Gemma is a female name of Italian origin, meaning "gem" or "gemstone". Its popularity peaked in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. It was the third most popular female name in 1984 in the UK.
Notable people with the name Gemma include:
Gemma Arterton (born 1986), English actress
Gemma Atkinson, English actress and model
Gemma Beadsworth, Australian water polo player
Gemma Bissix, English actress
Gemma Bond, English ballet dancer
Gemma Booth, English photographer
Gemma Chan, British actress
Gemma Craven, Irish actress
Gemma di Manetto Donati, the wife of medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri
Gemma Doyle (politician), British Labour Party politician
Gemma Frisius (1508–1555), Frisian mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker
Gemma Galgani (1878–1903), Italian mystic with signs of stigmata, venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint
Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter
Gemma Jackson (born 1951), British production designer
Gemma Jones, English actress
Gemma Mengual (born 1977), Spanish synchronised swimmer
Gemma Quinnell, English choreographer and fitness presenter
Gemma Sanderson, Australian model and the winner of Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 1
Gemma Ward, Australian model
Gemma Whelan, English actress and comedian
Fictional characters:
Gemma, in the children's Hospital Radio series The Space Gypsy Adventures
Gemma Doyle, heroine of Libba Bray's novels A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing; see List of Gemma Doyle Trilogy characters
Gemma Warren, heroine of the 1897 novel The Gadfly
Gemma, in the first series of the Sky One supernatural TV series Hex
Gemma, an Arduino compatible microcontroller designed by Limor Fried
Gemma Teller Morrow, in the FX TV series Sons of Anarchy
Gemma, the Silver Ranger in the television show Power Rangers: RPM
