Althea () is an English female given name. It is a variation of the Greek name '' Althaea'' (Αλθαια), which may be related to Greek ''althos'' ("healing"). Richard Lovelace used the name in a poem ("

To Althea, from Prison "To Althea, from Prison" is a poem written by Richard Lovelace in 1642. The poem is one of Lovelace's best-known works, and its final stanza's first line "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage" is often quoted. Lovelace wrote the ...

") that

John Milton John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem ''Paradise Lost'' was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and politic ...

later alluded to in his own poem "

Lycidas "Lycidas" () is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies, ''Justa Edouardo King Naufrago'', dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a friend of Milton at Cambridge who drown ...

".Milton, John (1886). Homer Baxter Sprague, ed
"Milton's Lycidas"
''Paradise Lost, Books I and II''. Boston: Ginn & Co.

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Althea Braithwaite Althea Mary Braithwaite (20 June 1940 – 27 August 2020), was an English children's author, illustrator, publisher and glass artist, best known for ''Desmond the Dinosaur''. Althea Braithwaite was born in Pinner Pinner is a suburb in the Lo ...

(1940–2020), English children's author, illustrator, publisher and glass artist * Althea Bridges (born 1936), Australian opera singer and music teacher *

Althea Currier Althea Currier is an American glamour model and actress, active throughout the 1960s. Early life Currier was born in 1941 in Baileyville, Maine and moved to Southern California in the late 1950s. She was a model and actress, noted for her large- ...

(born 1941), American glamor model and actress *

Althea Flynt Althea Flynt (née Leasure; November 6, 1953 – June 27, 1987) was an American co-publisher of pornographic magazine '' Hustler'', and the fourth wife of Larry Flynt. Early life Althea Leasure was born November 6, 1953, in Marietta, Ohio. Alth ...

(1953–1987), fourth wife of Larry Flynt *

Althea Gibson Althea Neale Gibson (August 25, 1927September 28, 2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African America ...

(1927–2003), American female athlete * Althea Forrest, one half of vocal duo

Althea & Donna Althea & Donna were a Jamaican reggae vocal duo, consisting of Althea Rose Forrest and Donna Marie Reid. They are best known for their 1977 single "Uptown Top Ranking", which was a number-one hit in the United Kingdom in 1978. Career The Jama ...

Althea McNish Althea McNish (15 May 1924 – 16 April 2020) was an artist from Trinidad who became the first Black British textile designer to earn an international reputation. Born in Trinidad, McNish moved to Britain in the 1950s. She was associated with ...

(1924–2020), British textile designer of Trinidadian origin * Althea G. Quimby (1858-1942), American temperance leader *

Althea Reinhardt Althea Rebecca Reinhardt (born 1 September 1996) is a Danish handball player for Odense Håndbold and the Danish national team. Clubs career She signed for Odense in 2016, after starting the career at Nykøbing Falster Håndboldklub. With Oden ...

(born 1996), Danish handball player *

Althea Thauberger Althea Thauberger (born 1970, Saskatoon, Canada) is a Canadian visual artist, film maker and educator. Her work engages relational practices rooted in sustained collaborations with groups or communities through social, theatrical and textual proce ...

, Canadian artist *

Althea Wynne Althea Kathleen Wynne (6 October 1936 – 24 January 2012), also known by her married names of Dresman and Barrington Brown, was an English sculptor and art teacher, and a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. She specialized in ...

(1936–2012), English sculptor * Althea Rae Janairo, actress aka

Tia Carrere Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo (born January 2, 1967), known professionally as Tia Carrere (), is an American actress and singer who got her first big break as a regular on the daytime soap opera ''General Hospital''. Carrere played Cassandra Wong i ...

Altheia Jones-LeCointe Altheia Jones-LeCointe (born 9 January 1945) is a Trinidadian physician and research scientist also known for her role as a leader of the British Black Panther Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Jones-LeCointe came to public attention in 1970 as o ...

, Trinidadian physician and research scientist, leader of the British Black Panther Movement

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