Gemma (given name)
Gemma is a name of Italian origin, meaning "gem" or "gemstone". Its popularity peaked in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. It was the third most popular female name in 1984 in the UK.[1]
People with the given name
Female
- Gemma Arterton (born 1986), English actress
- Gemma Atkinson (born 1984), English actress and model
- Gemma Beadsworth (born 1987), Australian water polo player
- Gemma Bissix (born 1983), English actress
- Gemma Bond (born 1982), English ballet dancer
- Gemma Booth (born 1974), English photographer
- Gemma Chan (born 1982), British actress
- Gemma Craven (born 1950), Irish actress
- Gemma di Manetto Donati, the wife of medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri
- Gemma Doyle (politician) (born 1981), British Labour Party politician
- Gemma Galgani (1878–1903), Italian mystic with signs of stigmata, venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint
- Gemma Hayes (born 1977), Irish singer-songwriter
- Gemma Jackson (born 1951), British production designer
- Gemma Jones (born 1942), English actress
- Gemma Mengual (born 1977), Catalan synchronised swimmer
- Gemma Quinnell (born 1980), English choreographer and fitness presenter
- Gemma Sanderson (born 1983), Australian model and the winner of Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 1
- Gemma Ward (born 1987), Australian model
- Gemma Whelan (born 1981), English actress and comedian
Male
- Gemma Frisius (1508–1555), Frisian mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker
Fictional characters
- Gemma, in the children's Hospital Radio series The Space Gypsy Adventures
- 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 Warren, heroine of the 1897 novel The Gadfly
- Gemma, in the first series of the Sky One supernatural TV series Hex
- Gemma, an Arduino compatible microcontroller designed by Limor Fried
- Gemma Teller Morrow, in the FX TV series Sons of Anarchy
- Gemma, the Silver Ranger in the television show Power Rangers: RPM
- Gemma Palmer played by Felicity Kendal in Solo, a 1981-82 BBC1 sitcom
See also
Look up Gemma in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- All pages with titles beginning with Gemma
- Emma (name)
- Jemima is also occasionally misspelt as Jemma
References
- ^ "Name: Gemma". babynames.co.uk.
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