- Moira (given name)
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The name Moira is a Greek given name, from μοῖρα "share, fate".[1][2]
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People
Television and film
- Moira Brooker, British actress
- Moira Buffini, British dramatist, director and actor associated with the In-yer-face theatre style
- Moira Chen, a pseudonym for actress Laura Gemser
- Moira Harris, American actress
- Moira Kelly, American actress
- Moira Lister, British actress
- Moira McLean, Australian morning television presenter
- Moira Quirk, English actress
- Moira Redmond, British actress
- Moira Shearer, Scottish ballerina and actress
- Moira Stuart, the first Black woman newsreader on British television
Other fields
- Moira Anderson, Scottish singer
- Moira Brinnand, Argentine field hockey player
- Moira Brown, Canadian-born North Atlantic right whale researcher
- Moira Breen, another name for writer Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Moira Cameron, British soldier, first woman Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London
- Moira Crone, American fiction author
- Moira Leiper Ducharme, first female mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Moira Gunn, American radio host
- Moira MacLeod, British field hockey player
- Moira O'Neill, Irish-Canadian poet
- Moira Petrie, Tucson Arizona resident, future singer
Fictional characters
- Moira Brandon, in the Marvel Comics universe
- Moira MacTaggert, recurring character in X-Men comic books
- Moira/Max Sweeney, on the Showtime television network series The L Word
References
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- English given names
- Greek feminine given names
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