Gemma

Gemma may refer to:

In science:

Gemma (botany), an asexual reproductive structure in plants and fungi
(Gemma), a genus of clam in the family Veneridae; see amethyst gem clam
Gemma (star), the traditional name for the binary star Alpha Coronae Borealis in the constellation of Corona Borealis

People:

Gemma Arterton, an English actress
Gemma Atkinson, an English actress and model
Gemma Beadsworth, an Australian water polo player
Gemma Bond, American Ballet Theatre dancer and former first soloist at the Royal Ballet, London
Gemma Craven, an Irish actress
Gemma Frisius (1508–1555), a Frisian mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker
Gemma Galgani (1878–1903), an Italian mystic with signs of stigmata, venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint
Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter
Gemma Jones, English actress
Gemma Sanderson, an Australian model and the winner of Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 1
Gemma Ward, an Australian supermodel
Giuliano Gemma (born 1938), an Italian actor, also known from several Spaghetti Westerns as Montgomery Wood

In fiction:

The name of one of the characters in the children's Hospital Radio series "The Space Gypsy Adventures", narrated by John Leeson
Gemma of Syr, Princess of Ossetia, is a fictional character in Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince series
Gemma Doyle, heroine of Libba Bray's novels A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing
Gemma, (gemmers19), a fictional girl in the lonelygirl15 universe
Gemma, first series of the Sky One supernatural Television series Hex in the United Kingdom
In the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey, the book Dragonflight features Lady Gemma, the main wife of the main character's enemy, Lord Fax; she bears the next lord of Ruatha hold
Gemma Teller Morrow, a character in "Sons of Anarchy"

Works:

Losing Gemma, a 2006 UK television drama based on a novel by Katy Gardner

Organization:

Gemma (organization), an English organization for disabled lesbians

Religion: Gemma is Arabic for Friday, the holy day of the week in the Muslim Religion.

See also

Emma (name)
Jemma (name)

Translation

The word "Gemma" occurs as such in the following languages: English, French, Italian, Hungarian, Polish.

Translation in German: Gemma (Name).