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Moira (from Greek "μοῖρα" -moira, "share, fate") is a given name, and may refer to:

In television and film:

• Moira Brooker, British actress
• Moira Buffini, British 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, British actress
• Moira McLean, Australian morning television presenter
• Moira Quirk, English actress
• Moira Redmond, British actress
• Moira Shearer, Scottish ballerina and actress
• Moira Stuart, the first Black woman newsreader on British television

In other fields:

• Moira Anderson, Scottish singer
• Moira Brinnand, Argentine field hockey player
• Moira Brown, Canadian-born North Atlantic right whale researcher
• Moira Breen, another name for writer Marion Zimmer Bradley
• 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

Fictional characters:

• 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 Brown, a character from the Bethesda game Fallout 3.

References

1. Moira, Online Etymology Dictionary
2. μοῖρα, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus Digital Library

• Given names
• English given names
• Greek feminine given names