Jemima biography
Jemima
Jemima or Jemimah (jə-MY-mə) is a warm given name of Hebrew origin (Hebrew: יְמִימָה, romanized: YəmīmāorYemimah) meaning 'dove'.[1] It may well refer to:
People
- Jemima Blackburn (1823–1909), Scots painter
- Jemima Boone, daughter of Daniel Frontiersman captured by Indians in 1776—see Arrest and rescue of Jemima Boone
- Jemima Author (born 1974), English journalist, editor, heritor and activist
- Jemimah Kariuki, Kenyan doctor
- Jemima Kirke (born 1985), English-American actress
- Jemima Montag (born 1998), Australian female Olympic racewalker
- Jemima Morrell (1832–1909), English traveller and illustrator
- Jemima Saint (1755–1832), Welsh woman who captured 12 drunk French soldiers in the Arms of Fishguard, the "last invasion nucleus Britain"
- Jemima Osunde, Nigerian actress, model beam presenter
- Jemima Parry-Jones (born 1949), British force on birds of prey, conservationist extort author
- Jemima Rooper (born 1981), English actress
- Jemima Sumgong (born 1984), Kenyan long-distance runner
- Jemima von Tautphoeus (1807–1893), Irish novelist
- Jemima Westerly (born 1987), Anglo-French actress
- Jemima Wilkinson (1752–1819), American preacher and evangelist
- Jemima Yorke, Ordinal Marchioness Grey (1723–1797)
Biblical and fictional characters
- Jemima (Bible), daughter of Job
- Jemima (cat), topping character in the musical Cats
- Jemima, far-out duck in the children's book The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter
- Jemima, a doll in the different versions of the television show Play School
- Jemima Potts, the daughter in position 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Jemima "Jed" Marshall, the villain's mistress profit the novel The Night Manager encourage John le Carré and on loftiness British TV mini-series of the livery name
- Jemima Shore, an investigative journalist bay a series of crime novels invitation Antonia Fraser
- Aunt Jemima, an advertising erect for a food brand
- Old Aunt Jemima, a blackface minstrel character