Grace (given name)

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Grace
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/name
Latin
Meaning"Gracious"

Grace is a female given name from the Latin gratia.[1] It is often given in reference to the Christian concept of divine grace and used as a virtue name.

Variants

Notable people

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

  • Grace Gao (born 1989), Canadian badminton player
  • Grace Garland, American singer-songwriter and actress
  • Grace Gassette (1871–1955), American artist and sculptor
  • 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 Glowicki, Canadian actress and filmmaker
  • Grace Golden (1904–1993), English illustrator and historian
  • Grace Goodell, American anthropologist
  • Grace Grace (born 1958), Australian politician
  • Grace Winifred Green
    (1907–1976), New Zealand radio broadcaster and journalist
  • Grace Gregory (1901–1985), American film set decorator
  • Grace Griffith, American folk and Celtic singer
  • Grace Groner (1909–2010), American philanthropist
  • Grace Gummer (born 1986), American actress

H

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), British writer of children's literature
  • Grace Jantzen (1948–2006), Canadian feminist philosopher and theologian
  • Grace Jane Joel
    (1865–1924), New Zealand artist
  • Grace Mott Johnson (1882–1967), American artist
  • Grace Jones (born 1948), Jamaican-born singer, actress and model
  • Grace Jordan (1892–1985), American writer and journalist

K

L

  • Grace La Rue (1882–1956), American actress, singer, and Vaudeville performer
  • Grace Lau (born 1991), Hong Kong karateka
  • 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 Denio Litchfield (1849–1944), American novelist, poet
  • 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
  • Grace Turk (softball)
    (born 1999), American softball player
  • Grace Lyons (cricketer) (born 2005), Australian cricketer

M

N

O

  • Grace O'Malley (c. 1530–c. 1603), Irish chieftain and pirate
  • Grace Ogot (1930–2015), Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat
  • Grace Atkinson Oliver
    (1844–1899), American author, advocate of women's rights

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 Portolesi (born 1968), Australian politician
  • Grace Potter (born 1983), American lead singer of rock band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

R

S

T

  • Grace Tame (born 1994), Australian activist and sexual assault survivor advocate
  • Grace Tanamal (born 1957), Dutch politician
  • Grace Taylor (gymnast) (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 (1891–?), American silent film actress
  • Grace Hyde Trine (1874–1972), American writer, lecturer, dramatic reader
  • Grace Tsutada
    (born 1942), Japanese teacher and missionary
  • Grace Tully (1900–1984), American presidential private secretary (to Franklin D. Roosevelt)

U

V

W

Y

  • Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944), English mathematician
  • Grace Young (fl. 2006–present), Canadian-born American singer, songwriter musician known as Grace
  • Grace Sari Ysidora (born 1995), Indonesian professional tennis player

Z

Pseudonyms

Fictional characters

  • Will and Grace
  • Grace Archer (1930–1955), in the BBC's long-running radio drama serial The Archers
  • Grace Augustine, scientist in the film Avatar
  • Grace Balin, the first DC Comics supervillainess known as Orca
  • DCI Grace Barraclough
    , in the ITV1 soap opera Emmerdale
  • Grace Beauchamp, in the BBC One drama series Holby City
  • Grace Bennett, in the film Monte Carlo
  • Grace Bernard, in the book "How to Kill Your Family" by Bella Mackie
  • Grace Bowman, in American television series The Secret Life of the American Teenager
  • Grace Cavendish
    , detective and the central character in the Lady Grace Mysteries
  • Grace Choi, in the DC Comics universe
  • Grace Connelly, in the film Bruce Almighty
  • Grace Florrick, daughter of Alicia Florrick in the American television series The Good Wife
  • Grace Hamilton, in the movie The Godfather Part III
  • Grace Harlowe, the protagonist of four series of books for girls by Jessie Graham Flower
  • Grace Holloway, in the 1996 television movie Doctor Who
  • Grace Kingston
    , in the Australian drama series McLeod's Daughters
  • Grace Margaret Mulligan, lead character in the films Dogville and Manderlay
  • Grace Monroe, the main character in Book Three (and a minor character in Book Two) of the animated anthology series Infinity Train
  • Grace Nakimura, in the adventure game series Gabriel Knight
  • Grace Santos, in the film The 24 Hour Woman
  • Grace Santos, in the Filipino TV series Aso ni San Roque
  • Grace Sheffield, in the American TV series The Nanny
  • Grace (Soulfire), in the comic book Soulfire
  • Grace Stamper, in the 1998 film Armageddon
  • Grace Thomas, American Girl character
  • Grace Turner, in the soap opera The Young and the Restless
  • Grace Van Owen, in the TV series
    LA Law
  • Grace Van Pelt, in the TV series The Mentalist
  • Grace, an animal character in the Disney film Home on the Range
  • Grace, a character in the Netflix series Grand Army
  • Grace the Glitter Fairy, in the book franchise Rainbow Magic
  • Grace, a hunter in the video game Identity V
  • Grace Stone, a character in the Netflix series Manifest

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1
    , p.113.

See also
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