Dorcas (given name)

Dorcas is a female given name. It derives from Dorcas (Δορκάς; טביתא), a figure from Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.

Persons named Dorcas include:
 * Dorcas ye blackmore (c. 1620–after 1677), one of the first named African Americans to settle in New England
 * Dorcas Ajoke Adesokan (born 1998), Nigerian badminton player
 * Dorcas Blackwood, 1st Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1726–1807), Northern Irish personage
 * Dorcas Brigham (1896-1986), American botanist, horticulturist
 * Dorcas Cochran (c. 1903–1991), American lyricist and screenwriter
 * Dorcas Coker-Appiah (born 1946), Ghanaian lawyer and women's rights activist
 * Dorcas Denhartog (born 1965), American skier
 * Dorcas Drake (1916–1993), American philanthropist
 * Dorcas Good (ca. 1687/1688–?), child accused of witchcraft at the Salem witch trials
 * Dorcas Gyimah (born 1992), Ghanaian sprinter
 * Dorcas Fellows (1873–1938), American librarian
 * Dorcas Hardy (1946-2019), American government official
 * Dorcas Hoar (c. 1634–1711), widow accused of witchcraft at the Salem witch trials
 * Dorcas Honorable (c. 1770–1855), Native American, last indigenous inhabitant of Nantucket
 * Dorcas Kelly (died 1761), Irish brothel keeper and alleged serial killer
 * Dorcas Makgato-Malesu, Botswanan cabinet minister
 * Dorcas Martin (1537–1599), English bookseller active in religious controversies
 * Dorcas Murunga (born 1969), Kenyan volleyball player
 * Dorcas Muthoni, Kenyan entrepreneur
 * Dorcas Nakhomicha Ndasaba (born 1971), Kenyan volleyball player
 * Dorcas Reilly (born 1926), Inventor of Green Bean Casserole