Moira (given name)

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.

Moira

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

People

Television and film

• Moira Brooker (born 1957), English actress
• Moira Buffini (born 1965), English dramatist, director, and actress
• Moira Chen, a pseudonym for actress Laura Gemser
• Moyra Fraser (1923–2009), Australian-born English actress
• Dame Moira Gibb (born 1950; née Bogan), British public servant and social work adviser
• 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