Thelma
Thelma is a female given name meaning "will, volition" in Greek (see thelema). Note that although consonant with another female given name, Selma, the two are not synonymous.
People with the name
- Thelma Aoyama, Japanese pop singer
- Thelma Barlow, English actress
- Thelma Carpenter, American jazz singer and actress
- Thelma Cazalet-Keir, British politician
- Thelma Drake, American politician
- Thelma Eisen (1922-2014), American baseball player
- Thelma Fardin, Argentine actress
- Thelma Forbes, Canadian politician
- Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness
- Thelma Harper (politician), Tennessee politician
- Thelma Hill, American silent screen actress
- Thelma Holt, stage actress and producer
- Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress
- Thelma Hopkins (athlete), British athlete
- Thelma Houston, American singer
- Thelma Leeds, American actress
- Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player
- Thelma Nava, Mexican poet, magazine co-founder, publisher, journalist
- Thelma "Pat" Nixon, former First Lady of the United States
- Thelma Parr, American actress
- Thelma Pressman, American microwave cooking consultant and cookbook author
- Thelma Rodgers, Antarctic scientist from New Zealand
- Thelma Ritter, American actress
- Thelma Schoonmaker, American film editor
- Thelma Terry, American bandleader
- Thelma Thall, American two-time world table tennis champion
- Thelma Todd, American screen actress
- Thelma Toole, mother of American author John Kennedy Toole
- Thelma Votipka, American opera singer
- Thelma Wood, American artist and lover of Djuana Barnes
Fictional characters
- Thelma Bates, from the TV series Hex
- Thelma Evans, in the sitcom Good Times
- Thelma Harper, from The Carol Burnett Show and Mama's Family
- Thelma Lou, on The Andy Griffith Show
- Thelma Griffin, from Family Guy
- Thelma Chambers, from the British sitcom Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
- Thelma Dickinson from the 1991 film Thelma and Louise
- Thelma, protagonist of the eponymous 2017 film Thelma
- T.H.E.L.M.A. an android from the Nickelodeon sci-fi series, Space Cases
- Thelma, a character referred to as "New Thelma" in the Junie B. Jones book series
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