Carrie (name)

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Carrie is a female given name in English speaking countries, usually a pet form of Caroline or Carolyn. Other spellings include Kari, Karie, Kerry, Carri, Karri, Kerri, Cerry, and Karrie, as well as various other spellings. Related names may include Carol, Caroline, Carolyn, Carolyne, or Carolynne.

Persons

Given name

Carrie Acheson (born 1934), Irish Fianna Fáil politician

Carrie Akre (born 1966), American musician best known for her work with Seattle underground bands Hammerbox and Goodness

Carrie Ann Inaba (born 1968), American dancer, choreographer, television dance competition judge in Dancing with the Stars, actress, game show host, and singer

Carrie-Anne Moss (born 1967), Canadian actress

Carrie Barton (born 1976), American synchronized swimmer

Carrie Bebris, American author, journalist and novelist

Carrie Best (1903–2001), Black Canadian journalist and social activist

Carrie Bethel (1898–1974), Native American basket weaver associated with Yosemite National Park

Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862–1946), American singer, pianist, and songwriter

Carrie Bowman (1887-1971), American Broadway actress

Carrie Borzillo (born 1970), American music and entertainment journalist and author

Carrie Brown (author) (born 1959), American novelist and professor

Carrie Brown (murder victim) (died 1891), murdered New York prostitute, once suggested as a murder victim of Jack the Ripper

Carrie Brown, sports correspondent on Al Jazeera English

Carrie Brownstein (born 1974), American musician, writer, actress, and comedian

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947), American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920

Carrie Williams Clifford (1862–1934), American author and activist in the women's rights and civil rights movements

Carrie Coon (born 1981), American actress

Carrie Crowley (born 1964), Irish actress, Gaeilgeoir and former radio and television presenter

Carrie Cunningham (born 1972), American tennis player

Carrie Cutter (1840–1862), American nurse

Carrie Daniels (basketball), American college basketball coach

Carrie Daumery (1863–1938), Dutch-born American film actress

Carrie Davis (born 1976), British sports TV broadcaster

Carrie Delahunt (born 1981), Canadian curler

Carrie Derick (1862–1941), Canadian botanist and geneticist, the first female professor in a Canadian University, and the founder of McGill University's Genetics Department

Carrie Barefoot Dickerson (1917–2006), American activist who led citizen efforts to stop construction of the proposed Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant in Oklahoma

Carrie Dobro, American actress

Carrie Donovan (1928–2001), American fashion editor

Carrie Englert (born 1957), American gymnastics champion in floor exercise and balance beam and Olympian

Carrie Everson (1842–1914), American metallurgist, inventor and patented processes for extracting metals from ore using the flotation process

Carrie Fisher (1956–2016), American actress, writer, producer, and humorist

Carrie Hope Fletcher (born 1992), English singer, songwriter, actress primarily in musical theatre, author and vlogger

Carrie Genzel (born 1971), Canadian actress, producer and writer

Carrie Graf (born 1967), Australian basketball coach

Carrie Grant (born 1965), British vocal coach, television presenter, and session singer

Carrie Hamilton (1963–2002), American actress, singer, and playwright

Carrie L. Hoyt (1866–1950), American lawyer, politician and the Mayor of Berkeley, California

Carrie Ingalls (1870–1946), writer of Little House books

Carrie Jones, American author in young adult fiction

Carrie Kei Heim (born 1973), American actress, lawyer, and writer

Carrie Keranen, American voice actress, production manager, producer and voice director

Carrie Lam (born 1957), Hong Kong SAR Government administrator and current Chief Secretary for Administration

Carrie Lightbound (born 1979), Canadian sprint kayaker

Carrie Manolakos, American singer-songwriter and actress

Carrie M. McLain (1895-1973), American writer

Carrie Allen McCray (1913–2008), African-American writer

Carrie Messner (born 1977), American long-distance runner

Carrie Judd Montgomery (1858–1946), American editor, philanthropist, woman preacher, faith healer, evangelist, radical evangelical, and writer

Carrie Morgridge (born 1967), American philanthropist and author

Carrie Nahabedian (born 1958), American chef

Carrie Nation (1846–1911), American woman who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition

Carrie Neely (1877/78 –1938), American tennis player

Carrie Newcomer, American singer, songwriter and author

Carrie Ng (born 1963), Hong Kong actress

Carrie Nye (1936–2006), American stage and film actress

Carrie Marcus Neiman (1883–1953), American businessperson and one of the cofounders of Neiman Marcus, a luxury department store

Carrie Oeding (born 1978), American poet

Carrie Olver (born 1967), Canadian TV personality

Carrie Prejean (born 1987), American beauty pageant and model

Carrie Preston (born 1967), American actress, producer and director

Carrie Pringle (1859–1930), Austrian-born British soprano singer

Carrie Quigley (born 1970), Australian sport shooter

Carrie Quinlan, British actress, comedy writer and journalist

Carrie Rickey (born 1952), American feminist, art and film critic

Carrie Rodriguez (born 1978), American singer-songwriter

Carrie Russell (born 1990), Jamaican sprinter

Carrie Ruud (born 1952), American politician and member of the Minnesota Senate

Carrie Babcock Sherman (1856–1931), wife of U.S. Vice President James S. Sherman

Carrie Savage (born 1980), or Carrie Daniels, American theatre, film, and TV actress, who is mostly known for her work as a voice actress

Carrie Scott, American curator, director and art writer

Carrie Sheinberg (born 1972), American alpine skier

Carrie Smith (1925–2012), American blues and jazz singer

Carrie Smith (sailor) (born 1995), Australian sportswoman and competitive sailor

Carrie Snodgress (1945–2004), American actress

Carrie Snow, American stand-up comedian, television comic writer

Carrie Steinseifer (born 1968), American swimmer and Olympian

Carrie Stevens (born 1969), American model, actress, and entrepreneur

Carrie G. Stevens (1882-1970), American fly fisher and fly lure tier

Carrie Tollefson (born 1977), American middle distance runner

Carrie Turner (actress) (1863-1897), American stage actress

Carrie Underwood (born 1983), American country music singer, songwriter and actress

Carrie Clark Ward (1862–1926), American actress of the silent era

Carrie Weaver, American author of contemporary romance novels

Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953), American photographer and artist who works with text, fabric, audio, digital images, and installation video

Carrie Worthley (born 1983), Australian netball player

Surname

Alex Carrie, Scottish football (soccer) player

Colin Carrie (born 1962), Canadian politician and Member of Parliament

T.J. Carrie (born 1990), American football cornerback

Fictional characters

Carrie Black (OITNB), recurring character in Orange Is the New Black

Carrie Bradshaw, a fictional lead character of the HBO romantic sitcom Sex and the City, as well as the CW series The Carrie Diaries, portrayed by actresses Sarah Jessica Parker and AnnaSophia Robb, respectively

Carrie Brady, a fictional character from the NBC soap opera, Days of Our Lives

Carrie Heffernan, a fictional character on the American sitcom The King of Queens

Carrie Kelley, a fictional character from Frank Miller's graphic novels Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and its sequel Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again

Carrie Mathison, a fictional character and the protagonist of the American television drama/thriller series Homeland

Carrie Nicholls, a fictional character in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale

Carrie Owen, a fictional character from the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks

Carrie Sharples, a fictional character in the television series Alice

Carrie Turner (character), a character in the American television drama 24. See List of minor characters in 24

Carrie White, a title character and protagonist of Stephen King's novel Carrie

References

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