Effie

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title: "Effie" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["english-feminine-given-names", "feminine-given-names", "scottish-feminine-given-names", "feminine-hypocorisms"] topic_path: "general/english-feminine-given-names" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effie" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

Effie is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Efthymia (Greek: Ευθυμία), Eftychia (Greek: Ευτυχία), or Euphemia (Greek: Ευφημία). Notable people with the name include:

Women

• Effie Bancroft (1840–1921), English actress and theatre manager
• Effie Boggess (1927–2021), American politician
• Effie Cardale (1873–1960), New Zealand community and welfare worker
• Effie Cherry (1869–1944), American performer, part of the Cherry Sisters touring vaudeville act
• Effie Crockett (1857–1940), American actress
• Euphemia Effie Ellsler (1855–1942), American stage and film actress
• Euphemia Effie Germon (1845–1914), American stage actress
• Euphemia Effie Gray (1828–1897), Scottish model, married to John Ruskin and John Everett Millais
• Effie Hotchkiss, American pioneering motorcyclist in 1915
• Effie Mae Martin Howard, real name of Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936–2006), African-American quiltmaker
• Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1952), American Universalist minister and suffragette
• Effie Neal Jones (1919–2002), American civil rights activist
• Effie Mona Mack (1888–1969), American historian
• Effie Pedaliu, British historian
• Effie Louise Power (1873–1969), American children's librarian and author
• Euphemia Effie Newbigging Richardson (1849–1928), New Zealand landowner and litigant
• Effie Robinson (1920–2003), American social worker and public housing director
• Effie Hoffman Rogers (1855–1918), American educator
• Effie Adelaide Rowlands (1859–1936), usual pen name of Australian-born British novelist Effie Albanesi
• Effie Shannon (1867–1954), American stage and silent screen actress
• Effie Smith (1914–1977), American jazz and blues singer and comedian
• Effie Anderson Smith (1869–1955), American painter
• Effie Waller Smith (1879–1960), African-American poet
• Effie A. Southworth (1860–1947), American botanist and mycologist
• Effie Wilder (1909–2007), American novelist
• Effie, South Korean musician

Men

• Elisha Effie Norton (1873–1950), American Major League Baseball pitcher

Fictional characters

• Effie Clinker, a radio character developed by Edgar Bergen

• Effie Deans, in Sir Walter Scott's 1818 novel The Heart of Midlothian

• Mrs Euphegenia "Effie" Doubtfire, a disguised character in the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire, played by Robin Williams

• Effie Grant Munro, in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Yellow Face"

• Effie Harrison, on the British soap opera Emmerdale

• Effie Kaligaris, in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants novels

• Effie (Euphemia) Macinnes / McDonald, a long standing character in Take the High Road, played by Mary Riggans

• Effie Newsome / Effie Crabtree, in the Canadian series Murdoch Mysteries, played by Canadian actress Clare McConnell since 2018

• Effie Perine, Sam Spade's secretary in the novel The Maltese Falcon and its film adaptations

• Effie Rawlinson - character in The Case of the Late Pig; an Albert Campion mystery by Margery Allingham

• Effie Spicer, on the British soap opera Coronation Street from 1968 to 1969

• Effie Stephanidis, comedic television character, played by Australian actress Mary Coustas

• Effie Trinket, in the book series The Hunger Games

• Effie White, one of the lead characters in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls

• Effie, in the video game Fire Emblem Fates

• Effie, a non playable character in Street Fighter III

• Miss Effie, a character from "Patsy Montana — I Didn't Know The Gun Was Loaded"

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