Grace (given name)
Grace is a feminine given name from the Latin gratia. It is often given in reference to the Christian concept of divine grace and used as a virtue name.
Variants
- French: Grâce
- English: Gracie
- Albanian: Greis, Graciela
- Irish: Gráinne
- Italian: Grazia, Graziella
- Latin: Gratia
- Polish: Gracja
- Portuguese: Graça, Gracília
- Scottish Gaelic: Gràinne
- Spanish: Gracia, Graciela
- Basque: Garazi
- Bulgarian: Грация
Notable people
A
- Grace Abbott, American social worker
- Grace Aguilar, English novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion
- Grace Akallo, Ugandan child soldier
- Grace Akello, Ugandan poet, essayist, folklorist and politician
- Grace Albee, American printmaker and wood engraver
- Grace Alekhine, American-British-French female artist and chess master
- Grace Alele-Williams, Nigerian mathematician and university vice-chancellor
- Grace Greenwood Ames, American artist who worked predominantly in Mexico
- Grace Andreacchi, American-born author
- Grace Andrews , American mathematician
- Grace Apiafi, Nigerian shot putter and discus thrower
- Grace Arnold, English actress
- Grace Ayensu, Ghanaian politician
B
- Mary Grace Baloyo, First Lieutenant in the Philippine Air Force
- Grace Bannister, Unionist politician in Northern Ireland
- Grace Bardsley, Australian Aboriginal rights activist and political activist
- Grace Barnsley, English pottery decorator
- Grace Bauer, American poet
- Grace Bawden, Australian classical crossover singer
- Grace Bedell, American woman who influenced Abraham Lincoln to grow his famous beard
- Grace Benham, American silent film actress
- Grace Folashade Bent, Nigerian politician
- Grace Bilger, American artist
- Grace Birungi, Ugandan runner
- Grace Lee Boggs, Chinese-American author, social activist and feminist
- Grace Bowman , Australian Paralympic equestrian
- Grace Duffie Boylan, American writer
- Grace Bradley, American film actress
- Grace Brown, American skirt factory worker who was murdered
- Grace Brown, Australian cyclist
- Grace Mann Brown, American writer and spiritual leader
- Grace Bumbry, American opera singer
- Grace Bussell, Australian heroine, involved in the rescue of the SS Georgette
- Grace Butler, New Zealand artist
C
- Grace Carlson, American communist politician
- Grace Carter, British volleyball player
- Grace Cassidy, English actress
- Grace Cavalieri, American poet, playwright and broadcaster
- Grace Chang, Chinese actress and singer
- Grace Chia, Singaporean writer, poet, journalist and editor
- Grace Zia Chu, American author of Chinese cookbooks
- Grace Clements , American artist
- Grace Clements , English heptathlete
- Grace Stone Coates, American writer
- Grace Coddington, former model and creative director of American Vogue magazine
- Grace Colman, British politician
- Grace Comiskey, American owner of the Chicago White Sox
- Grace Conkling, American writer
- Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States; wife of President Calvin Coolidge
- Grace Inez Crawford, Paris-born England-based American singer, actress, costume designer, translator of plays and writer
- Grace Noll Crowell, American poet
- Grace Crowley, Australian artist
- Grace Cunard, American actress, screenwriter and film director
- Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, American socialite
D
- Grace Daley, American professional women's basketball player
- Grace Darling, English Victorian heroine
- Grace Darmond, Canadian-born American actress
- Grace Montañez Davis, Mexican-American political activist and deputy mayor of Los Angeles
- Grace Davison, American silent-movie actress
- Grace de Laguna, American philosopher and academic
- Grace Deeb, Lebanese singer
- Grace DeMoss, American amateur golfer
- Grace Dent, English journalist, author and broadcaster
- Grace Diaz, Dominican-American politician
- Grace Hoadley Dodge, American philanthropist
- Grace A. Dow, American philanthropist
- Grace L. Drake, American politician
- Grace Drayton, American comics artist
- Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay, British journalist and aviation pioneer
- Grace Dunham, American poet and actress
E
- Grace Ekpiwhre, Nigerian civil servant
- Grace Elliott, Scottish socialite and courtesan
F
- Grace Fernald, American educational psychologist
- Grace Flandrau, American writer
- Grace Fong, American musician and academic
- Grace Fortescue,, American socialite
- Grace Frankland, English microbiologist
- Grace Voss Frederick, American actress and museum curator
- Grace Beacham Freeman, American poet, columnist, short story writer and educator
- Grace Fu, Singaporean politician
- Grace Fulton, American actress
G
- Grace Gao, Canadian badminton player
- Grace Garland, American singer-songwriter and actress
- Grace Gassette, American artist and sculptor
- Grace George, American stage actress
- Grace Gibson, American radio producer who worked predominantly in Australia
- Grace Gifford, Irish artist and cartoonist
- Grace Gill-McGrath, Australian soccer player
- Grace Golden, English illustrator and historian
- Grace Goodell, American anthropologist dddads
- Grace Grace, Australian politician
- Grace Winifred Green, New Zealand radio broadcaster and journalist
- Grace Gregory, American film set decorator
- Grace Griffith, American folk and Celtic singer
- Grace Groner, American philanthropist
- Grace Gummer, American actress
H
- Grace Eleanor Hadow, English author and academic
- Grace Halsell, American journalist and writer
- Grace Towns Hamilton, African-American politician
- Grace Hanagan, Canadian survivor of the sinking of the Empress of Ireland
- Grace Hartigan, American abstract expressionist painter
- Grace Hartman , American stage and musical theater actress
- Grace Hartman , Canadian social activist and politician
- Grace Hartman , Canadian labour union activist
- Grace Raymond Hebard, American historian, suffragist, writer and political economist
- Grace Helbig, American comedian
- Grace Henderson, American stage and silent-film actress
- Grace Hightower, American philanthropist, actress and singer
- Grace Livingston Hill, American novelist
- Grace Webster Haddock Hinsdale, American author
- Grace Hirst, New Zealand businesswoman, farmer, nurse and midwife
- Grace Hopper, American computer scientist
- Grace Huang, Australian actress
- Grace Hudson, American painter
I
- Grace Ingalls, American journalist and youngest sister of novelist Laura Ingalls Wilder
J
- Grace Jackson, Jamaican athlete
- Grace James, writer of children's literature
- Grace Jantzen, feminist philosopher and theologian
- Grace Jane Joel, New Zealand artist
- Grace Mott Johnson, American artist
- Grace Jones, Jamaican-born singer, actress and model
- Grace Jordan, American writer and journalist
K
- Grace Kamaikui, Hawaiian high chiefess
- Grace Keagy, American actress
- Grace Kelly, American actress who became Princess Grace of Monaco
- Grace Kelly , Asian-American musician
- Grace Kennedy , Scottish writer
- Grace Kennedy , British singer and television presenter
- Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Korean-American theologian and professor
- Grace Kimmins, British philanthropist
- Grace King, American writer
- Grace Kirby, English film and television actress
- Grace Knight, English-born Australian musician
- Grace F. Knoche, American Theosophist, leader of the Theosophical Society
- Grace Anne Dorney Koppel, American lawyer and health activist
- Grace Krilanovich, American writer
- Grace Lynn Kung, Canadian actress
L
- Grace La Rue, American actress, singer, and Vaudeville performer
- Grace Lee, Korean television host and radio disc jockey
- Grace Etsuko Lee, Japanese-born American author, speaker, trainer, international business woman
- Grace Lin, American children's author, and illustrator
- Grace Denio Litchfield, American novelist, poet
- Grace Llewellyn, American educator, author and publisher
- Grace Annie Lockhart, Canadian, first woman in the British Empire to receive a bachelor's degree
- Grace Loh, Australian swimming champion
- Grace Lorch, American teacher and civil rights activist
- Grace Lumpkin, American writer
M
- Grace Maccarone, children's book editor and author
- Grace MacInnis, Canadian politician and feminist
- Grace Madden, American pair skater
- Grace, Lady Manners, English noblewoman, founder of Lady Manners School in 1636
- Grace Marks, Irish-Canadian convicted murderer, subsequently pardoned
- Grace Marra, American musician
- Grace McCarthy, Canadian politician
- Grace McCleen, British writer
- Grace McDaniels, American freak show star
- Grace McDonald, American actress
- Grace McKeaney, American television writer, playwright and educator
- Grace McKenzie, English swimmer
- Grace Meng, Asian American lawyer and politician
- Grace Metalious, American author of Peyton Place
- Grace Mildmay, English noblewoman, diarist and medical practitioner
- Grace Millane, murdered English tourist
- Grace Min, American tennis player
- Grace Mirabella, former editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine
- Grace Mera Molisa, Vanuatuan politician, poet and campaigner for women's equality in politics
- Grace Momanyi, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Grace Moore, American operatic soprano and actress
- Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
- Grace Morgan, English cricketer
- Grace Morley, American museologist who founded museums in San Francisco and New Delhi
- Grace Mugabe, wife of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe
- Grace Mukomberanwa, Zimbabwean sculptor
N
- Grace Napolitano, American politician
- Grace Natalie, Indonesian politician
- Grace Nichols, Guyanese poet
- Grace Nicholson, American art collector and art dealer
- Grace Nikae, Japanese-born American classical pianist
- Grace Nono, Filipino singer
O
- Grace O'Malley, Irish chieftain and pirate
- Grace Ogot, Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat
P
- Grace Padaca, Filipino politician
- Grace Paley, American short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist
- Grace Park , American-born Canadian actress
- Grace Park , South Korean professional golfer
- Grace Parra, American screenwriter, presenter, and actress
- Grace Perry, Australian poet, editor and pediatrician
- Grace Phipps, American actress
- Grace Evelyn Pickford, English-born American biologist and endocrinologist
- Grace Poe, Filipino politician
- Grace Polit, Ecuadorian artist
- Grace Portolesi, Australian politician
- Grace Potter, American lead singer of rock band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
R
- Grace Rasmussen, New Zealand netball player
- Grace Renzi, American artist
- Grace Rhys, Irish writer
- Grace S. Richmond, American writer
- Grace Robertson, Scottish photographer
- Grace Rohrer, American educator, arts and women's rights activist and politician
- Grace Alexandra Rood, New Zealand school dental nurse
- Grace Roosevelt, American tennis player
- Grace Ross, American environmental activist
- Grace Ruiz, British television actress
S
- Grace Sandhouse, American entomologist
- Grace Berg Schaible, American lawyer, the first female state's attorney general
- Grace Schulman, American poet and academic
- Grace Sewell, Australian singer and songwriter known as Grace
- Grace Carew Sheldon, American journalist, author, editor, businesswoman
- Grace Sherwood, American woman convicted of witchcraft in the U.S. state of Virginia in 1705–1706
- Grace Slick, American rock vocalist
- Grace Cossington Smith, Australian artist
- Grace Snyder, American quilter, pioneer and centenarian
- Grace Stafford, American actress
- Grace Zaring Stone, American novelist and short story writer
- Grace Stratton, New Zealand blogger and fashion entrepreneur
- Grace Sulzberger, Australian cyclist
T
- Grace Tanamal, Dutch politician
- Grace Taylor , American gymnast
- Grace Dyer Taylor, English Christian missionary in China
- Grace Paine Terzian, American political writer and publishing executive
- Grace Thompson, American silent film actress
- Grace Tsutada, Japanese teacher and missionary
- Grace Tully, American presidential private secretary
U
- Grace Upshaw, American track and field athlete
V
- Grace Valentine, American actress
- Grace Van Studdiford, American opera singer and actress
- Grace Vanderbilt, American socialite
- Grace VanderWaal, American singer-songwriter
W
- Grace Wahba, American statistician and academic
- Grace Wahu, first wife of Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya
- Grace Jane Wallace, Scottish author and translator
- Grace Wanjiru, Kenyan race walker
- Grace Miller White, American author
- Grace Lee Whitney, American actress and entertainer
- Grace Widdowson, New Zealand nurse and hospital matron
- Grace Olive Wiley, American herpetologist
- Grace Williams, Welsh composer
- Grace Wilson, Australian high-ranked army nurse during World War I and World War II
- Grace Wong, Hong Kong-born actress
- Grace Woodward, English fashion stylist and television presenter
- Grace Wyndham Goldie, British pioneer television producer
Y
- Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician
- Grace Young, Canadian-born American singer, songwriter musician known as Grace
- Grace Sari Ysidora, Indonesian professional tennis player
Z
- Grace Zabriskie, American actress
Pseudonyms
- "Grace Greenwood", pseudonym of Sara Jane Lippincott, American writer
Fictional characters
- Grace Adler, in the television comedy series Will and Grace
- Grace Archer, in the BBC's long-running radio drama serial The Archers
- Grace Augustine, scientist in the film Avatar
- DCI Grace Barraclough, in the ITV1 soap opera Emmerdale
- Grace Beauchamp, in the BBC One drama series Holby City
- Grace Bennett, in the film Monte Carlo
- Grace Bowman, in 'American TV series 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager
- Grace Cavendish, detective and the central character in the Lady Grace Mysteries
- Grace Choi, in the DC Comics universe
- Grace Florrick, daughter of Alicia Florrick in the American TV series The Good Wife
- Grace Hamilton, in the movie The Godfather Part III
- Grace Harlowe, the protagonist of four series of books for girls by Jessie Graham Flower
- Grace Holloway, in the 1996 television movie Doctor Who
- Grace Kingston, in the Australian drama series McLeod's Daughters
- Grace Margaret Mulligan, lead character in the films Dogville and Manderlay
- Grace Nakimura, in the adventure game series Gabriel Knight
- Grace Santiago, in the American television series Nip/Tuck
- Grace Santos, in the film The 24 Hour Woman
- Grace Santos, in the Filipino TV series Aso ni San Roque
- Grace, in the comic book Soulfire
- Grace Stamper, in the 1998 film Armageddon
- Grace Turner, in the soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Grace Van Owen, in the TV series LA Law
- Grace Van Pelt, in the TV series The Mentalist
- Grace, an animal character in the Disney film Home on the Range
- Grace the Glitter Fairy, in the book franchise Rainbow Magic''