Millicent or Milicent is a female given name that has been in use since the Middle Ages. The English form Millicent derives from the Old French Melisende, from the Germanic amal "work" and swinth "strength".[1]
People
- Millicent Armstrong (1888–1973), Australian playwright
- Milicent Bagot (1907–2006), British intelligence officer
- Millicent Baxter (1888–1984), New Zealand pacifist
- Millicent Borges Accardi, Portuguese-American poet and writer
- Millicent Dillon (born 1925), American writer
- Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929), English suffragist, feminist, intellectual, political and union leader and writer
- Millicent Fenwick (1910–1992), American fashion editor and politician
- Millicent S. Ficken (1933–2020), American ornithologist
- Millicent Hearst (1882–1974), American socialite and philanthropist, wife of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst
- Millicent Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (1867–1955), British society hostess, social reformer, author, editor, journalist and playwright
- Millicent Mackenzie (1863–1942), British professor of education, first female professor in Wales and the first appointed to a fully chartered university in the United Kingdom
- Millicent Martin (born 1934), British actress, singer and comedian
- Millicent Preston-Stanley (1883–1955), Australian feminist and politician, first female member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
- Millicent Selsam (1912–1996), American children's author
- Milicent Shinn (1858–1940), American child psychologist, first woman to receive a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley
- Millicent Silver (1905–1986), British harpsichordist, pianist and violinist
- Millicent Simmonds (born 2003), a deaf actor
- Millie Small (born 1946), Jamaican singer-songwriter
- Millicent Sowerby (1878–1967), English painter and illustrator
Fictional characters
- Millicent Carew, fiancée to Dr. Jekyll in the 1920 film adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Millicent, in the 1957 Bugs Bunny cartoon Rabbit Romeo
- Millicent, fictional term for police officers in the nadsat slang of the 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Millicent Bagnold, in the Harry Potter series
- Millicent Collins, comic book heroine best known as Millie the Model
- Millicent Bulstrode, in the Harry Potter series
- Millicent Bystander, in the 2006 film Flushed Away
- Millicent Min, heroine of Millicent Min, Girl Genius, 2003 novel by Lisa Yee
- Millicent Huxtable, in the television series One Tree Hill
- Millicent Mudd, in the webcomic Ozy and Millie
- Millicent Weems, in the 2008 film Synecdoche, New York
- Millicent Carter, recurring character in the ER television series
- Millicent Arnold, in the short story "Initiation" by Sylvia Plath
- Millicent "Penny" Woods, a character on the television series Good Times
- Millicent 'Millie' Princey, a character on the episode "Wet Saturday" of the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- Millicent Barnes, main character in the 1960 Twilight Zone episode Mirror Image
- Millicent Gergich, recurring character in the television series Parks and Recreation
- Millicent Collins, a Collins family ancestor in the 1960s soap opera Dark Shadows
- Milicent Darnham, in the 1831 novel Mothers and Daughters (vol. 3) by Catherine Gore
- Millicent Crosswire, mother of Muffy Crosswire in the 1996 cartoon adaption Arthur
- Millicent "Minx" Lawrence, a young girl who becomes a friend of Drill and player of his game in the television series The Whispers
- Millicent Newberry, protagonist of three detective novels by Jennette Lee
- Aunt Millicent, an original character created for the 2003 film adaptation of Peter Pan, portray by Lynn Redgrave
- Milicent Bystander, a name given to fictional character Roddy St. James from Flushed Away (2006 film).
See also
- Melisende (disambiguation)
- Melisande (disambiguation)
- Millie (disambiguation)
- Amalasuntha
References
- ^ Withycombe, E.G., comp. (1950) The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 209.