Marcia (first name)
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Marcia often shortened to Marcie (icon), is a female given name
derived from Latin meaning "dedicated to Mars". Marcia also means "proud, warlike, martial". It is a female form of Maricius.Bearers of this name include:
Given name
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derived from Latin meaning "dedicated to Mars". Marcia also means "proud, warlike, martial". It is a female form of Maricius.Bearers of this name include:
- Queen MarciaQueen MarciaQueen Marcia was the mythical third queen regnant and a regent of the Britons, as recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth.-Mythical Account:Marcia became queen after the death of Guithelin and ruled as regent for her son, Sisillius II. In her youth, she was the Queen consort of Guithelin, the king of...
, legendary monarch of Britain - Marcia Anastasia ChristoforidesMarcia Anastasia ChristoforidesMarcia Anastasia Christoforides, Lady Beaverbrook was a philanthropist, an art collector, and racehorse owner.-Married to two millionaires:...
- Marcia M. Anderson, first African-American woman to attain major general in the USAR
- Marcia AngellMarcia AngellMarcia Angell, M.D. is an American physician, author, and the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine...
- Marcia BallMarcia BallMarcia Ball is an American blues singer and pianist, born in Orange, Texas but who grew up in Vinton, Louisiana. She was described in USA Today as "a sensation, saucy singer and superb pianist.....
- Marcia BarrettMarcia BarrettMarcia Barrett , is one of the original singers with the vocal group, Boney M.-The early years:...
- Marcia Barton
- Marcia Brazil, a contenstant on the Charm School with Ricki LakeCharm School with Ricki LakeCharm School with Ricki Lake is the third season of the VH1 reality television series Charm School. Fourteen contestants from Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels and Real Chance of Love must change their old ways and learn improvement through acts of charity work...
, and Rock of Love Bus with Bret MichaelsRock of Love Bus with Bret MichaelsRock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels is the third season of Rock of Love with Bret Michaels and was confirmed by VH1's website in a blog on July 16, 2008. In the show, eligible women live on tour buses and travel with Bret Michaels, competing for his attention and affection. The show premiered on... - Marcia BrownMarcia BrownMarcia Joan Brown is an American children's author and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. She has won the Caldecott Medal three times, the only person to do so until David Wiesner in 2007. She is also the winner of the 1977 Regina Medal, a six-time recipient of the Caldecott Honor, and...
- Marcia ClarkMarcia ClarkMarcia Rachel Clark is an American prosecutor, author, and television correspondent who gained fame as the head prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder case.-Early life:...
- Marcia CrossMarcia CrossMarcia Anne Cross is an American actress. She is known for her television roles as Bree Van de Kamp on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives, and as Dr...
- Marcia DavenportMarcia DavenportMarcia Davenport was an American author and music critic. She was born Marcia Glick in New York City on June 9, 1903, the daughter of Bernard Glick and the opera singer Alma Gluck, and she became the stepdaughter of violinist Efrem Zimbalist when Alma Gluck remarried.Davenport traveled extensively...
- Marcia Falkender, Baroness FalkenderMarcia Falkender, Baroness FalkenderMarcia Matilda Falkender, Baroness Falkender CBE , formerly Marcia Williams , is a British Labour politician, being first the private secretary for, and then the political secretary and head of political office to, Harold Wilson.-Background and early career:Born Marcia Field, Falkender was educated...
- Marcia Mitzman GavenMarcia Mitzman GavenMarcia Mitzman Gaven is an award-winning American actress from New York. Since studying at the High School of Performing Arts and the State University of New York at Purchase, she has appeared in many musicals during her career singing in both mezzo-soprano and soprano roles...
- Marcia GriffithsMarcia GriffithsMarcia Llyneth Griffiths is a successful female singer, also called the "Queen of Reggae". One reviewer described her noting "she is known primarily for her strong, smooth-as-mousse love songs and captivating live performances".Griffiths started her career in 1964...
- Marcia GudereitMarcia GudereitMarcia Gudereit is a Canadian curler.Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, she was part of Team Schmirler, the women's curling team that won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. This team is the only 3-time winner of the World Curling Championship...
- Marcia HardenMarcia Gay HardenMarcia Gay Harden is an American film and theatre actress. Harden's breakthrough role was in Miller's Crossing and then The First Wives Club which was followed by several roles which gained her wider fame including the hit comedy Flubber and Meet Joe Black...
- Marcia HinesMarcia HinesMarcia Elaine Hines, AM is a vocalist, actress and TV personality who achieved success in her adopted homeland of Australia. Hines made her debut, at the age of sixteen, in the Australian version of the stage musical Hair and followed with the role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar...
, Australian singer and judge on Australian IdolAustralian IdolAustralian Idol is a Logie Award-winning Australian singing competition, which began its first season on July 2003 and ended its run in November 2009. As part of the Idol franchise, Australian Idol originated from the reality program Pop Idol, which was created by British entertainment executive... - Marcia A. KarrowMarcia A. KarrowMarcia A. Karrow is an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey State Senate where she represented the 23rd legislative district, having taken office on February 9, 2009. She had won a January 24, 2009 special election convention, defeating Assemblyman Michael J...
- Marcia V. KeizsMarcia V. KeizsDr. Marcia V. Keizs, is the sixth President of York College, Jamaica, in the borough of Queens in New York City. She is a native of Kingston, Jamaica and has lived and worked in New York City since 1968....
- Marcia KramerMarcia KramerMarcia Kramer is currently the chief political correspondent for WCBS-TV in New York City. Kramer has collected many awards for her electronic journalism at the station and at the New York Daily News newspaper. The awards include two George Foster Peabody awards, two Edward R...
- Marcia LangtonMarcia LangtonMarcia Lynne Langton is one of Australia's leading Aboriginal scholars. She holds the Foundation Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia...
- Marcia LucasMarcia LucasMarcia Lucas is an American film editor.In 1974, Lucas and Verna Fields were nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for their work on American Graffiti...
- Marcia MacMillanMarcia MacMillanMarcia MacMillan is a Canadian news anchor for CTV News Channel broadcasting the weekday evening news. She started working for CTV News in November 2005. MacMillan started her broadcasting career as a reporter for MCTV in Sudbury, Ontario then for MCTV in North Bay, Ontario. She then moved on to...
- Marcia MarxMarcia MarxMarcia Marx , a world-renowned artist, was born in Newark, NJ. She attended Yale University, School of Fine Arts and Columbia University...
- Marcia NeaveMarcia NeaveJustice Marcia Ann Neave AO was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria, Court of Appeals division, on 22 February 2006.Before her appointment, Neave was the foundation Chair of the Victorian Law Reform Commission and Professor of Law at Monash University...
- Marcia PankratzMarcia PankratzMarcia Anne Pankratz is a former field hockey forward from the United States, who participated in two Summer Olympics. In 1988 she finished in eighth position with Team USA, in 1996 she claimed the fifth spot.A spirited vice-captain of the USA team, Pankratz helped spark the USA squad from 1985-1996...
- Marcia Pelham, Countess of YarboroughMarcia Pelham, Countess of YarboroughMarcia Amelia Mary Pelham, Countess of Yarborough and 13th Baroness Conyers and 7th Baroness Fauconberg, OBE was a British peeress.Marcia was the eldest daughter of the 12th Baron Conyers and his wife, Mary...
- Marcia RoddMarcia RoddMarcia Rodd is an American actress.Rodd was born in Lyons, Kansas, the daughter of Rosetta and Charles C. Rodd. She studied drama at Northwestern University....
- Marcia StrassmanMarcia StrassmanMarcia A. Strassman is an American actress best known for her roles as Julie Kotter in the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter and Diane Szalinski in the 1989 feature film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, its first sequel Honey, I Blew Up the Kid and the 3-D film spin-off Honey, I Shrunk the Audience! which...
- Marcia TheophiloMarcia TheophiloMarcia Theophilo is a Brazilian poet. She studied in Rio de Janeiro, San Paulo and Rome, where she graduated in anthropology. She has lived and worked in Rome since 1971. She's a bilingual poet; her books can be found in Portuguese, Italian and English.Marcia Theophilo has published short stories,...
- Marcia TrimbleMarcia TrimbleIn 1975, the murder of Marcia Trimble disturbed the people of Nashville, Tennessee. Trimble was a nine-year-old girl who disappeared on February 25, 1975 while delivering Girl Scout cookies in her neighborhood. She was found to have been raped and murdered near her family's Green Hills home...
- Marcia WallaceMarcia WallaceMarcia Karen Wallace is an American character actress, comedienne and game show panelist, primarily known for her roles in television situation comedies...
- Marcia WilburMarcia WilburMarcia Wilbur is an American writer, author of The Digital Millennium Copyright Act , DMCA, Linux Essentials and Norwich ....
- Marcia YockeyMarcia YockeyMarcia Yockey was a local weather caster in Evansville, Indiana. She debuted on WFIE Channel 14 in 1953, after 10 years of working for the National Weather Service....
- James MarciaJames MarciaJames E. Marcia is a clinical and developmental psychologist. He has held professorships in US and Canadian universities, and is currently an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada...
Fictional character
- Marcia Brady of The Brady BunchThe Brady BunchThe Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz and starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, and Ann B. Davis. The series revolved around a large blended family...
- Marcia Montenegro in telenovela Mariana de la NocheMariana de la nocheMariana de la Noche is a Mexican telenovela from 2003. Written by Delia Fiallo and produced by Salvador Mejia, it starred Angélica Rivera, Jorge Salinas, Alejandra Barros and César Évora.- Plot :...
- Marcia of the The OutsidersThe Outsiders (novel)The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel based in 1965 by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel, but did most of the work when she was sixteen and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18 when the book was published...
- Marcia OverstrandMarcia OverstrandMarcia Overstrand is a fictional character in the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage. She is the current ExtraOrdinary Wizard and an extremely powerful one at that. She has Septimus as her Apprentice for the next seven years.- Description :...
of the book series Septimus HeapSeptimus HeapSeptimus Heap is a series of fantasy novels featuring a protagonist of the same name written by English author Angie Sage. Six novels, entitled Magyk, Flyte, Physik, Queste, Syren and Darke, have been published, the first in 2005 and the most recent in 2011... - MarcieMarcie (Peanuts)Marcie is a bespectacled fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. She serves as comedic foil and best friend to tomboy Peppermint Patty, plays a supporting role in some of Snoopy's heroic fantasies, and displays a romantic interest in Charlie Brown, who seems to love...
from Charles M. SchulzCharles M. SchulzCharles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.-Early life and education:Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Schulz grew up in Saint Paul...
's PeanutsPeanutsPeanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward...