Moira (given name)
The name Moira, sometimes spelled Moyra, is an Anglicisation of the Irish name Máire, the Irish equivalent of Mary.People
Television and film
- Moira Brooker, English actress
- Moira Buffini, English dramatist, director and actor associated with the In-yer-face theatre style
- Moira Chen, a pseudonym for actress Laura Gemser
- Moira Harris, American actress
- Moira Kelly, American actress
- Moira Lister, South African actress
- Moira McLean, Australian morning television presenter
- Moira Quirk, English actress
- Moira Redmond, English actress
- Moira Shearer, Scottish ballerina and actress
- Moira Stuart, the first Black woman newsreader on British television
- Moira Dela Torre, Filipina singer-songwriter
Other fields
- Moira Anderson, Scottish singer
- Moira Brinnand, Argentine field hockey player
- Moira Brown, Canadian-born North Atlantic right whale researcher
- Moira Cameron, British soldier, first woman Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London
- Moira Crone, American fiction author
- Moira Leiper Ducharme, first female mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Moira Gatens, Australian academic
- Moira Gunn, American radio host
- Moira MacLeod, British field hockey player
- Moira O'Neill, Irish-Canadian poet
- Moira Rayner, New Zealand-born, Australian-based barrister and human rights advocate
- Moira Senior, field hockey player from New Zealand
Fictional characters
- Moira MacTaggert, a recurring character in X-Men comic books
- Moira/Max Sweeney, on the Showtime television network series The L Word
- Moira O'Hara, a character in the TV series American Horror Story
- Moira Queen, Oliver Queen's mother in the Green Arrow comic books
- Moira Queen, Oliver Queen's mother in the TV series Arrow
- Moira O’Deorain, a character in the video game Overwatch
- Wendy Moira Angela Darling, a character in Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie
- Moira Banning, wife of Peter Banning/Peter Pan in the popular movie Hook
- Moira Thaurissan, Queen Regent of the Dark Iron Clan, a minor character in the popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft
- Moira, a character in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
- Moira Theirin, mother of Maric Theirin in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise
- Moira Brown, a character in Bethesda Game Studios' Fallout 3
- Moira Burton, a character in Capcom's Game '
- Moira Barton, recurring character in soap opera, Emmerdale
- Moira Vahlen, Chief Scientist in the video game, '
- Moira Queen of Remba in Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber
- Moira Rose, a character in the Canadian television series, Schitt's Creek
- Moira Davidson, a character in the novel and 1959 film, On The Beach
- Moira, a minor character in the first episode of
