Euphemia (disambiguation)
Euphemia (/juːˈfiːmiə/; Greek: Ευφημία) is a Greek female given name, meaning "well-spoken". It is derived from the ancient Greek words ευ (good) and φημί (to speak). Its diminutive or pet form is Effie or Phemie.
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Euphemia, also rendered as Eufemia and Eupham, may also refer to:
People
Saints
- Euphemia (died 303 CE) - Christian martyr and saint
Royalty
- Euphemia (empress) (died 520s), Byzantine Empress
- Euphemia of Hungary (died 1111), Duchess Consort of Moravia
- Euphemia of Kiev (died 1139), Queen Consort of Hungary
- Euphemia of Rügen (c. 1280–1312), Queen Consort of Norway
- Euphemia de Ross (died 1386), Queen Consort of Scotland
- Euphemia of Sweden (1317–1370), Duchess Consort of Mecklenburg
- Euphemia of Pomerania (1285–1330), Queen Consort of Denmark
Nobles
- Euphemia of Greater Poland (c. 1230–after 1281) - wife of Władysław Opolski
- Euphemia I, Countess of Ross (died in the 1390s)
- Euphemia II, Countess of Ross (fl. early 15th century)
Other people
- Euphemia Cowan Barnett (1890–1970), Scottish botanist
- Euphemia Vale Blake (1817–1904), American author, critic
- Euphemia Bostock (born 1936, aka Phemie Bostock), Aboriginal Australian artist, involved with the National Black Theatre in Sydney in the 1970s
- Effie Gray (1828–1897), wife of first art critic John Ruskin, then painter John Everett Millais
- Euphemia Wilson Pitblado (1849–1928), Scottish-born American activist, social reformer
- Eufemia "Femi" Benussi (born 1945), Italian actress
- Emilia Euphemia Clarke (born 1986), British actress
As a surname
- Catarina Eufémia (1928–1954), Portuguese peasant who became a symbol of Portuguese communists
- Frank Eufemia (born 1959), retired Major League Baseball relief pitcher
Fictional characters
- Effie Munro, in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Yellow Face"
- Effie Perine, detective Sam Spade's secretary in The Maltese Falcon
- Effie Trinket, in the saga The Hunger Games
- Euphemia, in the 2022 film adaption of Death on the Nile
- Euphemia li Britannia, in the anime series Code Geass
Other uses
- USS Euphemia (SP-539), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
- 630 Euphemia, a minor planet
- Euphemia (typeface), included in OS X
- "Euphemia", song by Area 11 from the albums Blackline and All the Lights in the Sky
- Gulf of Saint Euphemia, an Italian gulf
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