Phoebe (given name)

Phoebe or Phebe is a female given name (Ancient Greek: Φοίβη), feminine form of the male name Phoebus, meaning "bright and shining" deriving from Greek 'Phoebus' (Φοίβος).

List of people with the given name Phoebe

• 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 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 Lin, doctor
• 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
• Anna Phoebe (born 1981), violinist
• 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
• Phoebe Dann, Australian Professional Motocross Rider

Religion and mythology

• Phoebe (Bible), Corinthian woman mentioned by the Apostle Paul in Romans 16:1
• 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

Fictional characters

In books

• Phebe, a shepherdess in Shakespeare's As You Like It
• Phoebe Somerville Calebow, the protagonist of Susan Elizabeth Phillips' It Had to Be You and main character in the Chicago Stars series
• Phoebe Caulfield, the little sister of Holden Caulfield in the book Catcher in the Rye
• Phoebe Henry, a child born with down syndrome in The Memory Keeper's Daughter
• Phoebe Meryll, the daughter of Sergeant Meryll in the comic opera The Yeomen of the Guard by Gilbert and Sullivan
• 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, a demigod briefly described in The Titan's Curse, the third novel in Rick Riordan's series Percy Jackson & the Olympians
• Phoebe, a Sister of the Light in The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
• Phoebe, the 16-year-old pregnant girl and main character of Phoebe by Patricia Dizenzo
• Phoebe, a word used in Jacek Dukaj's science fiction novel Perfekcyjna niedoskonałość derived from the acronym of "post-human being"
• Phoebe, the name of the only city on mars, in the novel The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

In television and film

• Phoebe, a character from the "'Monster Clubhouse'" segment of Sesame Street
• Phoebe, one of the three Weird Sisters in the television series Gargoyles, said to represent Grace
• Phoebe, a character from Scrotal Recall
• Phoebe Aldridge, a character in the British radio soap opera The Archers
• Phoebe Banks, a fictional character of Disney's Enchanted
• Phoebe Buffay, a main character in the sitcom Friends, portrayed by Lisa Kudrow
• 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
• Phoebe Thunderman, one of the titular characters of Nickelodeon's comedy series The Thundermans

In games

• Phoebe, a character from Square's Final Fantasy Mystic Quest video game
• Phoebe, a member of the Hoenn Elite Four from Pokémon

Toys

• The Groovy Girls doll line, by Manhattan Toy, features a doll named Phoebe.
• Phoebe, a Bratz character

See also

• Phoebe (disambiguation)