What is "candace"

n. (non-gloss definition: Title of) any Nubian (Kush) queen or queen mother.

Candace was the title for female rulers of the ancient African empire of Kush.

• Candace of Meroë, according to the Romance of Alexander, was encountered by Alexander the Great

Candace may also refer to:

• Candace (given name) — including a list of persons and fictional characters with this name
• 4899 Candace, a main belt asteroid
• Candace (bug), a genus of tessaratomid bug.

Candace is a female given name from the Bible, ultimately deriving from the term kandake, a title for a queen or queen mother in the ancient African Kingdom of Kush. In the United States, it was a popular name during the late 1970s, throughout the 1980s, and into the early 1990s.

Candace may refer to:

• Candace Allen (21st century), a Miss District of Columbia USA 2006
• Candace Allen (author) (21st century), a Hollywood screenwriter
• Candace Bailey (born 1982), an American actress
• Candace Bushnell (born 1958), an American writer
• Candace Cameron Bure (born 1976), an American actress
• Candace Camp (born 1949), a best-selling American writer
• Candace Charles (born 1990), a Miss Guyana 2007
• Candace Collins (born 1957), an American model and actress
• Candace Gingrich (born 1966), a LGBT rights activist
• Candace Glendenning (born 1953), an English actress
• Candace Glickman (21st century), a Miss New Hampshire 2003
• Candace Hilligoss (born 1935), an American actress
• Candace Hutson (21st century), an American actress
• Candace Introcaso (21st century), a President of La Roche College
• Candace Jones (born 1955), a Canadian figure skater
• Candace Kita (21st century), an American actress
• Candace Kroslak (born 1978), an American actress
• Candace Michelle Brown (born 1968), a Miss Alabama USA 1992
• Candace Newmaker (1989–2000), a victim of child abuse
• Candace O'Connor (born 1950), a freelance writer and editor
• Candace Otto (21st century), a Miss Pennsylvania 2003
• Candace Parker (born 1986), an American collegiate basketball player
• Candace Pert (born 1946), an American neuroscientist
• Candace Robb (born 1950), an English historical novelist
• Candace Savage (born 1949), a Canadian writer
• Candace Smith (21st century), an American actress, model and beauty queen
• Candace Talmadge (21st century), a liberal newspaper columnist
• Candace Vogler (21st century), an American philosopher
• Candace Wheeler (1827–1923), one of America's first woman interior and textile designers
• H. Candace Gorman (21st century), an American attorney

• Candace Allard-Liao, a fictional character in the BattleTech science-fiction universe.
• Candace Barkham, a fictional recurring character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Candace "Caddy" Compson, a fictional character from The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Candace Flynn, Phineas' older sister and Ferb's stepsister from Phineas and Ferb.
• Candace Southern, a Marvel Comics supporting character