The name Moira, sometimes spelled Moyra, is an Anglicisation of the Irish name Máire, the Irish equivalent of Mary. Transliterated with Greek letters Μοίρα is the Greek word for Destiny, i.e. the three Fates.
People
Television and film
Moira Brooker, English actress
Moira Buffini, English dramatist, director and actor associated with the In-yer-face theatre style Moira Chen, a pseudonym for actress Laura Gemser Moyra Fraser, Australian-born English actress Moira Harris, American actress Moira Kelly, American actress Moira Lister, South African actress Moira McLean, Australian morning television presenter Moira Quirk, English actress Moira Redmond, English actress Moira Shearer, Scottish ballerina and actress Moira Stuart, the first Black woman newsreader on British television Moira Dela Torre, Filipina singer-songwriter
Other fields
Moira Anderson, Scottish singer
Moira Brinnand, Argentine field hockey player
Moira Brown, Canadian-born North Atlantic right whale researcher
Moira Cameron, British soldier, first woman Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London
Moira Crone, American fiction author
Moira Leiper Ducharme, first female mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia
Moira Gatens, Australian academic
Moira Gunn, American radio host
Moira MacLeod, British field hockey player
Moira O'Neill, Irish-Canadian poet
Moira Rader, American politician
Moira Rayner (born 1948), New Zealand-born, Australian-based barrister and human rights advocate Moira Senior (born 1976), field hockey player from New Zealand
Fictional characters
Moira MacTaggert, a recurring character in X-Men comic books
Moira/Max Sweeney, on the Showtime television network series The L Word
Moira O'Hara, a character in the TV series American Horror Story
Moira Queen, Oliver Queen's mother in the Green Arrow comic books
Moira Queen, Oliver Queen's mother in the TV series Arrow
Moira O’Deorain, a character in the video game Overwatch
Wendy Moira Angela Darling, a character in Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie
Moira Banning, wife of Peter Banning/Peter Pan in the movie Hook
Moira Thaurissan, Queen Regent of the Dark Iron Clan, a minor character in the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft Moira, a character in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale Moira Theirin, mother of Maric Theirin in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise Moira Brown, a character in Bethesda Game Studios' Fallout 3 Moira Burton, a character in Capcom's Game Resident Evil: Revelations 2 Moira Barton, recurring character in soap opera, Emmerdale Moira Vahlen, Chief Scientist in the video game, XCOM: Enemy Unknown Moira Queen of Rebma in Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber Moira Rose, a character in the Canadian television series Schitt's Creek Moira Davidson, a character in the novel and 1959 film On The Beach Moira, a minor character in the first episode of Pokémon: Black & White: Adventures in Unova Moira Crewe, a character in Seveneves by Neal Stephenson Moira Linton, a character in the Malory Towers novel series, by Enid Blyton