Grace (given name)

Variants

French: Grâce

English: Gracie

Albanian: Greis, Graciela

Irish: Gráinne

Italian: Grazia, Graziella

Latin: Gratia

Polish: Gracja

Portuguese: Graça, Gracília

Scottish Gaelic: Gràinne

Spanish: Gracia, Graciela

Basque: Garazi

People named Grace

(by surname)

Grace (Australian singer)

Grace (Canadian singer) (Grace Young), Canadian-born American musician

Grace (Russian singer) (born 1992), Russian-born actress, singer and musician

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Grace Abbott (1878–1939), American social worker

Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), English novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion

Grace Akallo (21st century), Ugandan child soldier

Grace Akello (born c. 1940), Ugandan poet, essayist, folklorist and politician

Grace Albee (1890–1985), American printmaker and wood engraver

Grace Alekhine (1876–1956), American-British-French female artist and chess master

Grace Alele-Williams (born 1932), Nigerian mathematician and university vice-chancellor

Grace Greenwood Ames (born 1905–1979), American artist who worked predominantly in Mexico

Grace Andreacchi (born 1954), American-born author

Grace Andrews (mathematician) (1869–1951), American mathematician

Grace Apiafi (born 1958), Nigerian shot putter and discus thrower

Grace Arnold (1899–1979), English actress

Ti-Grace Atkinson (born 1938), American feminist author

B

Mary Grace Baloyo (died 2001), First Lieutenant in the Philippine Air Force

Grace Bannister, Unionist politician in Northern Ireland

Grace Barnsley (1896–1975), English pottery decorator

Grace Bauer, American poet

Grace Bawden (born 1992), Australian classical crossover singer

Grace Bedell (1848–1936), American woman who influenced Abraham Lincoln to grow his famous beard

Grace Benham (1876–1968), American silent film actress

Grace Folashade Bent (born 1960), Nigerian politician

Grace Bilger (1907–2000), American artist

Grace Birungi (born 1973), Ugandan runner

Grace Lee Boggs (born 1915), Chinese-American author, social activist and feminist

Veronica Grace Boland (1899–1982), American politician

Grace Bowman (equestrian) (born 1990), Australian Paralympic equestrian

Grace Duffie Boylan (1861?–1935), American writer

Grace Bradley (1913–2010), American film actress

Grace Brown (1995–present), American-Canadian feminist scholar

Grace Mann Brown (1859–1925), American writer and spiritual leader

Grace Bumbry (born 1937), American opera singer

Grace Bussell (1860–1935), Australian heroine, involved in the rescue of the SS Georgette

Grace Ellen Butler (1886–1962), New Zealand artist

C

Mary Grace Canfield (born 1924), American actress

Grace Carlson (1906–1992), American communist politician

Grace Carter (born 1989), British volleyball player

Grace Cassidy (born 1993), English actress

Grace Cavalieri (born 1932), American poet, playwright and broadcaster

Grace Chang (born 1933), Chinese actress and singer

Grace Chia, Singaporean writer, poet, journalist and editor

Grace Zia Chu (1899–1999), American author of Chinese cookbooks

Grace Clawson (1887–2002), English-American supercentenarian

Grace Clements (born 1984), English heptathlete

Grace Clements (1905-1969), American artist

Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976), American writer

Grace Coddington (born 1941), former model and creative director of American Vogue magazine

Grace Colman (1892–1971), British politician

Grace Comiskey (c. 1894–1956), American owner of the Chicago White Sox

Grace Conkling (1878–1958), American writer

Grace Coolidge (1879–1957), First Lady of the United States; wife of President Calvin Coolidge

Grace Inez Crawford (1889–1977), Paris-born England-based American singer, actress, costume designer, translator of plays and writer

Grace Noll Crowell (1877–1969), American poet

Grace Crowley (1890–1979), Australian artist

Grace Cunard (1893–1967), American actress, screenwriter and film director

Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (1879–1958), American socialite

D

Grace Daley (born 1978), American professional women's basketball player

Grace Darling (1815–1842), English Victorian heroine

Grace Darmond (1893–1963), Canadian-born American actress

Grace Montañez Davis (born 1926), Mexican-American political activist and deputy mayor of Los Angeles

Grace Davison, American silent-movie actress

Grace de Laguna (1878–1978), American philosopher and academic

Grace Deeb (born 1975), Lebanese singer

Grace DeMoss (born 1927), American amateur golfer

Grace Dent (born 1973), English journalist, author and broadcaster

Grace Diaz (born 1957), Dominican-American politician

Grace-Ann Dinkins (born 1966), American track and field athlete

Grace Hoadley Dodge (1856–1914), American philanthropist

Grace A. Dow (1869–1953), American philanthropist

Grace L. Drake, American politician

Grace Drayton (1877–1936), American comics artist

Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay (1895–1946), British journalist and aviation pioneer

Grace Dunham (born 1992), American poet and actress

E

Marcella Grace Eiler (1987–2008), American social activist

Grace Ekpiwhre (born 1949), Nigerian civil servant

Grace Elliott (1758–1823), Scottish socialite and courtesan

F

Grace Fernald (1879–1950), American educational psychologist

Grace Flandrau (1886–1971), American writer

Grace Fong, American musician and academic

Grace Fortescue, (1883–1979), American socialite

Grace Frankland (1858–1946), English microbiologist

Grace Voss Frederick (1905–2009), American actress and museum curator

Grace Beacham Freeman (1916–2002), American poet, columnist, short story writer and educator

Grace Fu (born 1964), Singaporean politician

Grace Fulton (born 1996), American actress

G

Grace Gao (born 1989), Canadian badminton player

Grace Garland, American singer-songwriter and actress

Grace George (1879–1961), American stage actress

Grace Gibson (1905–1989), American radio producer who worked predominantly in Australia

Grace Gifford (1888–1955), Irish artist and cartoonist

Grace Gill-McGrath (born 1989), Australian soccer player

Grace Golden (1904–1993), English illustrator and historian

Judith Grace González (born c. 1961), Mexican television personality and former Señorita México

Grace Goodell, American anthropologist and academic

Grace Grace (born 1958), Australian politician

Grace Winifred Green (1907–1976), New Zealand radio broadcaster and journalist

Grace Gregory, American film set decorator

Grace Griffith, American folk and Celtic singer

Grace Groner (1909–2010), American philanthropist

Grace Gummer (born 1986), American actress

H

Grace Eleanor Hadow (1875–1940), English author and academic

Grace Halsell (1923–2000), American journalist and writer

Grace Towns Hamilton (1907–1992), African-American politician

Grace Hanagan (1906–1995), Canadian survivor of the sinking of the Empress of Ireland (1914)

Grace Hartigan (1922–2008), American abstract expressionist painter

Grace Hartman (actress) (1907–1955), American stage and musical theatre actress

Grace Hartman (politician) (1900–1998), Canadian social activist and politician

Grace Hartman (trade unionist) (1918–1993), Canadian labour union activist

Grace Raymond Hebard (1861–1936), American historian, suffragist, writer and political economist

Grace Helbig (born 1985), American comedian

Grace Henderson (1860–1944), American stage and silent-film actress

Grace Hightower (born 1955), American philanthropist, actress and singer

Grace Livingston Hill (1865—1947), American novelist

Grace Hirst (1805–1901), New Zealand businesswoman, farmer, nurse and midwife

Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American computer scientist

Grace Huang, Australian actress

Grace Hudson (1865–1937), American painter

I

Grace Ingalls (1877–1941), American journalist and youngest sister of novelist Laura Ingalls Wilder

J

Grace Jackson (born 1961), Jamaican athlete

Grace James (1864–1930), writer of children's literature

Grace Jantzen (1948–2006), feminist philosopher and theologian

Grace Jane Joel (1865–1924), New Zealand artist

Grace Mott Johnson (1882–1967), American artist

Grace Eleanor Johnson (born 1997), American socialite/astronaut

Grace Jones (born 1948), Jamaican-born singer, actress and model

Grace Jones (supercentenarian) (born 1899), British supercentenarian

Grace Jordan (1892–1985), American writer and journalist

K

Grace Kamaikui (1808–1866), Hawaiian high chiefess

Grace Keagy (1921–2009), American actress

Grace Kelly (1929–1982), American actress who became Princess Grace of Monaco

Grace Kelly (musician) (born 1992), Asian-American musician

Grace Kennedy (writer) (1782–1825), Scottish writer

Grace Kennedy (singer) (born 1958), British singer and television presenter

Grace Ji-Sun Kim (born 1969), Korean-American theologian and professor

Grace Kimmins (1871–1954), British philanthropist

Grace King (1852–1932), American writer

Grace Kirby, English film and television actress

Grace Kodindo (born 1960), Chadian obstetrician-gynecologist

Grace Knight (born 1955), English-born Australian musician

Grace F. Knoche (1909–2006), American Theosophist, leader of the Theosophical Society

Grace Anne Dorney Koppel, American lawyer and health activist

Grace Krilanovich (born 1979), American writer

Grace Lynn Kung, Canadian actress

L

Grace La Rue (1882–1956), American actress, singer, and Vaudeville performer

Grace Lee (born 1982), Korean television host and radio disc jockey

Grace Etsuko Lee, Japanese-born American author, speaker, trainer, international business woman

Grace Lin, American children's author, and illustrator

Grace Llewellyn (born 1964), American educator, author and publisher

Grace Annie Lockhart (1855–1916), Canadian, first woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor's degree

Grace Loh (born 1991), Australian swimming champion

Grace Lorch (c. 1903–1974), American teacher and civil rights activist

Grace Lumpkin (1891–1980), American writer

M

Grace Maccarone, children’s book editor and author

Grace MacInnis (1905–1991), Canadian politician and feminist

Grace Madden (1911–1987), American pair skater

Grace, Lady Manners, English noblewoman, founder of Lady Manners School in 1636

Grace Marks (c. 1828–after c. 1873), Irish-Canadian convicted murderer, subsequently pardoned

Grace Marra (born 1959), American musician

Grace McCarthy (born 1927), Canadian politician

Grace McCleen (born 1981), British writer

Grace McDaniels (1888–1958), American freak show star

Grace McDonald (1918–1999), American actress

Grace McKeaney, American television writer, playwright and educator

Grace McKenzie (1903–1988), English swimmer

Grace Meng (born 1975), Asian American lawyer and politician

Grace Metalious (1924–1964), American author of Peyton Place

Grace Mildmay (c. 1552–1620), English noblewoman, diarist and medical practitioner

Grace Min (born 1994), American tennis player

Grace Mirabella (born 1930), former editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine

Grace Mera Molisa (1946–2002), Vanuatuan politician, poet and campaigner for women's equality in politics

Grace Momanyi (born 1981), Kenyan long-distance runner

Grace Moore (1898–1947), American operatic soprano and actress

Chloë Grace Moretz (born 1997), American actress

Grace Morgan (1909–1996), English cricketer

Grace Morley (1900–1985), American museologist who founded museums in San Francisco and New Delhi

Grace Mugabe (born 1965), wife of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe

Grace Mukomberanwa (born 1944), Zimbabwean sculptor

N

Grace Napolitano (born 1936), American politician

Grace Nichols (born 1950), Guyanese poet

Grace Nicholson (1877-1948), American art collector and art dealer

Grace Nikae, Japanese-born American classical pianist

Grace Nono, Filipino singer

O

Grace O'Malley (c. 1530–c. 1603), Irish chieftain and pirate

Grace Ogot (born 1934), Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat

P

Grace Padaca (born 1963), Filipino politician

Grace Paley (1922–2007), American short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist

Grace Park (actress) (born 1974), American-born Canadian actress

Grace Park (golfer) (born 1979), South Korean professional golfer

Grace Parra, American screenwriter, presenter, and actress

Grace Perry (1927–1987), Australian poet, editor and pediatrician

Grace Phipps (born 1992), American actress

Grace Evelyn Pickford (1902–1986), English-born American biologist and endocrinologist

Grace Poe (born 1968), Filipino politician

Grace Polit, Ecuadorian artist

Grace Portolesi (born 1968), Australian politician

Grace Potter, American lead singer of rock band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

R

Grace Rasmussen (born 1988), New Zealand netball player

Emily Grace Reaves (born 2001), American child actress

Grace Renzi (1922–2011), American artist

Grace Rhys (1865–1929), Irish writer

Grace S. Richmond (1866–1959), American writer

Grace Robertson (born 1930), Scottish photographer

Grace Rohrer (1924–2011), American educator, arts and women's rights activist and politician

Grace Alexandra Rood (1893–1981), New Zealand school dental nurse

Grace Roosevelt (1867–1945), American tennis player

Grace Ross (born 1961), American environmental activist

Grace Ruiz, British television actress

S

Grace Sandhouse (1896–1940), American entomologist

Grace Berg Schaible (born 1925), American lawyer, the first female state's attorney general

Grace Schulman (born 1935), American poet and academic

Grace Sherwood (died 1740), American woman convicted of witchcraft in the U.S. state of Virginia in 1705–1706

Grace Slick (born 1939), American rock vocalist

Grace Cossington Smith (1892–1984), Australian artist

Grace Snyder (1882–1982), American quilter, pioneer and centenarian

Grace Stafford (1903–1992), American actress

Grace Zaring Stone (1891–1991), American novelist and short story writer

Ilma Grace Stone (1913–2001), Australian bryologist

T

Grace Tanamal (born 1957), Dutch politician

Grace Taylor (born 1988), American gymnast

Grace Dyer Taylor (1859–1867), English Christian missionary in China

Grace Paine Terzian (born 1952), American political writer and publishing executive

Grace Thompson (born 1891), American silent film actress

Grace Tsutada (born 1942), Japanese teacher and missionary

Grace Tully (1900–1984), American presidential private secretary (to Franklin D. Roosevelt)

U

Grace Ueng (born 1965), Chinese-American business executive

Grace Upshaw (born 1975), American track and field athlete

V

Grace Valentine (1884–1964), American actress

Grace Van Studdiford (1873–1927), American opera singer and actress

Grace Vanderbilt (1870–1953), American socialite

Grace VanderWaal (2004), American singer-songwriter

W

Grace Wahba (born 1934), American statistician and academic

Grace Wahu (c. 1907–2007), first wife of Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya

Grace Jane Wallace (died 1878), Scottish author and translator

Grace Wanjiru (born 1979), Kenyan race walker

Grace Miller White (1868–1957), American author

Grace Lee Whitney (born 1930), American actress and entertainer

Stephanie Grace Whitson (born 1852), American writer

Grace Olive Wiley (1883–1948), American herpetologist

Grace Williams (1906–1977), Welsh composer

Grace Wilson (1879–1957), Australian high-ranked army nurse during World War I and World War II

Jessica Grace Wing (1971–2003), American theatrical composer

Grace Wong (born 1986), Hong Kong-born actress

Grace Woodward (born 1978), English fashion stylist and television presenter

Grace Wyndham Goldie (1900–1986), British pioneer television producer

Y

Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944), English mathematician

Grace Sari Ysidora (born 1995), Indonesian professional tennis player

Z

Grace Zabriskie (born 1941), American actress

Pseudonyms

"Grace Greenwood", pseudonym of Sara Jane Lippincott (1823–1904), American writer

Characters named Grace

Grace Adler, character from the television comedy series Will and Grace

Grace Archer (1930–1955), character from the BBC's long-running radio drama serial, The Archers

Grace Augustine, scientist in the film Avatar

DCI Grace Barraclough, character in the ITV1 soap opera Emmerdale

Grace Beauchamp, character in the BBC One drama series Holby City

Grace Bennett, character in the film Monte Carlo

Grace Bowman, character in The Secret Life of the American Teenager

Grace Cavendish, detective and the central character in the Lady Grace Mysteries

Grace Choi, character in the DC comics universe

Grace Florrick, daughter of Alicia Florrick in the American TV series The Good Wife

Grace Hamilton, character in The Godfather Part III

Grace Hamilton, character in The Love Hermit

Grace Harlowe, protagonist of four series of books for girls by Jessie Graham Flower

Grace Holloway, character played by Daphne Ashbrook in the 1996 television movie Doctor Who

Grace Kingston, character in the Australian drama series McLeod's Daughters

Grace Margaret Mulligan, lead character in the films Dogville and Manderlay

Grace Nakimura, character in the adventure game series Gabriel Knight

Grace Santiago, character on the American television series Nip/Tuck

Grace Santos, character in The 24 Hour Woman

Grace Santos, character in Aso ni San Roque

Grace (Soulfire), character in the comic book Soulfire

Grace Turner, character from the soap opera The Young and the Restless

Grace Van Owen, character in the television series LA Law

Grace Van Pelt, character in The Mentalist

Grace, animal character in the Disney film Home on the Range