Dorcas (given name)
Dorcas is a female given name. It derives from Dorcas, a figure from Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.
Persons named Dorcas include:
- Dorcas ye blackmore, one of the first named African Americans to settle in New England
- Dorcas Ajoke Adesokan, Nigerian badminton player
- Dorcas Blackwood, 1st Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye, Northern Irish personage
- Dorcas Brigham, American botanist and horticulturist
- Dorcas Cochran, American lyricist and screenwriter
- Dorcas Coker-Appiah, Ghanaian lawyer and women's rights activist
- Dorcas Denhartog, American skier
- Dorcas Drake, American philanthropist
- Dorcas Good, child accused of witchcraft at the Salem witch trials
- Dorcas Gyimah, Ghanaian sprinter
- Dorcas Fellows, American librarian
- Dorcas Hardy, American government official
- Dorcas Hoar, widow accused of witchcraft at the Salem witch trials
- Dorcas Honorable, Native American, last indigenous inhabitant of Nantucket
- Dorcas Kelly, Irish brothel keeper and alleged serial killer
- Dorcas Makgato-Malesu, Botswanan cabinet minister
- Dorcas Martin, English bookseller active in religious controversies
- Dorcas Murunga, Kenyan volleyball player
- Dorcas Muthoni, Kenyan entrepreneur
- Dorcas Nakhomicha Ndasaba, Kenyan volleyball player
- Dorcas Reilly, American chef; inventor of green bean casserole