Theodora may refer to: * Theodora (given name), a given name of Greek origin, meaning "God's gift"

Historical figures known as Theodora

Byzantine empresses

Theodora (wife of Justinian I) Theodora (; Greek language, Greek: Θεοδώρα; 490/50028 June 548) was a Byzantine empress and wife of emperor Justinian I. She was from humble origins and became empress when her husband became emperor in 527. Theodora was one of his chie ...

( 500 – 548), saint by the Orthodox Church * Theodora of Khazaria, 7th-century empress, wife of Justinian II * Theodora (wife of Theophilos), 9th-century empress, saint by the Orthodox Church * Theodora (wife of Romanos I), 10th-century empress * Theodora (daughter of Constantine VII), 10th-century empress, wife of John I Tzimiskes * Theodora Porphyrogenita (c. 980–1056), empress regnant in 1042 and 1055–1056 * Theodora Palaiologina (Byzantine empress) (c. 1240–1303), wife of Michael VIII Palaiologos

Trebizonian empresses

* Theodora Axuchina, empress consort of Alexios I of Trebizond * Theodora of Trebizond (before 1253 – after 1285), empress regnant from 1284 to 1285 * Theodora Kantakouzene (c. 1240 – after 1290), empress consort of Alexios III of Trebizond * Theodora Kantakouzene (wife of Alexios IV of Trebizond), empress consort of Alexios IV of Trebizond

Others

* Theodora of Emesa, 5th-century Neoplatonist * Flavia Maximiana Theodora, daughter of the Roman emperor Maximian and second wife of emperor Constantius I * Episcopa Theodora, mother of Pope Paschal I in the 9th century * Theodora (senatrix), Roman senatrix and mother of Marozia; concubine to Pope Sergius III * Theodora Komnene (disambiguation) * Theodora Tocco, despoina consort of Constantine, Despot in Morea (later Constantine XI Palaiologos). * Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969), daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark * Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (born 1983), daughter of Constantine II of Greece * Theodora of Hesse-Darmstadt, daughter of Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt and Duchess consort of Guastalla * Theodora Sayn-Wittgenstein (born 1986), German aristocrat * Princess Theodora of Liechtenstein (born 2004), Liechtensteiner environmentalist * Theodora (Roman martyr), 2nd-century Christian martyr and saint * Theodora and Didymus, early Christian martyrs * Theodora of Alexandria, Eastern Orthodox saint * Theodora of Arta, 13th-century Empress of Epirus * Theodora of Sihla, Romanian Orthodox saint

Arts and entertainment

* ''Theodora'' (Handel), an oratorio by George Frideric Handel * ''Theodora'' (1914 film), Italian silent film * ''Theodora'' (1921 film), Italian silent film

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