Moira (given name)
The name Moira is a given name of Greek origin. It derives from μοῖρα, meaning "destiny, share, fate".[1][2] In Greek mythology, the Moirai (Greek: Μοῖραι, plural for μοῖρα), often known in English as the Fates, were the white-robed incarnations of destiny. The name could also be an Anglicisation of the Irish name Máire, which is the Irish language equivalent of the Latin name Maria.
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Greek |
| Meaning | "destiny, share, fate" |
| Region of origin | Greece or Ireland |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Destiny, Hessa, Maria |
People
Television and film
- Moira Brooker, English actress
- Moira Buffini, English dramatist, director and actor associated with the In-yer-face theatre style
- Moira Chen, a pseudonym for actress Laura Gemser
- Moira Harris, American actress
- Moira Kelly, American actress
- Moira Lister, South African actress
- Moira McLean, Australian morning television presenter
- Moira Quirk, English actress
- Moira Redmond, English actress
- Moira Shearer, Scottish ballerina and actress
- Moira Stuart, the first Black woman newsreader on British television
- Moira Dela Torre, Filipina singer-songwriter
Other fields
- Moira Anderson, Scottish singer
- Moira Brinnand, Argentine field hockey player
- Moira Brown, Canadian-born North Atlantic right whale researcher
- Moira Cameron, British soldier, first woman Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London
- Moira Crone, American fiction author
- Moira Leiper Ducharme, first female mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Moira Gatens, Australian academic
- Moira Gunn, American radio host
- Moira MacLeod, British field hockey player
- Moira O'Neill, Irish-Canadian poet
- Moira Rayner (born 1948), New Zealand-born, Australian-based barrister and human rights advocate
- Moira Senior (born 1976), field hockey player from New Zealand
Fictional characters
- Moira MacTaggert, a recurring character in X-Men comic books
- Moira/Max Sweeney, on the Showtime television network series The L Word
- Moira O'Hara, a character in the TV series American Horror Story
- Moira Queen, Oliver Queen's mother in the Green Arrow comic books
- Moira Queen (Arrowverse), Oliver Queen's mother in the TV series Arrow
- Moira (Overwatch) O’Deorain, a character in the video game Overwatch
- Wendy Moira Angela Darling, a character in Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie
- Moira Rose, a character in the CBC and Pop original series Schitt's Creek also available on Netflix
- Moira, a character in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
- Moira Theirin, mother of Maric Theirin in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise
- Moira Brown, a character in Bethesda Game Studios' Fallout 3
- Moira Burton, a character in Capcom's Game Resident Evil: Revelations 2
- Moira Barton, recurring character in soap opera, Emmerdale
- Moira Vahlen, Chief Scientist in the video game, XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Moira Queen of Remba in Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber
- Moira Rose, a character in the Canadian television series, Schitt's Creek
- Moira Davidson, a character in the novel and 1959 film, On The Beach
- Moira, a minor character in the first episode of Pokémon: Black & White: Adventures in Unova
References
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