The name Dorothea is a feminine form of Dorotheus.
Famous bearers
Bearers include Dorothea Baird (1875 - 1933), an English actress;
Dorothea Mackellar (1885 - 1968), an Australian poet and fiction writer;
Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965), an American documentary photographer and photojournalist;
Dorothea Neff (1903 - 1986), an Austrian stage actress during the 1930s;
Dorothea Tanning (born 1910), an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, and writer;
Dorothea Lasky (born 1978), an American poet.
