Phoebe
Appearance
Phoebe or Phebe is a female given name. (Ancient Greek: Φοίβη) Phoebe is also the name of a bird or a girl's name from the Book of Romans
Mythology
- Phoebe (mythology), one of the Titans.
- One of the Heliades
- Phoebe (Leucippides), the daughter of Leucippus
- Another name for Artemis
- Helen's sister, daughter of Leda
Nature
- Phoebe (plant), a genus of flowering plants in the Lauraceae family
- Phoebe (bird), the common name for birds of genus Sayornis in the tyrant flycatcher family
- Phoebe (moon), a small outer moon of Saturn
Books
- Phoebe (Christian woman), a Corinthian woman mentioned by the Apostle Paul in Romans 16:1 of the early Christian church
- Phebe, a shepherdess in Shakespeare's As You Like It
- Phoebe, a word used in Jacek Dukaj's science fiction novel Perfekcyjna niedoskonałość derived from the acronym of "post-human being"
- Phoebe, the little sister of Holden Caulfield in the book Catcher in the Rye
- Phoebe Winterbottom, the best friend of Salmanca Tree Hiddle in Walk Two Moons
- Phoebe, the 16-year-old pregnant girl and main character of Phoebe by Patricia Dizenzo[1]
Film and television
- Phoebe Buffay, a main character in the sitcom Friends, portrayed by Lisa Kudrow
- Phoebe Dinsmore, a character (diction coach) in the movie Singing in the rain
- Phoebe Halliwell, a main character on the television drama series Charmed, portrayed by Alyssa Milano
- Phoebe Terese, one of the girls in Ms. Frizzle's class on the television series The Magic School Bus
- Phoebe, a character from the "'Monster's Clubhouse'" segment of Sesame Street
- Phoebe, a character in the British radio soap opera The Archers
- Phoebe, one of the three Weird Sisters in the television series Gargoyles, said to represent Grace
- Phoebe, one of the main characters of the television series Hey Arnold!
- Phoebe, a Bratz character
- Phoebe Cates, American actress in movies like Gremlins and Drop Dead Fred
- Phoebe North, one of the characters of the remake of Yours, Mine and Ours
- Detective Phoebe O'Hara, a fictional FBI agent in Kindergarten Cop, portrayed by Pamela Reed
- Phoebe Forrester, Daughter of Ridge and Taylor, in the television series the Bold and the Beautiful
- Phoebe Banks, a fictional character of Disney's Enchanted
- Phoebe Figalilly, the mystical governess and nanny in the enponymous titled television series "Nanny and The Professor"
- Phoebe Somerville Calebow,the protagonist of Susan Elizabeth Phillips' It Had To Be You and main character in the Chicago Stars series
- Phoebe Henry, a child born with down syndrome in The Memory Keepers Dughter
Games
- Phoebe, a character from Square's Final Fantasy Mystic Quest video game
- Phoebe (Pokémon), a member of the Hoenn Elite Four from Pokémon
Music
Science and technology
- Phoebe (moon), a small outer moon of Saturn
- Phoebe (computer), Acorn Computers's never-released successor to the Risc PC
Transportation
See also
- Phoebus, another mythological figure
References
- ^ http://sflib1.sfpl.org/record=b1078706~S1 San Francisco Public Library Catalog: Phoebe