Althea ( ang, Alþea) is an English female given name. It is a variation of the Greek name ''
Althaea'' (Αλθαια), which may be related to Greek ''althos'' ("healing").
Richard Lovelace used the name in a poem ("
To Althea, from Prison") that
John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem '' Paradise Lost'', written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political ...
later alluded to in his own poem "
Lycidas
"Lycidas" () is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies, ''Justa Edouardo King Naufrago'', dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a friend of Milton at Cambridge who drown ...
".
[Milton, John (1886). Homer Baxter Sprague, ed]
"Milton's Lycidas"
''Paradise Lost, Books I and II''. Boston: Ginn & Co.
Notable people
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Althea Braithwaite (1940–2020), English children's author, illustrator, publisher and glass artist
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Althea Bridges (born 1936), Australian opera singer and music teacher
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Althea Currier (born 1941), American glamor model and actress
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Althea Flynt
Althea Flynt (née Leasure; November 6, 1953 – June 27, 1987) was the co-publisher of Flynt's pornography magazine, '' Hustler,'' and the fourth wife of Larry Flynt.
Early life
Althea Leasure was born November 6, 1953, in Marietta, Ohio. Alth ...
(1953–1987), fourth wife of Larry Flynt
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Althea Gibson
Althea Neale Gibson (August 25, 1927September 28, 2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African America ...
(1927–2003), American female athlete
* Althea Forrest, one half of vocal duo
Althea & Donna
Althea & Donna were a Jamaican reggae vocal duo, consisting of Althea Rose Forrest and Donna Marie Reid. They are best known for their 1977 single "Uptown Top Ranking", which was a number-one hit in the United Kingdom in 1978.
Career
The Jamai ...
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Althea McNish
Althea McNish (1924–2020) was an artist from Trinidad who became the first Black British textile designer to earn an international reputation.
Born in Trinidad, McNish moved to Britain in the 1950s. She was associated with the Caribbean Arti ...
(1924–2020), British textile designer of Trinidadian origin
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Althea Reinhardt
Althea Rebecca Reinhardt (born 1 September 1996) is a Danish handball player for Odense Håndbold and the Danish national team. She signed for Odense in 2016, after starting the career at Nykøbing Falster Håndboldklub
Nykøbing Falster Hån ...
(born 1996), Danish handball player
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Althea Thauberger Althea Thauberger is a Canadian visual artist, film maker and educator. Her work engages relational practices rooted in sustained collaborations with groups or communities through social, theatrical and textual processes that often operate outside t ...
, Canadian artist
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Althea Wynne
Althea Kathleen Wynne (6 October 1936 – 24 January 2012), also known by her married names of Dresman and Barrington Brown, was an English sculptor and art teacher, and a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. She specialized in ...
(1936–2012), English sculptor
* Althea Rae Janairo, actress aka
Tia Carrere
Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo (born January 2, 1967), known professionally as Tia Carrere (), is an American actress, singer and former model who got her first big break as a regular on the daytime soap opera '' General Hospital''.
Carrere played C ...
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Altheia Jones-LeCointe, Trinidadian physician and research scientist, leader of the British Black Panther Movement
See also
* "Althea", a song on the
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock music, rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, Folk music, folk, country music, country, jazz, bluegrass music, bluegrass, ...
studio album ''
Go to Heaven
Go, GO, G.O., or Go! may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Games and sport
* Go (game), a board game for two players
* ''Travel Go'' (formerly ''Go – The International Travel Game''), a game based on world travel
* Go, the starting position lo ...
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Althaea officinalis
''Althaea officinalis'', the marsh mallow or marshmallow, is a species of flowering plant indigenous to Europe, Western Asia and North Africa, which is used in herbalism and as an ornamental plant. A confection made from the root since ancient ...
'', a perennial species indigenous to Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa, which is used in herbalism and as an ornamental plant
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Cyclone Althea
Severe Tropical Cyclone Althea was a powerful tropical cyclone that devastated parts of North Queensland just before Christmas 1971. One of the strongest storms ever to affect the Townsville area, Althea was the fourth system and second severe ...
(1971)
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Ethinylestradiol/cyproterone acetate
Ethinylestradiol/cyproterone acetate (EE/CPA), also known as co-cyprindiol and sold under the brand names Diane and Diane-35 among others, is a combination of ethinylestradiol (EE), an estrogen, and cyproterone acetate (CPA), a progestin and ant ...
, a birth control pill with brand name Althea
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