Effie

Effie is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Efthymia (Greek: Ευθυμία), Eftychia (Greek: Ευτυχία), or Euphemia (Greek: Ευφημία). Notable people with the name include:

Women

 * Effie Bancroft (1840–1921), English actress and theatre manager
 * Effie Boggess (1927-2021), American politician
 * Effie Cardale (1873–1960), New Zealand community and welfare worker
 * Effie Cherry (1869–1944), American performer, part of the Cherry Sisters touring vaudeville act
 * Effie Crockett (1857–1940), American actress
 * Euphemia Effie Ellsler (1855–1942), American stage and film actress
 * Euphemia Effie Germon (1845–1914), American stage actress
 * Euphemia Effie Gray (1828–1897), 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 (1936–2006), African-American quiltmaker
 * Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1952), American Universalist minister and suffragette
 * Effie Neal Jones (1919–2002), American civil rights activist
 * Effie Mona Mack (1888–1969), American historian
 * Effie Pedaliu, British historian
 * Effie Louise Power (1873–1969), American children's librarian and author
 * Euphemia Effie Newbigging Richardson (1849–1928), New Zealand landowner and litigant
 * Effie Robinson (1920-2003), American social worker and public housing director
 * Effie Hoffman Rogers (1855-1918), American educator
 * Effie Adelaide Rowlands (1859–1936), usual pen name of Australian-born British novelist Effie Albanesi
 * Effie Shannon (1867–1954), American stage and silent screen actress
 * Effie Smith (1914-1977), American jazz and blues singer and comedian
 * Effie Anderson Smith (1869–1955), American painter
 * Effie Waller Smith (1879–1960), African-American poet
 * Effie A. Southworth (1860–1947), American botanist and mycologist
 * Effie Wilder (1909–2007), American novelist

Men

 * Elisha Effie Norton (1873–1950), 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 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