Violet

Color

• Violet (color), which is primarily used to describe a color often confused with purple.

People

• Violet (name), a given name for girls
• Violet Berlin, the presenter of the television program Game Pad
• Violet Bonham Carter, British politician
• Violet Jessop, stewardess, survived three famous shipwrecks including the Titanic
• Violet Wilkey, American child actress of the silent film era
• Violet, the stage name of singer Amelia Brightman

In biology

• Violet, a plant of the genus Viola
• African violet, a plant of the genus Saintpaulia that has a superficial resemblance to Viola
• Dogtooth violet, any of several species of the genus Erythronium
• Sea violet, a type of edible ascidian, or sea squirt

In geography

• Violet, Louisiana, a city in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana

In entertainment

• Violet (musical), an off-Broadway musical
• Violet (album), an album by The Birthday Massacre
• "Violet" (song), a song by the band Hole
• "Violet", a song by Seal, from his first album Seal (1991 album)
• Violet (film), a 1981 short film

Fictional characters

• Violet (comics) a.k.a. Shrinking Violet, a character in the DC Comics series Legion of Super-Heroes
• Violet (Peanuts), a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
• Violet Baudelaire, a character from the highly popular A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
• Violet Beauregarde, a character in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• Violet Parr, a character in the Pixar movie The Incredibles
• Violet Song jat Shariff, a character in the 2006 film UltraViolet
• Violet (Tekken), a character / an alter-ego of a character in Tekken 4
• Violet, a character in Fifi & the Flowertots.
• Violet, a character in the 1980's cartoon Rainbow Brite
• Violet, a character in the 1978 film Pretty Baby, directed by Louis Malle
• Violet, a character in the 1996 film Bound
• Violet Heaslip, Becky Botsford's/WordGirl's best friend in the series of WordGirl
• Violet Potato, Elena Potato's baby sister in the series of Monster Allergy

Other uses

• Violets is the name of New York University's sports teams, and the school color
• Violet UML Editor is a free, cross-platform, UML editor, that is easy to learn and use.