Miranda (given name)

Miranda is a feminine given name of Latin origin, meaning "worthy of admiration". There are several variants.^[1] It is also common as a surname. There is a related adjective, seldom used but found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which is "Mirandous", a synonym to miraculous.

List of people

• Miranda, Colombian singer, winner of La Voz Colombia
• Miranda Carter, British writer and biographer
• Miranda Chartrand, Canadian singer
• Miranda Connell, English actress
• Miranda Cooper, UK pop person
• Miranda Cosgrove, actress and singer
• Miranda Devine, Australian columnist and writer
• Miranda Grosvenor, bored fan in the US who made a full-time hobby of calling stars
• Miranda Hart, British comedy actress and writer
• Miranda Hill (1836–1910), English social reformer
• Miranda Jarrett, pen name for American author Susan Holloway Scott
• Miranda July, performance artist
• Miranda Kerr, Australian model
• Miranda Krestovnikoff, British television presenter
• Miranda Kwok, Canadian actor and film producer
• Miranda Lambert, country and western singer-songwriter
• Miranda Lee, Australian author of romance novels
• Miranda Leek, American archer
• Miranda Macmillan, Countess of Stockton
• Miranda Myrat, Greek actress
• Miranda Otto, Australian film and theatre actress
• Miranda Prather, American woman convicted of faking a hate crime
• Miranda Raison, English actress
• Miranda Lee Richards, American singer-songwriter
• Miranda Richardson, Academy Award-nominated English actress
• Miranda Sawyer, English journalist and broadcaster.
• Miranda Seymour, English literary critic, novelist, and biographer
• Miranda Silvergren, Swedish psytrance artist and producer
• Miranda Stone, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Miranda Yang, Hong Kong actress, see Xia Meng

List of fictional characters

• Miranda (Doctor Who), a character in the British novel series Eighth Doctor Adventures
• Miranda (The Tempest), a character in the play The Tempest by English writer William Shakespeare
• Miranda (W.I.T.C.H.), a character in the American television series W.I.T.C.H.
• Miranda Bailey, Chief of Surgery and attending general surgeon at Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital in the American television series Grey's Anatomy
• Miranda Corneille, a character in the Canadian webcomic User Friendly
• Miranda Feigelsteen, a character in the Canadian television series Mysterious Ways
• Miranda Frost, a character in the British film Die Another Day
• Miranda Goshawk, a character in the novel series Harry Potter by English author J. K. Rowling
• Miranda Hobbes, a character in the American television series Sex and the City
• Miranda Jeffries, a character in the American film Chances Are
• Miranda Keyes, a character in the American video game series Halo
• Miranda Killgallen, a character in the American television series As Told By Ginger
• Miranda Lawson, a character in the Canadian video game series Mass Effect
• Miranda Montgomery, a character in the American television series All My Children
• Miranda Priestly, a character in the novel The Devil Wears Prada by American author Lauren Weisberger
• Miranda Sanchez, a character in the American television series Lizzie McGuire
• Miranda Sings, a character that was made into a YouTube sensation
• Miranda Wright, a character in the American television series Bonkers
• Miranda, the schoolgirl who goes missing in Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
• Miranda Tate, a fictional character played by Marion Cotillard in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises
• Miranda Hillard, the ex-wife of the main protagonist in the 1993 movie Mrs. Doubtfire
• Miranda Lotto, a character in the manga D.Gray-Man and the anime of the same name
• Miranda Grey, a character in the novel The Collector by English author John Fowles
• Miranda, one of the characters from the Diva Starz toy line
• Miranda, the titular character of Miranda

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