Georgia (name)
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Georgia is the latinate feminine form of George
, after Georgiana or Georgina
. The Italian cognate is Giorgia, and the Lithuanian is Jurgita or Jurga.
George (given name)
George, from the Greek word γεωργός , "farmer" or "earth-worker", which became a name in Greek: Γεώργιος , and Latin: Georgius. The word γεωργός is a compound word, formed by the words ge , "earth", "soil" and ergon , "work"...
, after Georgiana or Georgina
Georgina (name)
Georgina is a given name and the feminine form of George, along with Georgia. It may refer to:* Georgina Andrews, an Australian actress* Georgina Bardach, an Argentinian swimmer* Georgina Beyer, the world's first openly transsexual Member of Parliament...
. The Italian cognate is Giorgia, and the Lithuanian is Jurgita or Jurga.
People
- Georgia of ClermontGeorgia of ClermontSaint Georgia was a nun and hermitess near Clermont, Auvergne. Her feast day is 15 February.-External links:** at St. Patrick's Church...
(died 500), French saint and nun - Georgia ApostolouGeorgia ApostolouGeorgia Apostolou is a Greek film and television actress and former fashion model. She is best known for portraying Martha on Erotas, and the protagonist Aliki, on the television show Aliki.-External links:*...
(born 1966), Greek actress - Georgia BonoraGeorgia BonoraGeorgia Bonora is an Australian gymnast who was born in Melbourne. She began gymnastics at the age of 3. Bonora attended Eltham High School.- Gymnastics Career :At the Australian Championships in 2006, she finished 3rd...
(born 1990), Australian gymnast - Georgia Brown (English singer)Georgia Brown (English singer)Georgia Brown was a British singer and actress.Born Lillian Claire Laizer Getel Klot in the East End of London to Mark and Annie Kirschenbaum Klot, Jewish immigrants to the United Kingdom, she was dispatched to Wales during the Blitz to escape the bombings in London...
(1933–1992) - Georgia Brown (Brazilian singer) (born 1980)
- Georgia ByngGeorgia ByngLady Georgia Mary Caroline Byng, , is a British author of children's books and a former actress. Her first writing was for a comic strip, and her first published book was The Sock Monsters. Byng's best known work is Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism and its sequels, about a girl who finds a...
(born 1965), British author - Georgia CaineGeorgia CaineGeorgia Caine was an American actress who performed both on Broadway and in over 80 films in her 51 year career.-Early career:...
(1876–1964), American actress - Georgia CarrollGeorgia CarrollGeorgia Carroll was an American singer, fashion model, and actress, best known for her work with Kay Kyser's big band orchestra in the mid-1940s....
(born 1919), American singer - Georgia CayvanGeorgia CayvanGeorgie Eva Cayvan was a popular stage actress in the United States in the later part of the nineteenth century.-Early life:...
(1857–1906), American actress - Georgia EllinakiGeorgia EllinakiGeorgia Ellinaki is a female Greek water polo player and Olympic silver medalist with the Greek national team.She received a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in 2004 Athens.-References:...
(born 1974), Greek water polo player - Georgia EllisGeorgia EllisGeorgia Ellis was an American actress who is best known for her recurring role of Kitty in the popular Western radio drama Gunsmoke.-External links:...
(1917–1988), American actress - Georgia Engel (born 1948), American actress
- Georgia May FooteGeorgia May FooteGeorgia May Foote is a British actress. She is best known for playing Alison Simmons in the school drama series Grange Hill. She is currently starring in Coronation Street as Katy Armstrong, sister to Izzy Armstrong and daughter to Owen Armstrong.Foote has played many minor roles during her career...
(born 1991), British actress - Georgia FrontiereGeorgia FrontiereGeorgia Frontiere was the majority owner and chairman of the St. Louis Rams football team and the most prominent female owner in a league historically dominated by males....
(1927–2008), American businesswoman - Georgia FrostGeorgia FrostGeorgia Frost is an English model.-Early life and discovery:Georgia Frost was born in Aylesbury, England. She attended John Colet School in Wendover. While walking around the Camden Market area, she was scouted by agent Sarah Leon. Frost was only 13 at the time and Leon thought she was too young...
(born 1990), English model - Georgia GibbsGeorgia GibbsGeorgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs first achieved acclaim in the mid-1950s interpreting songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later as a featured vocalist on a long list of...
(1919–2006), American singer - Georgia HaleGeorgia HaleGeorgia Hale was an actress of the silent movie era.-Career:Georgia Theodora Hale was Miss Chicago 1922 and competed in the Miss America Pageant...
(1905–1985), American actress - Georgia HarknessGeorgia HarknessGeorgia Elma Harkness was a Christian theologian in the Methodist tradition. Born in Harkness, New York, a town named after her grandfather, Harkness has been described as one of the first significant American female theologians and was important in the movement to gain ordination for women in...
(1891–1974), American theologian - Georgia HenshawGeorgia HenshawGeorgia Henshaw is a Welsh actress from Swansea, South Wales. She is best known for her role as a member of "The Ace Gang", Rosie in Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, and as JJ's love interest, Lara, in Skins. She has also appeared as Cassie Claypole in the BBC3 show Two Pints Of Lager And A...
(born 1993), Welsh actress - Georgia Douglas JohnsonGeorgia Douglas JohnsonGeorgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson better known as Georgia Douglas Johnson was an American poet and a member of the Harlem Renaissance.-Early life and education:...
(1880–1966), American poet - Georgia KingGeorgia King-Career:King made her professional debut in Jane Eyre. She was nearly unable to play the role, however. "A week before the day she began filming, King felt stomach pains, then had her appendix rupture...
(born 1986), British actress - Georgia Kokloni (born 1981), Greek sprinter
- Georgia LeeGeorgia LeeGeorgia Lee is an independent film director. Her work includes the 2006 film Red Doors.- Personal life :Lee was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to immigrants from Taiwan. She was raised primarily in Waterford, CT in the house that is featured in her film Red Doors. She received an A.B. in...
(born 1922), Australian singer - Georgia Lee LuskGeorgia Lee LuskGeorgia Lee Witt Lusk was the first female U.S. Congressional representative from New Mexico, educator, and devoted public servant.-Early life:...
(1893–1971), American politician - Georgia MiddlemanGeorgia MiddlemanGeorgia Leigh Middleman is an American country singer. Middleman sang from age ten at the Texas Star Inn in San Antonio, and began writing songs shortly thereafter. She sold recordings of her first song, There's a Rainbow in Everybody's Heart, on her elementary school playground...
(born 1967), American country singer - Georgia MoffettGeorgia MoffettGeorgia Elizabeth Moffett is a British actress. Moffett was born in West London, the daughter of actors Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson....
(born 1984), English actress - Georgia Anne MuldrowGeorgia Anne MuldrowGeorgia Anne Muldrow is an American singer and musician signed to Stones Throw Records. She is the first female artist signed to the label and seems to be a close friend of fellow label artist Dudley Perkins...
, American singer and musician - Georgia O'KeeffeGeorgia O'KeeffeGeorgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist.Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities, and before any of its women artists...
(1887–1986), American artist - Georgia PapageorgeGeorgia PapageorgeGeorgia Papageorge is a South African installation artist active in the field of earth art.A native of Simonstown, Cape Province, Papageorge earned her bachelor's degree in fine arts from the University of South Africa in Pretoria in 1979; she earned a higher diploma in graphics from Pretoria...
(born 1941), South African artist - Georgia Davis PowersGeorgia Davis PowersGeorgia Montgomery Davis Powers served for 21 years as a distinguished member of the state Senate in the Commonwealth of Kentucky...
(born 1923), American politician - Georgia B. Ridder (1914–2002), American racehorse owner
- Georgia SchweitzerGeorgia SchweitzerGeorgia Schweitzer is a former collegiate and professional basketball player.Schweitzer attended college at Duke University and graduated in 2001. She began her a professional career with the Women's National Basketball Association . On April 20, 2001, she was drafted by the Miami Sol. She would...
(born 1979), American basketball player - Georgia SloweGeorgia SloweGeorgia Slowe is an English actress.-Background:Georgia grew up in a Jewish home as the daughter of parents, Michael and Zsuzsi. Her Hungarian-born mother, Zsuzsi, was hidden in a cellar during the Second World War after her mother Litzy was murdered by Hungarian Nazi soldiers. Her father had been...
(born 1966), English actress - Georgia SpiropoulosGeorgia SpiropoulosGeorgia Spiropoulos is a composer, who studied piano, harmony, counterpoint and fugue in Athens. At the same time she studied jazz piano and worked as an instrumentalist and arranger of Hellenic traditional music of oral transmission for ten years.Since 1996 she has lived in Paris and studied...
(born 1965), Greek composer - Georgia TannGeorgia TannGeorgia Tann, born Beulah George Tann , operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the unlicensed home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s until a state investigation closed the institution in 1950...
(1891–1950), American operator of black market baby-adoption scheme - Georgia TaylorGeorgia TaylorGeorgia Taylor is an English actress, known for her role as Toyah Battersby in Coronation Street and currently for playing Ruth Winters on Casualty. She was born in Wigan, Greater Manchester....
(born 1980), English actress - Georgia ThompsonGeorgia ThompsonGeorgia L. Thompson is a current Wisconsin civil servant who was convicted of federal corruption charges in 2006, but released by an appeals court in 2007 when her conviction was overturned....
(born 1950), American civil servant - Georgia TurnerGeorgia TurnerGeorgia Turner , was an American folk singer. She is credited with the first recording of "Rising Sun Blues", produced by Alan Lomax in 1937, in Middlesboro, Kentucky...
(1921–1969), American singer - Jorja FoxJorja FoxJorja-An Fox , is an American actress, musician and songwriter. She first came to prominence as a guest star on the television drama ER, portraying the recurring role of Dr. Maggie Doyle from 1996 to 1999. This was followed by another critical success in the recurring role of Secret Service Agent...
(born 1968), American actress
See also
- Georgia (disambiguation), for other entities with this name
- George (given name)George (given name)George, from the Greek word γεωργός , "farmer" or "earth-worker", which became a name in Greek: Γεώργιος , and Latin: Georgius. The word γεωργός is a compound word, formed by the words ge , "earth", "soil" and ergon , "work"...
, the male name - Name of GeorgiaName of GeorgiaGeorgia is an exonym for the nation in the Caucasus whose self-designation is Sakartvelo . The exonym has been variously explained as being derived from the Greek γεωργός , the name of St. George, and from ancient Persian designations of the Georgians...
, the nation's name - Georgina (name)Georgina (name)Georgina is a given name and the feminine form of George, along with Georgia. It may refer to:* Georgina Andrews, an Australian actress* Georgina Bardach, an Argentinian swimmer* Georgina Beyer, the world's first openly transsexual Member of Parliament...
, a diminutive of the female name - GeorgetteGeorgetteGeorgette may refer to:* Georgette Lemare, fictional character from the anime/manga Strike Witches* Georgette , crinkly crepe-like fabric...
, an alternative feminine form of George. - George FayneGeorge FayneGeorgia "George" Fayne is a character in the popular Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. She is one of Nancy's best friends and cousin of Bess Marvin. Her real name is Georgia, although no one calls her that except her parents...
, a main character in the Nancy DrewNancy DrewNancy Drew is a fictional young amateur detective in various mystery series for all ages. She was created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate book packaging firm. The character first appeared in 1930. The books have been ghostwritten by a number of authors and are published...
series.