Moira (given name) explained
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.
People
Television and film
- Moira Brooker (born 1957), English actress
- Moira Buffini (born 1965), English dramatist, director and actor associated with the In-yer-face theatre style
- Moira Chen, a pseudonym for actress Laura Gemser
- Moyra Fraser (1923–2009), Australian-born English actress
- Moira Harris (born 1954), American actress
- Moira Kelly (born 1968), American actress
- Moira Lister (1923–2007), South African actress
- Moira McLean, Australian morning television presenter
- Moira Quirk, English actress
- Moira Redmond (1928–2006), English actress
- Moira Shearer (1926–2006), Scottish ballerina and actress
- Moira Stuart (born 1949), the first Black woman newsreader on British television
Other fields
- Moira Anderson (born 1938), Scottish singer
- Moira Brinnand (born 1962), Argentine field hockey player
- Moira Brown, Canadian-born North Atlantic right whale researcher
- Moira Cameron (born 1964), British soldier, first woman Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London
- 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
- Moira Gatens (born 1954), Australian academic
- Moira Gunn, American radio host
- Moira MacLeod (born 1957), British field hockey player
- Moira O'Neill (1864–1955), Irish-Canadian poet
- Moira Rader, American politician
- Moira Rayner (born 1948), New Zealand-born, Australian-based barrister and human rights advocate
- Moira Senior (born 1976), field hockey player from New Zealand
Fictional characters
- Moira MacTaggert, a recurring character in X-Men comic books
- Moira/Max Sweeney, on the Showtime television network series The L Word
- Moira O'Hara, a character in the TV series American Horror Story
- Moira Queen, Oliver Queen's mother in the Green Arrow comic books
- Moira Queen, Oliver Queen's mother in the TV series Arrow
- Moira O’Deorain, a character in the video game Overwatch
- Wendy Moira Angela Darling, a character in Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie
- Moira Banning, wife of Peter Banning/Peter Pan in the movie Hook
- Moira Thaurissan, Queen Regent of the Dark Iron Clan, a minor character in the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft
- Moira, a character in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
- Moira Theirin, mother of Maric Theirin in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise
- Moira Brown, a character in Bethesda Game Studios' Fallout 3
- Moira Burton, a character in Capcom's Game
- Moira Barton, recurring character in soap opera, Emmerdale
- Moira Vahlen, Chief Scientist in the video game,
- Moira Queen of Rebma in Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber
- Moira Rose, a character in the Canadian television series Schitt's Creek
- Moira Davidson, a character in the novel and 1959 film On The Beach
- Moira, a minor character in the first episode of Pokémon: Black & White: Adventures in Unova
- Moira Crewe, a character in Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- Moira Linton, a character in the Malory Towers novel series, by Enid Blyton
Notes and References
- Daria Izdebska, The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming, 2016,, p. 538
