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Millicent is a female given name that has been in use since the Middle Ages. The English form Millicent derives from the Old French Melisende, from the Germanic amal "work" and swinth "strength".

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Millicent or Milicent may refer to:

People

  • Millicent Armstrong (1888–1973), Australian playwright
  • Milicent Bagot (1907–2006), British intelligence officer
  • Millicent Baxter (1888–1984), New Zealand pacifist
  • Millicent Binks (born 1987), British burlesque dancer and newspaper columnist
  • Millicent Borges Accardi, Portuguese-American poet and writer
  • Millicent Dillon (born 1925), American writer
  • Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929), English suffragist, feminist, intellectual, political and union leader and writer
  • Millicent Fenwick (1910–1992), American fashion editor and politician
  • Millicent Hearst (1882–1974), American socialite and philanthropist, wife of media tycoon William Randolph Hurst
  • Millicent Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (1867–1955), British society hostess, social reformer, author, editor, journalist and playwright
  • Millicent Mackenzie (1863-1942), British professor of education, first female professor in Wales and the first appointed to a fully chartered university in the United Kingdom
  • Millicent Martin (born 1934), British actress, singer and comedian
  • Millicent Preston-Stanley (1883–1955), Australian feminist and politician, first female member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
  • Millicent Selsam (1912–1996), American children's author
  • Milicent Shinn (1858–1940), American child psychologist, first woman to receive a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley
  • Millicent Silver (1905–1986), British harpsichordist, pianist and violinist
  • Millie Small (born 1946), Jamaican singer-songwriter
  • Millicent Sowerby (1878–1967), English painter and illustrator

    • Fictional characters

  • Millicent Carew, fiancé to Dr. Jekyll in the 1920 film adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Millicent, in the 1957 Bugs Bunny cartoon Rabbit Romeo
  • Millicent, fictional term for police officers in the nadsat slang of the 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • Millicent Bagnold, in the Harry Potter series
  • Millicent Collins, comic book heroine best known as Millie the Model
  • Millicent Bulstrode, in the Harry Potter series
  • Millicent Bystander, in the 2006 film Flushed Away
  • Millicent Min, heroine of Millicent Min, Girl Genius, 2003 novel by Lisa Yee
  • Millicent Huxtable, in the television series One Tree Hill
  • Millicent Mudd, in the webcomic Ozy and Millie
  • Millicent Weems, in the 2008 film Synecdoche, New York
  • Millicent Carter, recurring character in the ER television series
  • Millicent Arnold, in the short story "Initiation" by Sylvia Plath
  • Millicent "Penny" Woods, a character on the television series Good Times
  • Millicent 'Millie' Princey, a character on the episode "Wet Saturday" of the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  • Millicent Barnes, main character in the 1960 Twilight Zone episode Mirror Image
  • Millicent Gergich, recurring character in the television series Parks and Recreation
  • Millicent Collins, a Collins family ancestor in the 1960s soap opera Dark Shadows
  • Milicent Darnham, in the 1831 novel Mothers and Daughters (vol. 3) by Catherine Gore
  • Millicent Crosswire, mother of Muffy Crosswire in the 1996 cartoon adaption Arthur
  • Millicent "Minx" Lawrence, a young girl who becomes a friend of Drill and player of his game in the television series The Whispers

    • References

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