Thelma

Thelma is a female given name meaning "will, volition" in Greek. Note that although consonant with another female given name, Selma, the two are not synonymous.

People with the name

• Thelma Aoyama, Japanese pop singer
• Thelma Barlow, English actress
• Thelma Carpenter, American jazz singer and actress
• Thelma Cazalet-Keir, British politician
• Thelma Drake, American politician
• Thelma Forbes, Canadian politician
• Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness
• Thelma Harper (politician), Tennessee politician
• Thelma Hill, American silent screen actress
• Thelma Holt, stage actress and producer
• Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress
• Thelma Hopkins (athlete), British athlete
• Thelma Houston, American singer
• Thelma Leeds, American actress
• Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player
• Thelma Pat Nixon, former First Lady of the United States
• Thelma Parr, American actress
• Thelma Pressman, American microwave cooking consultant and cookbook author
• Thelma Ritter, American actress
• Thelma Schoonmaker, American film editor
• Thelma Terry, American bandleader
• Thelma Thall, American two-time world table tennis champion
• Thelma Todd, American screen actress
• Thelma Fardin, Argentine actress
• Thelma Toole, mother of American author John Kennedy Toole
• Thelma Votipka, American opera singer

Fictional characters

• Thelma Bates, from the TV series Hex
• Thelma Evans, in the sitcom Good Times
• Thelma Harper, from The Carol Burnett Show and Mama's Family
• Thelma Lou, on The Andy Griffith Show
• Thelma Griffin, from Family Guy
• Thelma Chambers, from the British sitcom Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
• Thelma Dickinson from the 1991 film Thelma and Louise
• Thelma, protagonist of the eponymous 2017 film Thelma
• T.H.E.L.M.A. an android from the Nickelodeon sci-fi series, Space Cases
• Thelma, a character referred to as "New Thelma" in the Junie B. Jones book series.