Miranda (given name)

This article is about the given name Miranda. For the surname, see Miranda (surname). For other uses, see Miranda.

Miranda

Pronunciation	/mɪˈrændə/ mə-RAN-də
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. It is also common as a surname. There is a related adjective, seldom used but found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which is mirandous, a synonym to miraculous.

List of people

• Miranda (b. 1984), Colombian singer, winner of La Voz Colombia
• Miranda Carter (b. 1965), British writer and biographer
• Miranda Chartrand (b. 1990), Canadian singer
• Miranda Connell, English actress
• Miranda Cooper, UK 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, British comedy actress and writer
• 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 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
• Miranda Silvergren, Swedish psytrance artist and producer
• Miranda Stone, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Miranda Antony, GIS Analyst
• Miranda Yang (Xia Meng), Hong Kong actress

List of fictional characters

• 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), a character in the British novel series Eighth Doctor Adventures
• Miranda (The Tempest), a character in the play The Tempest by English writer William Shakespeare
• Miranda (W.I.T.C.H.), a character 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 Carroll, a character from 2014 fiction novel Station Eleven by Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel
• Miranda Corneille, a character in the Canadian webcomic User Friendly
• Miranda Feigelsteen, a character in the Canadian television series Mysterious Ways
• Miranda Goshawk, a character in the Harry Potter novel series by English author J. K. Rowling
• Miranda Grey, a character 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, a character in the American television series Sex and the City
• Miranda Jeffries, a character in the American film Chances Are
• Miranda Jones, a character in the anime series Transformers: Energon
• Miranda Jones, a character from Star Trek The Original Series, Episode Is There No Truth In Beauty?
• Miranda Keyes, a character in the American video game series Halo
• Miranda Killgallen, a character in the American television series As Told By Ginger
• Miranda Lawson, a character in the Canadian video game series Mass Effect
• Miranda Lotto, a character in the manga D.Gray-Man and the anime of the same name
• Miranda Montgomery, a character in the American television series All My Children
• Miranda North, a character in the Life
• Miranda Priestly, a character in the novel The Devil Wears Prada by American author Lauren Weisberger
• Miranda Sanchez, a character in the American television series Lizzie McGuire
• Miranda Sings, a character that was made into a YouTube sensation
• Miranda Tate, a fictional character played by Marion Cotillard in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises
• Miranda Wright, a character in the American television series Bonkers