Effie
Effie is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form of Efthymia, Eftychia, or Euphemia. Notable people with the name include:
Women
- Effie Bancroft, English actress and theatre manager
- Effie Boggess, American politician
- Effie Cardale, New Zealand community and welfare worker
- Effie Cherry, American performer, part of the Cherry Sisters touring vaudeville act
- Effie Crockett, American actress
- Euphemia Effie Ellsler, American stage and film actress
- Euphemia Effie Germon, American stage actress
- Euphemia Effie Gray, Scottish model, married to John Ruskin and John Everett Millais
- Effie Hotchkiss, American pioneering motorcyclist in 1915
- Effie Mae Martin Howard, real name of Rosie Lee Tompkins, African-American quiltmaker
- Effie McCollum Jones, American Universalist minister and suffragette
- Effie Neal Jones, American civil rights activist
- Effie Mona Mack, American historian
- Effie Pedaliu, British historian
- Effie Louise Power, American children's librarian and author
- Euphemia Effie Newbigging Richardson, New Zealand landowner and litigant
- Effie Robinson, American social worker and public housing director
- Effie Hoffman Rogers, American educator
- Effie Adelaide Rowlands, usual pen name of Australian-born British novelist Effie Albanesi
- Effie Shannon, American stage and silent screen actress
- Effie Smith, American jazz and blues singer and comedian
- Effie Anderson Smith, American painter
- Effie Waller Smith, African-American poet
- Effie A. Southworth, American botanist and mycologist
- Effie Wilder, American novelist
- Effie, South Korean musician
Men
- Elisha Effie Norton, American Major League Baseball pitcher
Fictional characters
- Effie Clinker, a radio character developed by Edgar Bergen
- Effie Deans, in Sir Walter Scott's 1818 novel The Heart of Midlothian
- Mrs Euphegenia "Effie" Doubtfire, a disguised character in the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire, played by Robin Williams
- Effie Grant Munro, in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Yellow Face"
- Effie Harrison, on the British soap opera Emmerdale
- Effie Kaligaris, in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants novels
- Effie Macinnes / McDonald, a long standing character in Take the High Road, played by Mary Riggans
- Effie Newsome / Effie Crabtree, in the Canadian series Murdoch Mysteries, played by Canadian actress Clare McConnell since 2018
- Effie Perine, Sam Spade's secretary in the novel The Maltese Falcon and its film adaptations
- Effie Rawlinson - character in The Case of the Late Pig; an Albert Campion mystery by Margery Allingham
- Effie Spicer, on the British soap opera Coronation Street from 1968 to 1969
- Effie Stephanidis, comedic television character, played by Australian actress Mary Coustas
- Effie Trinket, in the book series The Hunger Games
- Effie White, one of the lead characters in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls
- Effie, in the video game Fire Emblem Fates
- Effie, a non playable character in Street Fighter III
- Miss Effie, a character from "Patsy Montana — I Didn't Know The Gun Was Loaded"