Moira (given name)
Name list
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The name Moira, sometimes spelled Moyra, is an Anglicisation of the Irish name Máire, the Irish equivalent of Mary.[1] Transliterated with Greek letters Μοίρα is the Greek word for Destiny, i.e. the three Fates.[citation needed]
People
- Moira Anderson (born 1938), Scottish singer
- Moira Brinnand (born 1962), Argentine field hockey player
- Moira Brooker (born 1957), English actress
- Moira Brown, Canadian-born whale researcher
- Moira Buffini (born 1965), English dramatist, director, and actress
- Moira Cameron (born 1964), British soldier, first woman Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London
- Moira Chen, a stage name of actress Laura Gemser (born 1950) Indonesian-Dutch retired actress, model and costume designer
- Moira Crone (born 1952), American fiction author
- Moira Dela Torre (born 1993), Filipino singer-songwriter
- Moira Leiper Ducharme, first female mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Moyra Fraser (1923–2009), Australian-born English actress
- Moira Gatens (born 1954), Australian feminist philosopher and academic
- Moira Gibb (born 1950), British public servant and social work adviser
- Moira Gunn, American radio host
- Moira Harris (born 1954), American actress
- Moira Kelly (born 1968), American actress
- Moira Lister (1923–2007), South African actress
- Moira MacLeod (born 1957), British field hockey player
- Moira McLean, Australian television presenter
- Moira O'Neill (1864–1955), Irish-Canadian poet
- Moira Quirk, English actress
- Moira Rader, American politician
- Moira Rayner (born 1948), New Zealand-born, Australian-based barrister and human rights advocate
- Moira Redmond (1928–2006), English actress
- Moira Senior (born 1976), New Zealand field hockey player
- Moira Shearer (1926–2006), Scottish ballerina and actress
- Moira Stuart (born 1949), first Black woman newsreader on British television
Fictional characters
- Moira Banning, wife of Peter Pan in the 1991 movie Hook
- Moira Barton, a recurring character in the soap opera Emmerdale
- Moira Brown, in the video game Fallout 3
- Moira Burton, in the video game Resident Evil: Revelations 2
- Moira Crewe, inn the novel Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- Moira Davidson, in the 1957 novel On The Beach and its 1959 film adaptation
- Moira Linton, in the Malory Towers novel series by Enid Blyton
- Moira MacTaggert, a recurring character in X-Men comic books
- Moira O'Deorain, in the video game Overwatch
- Moira O'Hara, in the television series American Horror Story
- Moira Queen, Oliver Queen's mother in the Green Arrow comic books and the TV series Arrow
- Moira Rose, in the Canadian television series Schitt's Creek
- Moira Rutaquio-Tanyag, a villain in the Philippine drama series Abot-Kamay na Pangarap
- Moira/Max Sweeney, in the television series The L Word
- Moira Thaurissan, Queen Regent of the Dark Iron Clan, a minor character in the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft
- Moira Theirin, mother of Maric Theirin in Dragon Age video game franchise
- Moira Vahlen, in the video game XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Moira, in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale
- Moira, a minor character in the first episode of Pokémon: Black & White: Adventures in Unova
