Gladys


Gender:
Origin: Welsh
259 famous people named Gladys found on Wikipedia.
266278 female, 1023 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 3439-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 11-th in year 1901
Used in: English, Welsh

Meanings

Gladys is a female name from the Welsh name Gwladus or Gwladys, which bears the meaning of royalty (princess) or the gladiolus flower. It has been sometimes used as a Welsh form of Claudia.

Fem. proper name, Welsh Gwladys, probably a Brythonified form of Latin Claudia (q.v.).

Derived from the old Welsh name Gwladys, means: lame.

Famous People: 259 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Gladys Knight 1944 American singer
2 Gladys Portugues 1957 American bodybuilder
3 Gladys Cooper 1888 Actress
4 Gladys Aylward 1902 Missionary in China
5 Gladys Berejiklian 1970 Australian politician
6 Gladys George 1904 Actress
7 Gladys Hooper 1903 British supercentenarian
8 Jill Gladys 1986 Indonesian actress
9 Gladys Zender 1939 Peruvian model
10 Gladys Reyes 1977 Filipino actress
11 Gladys Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough 1881 Second wife of Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough
12 Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi 1886 Hungarian noble
13 Gladys Bentley 1907 American blues singer
14 Gladys Kravitz
15 Gladys Cohen French actress
16 Gladys Horton 1945 American singer
17 Gladys Mitchell 1901 British writer
18 Gladys González 1973 Argentinian politician
19 Gladys Florimonte 1958 Argentinian actor
20 Gladys Spellman 1918 American politician
21 Gladys Cherry 1881 Survivor of the Titanic
22 Gladys Root 1905 American lawyer
23 Gladys Henson 1897 British actress
24 Gladys Moreno 1933 Bolivian singer (1933-2005)
25 Gladys Tejeda 1985 Peruvian distance runner
26 Gladys Suwandhi 1969 Indonesian actress
27 Gladys Heldman 1922 US sports journalist, founder of World Tennis Magazine
28 Gladys Taber 1899 American writer
29 Gladys Brockwell 1893 Actress
30 Gladys Rodríguez 1943 Puerto Rican actor and writer
31 Gladys Staines 1951 Christian missionary in India
32 Gladys Guevarra 1977 Filipino actor and comedian
33 Maria Gladys 1939 Brazilian actress
34 Gladys Brandao 1991 Actress
35 Gladys Bustamante 1912 Wife of Jamaican Prime Minister
36 Gladys Tantaquidgeon 1899 Native American anthropologist, Medicine Woman, author
37 Gladys Swarthout 1900 American singer
38 Gladys Yang 1919 British translator
39 Gladys O'Connor 1903 British-Canadian actress
40 Gladys Davis 1919 Canadian baseball player
41 Gladys Mills Phipps 1883 American racehorse owner
42 Gladys Pyle 1890 American politician
43 Gladys Nilsson 1940 American artist
44 Gladys del Estal Ferreño 1956 Spanish ecologist born in Venezuela who was murdered in protest in Navarra
45 Gladys Ambrose 1930 English actress of film and television
46 Gladys Moncrieff 1892 Australian singer
47 Gladys Carrion Commissioner, Administration for Children's Services
48 Gladys Blake 1910 American actress
49 Gladys Kessler 1938 United States District Judge
50 Gladys Gillem 1920 American professional female wrestler; businesswoman
51 Gladys Bronwyn Stern 1890 British writer
52 Gladys Marín 1941 Chilean activist
53 Gladys Osborne Leonard 1882 English psychic and medium
54 Olebile Masire 1932
55 Gladys Hulette 1896 American actress
56 Gladys Anderson Emerson 1903 American historian, biochemist and nutritionist
57 Gladys del Río 1941 Chilean actor and comedian
58 Gladys Li 1948 Hong Kong politician
59 Gladys Casely-Hayford 1904 Writer
60 Gladys Nederlander 1925 American theatre producer
61 Gladys Powers 1899 British centenarian
62 Gladys Eleanor Guggenheim Straus 1895 Expert on food and nutrition
63 Gladys Parker 1910 American cartoonist for comic strips and a fashion designer in Hollywood
64 Gladys Egan 1905 Actress
65 Gladys McConnell 1905 American actress
66 Gladys María Bejerano Portela 1947 Cuban politician
67 Gladys del Pilar 1967 Swedish singer
68 Gladys Nordenstrom 1924 American composer
69 Gladys Waddingham 1900 American writer
70 Gladys Gale 1891 American singer, vaudeville and actor
71 Gladys Hill 1916
72 Gladys Schmitt 1909 American writer
73 Gladys A. Robinson 1949 North Carolina politician
74 Gladys Leslie 1899 American actress
75 Gladys Asmah 1939 Ghanian politician
76 Gladys Hasty Carroll 1904 American fiction writer who featured Maine frequently
77 Gladys Lehman 1892 American screenwriter
78 Gladys Calthrop 1894 British scenic designer
79 Gladys de La Lastra 1932
80 Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka 1970 Ugandan scientist
81 Gladys Walton 1903 Actress
82 Gladys Dick 1881 American microbiologist
83 Gladys Rockmore Davis 1901 Painter
84 Gladys Shelley 1911 American composer
85 Gladys Malvern 1897 American actress and writer
86 Gladys Ripley 1908 British opera singer
87 Gladys Lunn 1908 English middle-distance runner and javelin thrower
88 Gladys Kokorwe 1947
89 Gladys Hanson 1884 American actress
90 Gladys Bissonette
91 Gladys Maccabe 1918 British artist
92 Gladys Cherono 1983 Kenyan long distance runner
93 Gladys Fries Harriman 1896 American philanthropist
94 Gladys Emma Peto 1890 British author and fashion designer
95 Gladys Skillett 1918 Guernsey nurse
96 Gladys Cardiff 1942 American author and educator
97 Gladys Morgan 1898 Welsh comedian
98 Gladys Kathleen Parkin 1901 American
99 Gladys Elphick 1904 Australian activist
100 Gladys Bokese 1983 Democratic Republic of the Congo footballer
101 Gladys Requena 1952 Venezuelan politician
102 Gladys Reichard 1893 American anthropologist
103 Gladys Lounsbury Hobby 1910 American scientist
104 Gladys Cáceres
105 Gladys Reynell 1881
106 Gladys Strum 1906 Canadian politician
107 Gladys Kamakakuokalani Brandt 1906 American academic
108 Gladys Widdiss 1914 Native American leader and potter
109 Gladys Kipkemoi 1986 Kenyan distance runner
110 Gladys Elizabeth Baker 1908 American mycologist
111 Gladys Ascanio 1941 Venezuelan model
112 Gladys Porter 1893 Canadian politician
113 Gladys Jennings 1903 British actress
114 Gladys Wynne 1876 Irish painter
115 Gladys Landaverde 1990 Salvadroan distance runner
116 Gladys Mora 1980 Olympic taekwondo practitioner
117 Gladys Carson 1903 British swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist
118 Gladys Pizarro American music executive
119 Gladys Aller 1915
120 Gladys Carmagnola 1939 Paraguayan poet
121 Gladys J. Commons 1948 American government official
122 Gladys Colton 1909 English schoolmistress and educationist
123 Gladys Castelvecchi 1922 Uruguayan writer
124 Gladys Black 1909
125 Gladys Hamer 1884 British actress
126 Gladys Kuchta 1915 American opera singer
127 Gladys Triana Perez 1934 Artist
128 Gladys Caldwell Fisher 1907 American artist
129 Gladys E. Banks 1897 New York politician
130 Gladys Fairbanks 1875
131 Gladys Lucy Adshead 1896 British children's writer
132 Gladys Afamado 1925 Uruguayan painter
133 Gladys Swain 1945 French psychiatrist
134 Gladys Nyirongo 1974 Zambian politician
135 Gladys Noel Bates 1920 American activist
136 Gladys 1950 French photographer
137 Gladys W. Royal 1926 Chemist
138 Gladys Buchanan Unger 1885 American writer
139 Gladys Johnston 1906 Canadian painter
140 Gladys Huntington 1887
141 Gladys Hansen 1925 Archivist for the City of San Francisco
142 Gladys Anslow 1892 American physicist
143 Gladys Willems 1977 Belgian archer
144 Gladys Ravenscroft 1888 Amateur golfer
145 Gladys Thayer 1886 American painter
146 Gladys Baldwin 1937
147 Gladys Lengwe 1978 Zambian association football referee
148 Gladys Adda 1921
149 Gladys Letizia Alcaraz 1976 Argentinian rugby union player
150 Gladys Esther Tormes González 1933 Puerto Rican historian
151 Gladys Davies 1893 Fencer
152 Gladys J. Miller 1926
153 Gladys Midgley 1911 British singer
154 Gladys Heyman 1892 Swedish sculptor
155 Gladys Ewart 1892 Canadian pianist
156 Gladys Childs Miller 1902 American educator
157 Gladys McCoy 1928
158 Gladys Clarke 1923 Olympic javelin thrower
159 Gladys Campbell 1892 American writer
160 Gladys Kelley Fitch 1896 American painter
161 Gladys Nasikanda 1978
162 Gladys Arnold 1905
163 Gladys del Campo 1933
164 Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz 1928 Singer and composer
165 Gladys Chai von der Laage 1953 German photographer and athlete
166 Gladys Wamuyu 1972 Kenyan athletics competitor
167 Gladys Elinor Watkins 1884 Music teacher, pianist, carillonist
168 Gladys Bouvier The Simpsons character
169 Gladys Triveño 1967 Peruvian lawyer
170 Gladys Le Mare 1912 British zoologist
171 Gladys Mgudlandlu 1917
172 Gladys Gunzer 1939 American sculptor and medalist
173 Gladys Palmer 2000 American musician and pianist
174 Gladys Daniell 1884 Fencer
175 Gladys Kahaka Namibian biochemist
176 Gladys Bernarda Casco 1954 Honduran politician
177 Gladys María Pratz 1928
178 Gladys Pidgeon 1906 New Zealander swimmer (1906-2002)
179 Gladys Fornell 1904 American playwright
180 Gladys Akpa 1986
181 Gladys Sandford 1891 (1891-1971) motorist
182 Gladys Taylor 1953 Athletics competitor
183 Gladys Nichols Milton
184 Gladys Frazin 1901 American actress
185 Gladys Priestley 1938
186 Gladys Beckwith American women's studies academic
187 Gladys Savary Relief worker
188 Gladys Sylvani 1884 British actor (1884-1953)
189 Gladys B. Rodríguez 1961 Panamanian botanist
190 Gladys Parentelli 1935 Uruguayan writer
191 Gladys Block
192 Gladys Presley 1912 Mother of Elvis Presley
193 Gladys Florence 1902 American actor
194 Gladys Field 1889 American actress
195 Gladys Morcom 1918
196 Gladys Feldman 1886 American actress
197 Gladys Kipsoi
198 Gladys Enti 1975
199 Gladys Jayawardene Physician and academic
200 Gladys Lundwe 2000 Zambian politician