Selma
, the two are not synonymous.
People with the name Thelma Akana Harrison (1905–1972), American politicianThelma Aoyama (born 1987), Japanese pop singerThelma Barlow (born 1929), English actressThelma Carpenter (1922–1997), American jazz singer and actressThelma Cazalet-Keir (1899–1989), British politicianThelma Drake (born 1949), American politicianThelma Eisen (1922–2014), American baseball playerThelma Fardin (born 1992), Argentine actressThelma Forbes (1910–2012), Canadian politicianThelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (1904–1970), mistress of King Edward VIIIThelma Harper (politician) (1940–2021), Tennessee politicianThelma Hill (1906–1938), American silent screen actressThelma Holt (born 1932), stage actress and producerTelma Hopkins (born 1948), American singer and actressThelma Hopkins (athlete) (born 1936), British athleteThelma Houston (born 1946), American singerThelma Leeds (1910–2006), American actressThelma Coyne Long (1918–2015), Australian tennis playerThelma Nava (1932–2019), Mexican poet, magazine co-founder, publisher, journalistThelma "Pat" Nixon (1912–1993), former First Lady of the United StatesThelma Parr (1906–2000), American actressThelma Pressman (1921–2010), American microwave cooking consultant and cookbook authorThelma Rodgers , Antarctic scientist from New ZealandThelma Ritter (1902–1969), American actressThelma Schoonmaker (born 1940), American film editorThelma Terry (1901–1966), American bandleaderThelma Thall (born 1924), American two-time world table tennis championThelma Todd (1906–1935), American actress and businesswomanThelma Toole
(1901–1984), mother of American author John Kennedy TooleThelma Van Norte (1912–1985), American medical records librarianThelma Votipka (1906–1972), American opera singerThelma Wood (1901–1970), American artist and lover of Djuana BarnesThelma (musician) , American musicianFictional characters Thelma Bates , from the TV series Hex Thelma Evans
, in the sitcom Good Times Thelma Harper , from The Carol Burnett Show and Mama's Family Thelma Lou , on The Andy Griffith Show Thelma Griffin
, from Family Guy Thelma, a professional wrestler in the logic problems by Anita Harnadek
Thelma Dickinson from the 1991 film Thelma and Louise
Thelma, protagonist of the eponymous 2017 film Thelma
T.H.E.L.M.A. an android from the Nickelodeon sci-fi series, Space Cases
Thelma, a character referred to as "New Thelma" in the Junie B. Jones References 
