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The name Moira is a given name of Greek origin, deriving from μοῖρα, meaning "destiny, share, fate". In Greek mythology, the Moirai (Greek: Μοῖραι, plural for μοῖρα), often known in English as the Fates, were the white-robed incarnations of destiny. The name could also be an Anglicisation of the Irish name Máire.
Television and film
Moira Brooker, English actress
Moira Buffini, English dramatist, director and actor associated with the In-yer-face theatre style
Moira Chen, a pseudonym for actress Laura Gemser
Moira Harris, American actress
Moira Kelly, American actress
Moira Lister, South African actress
Moira McLean, Australian morning television presenter
Moira Quirk, English actress
Moira Redmond, English actress
Moira Shearer, Scottish ballerina and actress
Moira Stuart, the first Black woman newsreader on British television
Moira Anderson, Scottish singer
Moira Brinnand, Argentine field hockey player
Moira Brown, Canadian-born North Atlantic right whale researcher
Moira Cameron, British soldier, first woman Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London
Moira Crone, American fiction author
Moira Leiper Ducharme, first female mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia
Moira Gunn, American radio host
Moira MacLeod, British field hockey player
Moira O'Neill, Irish-Canadian poet
Moira Brandon, in the Marvel Comics universe
Moira MacTaggert, recurring character in X-Men comic books
Moira/Max Sweeney, on the Showtime television network series The L Word
Moira Thaurissan, a dwarf Regent-Queen of Ironforge in the Warcraft fantasy franchise
Moira O'Hara, a character in the tv-series American Horror Story
Moira Queen, Oliver Queen's mother in the TV series Arrow
Wendy Moira Angela Darling, a character in Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie
Moira, a character in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
Moira Theirin, mother of Maric Theirin in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise
Moira Brown, a character in Bethesda Game Studios' Fallout 3
Moira Burton, a character in Capcom's Game Resident Evil: Revelations 2
Moira Barton, recurring character in soap opera Emmerdale
Moira Vahlen, Chief Scientist in the video game XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Moira Queen of Remba in Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber
Moira Rose, a character in the Canadian television seriesSchitt's Creek
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