Moira (given name)
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| Moira | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/Name | Greek |
| Meaning | "destiny, share, fate" |
| Region of origin | Greece |
| Other names | |
| Related names |
Destiny (given name), Hessa (name) |
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The name Moira is a given name of Greek origin, deriving 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 (equivalent to English Mary).[citation needed]
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
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 Gunn, American radio host
- Moira MacLeod, British field hockey player
- Moira O'Neill, Irish-Canadian poet
Fictional characters
- Moira Brandon, in the Marvel Comics universe
- Moira MacTaggert, recurring character in X-Men comic books
- Moira/Max Sweeney, on the Showtime television network series The L Word
- Moira Thaurissan, a dwarf Regent-Queen of Ironforge in the Warcraft fantasy franchise
- Moira O'Hara, a character in the tv-series American Horror Story
- Moira Queen, Oliver Queen's mother in the TV series Arrow
- Moira, a character in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
- Moira Theirin, mother of Maric Theirin in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise
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