Phoebe
Phoebe or Phebe is a female given name (Ancient Greek: Φοίβη), meaning "bright and shining" deriving from Greek 'phoibos' (φοιβος).
Mythology
- Phoebe (mythology), one of the Titans
- Phoebe, one of the Heliades
- Phoebe (Leucippides), the daughter of Leucippus
- Phoebe, an epithet of Artemis, feminine equivalent of Phoebus as a surname for Apollo
- Phoebe, Helen's sister, daughter of Leda
- Phoebe, a Hamadryad, one of Danaus' many wives or concubines, mother of several of the Danaides
- Phoebe, one of the Amazons who fought against Heracles
- Phoebe (Bible), Corinthian woman mentioned by the Apostle Paul in Romans 16:1
Nature
- Phoebe (bird), the common name for birds of genus Sayornis in the tyrant flycatcher family
- Phoebe (moon), a small outer moon of Saturn
- Phoebe (plant), a genus of flowering plants in the Lauraceae family
People
- Anna Phoebe (born 1981), violinist
- Phoebe Brand (1907–2004), American actress who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era
- Phoebe Brown (born 1991), English singer
- Phoebe Campbell (1847–1872), Canadian murderess
- Phoebe Carrai (born 1955), American cellist
- Phoebe Cary (1824–1871), American poet
- Phoebe Cates (born 1963), American actress
- Phoebe Conn (born 1941), American author
- Phoebe Geliberte (born 1994) , Filipino architect
- Phoebe Couzins (1848–1912), one of the first female lawyers in the U.S. and the first female marshal
- Phoebe Dollar, American actress
- Phoebe Doty, American prostitute
- Phoebe Ephron (1914–1971), American playwright and screenwriter
- Phoebe Gilman (1940–2002), American children's book author and illustrator
- Phoebe Gloeckner (born 1960), American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and novelist
- Phoebe Hearst (1842–1919), American philanthropist and feminist
- Phoebe Hesketh (1909–2005), English poet
- Phoebe Hessel (1713–1821), British soldier who disguised herself as a man to serve in army
- Phoebe Hirsch (born 1949), former member of SDS and Weatherman
- Phoebe Judson (1831–1926), American pioneer and author
- Phoebe Knapp (1839–1908), American composer
- Phoebe Kreutz, singer-songwriter
- Phoebe Legere, multi-format artist
- Phoebe Mills (born 1972), American attorney and athlete active in multiple sports
- Phoebe Nicholls (born 1957), English film, television, and stage actor
- Phoebe Omlie (1902–1975), American aviation pioneer and one of the first female aviators
- Phoebe Palmer (1807–1874), evangelist, writer, and promoter of the doctrine of Christian perfection
- Phoebe Pember (1823–1913), nurse and medical administrator during the American Civil War
- Phoebe Philo (born 1973), English fashion designer and Creative Director of Celine
- Phoebe Prince (1994–2010), bullying victim
- Phoebe Snetsinger, née Burnett (1931–1999), American birder
- Phoebe Snow (1950–2011), musician
- Phoebe Strole (born 1983), American actress and singer
- Phoebe Taylor (1909–1976), American mystery author
- Phoebe Thomas (born 1983), British actress
- Phoebe Di Tommaso (born 1990), Australian figure skater
- Phoebe Tonkin (born 1989), Australian actress and model
- Phoebe Anna Traquair (1852–1936), Irish artist noted for her role in the Arts and Crafts Movement
- Phoebe Holcroft Watson, English tennis player
Fictional characters
In books
- Phebe, a shepherdess in Shakespeare's As You Like It
- Phoebe, a word used in Jacek Dukaj's science fiction novel Perfekcyjna niedoskonałość derived from the acronym of "post-human being"
- Phoebe, the little sister of Holden Caulfield in the book Catcher in the Rye
- Phoebe, a demigod briefly described in The Titan's Curse, the third novel in Rick Riordan's series Percy Jackson & the Olympians
- Phoebe, the 16-year-old pregnant girl and main character of Phoebe by Patricia Dizenzo[1]
- Phoebe Somerville Calebow, the protagonist of Susan Elizabeth Phillips' It Had to Be You and main character in the Chicago Stars series
- Phoebe Henry, a child born with down syndrome in The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- Phoebe Pyncheon, a young vivacious female country cousin in The House of the Seven Gables
- Phoebe Winterbottom, the best friend of Salmanca Tree Hiddle in Walk Two Moons
- Phoebe, the name of the only city on mars, in the novel The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
- Phoebe Meryll, the daughter of Sergeant Meryll in the comic opera The Yeomen of the Guard by Gilbert and Sullivan
In television and film
- Phoebe, a character from the "'Monster's Clubhouse'" segment of Sesame Street
- Phoebe, a character in the British radio soap opera The Archers
- Phoebe, one of the three Weird Sisters in the television series Gargoyles, said to represent Grace
- Phoebe, a Bratz character
- Phoebe Banks, a fictional character of Disney's Enchanted
- Phoebe Buffay, a main character in the sitcom Friends, portrayed by Lisa Kudrow
- Phoebe Cates, American actress in movies like Gremlins and Drop Dead Fred
- Phoebe Dinsmore, a character (diction coach) in the movie Singin' in the Rain
- Phoebe Figalilly, the mystical governess and nanny in the television series Nanny and the Professor
- Phoebe Forrester, daughter of Ridge and Taylor, in the television series the Bold and the Beautiful
- Phoebe Gottlieb (née Bright), a teenage character from the soap opera Neighbours
- Phoebe Halliwell, a witch, one of the Power of Three, on the television drama series Charmed, portrayed by Alyssa Milano
- Phoebe Heyerdahl, one of the main characters of the television series Hey Arnold!
- Phoebe Lichten, the main character of the film Phoebe in Wonderland
- Phoebe North, one of the characters of the remake of Yours, Mine and Ours
- Phoebe O'Hara, a fictional FBI agent in Kindergarten Cop, portrayed by Pamela Reed
- Phoebe Snow (character), a woman who served as the main character of a turn-of-the-century ad campaign for the Lackawanna Railroad in Pennsylvania
- Phoebe Sparrow, née Bamford, Gary Sparrow's girlfriend and later wife in Goodnight Sweetheart
- Phoebe Terese, one of the girls in Ms. Frizzle's class on the television series The Magic School Bus
In games
Technology
- Phoebe (computer), Acorn Computers's never-released successor to the Risc PC
- Phoebe (software), a tool for the modeling of eclipsing binary stars based on real photometric and spectroscopic (radial velocity) data[2]
Other
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