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.

Television and film

 * Moira Brooker (born 1957), English actress
 * Moira Buffini (born 1965), English dramatist, director and actor associated with the In-yer-face theatre style
 * Moira Chen, a pseudonym for actress Laura Gemser
 * Moyra Fraser (1923–2009), Australian-born English actress
 * Moira Harris (born 1954), American actress
 * Moira Kelly (born 1968), American actress
 * Moira Lister (1923–2007), South African actress
 * Moira McLean, Australian morning television presenter
 * Moira Quirk, English actress
 * Moira Redmond (1928–2006), English actress
 * Moira Shearer (1926–2006), Scottish ballerina and actress
 * Moira Stuart (born 1949), the first Black woman newsreader on British television

Other fields

 * Moira Anderson (born 1938), Scottish singer
 * Moira Brinnand (born 1962), Argentine field hockey player
 * Moira Brown, Canadian-born North Atlantic right whale researcher
 * Moira Cameron (born 1964), British soldier, first woman Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London
 * Moira Crone (born 1952), American fiction author
 * Moira Dela Torre (born 1993), Filipino singer-songwriter
 * Moira Leiper Ducharme, first female mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia
 * Moira Gatens (born 1954), Australian academic
 * Moira Gunn, American radio host
 * Moira MacLeod (born 1957), British field hockey player
 * Moira O'Neill (1864–1955), Irish-Canadian poet
 * Moira Rader, American politician
 * Moira Rayner (born 1948), New Zealand-born, Australian-based barrister and human rights advocate
 * Moira Senior (born 1976), field hockey player from New Zealand

Fictional characters

 * Moira MacTaggert, a recurring character in X-Men comic books
 * Moira/Max Sweeney, on the Showtime television network series The L Word
 * 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 O’Deorain, a character in the video game Overwatch
 * Wendy Moira Angela Darling, a character in Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie
 * Moira Banning, wife of Peter Banning/Peter Pan in the movie Hook
 * Moira Thaurissan, Queen Regent of the Dark Iron Clan, a minor character in the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft
 * Moira, a character in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
 * Moira Theirin, mother of Maric Theirin in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise
 * Moira Brown, a character in Bethesda Game Studios' Fallout 3
 * Moira Burton, a character in Capcom's Game Resident Evil: Revelations 2
 * Moira Barton, recurring character in soap opera, Emmerdale
 * Moira Vahlen, Chief Scientist in the video game, XCOM: Enemy Unknown
 * Moira Queen of Rebma in Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber
 * Moira Rose, a character in the Canadian television series Schitt's Creek
 * Moira Davidson, a character in the novel and 1959 film On The Beach
 * Moira, a minor character in the first episode of Pokémon: Black & White: Adventures in Unova
 * Moira Crewe, a character in Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
 * Moira Linton, a character in the Malory Towers novel series, by Enid Blyton