Georgia (name)

Georgia is the latinate feminine form of George, after Georgiana or Georgina. The Italian cognate is Giorgia, and the Lithuanian is Jurgita or Jurga. It can also be spelled as Jorja.

People

• Georgia of Clermont (died 500), French saint and nun
• Georgia Apostolou (born 1966), Greek actress
• Georgia Bohl, (born 1997), Australian swimmer
• Georgia Bonora (born 1990), Australian gymnast
• Georgia Brown (English singer) (1933–1992)
• Georgia Brown (Brazilian singer) (born 1980)
• Georgia Byng (born 1965), British author
• Georgia Caine (1876–1964), American actress
• Georgia Carroll (born 1919), American singer
• Georgia Cayvan (1857–1906), American actress
• Georgia Ellinaki (born 1974), Greek water polo player
• Georgia Ellis (1917–1988), American actress
• Georgia Engel (born 1948), American actress
• Georgia May Foote (born 1991), British actress
• Jorja Fox (born 1968), American actress
• Georgia Frontiere (1927–2008), American businesswoman
• Georgia Frost (born 1990), English model
• Georgia Gibbs (1919–2006), American singer
• Georgia Hale (1905–1985), American actress
• Georgia Harkness (1891–1974), American theologian
• Georgia Henshaw (born 1993), Welsh actress
• Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880–1966), American poet
• Georgia King (born 1986), British actress
• Georgia Kokloni (born 1981), Greek sprinter
• Georgia Lee (born 1922), Australian singer
• Georgia Lee Lusk (1893–1971), American politician
• Georgia Middleman (born 1967), American country singer
• Georgia Moffett (born 1984), English actress
• Jorja Monatella, formerly Rykoff, character in Strangers (Dean Koontz novel)
• Georgia Anne Muldrow, American singer and musician
• Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), American artist
• Georgia Papageorge (born 1941), South African artist
• Georgia Davis Powers (born 1923), American politician
• Georgia B. Ridder (1914–2002), American racehorse owner
• Georgia Salpa (born 1985), Model
• Georgia Schweitzer (born 1979), American basketball player
• Georgia Slowe (born 1966), English actress
• Georgia Spiropoulos (born 1965), Greek composer
• Georgia Tann (1891–1950), American operator of black market baby-adoption scheme
• Georgia Taylor (born 1980), English actress
• Georgia Thompson (born 1950), American civil servant
• Georgia Turner (1921–1969), American singer

See also

• Georgia (disambiguation), for other entities with this name
• George (given name), the male name
• Name of Georgia (country), the nation's name
• Georgina (name), a diminutive of the female name
• Georgette, an alternative feminine form of George.
• George Fayne, a main character in the Nancy Drew series.