Moira (given name)
The name Moira, sometimes spelled Moyra, is an Anglicisation of the Irish name Máire, the Irish equivalent of Mary.
Transliterated with Greek letters Μοίρα is the Greek word for Destiny, i.e. the three Fates.
People
Television and film
- Moira Brooker, English actress
- Moira Buffini, English dramatist, director, and actress
- Moira Chen, a pseudonym for actress Laura Gemser
- Moyra Fraser, Australian-born English actress
- Dame Moira Gibb, British public servant and social work adviser
- Moira Harris, American actress
- Moira Kelly, American actress
- Moira Lister, South African actress
- Moira McLean, Australian morning television presenter
- Moira Quirk, English actress
- Moira Redmond, English 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 Cameron, British soldier, first woman Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London
- Moira Crone, American fiction author
- Moira Dela Torre, Filipino singer-songwriter
- Moira Leiper Ducharme, first female mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Moira Gatens, Australian academic
- Moira Gunn, American radio host
- Moira MacLeod, British field hockey player
- Moira O'Neill, Irish-Canadian poet
- Moira Rader, American politician
- Moira Rayner, New Zealand-born, Australian-based barrister and human rights advocate
- Moira Senior, field hockey player from New Zealand
Fictional characters
- Moira Banning, wife of Peter Banning/Peter Pan in the 1991 movie Hook
- Moira Barton, recurring character in soap opera, Emmerdale
- Moira Brown, a character in Bethesda Game Studios' Fallout 3
- Moira Burton, a character in Capcom's Game Resident Evil: Revelations 2
- Moira Crewe, a character in the novel Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- Wendy Moira Angela Darling, a character in Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie
- Moira Davidson, a character in the 1957 novel On The Beach and its 1959 film adaptation
- Moira Linton, a character in the Malory Towers novel series by Enid Blyton
- Moira MacTaggert, a recurring character in X-Men comic books
- Moira O’Deorain, a character in the video game Overwatch
- 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 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/Max Sweeney, on the Showtime television network series The L Word
- Moira Thaurissan, Queen Regent of the Dark Iron Clan, a minor character in the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft
- Moira Theirin, mother of Maric Theirin in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise
- Moira Vahlen, Chief Scientist in the video game XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Moira, a character in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
- Moira, a minor character in the first episode of ''Pokémon: Black & White: Adventures in Unova''