Euphemia (disambiguation)

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Euphemia (/juːˈfiːmiə/; Greek: Ευφημία) is a Greek female given name, meaning "well-spoken". It is derived from the ancient Greek words ευ (good) and φημί (to speak). Its diminutive or pet form is Effie.

Euphemia, also rendered as Eufemia and Eupham, may also refer to:

People[]

Saints[]

• Euphemia (died 303 CE) - Christian martyr and saint

Royalty[]

• Euphemia (empress) (died 520s), Byzantine Empress
• Euphemia of Hungary (died 1111), Duchess Consort of Moravia
• Euphemia of Kiev (died 1139), Queen Consort of Hungary
• Euphemia of Rügen (c. 1280–1312), Queen Consort of Norway
• Euphemia de Ross (died 1386), Queen Consort of Scotland
• Euphemia of Sweden (1317–1370), Duchess Consort of Mecklenburg
• Euphemia of Pomerania (1285–1330), Queen Consort of Denmark

Nobles[]

• Euphemia of Greater Poland (c. 1230–after 1281) - wife of Władysław Opolski
• Euphemia I, Countess of Ross (died in the 1390s)
• Euphemia II, Countess of Ross (fl. early 15th century)

Other[]

• Euphemia Cowan Barnett (1890–1970), Scottish botanist
• Euphemia Vale Blake (1817–1904), American author, critic
• Catarina Eufémia (1928–1954), Portuguese peasant who became a symbol of Portuguese communists
• Frank Eufemia (born 1959), retired Major League Baseball relief pitcher
• Effie Gray (1828–1897), wife of first art critic John Ruskin, then painter John Everett Millais
• Euphemia Wilson Pitblado (1849–1928), Scottish-born American activist, social reformer
• Eufemia "Femi" Benussi (born 1945), Italian actress
• Emilia Euphemia Clarke (born 1986), British actress

Fictional characters[]

• Euphemia li Britannia, in the anime series Code Geass
• Effie Munro, in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Yellow Face"
• Effie is the name of detective Sam Spade's secretary in The Maltese Falcon
• Effie Trinket, in the saga The Hunger Games

Other uses[]

• USS Euphemia (SP-539), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
• 630 Euphemia, a minor planet
• Euphemia (typeface), included in OS X
• "Euphemia" by Area 11 from the albums Blackline and All the Lights in the Sky
• Gulf of Saint Euphemia, an Italian gulf
• EUPHEMIA (EU Pan-european Hybrid Electricity Market Integration Algorithm) a price-coupling system serving the european power market

See also[]

• Santa Eufemia (disambiguation) for a list of geographic locations named after Euphemia

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