Miranda is a
feminine given name of
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power ...
origin, meaning "worthy of admiration". There are several variants.
People
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Miranda (born 1984), Colombian singer, winner of ''La Voz Colombia''
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Miranda Carter
Miranda Carter (born 1965) is an English historian, writer and biographer who also publishes fiction under the name MJ Carter.Jake Kerridge ''The Telegraph'', 23 April 2015.
Education
Carter was educated at St Paul's Girls School and Exeter Co ...
(born 1965), English writer and biographer
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Miranda Chartrand
Miranda Chartrand (born 3 May 1990) and Adam Nichols (born 10 September 1991) are a musical duo. They met and began working together through the BBC television series ''Chartjackers'', which was challenging the online community to write, record ...
(born 1990), Canadian singer
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Miranda Connell
Miranda Connell (born 3 August 1938, Stansted, Essex, England) is an English actress.
Early life and education
She attended Elmhurst Ballet School and the Cheltenham Ladies' College, then appeared on stage in Stratford-upon-Avon and the West ...
(born 1938), English actress
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Miranda Cooper
Miranda Eleanor De Fonbrune Cooper (born 1975) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and television presenter. Miranda Cooper has worked in the music industry since 1996 when she gained her first recording contract. She wor ...
(born 1975), English pop singer
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Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Taylor Cosgrove (born May 14, 1993) is an American actress and singer. She was the highest-paid child actor in 2012 and was included on ''Forbes'' magazine's " 30 Under 30" list in 2022. She is known for her career on television, parti ...
(born 1993), American actress and singer
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Miranda Devine
Miranda Devine (born 1 July 1961) is an Australian columnist and writer, now based in New York City. She hosted ''The Miranda Devine Show'' on Sydney radio station 2GB until it ended in 2015. She has written columns for Fairfax Media newspapers ...
, Australian columnist and writer
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Miranda Fenner (1979–1998), American female youth who was murdered
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Miranda Gibson, Australian environmental activist and school teacher
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Miranda Grell
Miranda Agnes Jayne Grell (born June 1978) is a barrister and former Labour Party councillor for the London Borough of Waltham Forest. She was the first person to be found guilty of making false statements under the Representation of the People A ...
, British Labour party politician found guilty of making false statements against her political opponent
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Miranda Grosvenor, bored fan in the US who made a full-time hobby of calling stars
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Miranda Hart
Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke (born 14 December 1972) is an English actress and writer. Following drama training at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, Hart began writing material for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and making appearances in va ...
(born 1972), English actress and comedian
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Miranda Hill
Miranda Hill (Wisbech 1836–1910) was an English social reformer.
Biography
Hill was a daughter of James Hill (died 1872), a corn merchant, banker and follower of Robert Owen, and his third wife, Caroline Southwood Smith (1809–1902), a ...
(1836–1910), English social reformer
* Miranda Jarrett, pen name for American author
Susan Holloway Scott
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Miranda July
Miranda July (born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger; February 15, 1974) is an American film director, screenwriter, singer, actress and author. Her body of work includes film, fiction, monologue, digital presentations and live performance art.
She w ...
, American performance artist
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Miranda Kerr
Miranda May Kerr (; born 20 April 1983) is an Australian model and businesswoman. Kerr rose to prominence in 2007, as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. Kerr was the first Australian Victoria's Secret model and also represented the Australia ...
, Australian model,
Victoria's Secret Angel
Victoria's Secret is an American lingerie, clothing, and beauty retailer known for high visibility marketing and branding, starting with a popular catalog and followed by an annual fashion show with supermodels dubbed Angels. As the largest ...
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Miranda Krestovnikoff, British television presenter
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Miranda Kwok, Canadian actor and film producer
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Miranda Lambert
Miranda Leigh Lambert (born November 10, 1983) is an American country singer and guitarist. Born in Longview, Texas, she started out in early 2001 when she released her self-titled debut album independently. In 2003, she finished in third place o ...
, American country and western singer-songwriter
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Miranda Lee
Miranda Lee (born Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia) is a popular Australian writer of over 75 romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon's since 1990.
Biography
Miranda Lee was born in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, ...
, Australian author of romance novels
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Miranda Leek, American archer
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Miranda Macmillan, Countess of Stockton
Miranda Elizabeth Louise Macmillan, Countess of Stockton (née Quarry; 27 May 1947 – 18 March 2020) was a British socialite and fashion model.
Early life
Born in 1947, in Wokingham, Berkshire, Miranda Quarry’s parents were Richard Bridges St ...
(1947–2020), British socialite and fashion model
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Miranda Myrat
Miranda Myrat ( el, Μιράντα Μυράτ; 12 January 1906 – 27 January 1994) was a Greek actress. She appeared in more than forty films from 1928 to 1989.
She was the daughter of actress Cybele Andrianou (1888-1978) and her first husb ...
, Greek actress
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Miranda Nild
Miranda Nild (born 1 April 1997), known in Thailand as Suchawadee Nildhamrong ( th, สุชาวดี นิลธำรงค์; ), is an American-born Thai former professional footballer who played as a forward for the Thailand women's n ...
(born 1997), Thai footballer
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Miranda Otto
Miranda Otto (born 16 December 1967) is an Australian actress. She is the daughter of actors Barry and Lindsay Otto and the paternal half-sister of actress Gracie Otto. Otto began her acting career in 1986 at age 18 and appeared in a variety ...
, Australian film and theatre actress
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Miranda Raison
Miranda Caroline Raison (born 18 November 1977) is an English actress and voice-over narrator.
Early life
Miranda Raison was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, on 18 November 1977. Her mother is former Anglia News reader Caroline Raison (''né ...
, English actress
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Miranda Lee Richards
Miranda Lee Richards (born April 4, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter.
Her 2001 release ''The Herethereafter'' included original compositions such as "The Beginner", and a cover of The Rolling Stones' 1967 single "Dandelion". Her single "Th ...
, American singer-songwriter
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Miranda Richardson
Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English actress. She made her film debut playing Ruth Ellis in '' Dance with a Stranger'' (1985) and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for '' Damage'' (1992) and '' Tom & Viv'' (1994). ...
, Academy Award-nominated English actress
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Miranda Sawyer
Miranda Caroline Sawyer (born January 1967) is an English author, journalist and broadcaster.
Education and early life
Sawyer was born in Bristol and grew up in Wilmslow, Cheshire with her brother Toby, who is an actor. Sawyer was educated at ...
, English journalist and broadcaster
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Miranda Seymour
Miranda Jane Seymour (born 8 August 1948) is an English literary critic, novelist and biographer. The lives she has described have included those of Robert Graves and Mary Shelley. Seymour, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has in rec ...
, English literary critic, novelist, and biographer
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Miranda Stone, Canadian singer-songwriter
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Miranda Weese
Miranda Weese (born ) is an American former ballet dancer, teacher and ballet master. She joined the New York City Ballet in 1993 and was promoted to principal dancer in 1996. In 2007, she left to perform with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, first ...
, American ballet dancer
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Miranda Yang (Xia Meng) (1933-2016), Hong Kong actress
Fictional characters
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Miranda (''The Tempest''), in the play ''The Tempest'' by English writer William Shakespeare
* Miranda, one of the characters from the
Diva Starz
Diva Starz was a series of talking fashion dolls created and released by Mattel in October 2000. They are similar in design to MGA's Bratz and Tiger Electronics' Furby. Alexa, Nikki, Summer—later replaced by Miranda—and Tia were offered ...
toy line
* Miranda, the titular character of ''
Miranda''
* Miranda, the schoolgirl who goes missing in ''
Picnic at Hanging Rock'' by Joan Lindsay
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Miranda (''Doctor Who''), in the British novel series ''Eighth Doctor Adventures''
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Miranda (''W.I.T.C.H.''), in the American television series ''W.I.T.C.H.''
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Miranda Bailey
Miranda Bailey, M.D., F.A.C.S. is a fictional character from the medical drama television series ''Grey's Anatomy''. The character was created by series creator and producer Shonda Rhimes, and has been portrayed by actress Chandra Wilson since the ...
, Chief of Surgery and attending general surgeon at Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital in the American television series ''Grey's Anatomy''
* Miranda Barlow, from the
Starz
Starz (stylized as STARZ since 2016; pronounced "stars") is an American premium cable and satellite television network owned by Lions Gate Entertainment, and is the flagship property of parent subsidiary Starz Inc. Programming on Starz consis ...
series
Black Sails
* Miranda Carroll, from 2014 fiction novel ''
Station Eleven
''Station Eleven'' is a novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel. It takes place in the Great Lakes region before and after a fictional swine flu pandemic, known as the "Georgia Flu", has devastated the world, killing most of the popu ...
'' by Canadian author ''
Emily St. John Mandel''
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Miranda Corneille
Usability can be described as the capacity of a system to provide a condition for its users to perform the tasks safely, effectively, and efficiently while enjoying the experience. In software engineering, usability is the degree to which a sof ...
, in the Canadian webcomic ''User Friendly''
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Miranda Evans
''Doctors'' is a British medical soap opera which began broadcasting on BBC One on 26 March 2000. Set in the fictional West Midlands town of Letherbridge, the soap follows the lives of the staff and patients of the Mill Health Centre, a fictio ...
, in the British soap opera ''Doctors''
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Miranda Feigelsteen, in the Canadian television series ''Mysterious Ways''
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Miranda Goshawk
The following are supporting characters in the ''Harry Potter'' series written by J. K. Rowling. For members of the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore's Army, Hogwarts staff, Ministry of Magic, or for Death Eaters, see the respective articl ...
, in the ''Harry Potter'' novel series by English author J. K. Rowling
* Miranda Grey, in the novel ''
The Collector
''The Collector'' is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely, psychotic young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhous ...
'' by English author John Fowles
* Miranda Hillard, the ex-wife of the main protagonist in the 1993 movie ''
Mrs. Doubtfire
''Mrs. Doubtfire'' is a 1993 American comedy-drama film directed by Chris Columbus. It was written for the screen by Randi Mayem Singer and Leslie Dixon, based on the 1987 novel '' Alias Madame Doubtfire'' by Anne Fine. Robin Williams, who also ...
''
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Miranda Hobbes
Miranda Hobbes is a fictional character on the American HBO television series ''Sex and the City'', its subsequent film spinoffs, and HBO Max revival '' And Just Like That...''. She is played by actress Cynthia Nixon. Nixon received an Emmy Awa ...
, in the American television series ''Sex and the City''
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Miranda Jeffries, in the American film ''Chances Are''
* Miranda Jones, in the anime series ''
Transformers: Energon''
* Miranda Jones, from Star Trek The Original Series, Episode ''Is There No Truth In Beauty?''
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Miranda Keyes
Major recurring characters of the ''Halo'' multimedia franchise are organized below by their respective affiliations within the series' fictional universe. The original trilogy's central story revolved around conflict between humanity under the ...
, in the American video game series ''Halo''
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Miranda Killgallen
Throughout the various episodes in '' As Told by Ginger'', a number of recurring characters appear. Prominent characters are listed here.
The Foutleys
Ginger Foutley
;Voiced by Melissa Disney
Ginger Foutley is an average 12-year-old girl, gin ...
, in the American television series ''As Told By Ginger''
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Miranda Lawson
Miranda Lawson is a fictional character in the role-playing video game series ''Mass Effect'' by BioWare. In it, Miranda is an officer of the pro-human group Cerberus, first appearing in the 2009 iOS game '' Mass Effect Galaxy'', and then servin ...
, in the ''
Mass Effect
''Mass Effect'' is a military science fiction media franchise created by Casey Hudson, Drew Karpyshyn and Preston Watamaniuk. The franchise depicts a distant future where humanity and several alien civilizations have colonized the known univer ...
'' series
* Miranda Lotto, in the manga ''
D.Gray-Man
''D.Gray-man'' is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsura Hoshino. Set in an alternate 19th century, it tells the story of a young Allen Walker, who joins an organization of exorcists named the Black Order. They use an ...
'' and the anime of the same name
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Miranda Montgomery
Miranda Montgomery is a fictional character from the American serial drama, ''All My Children''.
Casting and characterization
On February 19, 2013, it was believed that actress Jordan Lane Price was to be cast as a SORASed Miranda on the Prosp ...
, in the American television series ''All My Children''
* Miranda North, in the film ''
Life
Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as Cell signaling, signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for Cell growth, growth, reaction to Stimu ...
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Miranda Priestly
Miranda Priestly (born Miriam Princhek; October 25, 1949) is a character in Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel ''The Devil Wears Prada (novel), The Devil Wears Prada'', portrayed by Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada (film), the 2006 film adaptatio ...
, in the novel ''The Devil Wears Prada'' by American author Lauren Weisberger
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Miranda Sanchez
''Lizzie McGuire'' is an American comedy television series created by Terri Minsky that premiered on Disney Channel on January 12, 2001. The series stars Hilary Duff as the titular character, who navigates the personal and social issues of her ...
, in the American television series ''Lizzie McGuire''
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Miranda Sings
Miranda may refer to:
Law
* '' Miranda v. Arizona'', an American legal case
* ''Miranda'' warning, an American police warning given to suspects about their rights, before they are interrogated
Places Australia
* Miranda, New South Wales
* Miran ...
, character created on YouTube by Colleen Ballinger
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Miranda Tate, played by
Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard (; born 30 September 1975) is a French actress, film producer, singer, and environmentalist who is widely known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters in both European and Hollywood productions.
She has receive ...
in the 2012 film ''
The Dark Knight Rises
''The Dark Knight Rises'' is a 2012 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan, and the story with David S. Goyer. The film is based on the DC Comics character Batman, it is the ...
''
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Miranda Wright
''Bonkers'' is an American animated television series and a spinoff as segment series called ''He's Bonkers'' of '' Disney's Raw Toonage''. It aired from February 28, 1993, to February 23, 1994, in first-run syndication (after a "preview airing ...
, in the American television series ''Bonkers''
References
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Feminine given names
English feminine given names