Gemma

Gemma is a female name of Italian origin, meaning "gem" or "gemstone". Its popularity peaked in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. It was the third most popular female name in 1984 in the UK.^[1]

Notable people with the name Gemma include:

• Gemma Arterton (born 1986), English actress
• Gemma Atkinson, English actress and model
• Gemma Beadsworth, Australian water polo player
• Gemma Bissix, English actress
• Gemma Bond, English ballet dancer
• Gemma Booth, English photographer
• Gemma Chan, British actress
• Gemma Craven, Irish actress
• Gemma di Manetto Donati, the wife of medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri
• Gemma Doyle (politician), British Labour Party politician
• Gemma Frisius (1508–1555), Frisian mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker
• Gemma Galgani (1878–1903), Italian mystic with signs of stigmata, venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint
• Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter
• Gemma Jackson (born 1951), British production designer
• Gemma Jones, English actress
• Gemma Mengual (born 1977), Spanish synchronised swimmer
• Gemma Sanderson, Australian model and the winner of Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 1
• Gemma Ward, Australian model
• Gemma Whelan, English actress and comedian

Fictional characters:

• Gemma, in the children's Hospital Radio series The Space Gypsy Adventures
• 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 Warren, heroine of the 1897 novel The Gadfly
• Gemma, in the first series of the Sky One supernatural TV series Hex
• Gemma, an Arduino compatible microcontroller designed by Limor Fried
• Gemma Teller Morrow, in the FX TV series Sons of Anarchy
• Gemma, the Silver Ranger in the television show Power Rangers: RPM

References

1. "Name: Gemma". babynames.co.uk.

See also

• All pages beginning with "Gemma"
• Emma (name)
• Jemima is also occasionally misspelt as Jemma
• Peter Gemma, American writer and political activist