Terri is an alternative spelling of

Terry Terry is a unisex given name, derived from French Thierry and Theodoric. It can also be used as a diminutive nickname for the names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence or Terrier (masculine). People Male * Terry Albritton (1955–2005), Ame ...

. It is a common feminine given name and is also a diminutive for

Teresa Teresa (also Theresa, Therese; french: Thérèse) is a feminine given name. It originates in the Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity. Its derivation is uncertain, it may be derived from Classical Greek, Greek θερίζω (''therízō'') " ...

. Notable people with the name include: * Terri Allard (born 1962), American country/folk singer/songwriter * Terri S. Armstrong, American scientist * Terri Attwood (born 1959), English professor *

Terri Austin Terri Jo Austin is an American educator and politician from Indiana. Austin is a Democratic member of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing the 36th District since January 2003. Early life On May 17, 1955, Austin was born in Elwoo ...

(born 1955), American educator and politician *

Terri Bennett Terri Bennett is an Irish former cricketer who played as an all-rounder. She appeared in three One Day Internationals for Ireland in 1990. She played domestic cricket for East Midlands The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of ...

, Irish cricketer *

Terri Bjerre Terri Bjerre, also known as Terri B!, is an American electronic dance musician. Career Terri B! aka Terri Bjerre began her career in the band 2 Eivissa, who reached #1 on the Spanish Top 100 with the classic Oh la la la, in 1997. Since 2013, th ...

(born 1966), American musician * Terri Blackstock (born 1957), American Christian fiction writer *

Terri Bonoff Terri E. Bonoff (born August 1, 1957) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Minnesota. She is a former member of the Minnesota Senate, representing District 44, which included portions of Minnetonka, Plymouth and Woodland in Hennepin ...

, American politician * Terri Brisbin, American historical romance author *

Terri Brosius Terri Brosius (née Barous) is an American musician, voice actress, and game designer, best known in gaming circles as the voice of SHODAN in the ''System Shock'' series. Biography Terri was a member of the Boston band Tribe as a keyboardist ...

, American musician and voice actor *

Terri Brown Terri Brown (born September 27, 1947) is an American athlete An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or ...

, American athlete * Terri Bryant, American politician *

Terri Butler Terri Megan Butler (born 28 November 1977) is a former Australian politician and a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). Butler formerly represented the Division of Griffith in the House of Representatives from the 2014 by-election to the ...

, former Australian politician *

Terri Lyne Carrington Terri Lyne Carrington (born August 4, 1965) is an American jazz drummer, composer, producer, and educator. She has played with Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Yellowjackets, and ma ...

, jazz drummer, composer, and record producer *

Terri Carver Terri Carver is a state representative from Colorado Springs, Colorado. A Republican, Carver represents Colorado House of Representatives District 20, which encompasses several communities in El Paso County, including Air Force Academy, Cascade, ...

, American politician * Terri Cater, Australian former sprinter and middle-distance runner *

Terri Clark Terri Lynn Sauson, known professionally as Terri Clark, born August 5, 1968, is a Canadian country music singer who has had success in both Canada and the United States. Signed to Mercury Records in 1995, she released her self-titled debut that ...

, Canadian country music artist * Terri Collins, American politician * Terri Conley, American social psychologist *

Terri Conn Theresa Celeste Conn is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Katie Peretti on ''As the World Turns'', Christine “Aubrey Wentworth" Karr on '' One Life to Live'', and Ashley Dupree on Breaker High. On July 1, 2011, she married ...

, American actress *

Terri Crawford Terri Crawford, formerly billed as Terry Crawford, is a Canadian musician, most noted as a two-time Juno Award nominee for Most Promising Female Vocalist at the Juno Awards of 1982 and the Juno Awards of 1983. Background Originally from Montreal, ...

, Canadian musician *

Terri Dendy Terri Dendy (born May 8, 1965) is a former American track and field athlete from Wilmington, Delaware. Dendy was ranked among the top ten women in the U.S. for the 400 meters event from 1986 through 1989 and again in 1993. She was an alternate o ...

, former American track and field athlete *

Terri Dial Terri Arlene Dial (October 30, 1949 – February 28, 2012) was an American banker. She was the Vice Chairman of Wells Fargo from 1996 to 1998, the head of Lloyds' United Kingdom retail division from 2005 to 2008, and the leader of Citigroup's No ...

(1949-2012), American banker * Terri Lynn Doss, American model and actress *

Terri Doty Terri Doty is an American voice actress, voice director, and ADR writer known for her voice work in English dubs of Japanese anime shows produced by Funimation and Sentai Filmworks. Career In anime, Doty is known for her work as Moriko Morioka ...

, American voice actress, voice director, and ADR writer *

Terri Dunning Terri Dunning (born 11 March 1985) is a former British swimmer. She specialised in butterfly and won medals at the 2005 Summer Universiade, 2006 European Aquatics Championships and 2006 Commonwealth Games. See also * List of Commonwealth Games ...

, former British swimmer *

Terri Dwyer Teresa "Terri" Dwyer (born 31 July 1973) is a British television presenter and actress, best known for her role as Ruth Osborne in the British soap opera ''Hollyoaks''. She has also presented the ITV home makeover show 60 Minute Makeover. Car ...

, English actress *

Terri-Rae Elmer Terri-Rae Elmer (born 1956) is a Los Angeles based radio personality. Elmer was a radio news announcer for KFI AM 640 from 1983-2011. Following KFI Terri-rae became the co-host of the morning show on KABC 790 with Doug McIntyre. Cumulus Media di ...

, radio news announcer *

Terri Farley American Terri Farley is an American writer. She is the best-selling author of ''Seven Tears into the Sea'', '' The Phantom Stallion'' series for young readers about the contemporary and historic West and many nonfiction magazine articles. Biogr ...

, American writer * Terri Fields, American book writer and teacher * Terri H. Finkel, American pediatric rheumatologist and immunologist *

Terri Garber Terri is an alternative spelling of Terry. It is a common feminine given name and is also a diminutive for Teresa. Notable people with the name include: * Terri Allard (born 1962), American country/folk singer/songwriter *Terri S. Armstrong, A ...

, American actress *

Terri Gibbs Teresa Fay Gibbs (born June 15, 1954) is an American country music artist who is blind. Between 1980 and 2017, she has recorded eleven studio albums, including four for MCA Records and one for Warner Bros. Records. She also charted 13 singles ...

, American country music artist *

Terri Grodzicker Terri Grodzicker is an American molecular geneticist and virologist who is currently the Dean of Academic Affairs at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She also serves as the editor-in-chief of ''Genes & Development''. Her research is in the field o ...

, American molecular geneticist and virologist *

Terri Hall Terri Hall (January 25, 1953 – June 5, 2007) was an American erotic actress in adult films from 1974 to 1984, during the Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984). Notable films include: ''Alice In Wonderland'' (1976), ''The Opening of Misty Beethoven ...

(1953-2007), American erotic actress * Terri Hardin, Muppet puppeteer, actress and stand-up comedian * Terri Hanauer, Canadian-American actress *

Terri Crawford Hansen Terri Crawford Hansen (born 1953) is a journalist who focuses primarily on environmental and scientific issues affecting North American tribal and worldwide indigenous communities. Hansen, an enrolled Native American citizen of the Winnebago Tribe ...

, American journalist * Terri Harper, British professional boxer *

Terri Hawkes Terri Hawkes (born ) is a Canadian actress and writer, known for playing Kelly Hennenlotter in the horror film, '' Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II'', Adrienne in ''Beverly Hills 90210'', Wendy Masters in '' General Hospital'', and for being the seco ...

, Canadian actress *

Terri Hemmert Terri Hemmert (born April 28, 1948) is an American radio personality, musicologist, and instructor at Columbia College Chicago. She is a long-term presence at WXRT-FM in Chicago, Illinois where she became the first female drive time host for a ...

, American radio personality and musicologist *

Terri Hendrix Terri Ann Hendrix is a Texas-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and independent artist who has been writing and performing an eclectic mix of Americana genre, encompassing folk, pop, country, blues, and jazz, since 1990. Since ...

, contemporary folk singer-songwriter from Texas *

Terri L. Hill Terri Lynn Hill (born May 3, 1959) is an American politician who serves as a Delegate to the Maryland General Assembly representing Maryland's 12th Legislative District, which encompasses portions of Baltimore and Howard Counties. Personal lif ...

, American politician * Terri Hoffman (1938-2015), American writer *

Terri Hogue Terri S. Hogue is a hydrologist. She is currently a professor and department head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. Her research focuses on different hydrologic and land surface processes in semi-arid regions and ...

, American hydrologist * Terri Hollowell, American singer *

Terri Hoyos Teresa Victoria "Terri" Hoyos is an American actress and former makeup artist. Early life Hoyos was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and is of Mexican descent and is the daughter of actor Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., aka Rodolfo Hoyos. In the 19 ...

, American actress *

Terri Irwin Terri Raines Irwin (née Raines, born July 20, 1964) is an American-Australian conservationist, television personality and author who is the owner of Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland. She is the widow of Steve Irwin. Born in Oregon, she b ...

, Australian, American-born naturalist, author, and owner of Australia Zoo at Beerwah, Queensland, Australia * Terri Ivens, American actress *

Terri Janke Terri Janke is an Indigenous Australian lawyer of Wuthathi/ Meriam heritage. She is considered a leading international authority on Indigenous cultural and intellectual property (ICIP), and is the Solicitor Director of Terri Janke and Company. ...

, Wuthathi/Meriam Indigenous lawyer * Terri Jentz, American writer *

Terri Kimball Terri is an alternative spelling of Terry. It is a common feminine given name and is also a diminutive for Teresa. Notable people with the name include: *Terri Allard (born 1962), American country/folk singer/songwriter *Terri S. Armstrong, Amer ...

, American model and Playmate of the Month * Terri Kwan, Taiwanese actress, model, singer and author * Texas Terri (formerly Terri Laird), punk rock singer and songwriter from Texas *

Terri Lynn Land Terri Lynn Land (born June 30, 1958) is an American politician who served as the 41st Michigan Secretary of State from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Land was elected to the Republican National Committee in 2012. She was the Rep ...

, Michigan Secretary of State *

Terri Leigh Terri Leigh (born December 23, 1981) is a Canadian television anchor and was a member of the Fox Soccer Report on-air talent team since October 2008. On September 5, 2010, she announced her departure from Fox Soccer Channel on air. She now hos ...

, Canadian television anchor * Terri McCormick, Wisconsin State Representative * Terri Meyette, Yaqui poet *

Terri Edda Miller Terri Edda Miller (sometimes Terri Miller or Terri E. Miller; born May 13, 1966) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. Biography Miller's first job in Hollywood was as an intern in Broadcast Standards at ABC, a network that she ...

, American screenwriter, producer, and director * Terri Minsky, American television writer and producer * Terri Mitchell, American women's basketball coach * Terri Moss, retired female boxer *

Terri Nunn Terri is an alternative spelling of Terry. It is a common feminine given name and is also a diminutive for Teresa. Notable people with the name include: * Terri Allard (born 1962), American country/folk singer/songwriter * Terri S. Armstrong, A ...

, American singer and actress * Terri O'Connell, former motorsports racing champion *

Terri Paddock Terri Paddock is an American writer and arts journalist, based in the UK since 1991. A former PR executive, she became editor of the Whatsonstage.com, a portal website about the British theatre, in 1996. She left that position in 2013. She has al ...

, American writer and arts journalist * Terri Poch, American bodybuilder and former professional wrestler * Terri Priest (1928-2014), American artist *

Terri Proud Terri Proud was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives The Arizona State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arizona Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arizona. The upper house is the Senate. T ...

, American politician *

Terri Psiakis Terri Psiakis is an Australian comedian and a presenter on radio and television. Radio Psiakis is a Saturday morning presenter on Melbourne radio station Triple M. Previously she was a casual presenter on Triple J, and her appearances most nota ...

, Australian comedian and a presenter on radio and television *

Terri Quaye Terri Quaye, also Theresa (born 8 November 1940, Bodmin, England), Val Wilmer"Quaye, Terri (born 1940), singer, pianist, percussionist" Grove Music Online - ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz'', 2nd edition. Published in print January 2002. Publ ...

, English musician * Terri Rachals, American nurse accused of murder * Terri Rogers (1937-1999), English ventriloquist and magician * Terri Roth, vice president of conservation and science at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden *

Terri Runnels Terri Lynne Boatright Runnels A transcript of the article can be found a (born October 5, 1966) is an American retired professional wrestling manager, television host, and professional wrestler. Runnels began her professional wrestling career in ...

, American former professional wrestling manager, television host and occasional wrestler * Terri Russell, former Australian cricket player *

Terri Schiavo The Terri Schiavo case was a series of court and legislative actions in the United States from 1998 to 2005, regarding the care of Theresa Marie Schiavo (née Schindler) (; December 3, 1963 – March 31, 2005), a woman in an irreversible ...

(1963-2005), diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for several years * Terri Schneider, American endurance athlete, motivational speaker, author, coach, and consultant * Terri Scott, education executive *

Terri Sewell Terri is an alternative spelling of Terry. It is a common feminine given name and is also a diminutive for Teresa. Notable people with the name include: *Terri Allard (born 1962), American country/folk singer/songwriter *Terri S. Armstrong, Amer ...

, American politician * Terri Seymour, British television presenter * Terri Sharp (1948-2015), American songwriter *

Terri Stoneburner Terri J. Stoneburner (born 1945) is an American lawyer and judge from the U.S. state of Minnesota. She is a former judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Education and career Stoneburner earned her undergraduate degree from Hanover College i ...

, American lawyer and judge * Terri Swearingen, American nurse * Terri Funk Sypolt, American politician * Terri Tatchell, Canadian screenwriter *

Terri Te Tau Terri Te Tau is a New Zealand contemporary artist and writer. She is a member of the Mata Aho Collective. In 2017, the collective represented New Zealand at documenta, a quinquennial contemporary-art exhibition held in Kassel, Germany. This w ...

, New Zealand contemporary artist and writer *

Terri Willingham Thomas Terri Willingham Thomas (born October 13, 1964) was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals from 2007–2019. Early life and education Thomas was born October 13, 1964. She earned undergraduate degrees from Athens State University and ...

, American judge * Terri Thompson, American business journalist * Terri Treas, American actress, writer and director * Terri Utley, beauty queen and motivational speaker * Terri Vaughan, American insurance academic, regulator, and advisor * Terri J. Vaughn, American film and television actress *

Terri Walker Terri Walker (born Chanelle Gstettenbauer, 14 April 1979) is an English R&B and soul singer-songwriter. Walker has released four albums in the United Kingdom, '' Untitled'', '' L.O.V.E'', ''I Am'' and ''Entitled''. She also provided the majorit ...

, English R&B and soul singer-songwriter * Terri Lynn Weaver, American politician *

Terri Welles Terri Welles (born Terri Knepper; November 21, 1956) is an American actress and adult model. She first appeared on the cover of the May 1980 issue of ''Playboy'', wearing a flight attendant costume to illustrate a pictorial on stewardesses (Wel ...

, American actress and adult model *

Terri White Terri White is an American actress and singer. Career The daughter of traveling musicians Bill White and Gertrude Hughes, White has appeared in '' Nunsense 2: The Sequel'' (1994), '' Ain't Misbehavin (1978), '' Barnum'' (1980), '' Welcome to ...

, American actress and singer * Terri White (journalist), British journalist, editor and author * Terri L. White, mental health executive * Terri Williams-Flournoy, American women's basketball coach *

Terri Windling Terri Windling (born December 3, 1958 in Fort Dix, New Jersey) is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. She has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stok ...

, American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults * Terri Witek, American poet *

Terri Young Terri L. Young (born 1959) is an American pediatric ophthalmologist. Early life and education Young was born in Sacramento, California and is African-American. She attended Bowdoin College for her undergraduate education and graduated with bache ...

, American pediatric ophthalmologist * Terri Zemaitis, retired American female

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Fictional characters

* Terri Alden, ''Three's Company'' * Terri Johnstone, ''River City'' *

Terri McGreggor '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' is a Canadian teen drama television series created by Linda Schuyler and Yan Moore. The series is now considered the first incarnation and premiered on CTV on October 14, 2001, and then ended on MTV Canada and ...

, ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'' * Terri Schuester, ''Glee'' * Terri Stivers, ''Homicide: Life on the Street'' * Terri Webber, ''General Hospital'' * Sherri and Terri, ''The Simpsons''

People with the last name Terri

Salli Terri Salli C. Terri (September 3, 1922 – May 5, 1996) was a singer, arranger, recording artist, and composer. Record audiences still cite Terri's "haunting" vocals, with ''Hi-Fi Review'' originally describing her as ''"a mezzo soprano whose velvet ...

, a singer, arranger, recording artist, and songwriter

Tropical cyclones

* Cyclone Terri (2001)