Roxanne (given name)

Roxanne is a feminine given name. It is derived from the Greek name Rhōxanē (Latinised to Roxana), a derivative of the Persian Roshanak, meaning bright star and in Kurdish (Roj-an) as well as in Avesta (Rowc) it means "bright, sun, sunlight, sun god, day". Notable people with the name include:

People

Fictional Characters
  • Roxanne "Roxy" Washington, a Marvel character known as Bling!
  • Roxanne Ritchie, a TV news reporter in the movie Megamind
  • Roxanne, the high school love interest of Max Goof in A Goofy Movie
  • Roxy Lalonde, via Homestuck.
  • Dr. Roxanne Vanderwheele, an archealogist from the cartoon "Tutenstein".
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gollark: Then, I just gave up and compiled it on my other thing with an older kernel, where it eventually worked.
gollark: I decided to look at the code in more detail. This was a mistake. It contained thousands of lines with minimally useful comments, for some reason its own implementation of hash tables (this is very C, I suppose), and apparently its own implementation of WiFi mesh things even though that should really be handled generically for any device.

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