Meaning of name Ophelia

The names of some famous persons by the name Ophelia (or its variants) are:

Ophelia Dahl, born on 12 May, a famous health care advocate. Ophelia Dahl's background: A social justice and health care advocate. As of January 2008, Dahl is the president and executive director of Partners In Health (PIH), a Boston, Massachusetts based non-profit health care organization dedicated to providing a 'preferential option for the poor.' She first encountered Paul Farmer, the future co-founder of PIH, as an eighteen year old volunteer in Haiti, and has since dedicated her life to advocating for social justice and healthcare equity. As a co-founder and key member of the PIH team, Dahl was featured prominently in Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder's book describing the work of the organization and the life of Dr. Farmer. In 2005, Partners In Health was awarded the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world's largest humanitarian award.[3] In December, 2006, Ophelia Dahl and Paul Farmer received the Union Medal from Union Theological Seminary in New York.

Ophelia Devore, born on 12 August, a famous model. Ophelia Devore's background: The first Creole/mixed-race model in the United States. In 1946, she helped establish the Grace Del Marco Agency, one of the first modeling agencies in America. DeVore began modeling at the age of 16. As a fair-skinned Creole, Madame Devore would 'pass' for Norwegian and gain contracts throughout Europe. In 1946, determined to create a new market for non-White women in the U.S., Madame DeVore would establish The Grace Del Marco Agency. In the agency's early days, it was a stepping stone for countless household names; Diahann Carroll, Helen Williams, Richard Roundtree, Cicely Tyson and others. Racism was rampant in New York’s fashion business and the Grace Del Marco Agency was one of the few places non-White models could gain work. Her agency's shows took place in churches, college campuses, and in the ballrooms of the Diplomat and Waldorf-Astoria hotels. Like many non-Whites in the mid-twentieth century, DeVore’s breakthrough came in Europe; specifically through the French Fashion wo