People
* Jemima Blackburn (1823–1909), Scottish painter * Jemima Boone, daughter of Daniel Boone captured by Indians in 1776—see Capture and rescue of Jemima Boone * Jemima Goldsmith (born 1974), English journalist, editor, heiress and activist * Jemimah Kariuki, Kenyan doctor * Jemima Kirke (born 1985), English-American actress * Jemima Montag (born 1998), Australian female racewalker * Jemima Morrell (1832–1909), English traveller and illustrator * Jemima Nicholas (1755–1832), Welsh woman who captured 12 drunk French soldiers in the Battle of Fishguard, the "last invasion of Britain" * Jemima Osunde, Nigerian actress, model and presenter * Jemima Parry-Jones (born 1949), British authority on birds of prey, conservationist and author * Jemima Rooper (born 1981), English actress * Jemima Sumgong (born 1984), Kenyan long-distance runner * Jemima von Tautphoeus (1807–1893), Irish novelist * Jemima West (born 1987), Anglo-French actress * Jemima Wilkinson (1752–1819), American preacher and evangelist * Jemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness Grey (1723–1797)Biblical and fictional characters
* Jemima (Bible), daughter of Job * Jemima (cat), a character in the musical ''Cats (musical), Cats'' * Jemima, a duck in the children's book ''The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck'' by Beatrix Potter * Jemima, a doll in the various versions of the television show ''Play School (UK TV series), Play School'' * Jemima Potts, the daughter in the 1968 film ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' * Jemima "Jed" Marshall, the villain's mistress in the novel ''The Night Manager'' by John le Carré and on the The Night Manager (TV series), British TV mini-series of the same name * Jemima Shore, an investigative journalist in a series of crime novels by Antonia Fraser * Aunt Jemima, an advertising character for a food brand * Old Aunt Jemima, a blackface minstrel character {{given name English feminine given names