Gemma (given name)
Gemma is an Italian female name, of Latin origin, meaning "bud" or "precious stone". The name has been amongst the most popular in England and Scotland during the 1980s.
People with the given name
Female
- Gemma Arterton, English actress
- Gemma Atkinson, English actress and model
- Gemma Beadsworth, Australian water polo player
- Gemma Bissix, English actress
- Gemma Bond, English ballet dancer
- Gemma Booth, English photographer
- Gemma Chan, British actress
- Gemma Collins, English media personality and businesswoman
- Gemma Cowling, Australian model
- Gemma Craven, Irish actress
- Gemma Davies, English football manager
- Gemma Donati, wife of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri
- Gemma Doyle (politician), British politician
- Gemma Frizelle, British rhythmic gymnast
- Gemma Galgani or Saint Gemma of Lucca, Italian mystic with signs of stigmata, venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint
- Gemma Geis, Catalan politician
- Gemma Griffiths, Zimbabwean singer-songwriter
- Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter
- Gemma Houghton, Australian rules footballer
- Gemma Hunt, English children's TV presenter
- Gemma Jackson, British production designer
- Gemma Mengual, Catalan synchronised swimmer
- Gemma Peacocke, composer from New Zealand
- Gemma Royo, Spanish rhythmic gymnast
- Gemma Sanderson, Australian model and the winner of Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 1
- Gemma Sena Chiesa, Italian archaeologist
- Gemma Smith, Australian painter and sculptor
- Gemma Taccogna Italian-born American and Mexican visual artist
- Gemma Ward, Australian model
- Gemma Whelan, English actress and comedian
- Gemma Wollenschlaeger, American Paralympic rower
Male
- Gemma Frisius, Frisian mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker
People with the nickname
- Gemma Jones, English actress
Fictional characters
- Gemma, in the first series of the Sky One supernatural TV series Hex
- Gemma, in the children's Hospital Radio series The Space Gypsy Adventures
- Gemma, in the 2023 science-fiction horror film M3GAN
- Gemma Ball, in the television series Shameless
- Gemma Bovery, in the film Gemma Bovery
- Gemma Doyle, heroine of Libba Bray's novels A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing; see List of Gemma Doyle Trilogy characters
- Gemma Foster, the main character in the British series Doctor Foster
- Gemma Larson, in the ABC series Grey's Anatomy
- Gemma Teller Morrow, in the FX TV series Sons of Anarchy
- Gemma Nerrick, in the Netflix mockumentaries Death to 2020 and Death to 2021
- Gemma Palmer, in Solo, a British sitcom
- Gemma Reeves, in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Gemma Scout, a character from the Apple TV+ series Severance
- Gemma T., in the Stephen King novel Doctor Sleep
- Gemma Warren, heroine of the 1897 novel The Gadfly
- Gemma Winter, in the British soap opera ''Coronation Street''