Moira (given name)

Moira
Origin
Gender	Female
Word/name	Irish
Meaning	Mary
Region of origin	Ireland
Other names
Related names	Mary, Maria, Maura

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 Resident Evil: Revelations 2
Moira Barton, recurring character in soap opera, Emmerdale
Moira Vahlen, Chief Scientist in the video game, XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Moira Queen of Rebma in Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber
Moira Rose, a character in the Canadian television series Schitt's Creek
Moira Rutaquio-Tanyag, a villain character in the Philippine drama series Abot-Kamay na Pangarap
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

References

^ Daria Izdebska, The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming, 2016, ISBN 0199656436, p. 538

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