Gemma (given name)

For other uses, see Gemma.

Gemma is an Italian female name, of Latin origin, meaning "gem" or "precious stone".[1][2][3][4] The name has been amongst the most popular in England and Scotland during the 1980s.[5]

## People with the given name

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### Female

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* Gemma Arterton (born 1986), English actress
* Gemma Atkinson (born 1984), English actress and model
* Gemma Beadsworth (born 1987), Australian water polo player
* Gemma Bissix (born 1983), English actress
* Gemma Bond (born 1982), English ballet dancer
* Gemma Booth (born 1974), English photographer
* Gemma Chan (born 1982), British actress
* Gemma Collins (born 1981), English media personality and businesswoman
* Gemma Cowling, Australian model
* Gemma Craven (born 1950), Irish actress
* Gemma Davies (born 1991), English football manager
* Gemma di Manetto Donati, the wife of medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri
* Gemma Doyle (politician) (born 1981), British Labour Party politician
* Gemma Frizelle (born 1998), British rhythmic gymnast
* Gemma Galgani or Saint Gemma of Lucca (1878–1903), Italian mystic with signs of stigmata, venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint
* Gemma Geis (born 1979), Catalan politician
* Gemma Hayes (born 1977), Irish singer-songwriter
* Gemma Houghton (born 1993), Australian rules footballer
* Gemma Hunt (born 1982), English children's TV presenter
* Gemma Jackson (born 1951), British production designer
* Gemma Jones (born 1942), English actress
* Gemma Mengual (born 1977), Catalan synchronised swimmer
* Gemma Peacocke, composer from New Zealand
* Gemma Sanderson (born 1983), Australian model and the winner of Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 1
* Gemma Smith (born 1978), Australian painter and sculptor
* Gemma Ward (born 1987), Australian model
* Gemma Whelan (born 1981), English actress and comedian
* Gemma Wollenschlaeger (born 2003), American Paralympic rower

### Male

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* Gemma Frisius (1508–1555), Frisian mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker

### Fictional characters

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* Gemma, in the first series of the Sky One supernatural TV series Hex
* Gemma, in the children's Hospital Radio series The Space Gypsy Adventures
* Gemma, in the 2023 sci-fi horror film M3GAN
* Gemma Ball, a character in the television series Shameless
* Gemma Bovery, a character in the film Gemma Bovery
* Gemma Doyle, heroine of Libba Bray's novels A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing; see List of Gemma Doyle Trilogy characters
* Gemma Foster, the main character in the British series Doctor Foster
* Gemma Larson, a character in the ABC series Grey's Anatomy
* Gemma Nerrick, a character in the Netflix mockumentaries Death to 2020 and Death to 2021
* Gemma Palmer, played by Felicity Kendal in Solo, a British sitcom
* Gemma Reeves, a character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
* Gemma T., a character in the Stephen King novel Doctor Sleep
* Gemma Teller Morrow, a character in the FX TV series Sons of Anarchy
* Gemma Warren, heroine of the 1897 novel The Gadfly
* Gemma Winter, a character from the British soap opera Coronation Street
* Gemma Garrison, a character from the 2021 action-adventure RPG Scarlet Nexus

## See also

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* All pages with titles beginning with Gemma
* Emma (given name)
* Gema (given name)
* Gemma (surname)
* Jemma (given name)

## References

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1. ^ "Name: Gemma". babynames.com.
2. ^ "Name: Gemma". Nameberry.com.
3. ^ "Name: Gemma". Behindthename.com.
4. ^ "Gemma". Name: Gemma. Oxford Reference. January 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.
5. ^ "Popular Baby Names From The UK Archives". Huffpost.com. 2 March 2018.

## External links

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