Gloria (name)
Gloria is a female given name and a family name.
Origin and meaning
Gloria comes from Latin and means ' fame '. In Roman mythology , Gloria was the personification of fame, see Fama .
The name Gloria was not often used as a first name until the 20th century. Gloria was first used in You Never Can Tell (1898) by George Bernard Shaw .
Name bearers
First name
- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (* 1947), President of the Philippines
- Gloria Contreras (1934–2015), Mexican dancer and choreographer
- Gloria Estefan (* 1957), American-Cuban singer
- Gloria Foster (1933-2001), American actress
- Gloria Gaynor (born 1943), American singer
- Gloria Grahame (1923–1981), American actress
- Gloria Kaiser (* 1950), Austrian writer
- Gloria Katz (1942-2018), American screenwriter
- Gloria D. Miklowitz (1927–2015), American author for children and young people
- Gloria Siebert (* 1964), German athlete
- Gloria Stuart (1910-2010), American actress
- Gloria Swanson (1899–1983), American actress
- Gloria von Thurn und Taxis (* 1960), German entrepreneur
- Gloria Watkins (* 1952), American philosopher, better known as bell hooks
family name
- Amanda da Gloria (* 1988), German theater and film actress
- Astrid Gloria (* 1966), German cabaret artist and stage artist
- Christian Gloria (* 1957), German lawyer
- Leda Gloria (1908–1997), Italian actress
- Otto Glória (1917–1986), Brazilian football coach