Corti (1929–1996), Canadian physician and pediatric surgeon

Lucille Davy, former Commissioner of Education in New Jersey

Lucille Desparois (1909–1996), Canadian author and radio personality

Lucille Douglass (1878–1935), American painter, etcher, and lecturer

Lucille Eichengreen (1925–2020), Holocaust survivor and memoirist

Lucille Fletcher (1912–2000), American screenwriter

Lucille George-Wout (born 1950), Curaçaoan politician

Lucille C. Gunning (1921–2018), American pediatrician and medical services administrator

Lucille Hamilton (born 1969), Australian basketball player

Lucille Hegamin (1894–1970), American singer and entertainer

Lucille Hutton (1898–1979), American actress

Lucille Kallen (1922–1999), American writer, screenwriter, playwright, composer, and lyricist

Lucy Lawless (born 1968), New Zealand actress

Lucille Lemay (born 1950), Canadian archer

Lucille Lisle (1908–2004), Australian actress

Lucille Lortel (1900–1999), American actress, artistic director, and theatrical producer

Lucille Lund (1913–2002), American actress

Lucille P. Markey (1896–1982), American businesswoman and philanthropist

Lucille Miller (1930–1986), Canadian murderer

Lucille Mulhall (1885–1940), Wild West performer

Lucille Nava (born 1966), Filipino politician

Lucille Norman (1921–1998), American mezzo-soprano, radio personality, and actress

Lucille Opitz (born 1977), German speed skater

Lucille Ricksen (1910–1925), American actress of the silent film era

Lucille Robedeaux (1915–2005), Native American tribal leader and the last surviving native speaker of the Osage language

Lucille Soong (born 1935), Chinese-American actress

Lucille Spann (1938–1994), American singer

Lucille Starr (1938–2020), Canadian singer, songwriter, and yodeler

Lucille Cole Thomas (1921–2019), American librarian

Lucille Times (1921–2021), American civil rights activist

Lucille Wall (1898–1986), American actress who played the role of Lucille March Weeks on the soap opera General Hospital

Lucille Wallace (1898–1977), British-based American harpsichordist

Lucille Wallenrod (1918–1998), American artist

Lucille Werner (born 1967), Dutch television presenter and politician

Lucille Whipper (1928–2021), American politician

Lucille Young (1883–1934), American actress

Fictional characters

Lucille Anderson, a fictional character from the British period drama television series, Call the Midwife

Lucille Austero, fictional character from the American television sitcom, Arrested Development

Lucille Hewitt, fictional character from the British soap opera, Coronation Street

Lucille LaRusso, fictional character from The Karate Kid franchise

Lucille McGillicuddy, fictional character from the American television sitcom, I Love Lucy

Lucy Van Pelt, fictional character in the comic strip, Peanuts

Dr. Lucille Robinson, fictional character from Meet the Robinsons.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lucille” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1941, 1911, 1989, 1914—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Lucille, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q401894. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1941, 1911, 1989 and 1914.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  • Locating named sources
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  2. Expand the search: follow Lucille primary sources, Lucille archive and Lucille research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Lucille” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.