# Effie

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'''Effie''' is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form ([hypocorism](/source/hypocorism)) of Efthymia ([Greek](/source/Greek_language): Ευθυμία), [Eftychia](/source/Eftychia) ([Greek](/source/Greek_language): Ευτυχία), or [Euphemia](/source/Euphemia_(given_name)) ([Greek](/source/Greek_language): Ευφημία). Notable people with the name include:
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==Women==
* [Effie Bancroft](/source/Effie_Bancroft) (1840–1921), English actress and theatre manager
* [Effie Boggess](/source/Effie_Boggess) (1927–2021), American politician
* [Effie Cardale](/source/Effie_Cardale) (1873–1960), New Zealand community and welfare worker
* [Effie Cherry](/source/Effie_Cherry) (1869–1944), American performer, part of the Cherry Sisters touring vaudeville act
* [Effie Crockett](/source/Effie_Crockett) (1857–1940), American actress
* Euphemia [Effie Ellsler](/source/Effie_Ellsler) (1855–1942), American stage and film actress
* Euphemia [Effie Germon](/source/Effie_Germon) (1845–1914), American stage actress
* Euphemia [Effie Gray](/source/Effie_Gray) (1828–1897), Scottish model, married to John Ruskin and John Everett Millais
* [Effie Hotchkiss](/source/Effie_Hotchkiss), American pioneering motorcyclist in 1915
* Effie Mae Martin Howard, real name of [Rosie Lee Tompkins](/source/Rosie_Lee_Tompkins) (1936–2006), African-American quiltmaker
* [Effie McCollum Jones](/source/Effie_McCollum_Jones) (1869–1952), American Universalist minister and suffragette
* [Effie Neal Jones](/source/Effie_Neal_Jones) (1919–2002), American civil rights activist
* [Effie Mona Mack](/source/Effie_Mona_Mack) (1888–1969), American historian
* [Effie Pedaliu](/source/Effie_Pedaliu), British historian
* [Effie Louise Power](/source/Effie_Louise_Power) (1873–1969), American children's librarian and author
* Euphemia [Effie Newbigging Richardson](/source/Effie_Newbigging_Richardson) (1849–1928), New Zealand landowner and litigant
* [Effie Robinson](/source/Effie_Robinson) (1920–2003), American social worker and public housing director
* [Effie Hoffman Rogers](/source/Effie_Hoffman_Rogers) (1855–1918), American educator
* [Effie Adelaide Rowlands](/source/Effie_Adelaide_Rowlands) (1859–1936), usual pen name of Australian-born British novelist Effie Albanesi
* [Effie Shannon](/source/Effie_Shannon) (1867–1954), American stage and silent screen actress
* [Effie Smith](/source/Effie_Smith) (1914–1977), American jazz and blues singer and comedian
* [Effie Anderson Smith](/source/Effie_Anderson_Smith) (1869–1955), American painter
* [Effie Waller Smith](/source/Effie_Waller_Smith) (1879–1960), African-American poet
* [Effie A. Southworth](/source/Effie_A._Southworth) (1860–1947), American botanist and mycologist
* [Effie Wilder](/source/Effie_Wilder) (1909–2007), American novelist
* [Effie](/source/Effie_(musician)), South Korean musician

==Men==
* Elisha [Effie Norton](/source/Effie_Norton) (1873–1950), American Major League Baseball pitcher

==Fictional characters==
* Effie Bowen, a character in [''Indian Summer''](/source/Indian_Summer_(Howells_novel)) (1886), a novel by [William Dean Howells](/source/William_Dean_Howells)
* ''[Effi Briest](/source/Effi_Briest)'' (1895), the main character of a German novel by [Theodor Fontane](/source/Theodor_Fontane) adapted as [Effi Briest (2009 film)](/source/Effi_Briest_(2009_film))
* [Effie Clinker](/source/Effie_Clinker), a radio character developed by [Edgar Bergen](/source/Edgar_Bergen)
* Effie Deans, in [Sir Walter Scott](/source/Sir_Walter_Scott)'s 1818 novel ''[The Heart of Midlothian](/source/The_Heart_of_Midlothian)''
* [Mrs Euphegenia "Effie" Doubtfire](/source/Mrs._Doubtfire), a disguised character in the 1993 film ''Mrs. Doubtfire'', played by [Robin Williams](/source/Robin_Williams)
* Effie Grant Munro, in the Sherlock Holmes story "[The Adventure of the Yellow Face](/source/The_Adventure_of_the_Yellow_Face)"
* [Effie Harrison](/source/Effie_Harrison), on the British soap opera ''[Emmerdale](/source/Emmerdale)''
* [Effie Kaligaris](/source/Effie_Kaligaris), in ''[The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants](/source/The_Sisterhood_of_the_Traveling_Pants)'' novels
* Effie (Euphemia) Macinnes / McDonald,  a long standing character in ''[Take the High Road](/source/Take_the_High_Road)'', played by [Mary Riggans](/source/Mary_Riggans)
* Effie Newsome / Effie Crabtree, in the Canadian series ''[Murdoch Mysteries](/source/Murdoch_Mysteries)'', played by Canadian actress [Clare McConnell](/source/Clare_McConnell) since 2018
* Effie Perine, Sam Spade's secretary in the novel ''[The Maltese Falcon](/source/The_Maltese_Falcon_(novel))'' and its film adaptations
* Effie Rawlinson - character in The Case of the Late Pig; an Albert Campion mystery by Margery Allingham
* [Effie Spicer](/source/Effie_Spicer), on the British soap opera ''[Coronation Street](/source/Coronation_Street)'' from 1968 to 1969
* [Effie Stephanidis](/source/Effie_Stephanidis), comedic television character, played by Australian actress Mary Coustas
* [Effie Trinket](/source/Effie_Trinket), in the book series ''[The Hunger Games](/source/The_Hunger_Games)''
* Effie White, one of the lead characters in the Broadway musical ''[Dreamgirls](/source/Dreamgirls)''
* Effie, in the video game ''[Fire Emblem Fates](/source/Fire_Emblem_Fates)''
* Effie, a non playable character in [Street Fighter III](/source/Street_Fighter_III)
* Miss Effie, a character from "Patsy Montana — I Didn't Know The Gun Was Loaded"

==See also==
* ''[Effie M. Morrissey](/source/Effie_M._Morrissey)'', a schooner used for arctic research
* [Effi (disambiguation)](/source/Effi_(disambiguation))
* [Effy Stonem](/source/Effy_Stonem), a character on ''Skins''
* [Eftychia](/source/Eftychia), a Greek given name
* [Euphemia (disambiguation)](/source/Euphemia_(disambiguation))

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