Gemma

Gemma may refer to:

In science:

• Gemma (botany), an asexual reproductive structure in plants and fungi
• (Gemma), a genus of clam in the family Veneridae; see amethyst gem clam
• Gemma (star), the traditional name for the binary star Alpha Coronae Borealis in the constellation of Corona Borealis

People:

A given female name meaning "jewel" or "precious stone" which peaked in popularity in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. It was the third most popular female name in 1984, but had fallen out of the top 10 within a decade and by 2003 it wasn't even in the top 100.

Notable people with the name Gemma include -

• Gemma Arterton (born 1986), English actress
• Gemma Atkinson, English actress and model
• Gemma Beadsworth, Australian water polo player
• Gemma Bissix, English actress
• Gemma Bond, American ballet dancer
• Gemma Craven, Irish actress
• Gemma di Manetto Donati, the wife of Dante Alighieri
• Gemma Doyle (politician), British Labour Party politician
• Gemma Frisius (1508–1555), Frisian mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker
• Gemma Galgani (1878–1903), Italian mystic with signs of stigmata, venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint
• Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter
• Gemma Jones, English actress
• Gemma Sanderson, Australian model and the winner of Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 1
• Gemma Ward, Australian model
• Giuliano Gemma (born 1938), Italian actor, also known from several Spaghetti Westerns as Montgomery Wood

In fiction:

• The name of one of the characters in the children's Hospital Radio series "The Space Gypsy Adventures", narrated by John Leeson
• The title character of a four volume series in the genre of children's literature written by Noel Streatfeild
• Gemma of Syr, Princess of Ossetia, is a fictional character in Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince series
• Gemma Doyle, heroine of Libba Bray's novels A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing, see List of Gemma Doyle Trilogy characters
• Gemma, (gemmers19), a fictional girl in the lonelygirl15 universe
• Gemma, first series of the Sky One supernatural Television series Hex in the United Kingdom
• In the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey, the book Dragonflight features Lady Gemma, the main wife of the main character's enemy, Lord Fax; she bears the next lord of Ruatha hold
• Gemma Teller Morrow, a character in "Sons of Anarchy"
• Gemma Warren, heroine of The Gadfly
• Gemma, the Silver Ranger in the television show Power Rangers: RPM

Works:

• Losing Gemma, a 2006 UK television drama based on a novel by Katy Gardner

Organization:

• Gemma (organization), an English organization for disabled lesbians

Religion:

• Gemma is Arabic for Friday, the holy day of the week in Islam

Ships

• MV Gemma, a Dutch coastal tanker lost in 1951.
• SS Gemma, a German cargo ship in service during 1928

See also

• All pages beginning with "Gemma"
• Emma (name)
• Jemma (name)