title: Celestine
text: # Celestine
  
  Celestine is a given name and a surname.
  
  ## People
  
  ### Given name
  
  * Pope Celestine I (died 432)
  * Pope Celestine II (died 1144)
  * Pope Celestine III (c. 1106–1198)
  * Pope Celestine IV (died 1241)
  * Pope Celestine V (1215–1296)
  * Antipope Celestine II, antipope for one day: December 16, 1124
  * Celestine Babayaro (born 1978), Nigerian former footballer
  * Celestine Damiano (1911-1967), American Roman Catholic prelate
  * Célestine Galli-Marié (1840–1905), French mezzo-soprano who created the title role in the opera Carmen
  * Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière (1798–1882), French-born American Roman Catholic prelate
  * Celestine Tate Harrington (1956–1998), quadriplegic street musician known for playing the keyboard with her lips and tongue
  * Célestine N'Drin (born 1963), Côte d'Ivoire runner who specialized in the 400 and 800 metres
  * Celestine Omehia (born 1959), Nigerian politician
  * Celestine Sibley (1914–1999), Southern American author, journalist, and syndicated columnist
  * Celestine Edwards, political activist
  * Celestine Lazarus (born 1992), Nigerian professional footballer
  * Celestine Ukwu (1940-1977), Igbo highlife musician
  * Celestine Babayaro (born 1978), Nigerian former footballer
  * Célestine Hitiura Vaite (born 1966), French-Polynesian writer
  * Célestine “Tina” Knowles (born 1954), American businesswoman and fashion designer and the mother of Beyonce Knowles and Solange Knowles
  * Celestine Cruz Gonzaga-Soriano (born 1984), better known as Toni Gonzaga, Filipina singer
  * Celestine Onwuliri (1952-2012), university professor of Parasitology
  
  ### Surname
  
  * Enzo Célestine (born 1997), French professional footballer
  * James Celestine (born 1973), Bermudian cricketer
  
  ### Fictional characters
  
  * Célestine (Mirbeau), main character and narrator of the French novel The Diary of a Chambermaid, by Octave Mirbeau
  * Celestine Tavernier, on the BBC soap opera EastEnders
  * Celestine (comics), in the Image Comics universe
  * Celestine Groht, a fictional character in the anime Gundam SEED DESTINY
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Celestines, a branch of the Benedictine Order of monks
  * Celestine Nuns, another name for nuns of the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation
  * Celestine (mineral), a mineral, also known as celestite, found worldwide
  * Celestine, Indiana, a town in Dubois County, Indiana
  * La Celestine (Carlota Valdivia), a 1904 painting from Picasso's Blue Period
  * Celestine (album) by Filipino singer Toni Gonzaga, released in May, 2014
  * Ernest and Celestine, animated French film, 2012
  