Miranda (given name)
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| Pronunciation | /mɪˈrændə/ mə-RAN-də |
|---|---|
| Gender | Feminine |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Latin |
| Meaning | "worthy of admiration" |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Mira, Myra, Meera, Randy |
Miranda is a feminine given name of Latin origin, meaning "worthy of admiration". There are several variants.[1] 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.[citation needed]
List of people[edit]
- 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 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[edit]
- 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
References[edit]
- ^ "Miranda - Name Meaning and Origin". thinkbabynames.com. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
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