Marcia

Marcia , Italian also Marzia , is a female given name. It goes back to the ancient Roman female name for female members of the Marcier gens . The short form is Marci and a modification of Marciana .

In Italian this first name is also written with "z", because marcia can also mean march .

Marciana is a municipality on the island of Elba , the associated, but politically independent port on the Gulf of Procchio is Marciana Marina .

Name bearer

Antiquity

• Marcia (wife of Atilius Regulus) , wife of the Roman consul Marcus Atilius Regulus
• Marcia (Caesar's grandmother) , Gaius Iulius Caesar's grandmother
• Marcia (Vestal Virgin) , 114 BC Convicted of incest
• Marcia (wife of Catos) (* around 80 BC), wife of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis
• Marcia (wife of Fabius Maximus) († after 14 AD), cousin of the Roman emperor Augustus
• Ulpia Marciana (48–112), the older sister of the Roman emperor Trajan
• Marcia Aurelia Ceionia Demetrias († 193), the lover of the Roman emperor Commodus

First name

• Marcia Barrett (born 1948), Caribbean singer, member of the pop group Boney M.
• Marcia Brown (1918–2015), American children's author and illustrator
• Marcia Cross (born 1962), American actress
• Marcia Gay Harden (born 1959), American actress
• Marcia Griffiths (born 1949), Jamaican reggae singer
• Marcia Haydée (* 1937), Brazilian ballet dancer
• Marcia Muller (* 1944), American crime writer
• Marcia Strassman (1948–2014), American actress and singer
• Marcia Zuckermann (* 1947), German writer and editor

family name

• James E. Marcia (* 1937), Canadian university professor
• Mosè Marcia (* 1943), Bishop of Nuoro
• Stefano Marcia (* 1993), South African yachtsman

stage name

• Márcia Fu (* 1969), Brazilian volleyball player

Other names

• The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice is one of the largest libraries in Italy
• The Romans called the Black Forest as Marciana Silva , in German so the Forest of Mars

Others

• (269484) Marcia , an asteroid