Miranda (given name)
Pronunciation | /mɪˈrændə/ mə-RAN-də |
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Gender | Feminine |
Origin | |
Word/name | Latin |
Meaning | "worthy of admiration" |
Other names | |
Related names | Mira, Myra, Meera, Randy, Mandy |
Miranda is a feminine given name of Latin origin, meaning "worthy of admiration". There are several variants.[1]
People[]
- Miranda (born 1984), Colombian singer, winner of La Voz Colombia
- Miranda Carter (born 1965), English writer and biographer
- Miranda Chartrand (born 1990), Canadian singer
- Miranda Connell (born 1938), English actress
- Miranda Cooper (born 1975), English pop singer
- Miranda Cosgrove, actress and singer
- Miranda Devine, Australian columnist and writer
- Miranda Fenner (1979–1998), American female youth who was murdered
- Miranda Grell, British Labour party politician found guilty of making false statements against her political opponent
- Miranda Grosvenor, bored fan in the US who made a full-time hobby of calling stars
- Miranda Hart (born 1972) English actress and comedian
- Miranda Hill (1836–1910), English social reformer
- Miranda Jarrett, pen name for American author Susan Holloway Scott
- Miranda July, performance artist
- Miranda Kerr, Australian model, Victoria's Secret Angel
- Miranda Krestovnikoff, British television presenter
- Miranda Kwok, Canadian actor and film producer
- Miranda Lambert, country and western singer-songwriter
- Miranda Lee, Australian author of romance novels
- Miranda Leek, American archer
- Miranda Macmillan, Countess of Stockton
- Miranda Myrat, Greek actress
- Miranda Nild (born 1997), Thai footballer
- Miranda Otto, Australian film and theatre actress
- Miranda Raison, English actress
- Miranda Lee Richards, American singer-songwriter
- Miranda Richardson, Academy Award-nominated English actress
- Miranda Sawyer, English journalist and broadcaster.
- Miranda Seymour, English literary critic, novelist, and biographer
- (born 1973), Swedish psytrance artist and producer
- Miranda Stone, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Miranda Weese, American ballet dancer
- Miranda Yang (Xia Meng) (1933-2016), Hong Kong actress
Fictional characters[]
- Miranda (The Tempest), in the play The Tempest by English writer William Shakespeare
- Miranda, one of the characters from the Diva Starz toy line
- Miranda, the titular character of Miranda
- Miranda, the schoolgirl who goes missing in Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
- Miranda (Doctor Who), in the British novel series Eighth Doctor Adventures
- Miranda (W.I.T.C.H.), in the American television series W.I.T.C.H.
- Miranda Bailey, Chief of Surgery and attending general surgeon at Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital in the American television series Grey's Anatomy
- Miranda Barlow, from the Starz series Black Sails
- Miranda Carroll, from 2014 fiction novel Station Eleven by Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel
- Miranda Corneille, in the Canadian webcomic User Friendly
- Miranda Evans, in the British soap opera Doctors
- Miranda Feigelsteen, in the Canadian television series Mysterious Ways
- Miranda Goshawk, in the Harry Potter novel series by English author J. K. Rowling
- Miranda Grey, in the novel The Collector by English author John Fowles
- Miranda Hillard, the ex-wife of the main protagonist in the 1993 movie Mrs. Doubtfire
- Miranda Hobbes, in the American television series Sex and the City
- Miranda Jeffries, in the American film Chances Are
- Miranda Jones, in the anime series Transformers: Energon
- Miranda Jones, from Star Trek The Original Series, Episode Is There No Truth In Beauty?
- Miranda Keyes, in the American video game series Halo
- Miranda Killgallen, in the American television series As Told By Ginger
- Miranda Lawson, in the Mass Effect series
- Miranda Lotto, in the manga D.Gray-Man and the anime of the same name
- Miranda Montgomery, in the American television series All My Children
- Miranda North, in the film Life
- Miranda Priestly, in the novel The Devil Wears Prada by American author Lauren Weisberger
- Miranda Sanchez, in the American television series Lizzie McGuire
- Miranda Sings, character created on YouTube by Colleen Ballinger
- Miranda Tate, played by Marion Cotillard in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises
- Miranda Wright, in the American television series Bonkers
References[]
- ^ "Miranda - Name Meaning and Origin". thinkbabynames.com. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
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