Miranda (given name)
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Miranda is a feminine given name
of Latin origin, meaning "worthy of admiration". There are several variants. It is also common as a surname
. There is a related adjective, seldom used but found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which is "Mirandous", a synonym to miraculous.
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
of Latin origin, meaning "worthy of admiration". There are several variants. It is also common as a surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
. There is a related adjective, seldom used but found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which is "Mirandous", a synonym to miraculous.
- Miranda (singer)Miranda (singer)Miranda is the name of a Spanish singer popular in Europe in the late 1990s and early 2000s.-Biography:Miranda's career has heretofore been short. Her first publication was in 1999, when she published the first single from her first and only album Fiesta, Vamos a la playa...
from Spain - Miranda CarterMiranda CarterMiranda Carter is a British writer and biographer. She was educated at St Paul's Girls School and Exeter College, Oxford.Her first book was a biography of the art historian and spy Anthony Blunt, entitled Anthony Blunt: His Lives...
, British writer and biographer - Miranda ChartrandMiranda ChartrandMiranda Chartrand is a Canadian singer who is currently based in London. Born and raised in Guelph, Ontario, Chartrand studied at the John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute and played on their open girls' rugby team, before moving to the United Kingdom in 2009 to work as an au pair...
, Canadian singer - Miranda ConnellMiranda ConnellMiranda Connell is an English actress.She attended Elmhurst Ballet School and the Cheltenham Ladies' College, then appeared on stage in Stratford-upon-Avon and the West End. On television she is best known for being a Play School presenter from May 1966 to April 1975...
, English actress - Miranda CooperMiranda CooperMiranda Eleanor De Fonbrune Cooper has been on the UK charts longer than any other female songwriter in the country. In 2007 Harper's Bazaar wrote of her: ‘If it's a hit you want, you'd better talk to Cooper...
, UK pop production person - Miranda CosgroveMiranda CosgroveMiranda Taylor Cosgrove is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Her career began at the age of three, where she participated in television commercials. Cosgrove's film debut was in 2003, as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock...
, actress and singer - Miranda DevineMiranda DevineMiranda Devine is an Australian columnist and writer noted for her conservative stance on a range of social and political issues. Her column, formerly printed twice weekly in Fairfax Media newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, now appears in the News Limited Daily Telegraph with...
, Australian columnist and writer - Miranda GrosvenorMiranda GrosvenorMiranda Grosvenor was the fictitious name of an elusive Louisiana woman who enchanted dozens of famous men with sweet telephone talk in the 1970s and 1980s...
, bored fan in the US who made a full-time hobby of calling stars - Miranda HartMiranda HartMiranda Katharine Hart Dyke , known professionally as Miranda Hart, is an English actress, writer and stand-up comedienne. She writes and stars in the BBC sitcom Miranda...
, British comedy actress and writer - Miranda HillMiranda HillMiranda Hill was an English social reformer. She worked closely, from 1891, with her more famous sister Octavia Hill on major housing reform projects in England. She was the daughter of James Hill, corn merchant and banker, and Caroline Southwood Smith, the daughter of Dr Thomas Southwood Smith,...
(1836 — 1910), English social reformer - Miranda Jarrett, pen name for American author Susan Holloway ScottSusan Holloway ScottSusan Holloway Scott is an American author of historical fiction who also writes historical romance novels under the pen name Miranda Jarrett.-Biography:...
- Miranda JulyMiranda JulyMiranda July is a performing artist, writer, actress and film director. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character from a "girlzine" Miranda created with high school friend Johanna Fateman, called Snarla.- Background :Miranda...
, performance artist - Miranda KerrMiranda KerrMiranda May Kerr is an Australian model. She is best known as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels since mid-2007. She is the first Australian to participate in the Victoria's Secret campaign and also represents Australian fashion chain David Jones...
, Australian model - Miranda KrestovnikoffMiranda KrestovnikoffMiranda Jane Krestovnikoff is a British television presenter specialising in natural history and archaeological programmes. She is also a qualified diver which has led to co-presenting opportunities in programmes with an underwater element.Miranda went to The Abbey School in Reading before taking...
, British television presenter - Miranda KwokMiranda KwokMiranda Kwok is an actress, screenwriter and film producer born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-Biography/Education:Miranda began her studies in the arts at the age of ten when she attended the Claude Watson School for the Arts, Canada's premiere multidisciplinary school for the performance and visual...
, Canadian actor and film producer - Miranda LambertMiranda LambertMiranda Lambert is an American country music artist who gained fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of Nashville Star, where she finished in third place and later signed to Epic Records. Lambert made her debut with the release of "Me and Charlie Talking", the first single from her 2005 debut...
, country and western singer-songwriter - Miranda LeeMiranda LeeMiranda Lee is a popular Australian writer of over 75 romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon's since 1990.-Biography:...
, Australian author of romance novels - Miranda Macmillan, Countess of StocktonMiranda Macmillan, Countess of StocktonMiranda Macmillan, Countess of Stockton is an Australian former fashion model, married to the 2nd Earl of Stockton. She is now styled as the The Countess of Stockton....
- Miranda OttoMiranda OttoMiranda Otto is an Australian actress. The daughter of actors Lindsay and Barry Otto and the sister of actress Gracie Otto, she began acting at age eighteen, and has performed in a variety of independent and major studio films....
, Australian film and theatre actress - Miranda PratherMiranda PratherMiranda Prather is an American woman who gained national attention in July 1997 after police arrested her for faking a hate crime. A lesbian, Prather was a graduate assistant and president of the campus gay and lesbian support group at Eastern New Mexico University...
, American woman convicted of faking a hate crime - Miranda RaisonMiranda Raison-Early life:Born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, her father Nick Raison is a jazz pianist and artist, while her mother Caroline read the news for Anglia Television. She has two brothers and two sisters: Ed , Rosie, Sam and May. Her parents divorced when she was six years old, and her father remarried...
, English actress - Miranda Lee RichardsMiranda Lee RichardsMiranda Lee Richards is an American singer-songwriter.Her 2001 release The Herethereafter included original compositions such as "The Beginner" as well as a cover of The Rolling Stones 1967 single "Dandelion"...
, American singer-songwriter - Miranda RichardsonMiranda RichardsonMiranda Jane Richardson is an English stage, film and television actor. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and has won two Golden Globes and a BAFTA during her career....
, Academy Award-nominated English actress - Miranda SawyerMiranda SawyerMiranda Sawyer is an English journalist and broadcaster.She grew up in Wilmslow, Cheshire with her brother Toby, who is an actor. She has a degree in Jurisprudence from Pembroke College, Oxford...
, English journalist and broadcaster. - Miranda SeymourMiranda SeymourMiranda Jane Seymour is an English literary critic, novelist, and biographer.Miranda Seymour was two years old when her parents moved into Thrumpton Hall, the family's ancestral home in Nottinghamshire. This celebrated Jacobean mansion is on the south bank of the River Trent at the secluded...
, English literary critic, novelist, and biographer - Miranda SilvergrenMiranda SilvergrenLinda Miranda Silvergren, or more commonly simply Miranda , is a Swedish goa and psy trance artist and producer from Stockholm.-Albums:* Phenomena * Real Rush * Northern Lights...
, Swedish psytrance artist and producer - Miranda StoneMiranda StoneMiranda Stone is a Canadian singer-songwriter originating from the Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario region and currently based in Toronto where she operates independent record label Earthdress Productions....
, Canadian singer-songwriter - Miranda Yang, Hong Kong actress, see Xia MengXia MengXia Meng is a Hong Kong actress and film producer. She was the key figure of Hong Kong's Left Wing Mandarin movie scene.-Debut on stage:...