Grace (given name)

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Grace
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/nameLatin
Meaning"Gracious"

Grace is a female given name from the Latin gratia.[1] It is often given in reference to the Christian concept of divine grace and used as a virtue name.

Variants[]

Notable people[]

A[]

  • Grace Abbott (1878–1939), American social worker
  • Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), English novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion
  • Grace Akallo (21st century), Ugandan child soldier
  • Grace Akello (born c. 1940), Ugandan poet, essayist, folklorist and politician
  • Grace Albee (1890–1985), American printmaker and wood engraver
  • Grace Alekhine (1876–1956), American-British-French female artist and chess master
  • Grace Alele-Williams (born 1932), Nigerian mathematician and university vice-chancellor
  • Grace Greenwood Ames (born 1905–1979), American artist who worked predominantly in Mexico
  • Grace Andreacchi (born 1954), American-born author
  • Grace Andrews (mathematician) (1869–1951), American mathematician
  • Grace Apiafi (born 1958), Nigerian shot putter and discus thrower
  • Grace Arnold (1899–1979), English actress
  • Grace Ayensu, Ghanaian politician

B[]

  • Mary Grace Baloyo (died 2001), First Lieutenant in the Philippine Air Force
  • Grace Bannister (1924–1986), Unionist politician in Northern Ireland
  • Grace Bardsley (1920–1972), Australian Aboriginal rights activist and political activist
  • Grace Barnsley (1896–1975), English pottery decorator
  • Grace Bauer, American poet
  • Grace Bawden (born 1992), Australian classical crossover singer
  • Grace Bedell (1848–1936), American woman who influenced Abraham Lincoln to grow his famous beard
  • Grace Benham (1876–1968), American silent film actress
  • Grace Folashade Bent (born 1960), Nigerian politician
  • Grace Bilger (1907–2000), American artist
  • Grace Birungi (born 1973), Ugandan runner
  • Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015), Chinese-American author, social activist and feminist
  • Grace Bowman (equestrian) (born 1990), Australian Paralympic equestrian
  • Grace Duffie Boylan (1861?–1935), American writer
  • Grace Bradley (1913–2010), American film actress
  • Grace Brown (1886–1906), American skirt factory worker who was murdered
  • Grace Brown (born 1992), Australian cyclist
  • Grace Mann Brown (1859–1925), American writer and spiritual leader
  • Grace Bumbry (born 1937), American opera singer
  • Grace Burbridge (born 1887) was a British suffragette, burned whilst setting fire to a postbox
  • Grace Bussell (1860–1935), Australian heroine, involved in the rescue of the SS Georgette
  • Grace Butler (née Cumming, 1886–1962), New Zealand artist

C[]

  • Grace Carlson (1906–1992), American communist politician
  • Grace Carter (born 1989), British volleyball player
  • Grace Cassidy (born 1993), English actress
  • Grace Cavalieri (born 1932), American poet, playwright and broadcaster
  • Grace Chang (born 1933), Chinese actress and singer
  • Grace Chia, Singaporean writer, poet, journalist and editor
  • Grace Zia Chu (1899–1999), American author of Chinese cookbooks
  • Grace Clements (artist) (1905–1969), American artist
  • Grace Clements (athlete) (born 1984), English heptathlete
  • Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976), American writer
  • Grace Coddington (born 1941), former model and creative director of American Vogue magazine
  • Grace Colman (1892–1971), British politician
  • Grace Comiskey (c. 1894–1956), American owner of the Chicago White Sox
  • Grace Conkling (1878–1958), American writer
  • Grace Corbett (c. 1765/1770–1843), Scottish author and poet
  • Grace Coolidge (1879–1957), First Lady of the United States; wife of President Calvin Coolidge
  • Grace Inez Crawford (1889–1977), Paris-born England-based American singer, actress, costume designer, translator of plays and writer
  • Grace Noll Crowell (1877–1969), American poet
  • Grace Crowley (1890–1979), Australian artist
  • Grace Cunard (1893–1967), American actress, screenwriter and film director
  • Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (1879–1958), American socialite

D[]

  • Grace Daley (born 1978), American professional women's basketball player
  • Grace Darling (1815–1842), Northumbrian Victorian heroine
  • Grace Darmond (1893–1963), Canadian-born American actress
  • Grace Montañez Davis (born 1926), Mexican-American political activist and deputy mayor of Los Angeles
  • Grace Davison, American silent-movie actress
  • Grace de Laguna (1878–1978), American philosopher and academic
  • Grace Deeb (born 1975), Lebanese singer
  • Grace DeMoss (born 1927), American amateur golfer
  • Grace Dent (born 1973), English journalist, author and broadcaster
  • Grace Diaz (born 1957), Dominican-American politician
  • Grace Hoadley Dodge (1856–1914), American philanthropist
  • Grace A. Dow (1869–1953), American philanthropist
  • Grace L. Drake, American politician
  • Grace Drayton (1877–1936), American comics artist
  • Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay (1895–1946), British journalist and aviation pioneer
  • Grace Dunham (born 1992), American poet and actress

E[]

  • Grace Ekpiwhre (born 1949), Nigerian civil servant
  • Grace Elliott (1758–1823), Scottish socialite and courtesan

F[]

  • Grace Fernald (1879–1950), American educational psychologist
  • Grace Flandrau (1886–1971), American writer
  • Grace Fong, American musician and academic
  • Grace Fortescue, (1883–1979), American socialite
  • Grace Frankland (1858–1946), English microbiologist
  • Grace Voss Frederick (1905–2009), American actress and museum curator
  • Grace Beacham Freeman (1916–2002), American poet, columnist, short story writer and educator
  • Grace Fu (born 1964), Singaporean politician
  • Grace Fulton (born 1996), American actress

G[]

  • Grace Gao (born 1989), Canadian badminton player
  • Grace Garland, American singer-songwriter and actress
  • Grace Gassette (1871–1955), American artist and sculptor
  • Grace George (1879–1961), American stage actress
  • Grace Gibson (1905–1989), American radio producer who worked predominantly in Australia
  • Grace Gifford (1888–1955), Irish artist and cartoonist
  • Grace Gill-McGrath (born 1989), Australian soccer player
  • Grace Golden (1904–1993), English illustrator and historian
  • Grace Goodell, American anthropologist dddads
  • Grace Grace (born 1958), Australian politician
  • Grace Winifred Green (1907–1976), New Zealand radio broadcaster and journalist
  • Grace Gregory (1901–1985), American film set decorator
  • Grace Griffith, American folk and Celtic singer
  • Grace Groner (1909–2010), American philanthropist
  • Grace Gummer (born 1986), American actress

H[]

  • Grace Eleanor Hadow (1875–1940), English author and academic
  • Grace Halsell (1923–2000), American journalist and writer
  • Grace Towns Hamilton (1907–1992), African-American politician
  • Grace Hanagan (1906–1995), Canadian survivor of the sinking of the Empress of Ireland (1914)
  • Grace Hartigan (1922–2008), American abstract expressionist painter
  • Grace Hartman (actress) (1907–1955), American stage and musical theater actress
  • Grace Hartman (politician) (1900–1998), Canadian social activist and politician
  • Grace Hartman (trade unionist) (1918–1993), Canadian labour union activist
  • Grace Raymond Hebard (1861–1936), American historian, suffragist, writer and political economist
  • Grace Helbig (born 1985), American comedian
  • Grace Henderson (1860–1944), American stage and silent-film actress
  • Grace Hightower (born 1955), American philanthropist, actress and singer
  • Grace Livingston Hill (1865–1947), American novelist
  • Grace Webster Haddock Hinsdale (1832–1902), American author
  • Grace Hirst (1805–1901), New Zealand businesswoman, farmer, nurse and midwife
  • Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American computer scientist
  • Grace Huang (born 1983), Australian actress
  • Grace Hudson (1865–1937), American painter

I[]

  • Grace Ingalls (1877–1941), American journalist and youngest sister of novelist Laura Ingalls Wilder

J[]

  • Grace Jackson (born 1961), Jamaican athlete
  • Grace James (1864–1930), writer of children's literature
  • Grace Jantzen (1948–2006), feminist philosopher and theologian
  • Grace Jane Joel (1865–1924), New Zealand artist
  • Grace Mott Johnson (1882–1967), American artist
  • Grace Jones (born 1948), Jamaican-born singer, actress and model
  • Grace Jordan (1892–1985), American writer and journalist

K[]

  • Grace Kamaikui (1808–1866), Hawaiian high chiefess
  • Grace Kaufman (born 2002), American actress
  • Grace Keagy (1921–2009), American actress
  • Grace Kelly (1929–1982), American actress who became Princess Grace of Monaco
  • Grace Kelly (musician) (born 1992), Asian-American musician
  • Grace Kennedy (writer) (1782–1825), Scottish writer
  • Grace Kennedy (singer) (born 1958), British singer and television presenter
  • Grace Ji-Sun Kim (born 1969), Korean-American theologian and professor
  • Grace Kimmins (1871–1954), British philanthropist
  • Grace King (1852–1932), American writer
  • Grace Kirby, English film and television actress
  • Grace Knight (born 1955), English-born Australian musician
  • Grace F. Knoche (1909–2006), American Theosophist, leader of the Theosophical Society
  • Grace Anne Dorney Koppel, American lawyer and health activist
  • Grace Krilanovich (born 1979), American writer
  • Grace Lynn Kung (born 1987), Canadian actress

L[]

  • Grace La Rue (1882–1956), American actress, singer, and Vaudeville performer
  • Grace Lee (born 1982), Korean television host and radio disc jockey
  • Grace Etsuko Lee, Japanese-born American author, speaker, trainer, international business woman
  • Grace Lin, American children's author, and illustrator
  • Grace Denio Litchfield (1849–1944), American novelist, poet
  • Grace Llewellyn (born 1964), American educator, author and publisher
  • Grace Annie Lockhart (1855–1916), Canadian, first woman in the British Empire to receive a bachelor's degree
  • Grace Loh (born 1991), Australian swimming champion
  • Grace Lorch (c. 1903–1974), American teacher and civil rights activist
  • Grace Lumpkin (1891–1980), American writer

M[]

  • Grace Maccarone, children's book editor and author
  • Grace MacInnis (1905–1991), Canadian politician and feminist
  • Grace Madden (1911–1987), American pair skater
  • Grace, Lady Manners, English noblewoman, founder of Lady Manners School in 1636
  • Grace Marks (c. 1828–after c. 1873), Irish-Canadian convicted murderer, subsequently pardoned
  • Grace Marra (born 1959), American musician
  • Grace McCallum (born 2002), American artistic gymnast
  • Grace McCarthy (born 1927), Canadian politician
  • Grace McCleen (born 1981), British writer
  • Grace McDaniels (1888–1958), American freak show star
  • Grace McDonald (1918–1999), American actress
  • Grace McKeaney, American television writer, playwright and educator
  • Grace McKenzie (1903–1988), English swimmer
  • Grace Meng (born 1975), Asian American lawyer and politician
  • Grace Metalious (1924–1964), American author of Peyton Place
  • Grace Mildmay (c. 1552–1620), English noblewoman, diarist and medical practitioner
  • Grace Millane (1996–2018), murdered English tourist
  • Grace Min (born 1994), American tennis player
  • Grace Mirabella (born 1930), former editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine
  • Grace Mera Molisa (1946–2002), Vanuatuan politician, poet and campaigner for women's equality in politics
  • Grace Momanyi (born 1981), Kenyan long-distance runner
  • Grace Moore (1898–1947), American operatic soprano and actress
  • Chloë Grace Moretz (born 1997), American actress
  • Grace Morgan (1909–1996), English cricketer
  • Grace Morley (1900–1985), American museologist who founded museums in San Francisco and New Delhi
  • Grace Mugabe (born 1965), wife of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe
  • Grace Mukomberanwa (born 1944), Zimbabwean sculptor

N[]

O[]

  • Grace O'Malley (c. 1530–c. 1603), Irish chieftain and pirate
  • Grace Ogot (born 1934), Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat
  • Grace Atkinson Oliver (1844-1899), author, advocate of women's rights

P[]

  • Grace Padaca (born 1963), Filipino politician
  • Grace Paley (1922–2007), American short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist
  • Grace Park (actress) (born 1974), American-born Canadian actress
  • Grace Park (golfer) (born 1979), South Korean professional golfer
  • Grace Parra, American screenwriter, presenter, and actress
  • Grace Perry (1927–1987), Australian poet, editor and pediatrician
  • Grace Phipps (born 1992), American actress
  • Grace Evelyn Pickford (1902–1986), English-born American biologist and endocrinologist
  • Grace Poe (born 1968), Filipino politician
  • Grace Portolesi (born 1968), Australian politician
  • Grace Potter (born 1983), American lead singer of rock band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

R[]

  • Grace Rasmussen (born 1988), New Zealand netball player
  • Grace Renzi (1922–2011), American artist
  • Grace Rhys (1865–1929), Irish writer
  • Grace S. Richmond (1866–1959), American writer
  • Grace Robertson (born 1930), Scottish photographer
  • Grace Rohrer (1924–2011), American educator, arts and women's rights activist and politician
  • Grace Rolek (born 1997), American actress
  • Grace Alexandra Rood (1893–1981), New Zealand school dental nurse
  • Grace Roosevelt (1867–1945), American tennis player
  • Grace Ross (born 1961), American environmental activist

S[]

  • Grace Sandhouse (1896–1940), American entomologist
  • Grace Berg Schaible (1925-2017), American lawyer, the first female state's attorney general
  • Grace Schulman (born 1935), American poet and academic
  • Grace Sewell (born 1997), Australian singer and songwriter known as
  • Grace Carew Sheldon (1855–1921), American journalist, author, editor, businesswoman
  • Grace Sherwood (died 1740), American woman convicted of witchcraft in the U.S. state of Virginia in 1705–1706
  • Grace Slick (born 1939), American rock vocalist
  • Grace Cossington Smith (1892–1984), Australian artist
  • Grace Snyder (1882–1982), American quilter, pioneer and centenarian
  • Grace Stafford (1903–1992), American actress
  • Grace Zaring Stone (1891–1991), American novelist and short story writer
  • Grace Stratton (born 1999), New Zealand blogger and fashion entrepreneur
  • Grace Sulzberger (born 1988), Australian cyclist

T[]

U[]

V[]

W[]

  • Grace Wahba (born 1934), American statistician and academic
  • Grace Wahu (c. 1907–2007), first wife of Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya
  • Grace Jane Wallace (died 1878), Scottish author and translator
  • Grace Wanjiru (born 1979), Kenyan race walker
  • Grace Miller White (1868–1957), American author
  • Grace Lee Whitney (born 1930), American actress and entertainer
  • Grace Widdowson (1892 –1989), New Zealand nurse and hospital matron
  • Grace Olive Wiley (1883–1948), American herpetologist
  • Grace Williams (1906–1977), Welsh composer
  • Grace Wilson (1879–1957), Australian high-ranked army nurse during World War I and World War II
  • Grace Wong (born 1986), Hong Kong-born actress
  • Grace Woodward (born 1978), English fashion stylist and television presenter
  • Grace Wyndham Goldie (1900–1986), British pioneer television producer

Y[]

  • Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944), English mathematician
  • Grace Young (fl. 2006–present), Canadian-born American singer, songwriter musician known as Grace
  • Grace Sari Ysidora (born 1995), Indonesian professional tennis player

Z[]

  • Grace Zabriskie (born 1941), American actress

Pseudonyms[]

  • "Grace Greenwood", pseudonym of Sara Jane Lippincott (1823–1904), American writer
  • "Grace", alias of the underaged sole survivor of the 2008 Yishun triple murders case from Singapore

Fictional characters[]

  • Grace Adler, in the television comedy series Will and Grace
  • Grace Archer (1930–1955), in the BBC's long-running radio drama serial The Archers
  • Grace Augustine, scientist in the film Avatar
  • Grace Balin, the first DC Comics supervillainess known as Orca
  • DCI Grace Barraclough, in the ITV1 soap opera Emmerdale
  • Grace Beauchamp, in the BBC One drama series Holby City
  • Grace Bennett, in the film Monte Carlo
  • Grace Bowman, in American television series The Secret Life of the American Teenager
  • Grace Cavendish, detective and the central character in the Lady Grace Mysteries
  • Grace Choi, in the DC Comics universe
  • Grace Florrick, daughter of Alicia Florrick in the American television series The Good Wife
  • Grace Hamilton, in the movie The Godfather Part III
  • Grace Harlowe, the protagonist of four series of books for girls by Jessie Graham Flower
  • Grace Holloway, in the 1996 television movie Doctor Who
  • Grace Kingston, in the Australian drama series McLeod's Daughters
  • Grace Margaret Mulligan, lead character in the films Dogville and Manderlay
  • Grace Monroe, the main character in Book Three (and a minor character in Book Two) of the animated anthology series Infinity Train
  • Grace Nakimura, in the adventure game series Gabriel Knight
  • Grace Santiago, in the American television series Nip/Tuck
  • Grace Santos, in the film The 24 Hour Woman
  • Grace Santos, in the Filipino TV series Aso ni San Roque
  • Grace Sheffield, in the American TV series The Nanny
  • , in the comic book Soulfire
  • Grace Stamper, in the 1998 film Armageddon
  • Grace Turner, in the soap opera The Young and the Restless
  • Grace Van Owen, in the TV series LA Law
  • Grace Van Pelt, in the TV series The Mentalist
  • Grace, an animal character in the Disney film Home on the Range
  • Grace, a character in the Netflix series Grand Army
  • Grace the Glitter Fairy, in the book franchise Rainbow Magic

References[]

  1. ^ Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, Oxford Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1, p.113.

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