Cordelia

Real people with the name

• Cordelia Botkin, American murderer
• Cordelia of Britain, legendary queen of the Britons, youngest daughter of King Leir
• Cordelia Bugeja, British actress
• Cordelia Cameron, Australian actor-mananger
• Cordelia de Castellane, French designer
• Cordelia Throop Cole, American social reformer
• Cordelia Fine, British academic psychologist and writer
• Cordelia Agnes Greene, 19th-century physician, philanthropist and suffragist from Upstate New York
• Cordelia Harvey, First Lady of Wisconsin Governor Louis Harvey, known for founding Civil War Orphans homes and advocating for war field hospital conditions
• Cordelia Hawkins, eponym of the U.S. town of Cordele, Georgia
• Cordelia Knott, wife of Walter Knott and founder of Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant at Knott's Berry Farm
• Cordelia Scaife May, philanthropist
• Cordelia Mendoza, American antiquarian and appraiser
• Cordelia Strube, Canadian playwright and novelist
• Cordelia Wilson, painter of New Mexico and American Southwest landscapes

  Fictional characters with the name

• A supposed anglicization of Creiddylad, the name of a character in Welsh mythology.
• Cordelia, a central character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear, based on the story of King Leir.
• Cordelia, the main character of the eponymous Dutch adult comic strip by Belgian cartoonist "ILAH" Inge Heremans.
• Cordelia, character in James Lapine and William Finn's 1990 off-Broadway musical Falsettoland and later its two Broadway revivals, renamed Falsettos.
• Cordelia, humble and supremely talented, the sole survivor of Ylisse's pegasus knights in Fire Emblem Awakening.
• Cordelia Frost, character in MARVEL's "Emma Frost" comics, Emma's sister.

  Anime

• Cordelia Capulet, Japanese anime character in "Romeo x Juliet".
• Cordelia Gallo, Japanese anime character in "Gosick".
• Cordelia Glauca, Japanese anime character in Tantei Opera Milky Holmes.
• Cordelia, Japanese anime character in Diabolik Lovers.

  Films and television shows

• Cordelia Abbott, in the television soap opera The Young and The Restless.
• Cordelia Chase, character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
• Cordelia is a 1980 Québec movie starring Louise Portal about real life Cordelia Corriveau, who was hanged in 1763 in Saint-Vallier, Québec, after being condemned for murdering her husband. She was after her death exposed in an iron cage at a crossroad.
• , character in .
• Cordelia Winthrop Scott, from the 2011 film Monte Carlo, played by Selena Gomez.
• Cordelia Thornberry, a character in the Wild Thornberrys, wife of Radcliffe Thornberry, mother of Nigel Thornberry, mother-in-law of Marianne Thornberry, and paternal grandmother of Debbie, Eliza, and Donnie.
• Cordelia Carstairs, protagonist of The Last Hours series by Cassandra Clare

  Literature

• In Anne of Green Gables, Anne requests that she be called Cordelia rather than Anne when she believes she will only be staying with the Cuthberts for one night.
• Cordelia Blake, titular character of the Winston Graham novel Cordelia.
• Cordelia Flakk, character in Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book.
• Lady Cordelia Flyte, in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.
• Cordelia Geard, in John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance.
• Cordelia Gray, in two books by P.D. James.
• Cordelia Ransom, in the Honorverse novels by David Weber.
• The main character of the short story "Cordelia the Crude" by Wallace Thurman.