Gemma (given name)
Gemma is an Italian female name, of Latin origin, meaning "gem" or "precious stone".[1][2][3][4] The name has been amongst the most popular in England and Scotland during the 1980s.[5]
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 Collins (born 1981), English media personality and businesswoman
- Gemma Cowling, Australian model
- 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 Frizelle (born 1998), British rhythmic gymnast
- Gemma Galgani or Saint Gemma of Lucca (1878–1903), Italian mystic with signs of stigmata, venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint
- Gemma Geis (born 1979), Catalan politician
- Gemma Hayes (born 1977), Irish singer-songwriter
- Gemma Houghton (born 1993), Australian rules footballer
- Gemma Hunt (born 1982), English children's TV presenter
- Gemma Jackson (born 1951), British production designer
- Gemma Jones (born 1942), English actress
- Gemma Mengual (born 1977), Catalan synchronised swimmer
- Gemma Peacocke, composer from New Zealand
- Gemma Sanderson (born 1983), Australian model and the winner of Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 1
- Gemma Smith (born 1978), Australian painter and sculptor
- 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 first series of the Sky One supernatural TV series Hex
- Gemma, in the children's Hospital Radio series The Space Gypsy Adventures
- Gemma, in the 2023 sci-fi horror film M3GAN
- Gemma Ball, a character in the television series Shameless
- Gemma Bovery, a character in the film Gemma Bovery
- 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 Foster, the main character in the British series Doctor Foster
- Gemma Larson, a character in the ABC series Grey's Anatomy
- Gemma Nerrick, a character in the Netflix mockumentaries Death to 2020 and Death to 2021
- Gemma Palmer, played by Felicity Kendal in Solo, a British sitcom
- Gemma Reeves, a character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Gemma T., a character in the Stephen King novel Doctor Sleep
- Gemma Teller Morrow, a character in the FX TV series Sons of Anarchy
- Gemma Warren, heroine of the 1897 novel The Gadfly
- Gemma Winter, a character from the British soap opera Coronation Street
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Gemma
- Emma (given name)
- Gema (given name)
- Gemma (surname)
- Jemma (given name)
References
- "Name: Gemma". babynames.com.
- "Name: Gemma". Nameberry.com.
- "Name: Gemma". Behindthename.com.
- "Gemma". Name: Gemma. Oxford Reference. January 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.
- "Popular Baby Names From The UK Archives". Huffpost.com. 2 March 2018.
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