Zoe (name)

Zoe

Pronunciation	/ˈzoʊ.i/ ZOH-ee; /ˈzoʊ/ ZOH
Gender	female
Origin
Word/name	Greek
Meaning	"life"
Other names
Variant form(s)	Zoey, Zoí, Zoé, Zoie, Zoë, Zoee, Zoya, Zoi
Related names	Zooey, Joey, Joe

Zoe (Greek: ζωή) is a female first name of Greek origin, meaning "Life".

People

Historical

• Zoë Porphyrogenita (fl. 978 – c. 1050), Byzantine empress
• Exuperius and Zoe, saints, martyrs (died 127)
• Zoe of Rome (died c. 286), martyred saint
• Zoe Karbonopsina (died c. 920), Byzantine empress
• Zoe Palaiologina (c. 1455–1503), wife of Tsar Ivan III of Russia

Contemporary

Arts and entertainment

• Zoë (Austrian singer) (Zoë Straub) (born 1996), Austrian singer, songwriter, and actress
• Zoë (British singer) (Zoë Pollock; born 1969), English pop star
• Zoe Akins (1886-1958), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, poet and author
• Zoë Avril (born 1980), French singer
• Zoë Baird (born 1952), American lawyer, Attorney General nominee in 1993
• Zoë Ball (born 1970), English television and radio personality
• Zoë Bell (born 1978), New Zealand stuntwoman and actress
• Zoe Beloff (born 1958), New York-based artist
• Zoe Birkett (born 1985), English singer
• Zoe Boyle (born 1989), English actress
• Zoe Caldwell (1933–2020), Australian actress
• Zoe Cassavetes (born 1970), Greek director, screenwriter and actress
• Zooey Deschanel (born 1980), American actress and musician (pronounces her name like "Zoë", though she is said to be named after Zooey Glass.)
• Zoe Kazan (born 1983), American actress
• Zoë Keating (born 1972), Canadian-American cellist and composer
• Zoë Kravitz (born 1988), American actress, singer and model
• Zoe Laskari (born 1945), Greek actress
• Zoë Lister (born 1982), English actress
• Zöe Lucker (born 1974), English actress best known for playing the role of Tanya Turner on ITV's Footballers' Wives
• Zoe Lyons (born 1971), British comedian
• Zoe McLellan (born 1974), American actress
• Zoie Palmer (born 1977), Canadian actress
• Zoë Pastelle (born 1999), Swiss actress
• Zoë Poledouris (born 1973), American actress and film composer
• Zoe Saldana (born 1978), American actress
• Zoë Salmon (born 1980), Northern Irish television presenter
• Zoë Straub (born 1996), Austrian singer, songwriter, and actress
• Zoe Strauss (born 1970), American photographer
• Zoe Sugg (born 1990), English beauty blogger & vlogger
• Zoe Tay (born 1968), Singaporean actress
• Zoé Valdés (born 1959), Cuban writer
• Zoe Ventoura (born 1981), Australian actress
• Zoe Verbiceanu (1893-1975), Romanian playwright and translator
• Zoe Viccaji (born 1983), Pakistani singer
• Zoë Wanamaker (born 1949), American-born English actress
• Zoe Wees (born 2002), German singer
• Zoe Wiseman (born 1970), American photographer and model

Sports

• Zoé Allaire-Bourgie (born 2004), Canadian artistic gymnast
• Zoi Dimoschaki (born 1985), Greek freestyle swimmer
• Zoe Goss (born 1968), Australian cricket player
• Zoi Paraskevopoulou, Greek archer

Others

• Zoe Adjonyoh (living), British writer and cook
• Zoe G. Cardon, American ecosystems ecologist
• Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga (1920-2006), Romanian literary historian
• Zoe Hauptová (1929–2012), Czech slavicist and chief editor of the Old Church Slavonic Dictionary
• Zoe Konstantopoulou (born 1976), Greek politician
• Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), Russian martyr
• Zoe Labouré (a.k.a.Catherine Labouré; 1806–1876). Zoe was the birth name of the visionary French Saint of the Miraculous Medal
• Zoë Wicomb (born 1948), South African-Scottish author and academic
• Zoey Zane (aka Emily Sander; 1989–2007), murder victim

Surname

• John Zoe, Tli Cho statesman
• Rachel Zoe, American fashion designer

Fictional characters

• Zoé (Little Big Adventure)
• Zoe (Sesame Street), Muppet character on Sesame Street
• Zoë (Sluggy Freelance)
• Zoey (Pokémon), Dawn's pal
• Zoe (Lee Soo-yeon), from Missing You
• Zoë, character in the series Monarch of the Glen
• Zoey, Rudolph's love interest in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
• Zoe, main character played by Jennifer Lopez in The Back-up Plan
• Zoe, character in, and the subject of, the play The Octoroon
• Zoe Belmont, a character from Castlevania
• Zoey, one of the four Survivors in Left 4 Dead
• Zoey, a character in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, the fourth season of the Total Drama series
• Zoe Aves, A character from El Tigre:The Adventures of Manny Rivera
• Zoe Barnes, newspaper reporter/blogger, House of Cards (U.S. TV series)
• Zoey Bartlet, youngest daughter of President Barlet on the TV series The West Wing
• Zoe Benson, a young witch enrolled in Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies American Horror Story: Coven
• Zoë Boutin Perry, protagonist and narrator of John Scalzi's novel Zoe's Tale
• Zoe Busiek, protagonist to the drama Wild Card (TV series)
• Zoey Brooks, main character on Zoey 101
• Zoe Carpenter from British soap opera Hollyoaks
• Zoe Carter from Eureka
• Zoë Castillo (Seeker, Nomad, Dreamer), the primary protagonist of a computer game Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
• Zoey Davis, a character from the 2019 film Escape Room
• Zoe Franklin, A character from the Dork Diaries book series
• Zoey Hanson, Ichigo Momomiya's English dub name in Tokyo Mew Mew (Mew Mew Power)
• Zoe Hange, or Hange Zoe, a character from the anime series Attack on Titan
• Zoe Hart in the U.S. TV series Hart of Dixie and is played by Rachel Bilson
• Zoe Heriot, companion of the Second Doctor from Doctor Who
• Zoe Landau, ex-wife of lead character Cal Lightman on television series Lie to Me
• Zoe Lawton, the daughter of Deadshot
• Zoe Louise, the protagonist of the books Stonewords and Zoe Rising by author Pam Conrad.
• Zoe Luper, from All My Children
• Zoe MacPherson, character from the Baby Blues comic strip and TV adaption
• Zoe Murphy, character from the musical Dear Evan Hansen
• Zoe Newton, character from EastEnders
• Zoë Nightshade, character from the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book series
• Zoe Orimoto (Izumi Orimoto in Japanese version), from Digimon Frontier
• Zoe Payne, from the game SSX
• Zoey Pierson, Ted's environmentalist girlfriend in How I Met Your Mother
• Zoey Redbird, the protagonist of the House of Night novels
• Zoe Reynolds, from Spooks (MI-5 in the USA)
• Zoe Rivas, from Degrassi
• Zoe Slater, main character from EastEnders
• Zoe Trent, from Littlest Pet Shop (2012 TV series)
• Zoe Washburne, from Firefly
• Zoey Woodbine, from the sitcom Cybill
• Zoe Young, from the animated series Fantastic Max
• Zoe, a character from the film Chernobyl Diaries
• Zoe, from Zombeavers
• Zoe, a character from the online video game League of Legends
• Zoey, a little girl character in the 2019 comedy movie Playing with Fire

See also

• Zoé (given name)