Millie is a feminine given name or diminutive form of various other given names, such as
Emily,
Millicent,
Mildred,
Camilla or sometimes
Amelia.
People with the given name
Notable people with the given name include:
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Millie Bailey (1918–2022), American World War II veteran, civil servant, and volunteer
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Amelia Best (1900–1979), one of the first two women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly
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Millie Bobby Brown
Millie Bobby Brown (born 19 February 2004) is a British actress and producer. She gained recognition for playing Eleven in the Netflix science fiction series ''Stranger Things'' (2016–present), for which she received nominations for two Prime ...
(born 2004), English actress
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Millie Bright
Millie Bright (born 21 August 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Chelsea and the England national team. She previously played for Doncaster Belles, Leeds Ladies and represented England on the under-19 an ...
(born 1993), English footballer in the FA Women's Super League
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Millie Corretjer
Milagros Ninette Corretjer Maldonado, known as Millie Corretjer
(born April 18, 1974), is a Puerto Rican singer and actress. She was married to former professional boxer Oscar De La Hoya. She is the granddaughter of influential poet and one-t ...
(born 1974), Puerto Rican singer and actress
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Millie Criswell
Millie Criswell (born March 26, 1948) is a best-selling author of over twenty-five romance novels.
She began writing shortly before her fortieth birthday, after decades of reading romances. She has since published over twenty-five novels, and is ...
(born 1948), American writer of romance novels
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Millie Davis
Millie Davis (born 6 December 2006) is a Canadian actress who plays Ms. O / Big O in the TVOKids/ PBS Kids series ''Odd Squad'', Riley in the television show ''Dino Dana'', Summer in ''Wonder'', and Gemma Hendrix in ''Orphan Black.'' She was nomi ...
(born 2006), Canadian actress
* Mildred
Millie Deegan
Mildred Eleanor Deegan (December 11, 1919 – July 21, 2002) was an American pitcher, outfielder and second basewoman who played ten seasons in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, from to .
Background
Deegan was one of 25 pl ...
(1919–2002), American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
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Millie DeLeon
Millie DeLeon (circa 1873 – August 6, 1922) was the stage name of American burlesque dancer Millie Lawrence. She is listed in some records as "Elizabeth," "Maud" and "Maude".
Biography
DeLeon was known as "The Girl in Blue" and was notoriou ...
(c. 1873–1922), stage name of American burlesque dancer Millie Lawrence
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Millie Gamble
Millie Gamble (1887–1986) was an amateur photographer from Prince Edward Island, Canada. Her photographs from 1905 to 1920 record life in the Tyron area.
Biography
Gamble was born in Cascumpec, Prince Edward Island on January 17, 1887. She ...
(1887–1986), Canadian photographer
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Millie Gibson
Amelia Eve Gibson (born 19 June 2004) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Indira in the CBBC series '' Jamie Johnson'' (2017–2018) and Kelly Neelan in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' (2019–2022). For her portray ...
(born 2004), English actress
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Millie Goldsholl
Millie Goldsholl (May 22, 1920 - May 23, 2012) is most well known for running the film division of the Chicago graphic design firm, Morton Goldsholl Associates (Goldsholl Design & Film Associates). She also made her own films and animations, inc ...
(1920–2012), American film director
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Millie Hamner, American politician, member of the Colorado State House of Representatives beginning 2010
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Millie Hughes-Fulford
Millie Elizabeth Hughes-Fulford ( Hughes; December 21, 1945 – February 2, 2021) was an American medical investigator, molecular biologist, and NASA payload specialist who flew aboard the NASA Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' in June 1991.
Early ...
(born 1945), American medical investigator, molecular biologist and former NASA astronaut
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Millie Innes
Millie Innes (born 5 October 2000) is a Scottish actress, known for her roles as Maisy in ''Dani's House'' and Millie McDonald in ''Millie Inbetween''.
Early and personal life
Innes was born in 2000 to parents Julia and Campbell; she has a you ...
(born 2000), Scottish actress
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Millie Jackson
Mildred Virginia Jackson (born July 15, 1944) is an American Rhythm and blues, R&B and Soul music, soul recording artist. Beginning her career in the early 1960s, three of Jackson's albums have been certified Music recording certification, gold ...
(born 1944), American singer-songwriter
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Millie Jeffrey
Mildred McWilliams "Millie" Jeffrey (December 29, 1910 – March 24, 2004) was an American political and social activist during the labor reforms, women's rights, and civil rights movement.
Biography
Mildred Jeffrey's mother, Bertha McWilli ...
(1910–2004), American activist and pioneer for workers', civil and women's rights, and union organizer
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Millie Kirkham
Millie Kirkham (born Mildred Eakes; June 24, 1923 – December 14, 2014) was an American singer who was featured on many classic hit recordings from the mid-1950s through the 1980s.
Early life
Kirkham was born Mildred Eakes in Hermitage, Tenne ...
(1923–2014), American singer born Millicent Eakes
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Millie Knight
Millicent Genevieve "Millie" Knight (born 15 January 1999) is a British skier and student who competes at international level for ParalympicsGB in alpine skiing in the slalom, giant slalom Super-G, Super Combined and Downhill events with a s ...
(born 1999), British Paralympic skier
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Millie McKoy (1851–1912), African-American conjoined twin
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Millie Peacock
Millie Gertrude Peacock, Lady Peacock (née Holden; 3 August 1870 – 7 February 1948), was the first woman elected to the Parliament of Victoria. She was the wife of Sir Alexander Peacock, a three-time Premier of Victoria. Upon his death in 193 ...
, Lady Peacock (1870–1948), first woman elected to the Parliament of Victoria, Australia
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Millie Perkins
Millie Perkins (born May 12, 1938) is an American film and television actress known for her debut film role as Anne Frank in ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' (1959), and for her supporting actress roles in two 1966 Westerns, '' The Shooting'' and '' ...
(born 1938), American actress
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Millie Puente
Millie Puente (born 1958) is an American Latin jazz singer. She is cousin of Tito Puente and earned a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album nomination with her first album, ''Tito Puente Presents Millie P'' in 1991. In 2002 she ...
(born 1958), American Latin jazz singer
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Mildred Lewis Rutherford
Mildred Lewis "Miss Millie" Rutherford (July 16, 1851 – August 15, 1928) was a prominent white supremacist educator and author from Athens, Georgia. She served the Lucy Cobb Institute, as its head and in other capacities, for over forty years, ...
(1851–1928), American educator and author nicknamed "Miss Millie"
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Millie Scott
Millie Scott is an American R&B singer who had moderate success in the US ''Billboard'' R&B chart during the 1980s.
Biography
Scott was born in Savannah on the coast of Georgia. She first sang gospel, before becoming a jazz singer. After mo ...
(''fl.'' 1980s), American R&B singer
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Millicent Simmonds (born 2002/2003), deaf actor
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Millie Spalding (born 1998), British acrobatic gymnast
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Millie Small
Millicent Dolly May Small CD (6 October 1947 – 5 May 2020) was a Jamaican singer and songwriter who is best known for her 1964 hit " My Boy Lollipop". The song reached number two in both the UK and US charts and sold over seven million ...
(1947–2020), Jamaican singer-songwriter
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Millie Tomlinson (born 1992), English professional squash player
Fictional characters with the given name
* the title character of ''
Meet Millie
''Meet Millie'', a situation comedy about a wisecracking Manhattan secretary from Brooklyn, made a transition from radio to television in the early 1950s. In the live television version, Mom and Millie were living in Jackson Heights, Queens. The ...
'', a radio and television series of the 1950s
* the title character of ''
Millie the Model
''Millie the Model'' was Marvel Comics' longest-running humor title, first published by the company's 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and continuing through its 1950s forerunner, Atlas Comics, to 1970s Marvel. The comic book series deals with ...
'', a comic book series
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Millie (''Suikoden''), in the video game ''Suikoden 2''
* Millie the Echidna, one of the three official mascots of the
2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney
* Millie Dillmount, title character of the 1967 film ''
Thoroughly Modern Millie
''Thoroughly Modern Millie'' is a 1967 American musical- romantic comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay, by Richard Morris based on the 1956 British musical ''Chrysanthemum'', follows a naïve you ...
'' and the 2002 Broadway musical
* Millie Frock, a character in ''
Bob's Burgers
''Bob's Burgers'' is an American adult animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard that premiered on Fox on January 9, 2011. The show centers on the Belcher family—parents Bob and Linda and their three children, Tina, Gene, and Louise—who r ...
''
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Millicent Huxtable
''One Tree Hill'' is an American television series created by Mark Schwahn for The WB in 2003. After its third season, The WB and UPN merged to form The CW, which then became the broadcaster for the show in the United States. Schwahn served a ...
, in the television series ''One Tree Hill''
* Millie Mouse, in the
Mickey Mouse universe
The Mickey Mouse universe is a fictional universe, fictional shared universe which is the setting for stories involving The Walt Disney Company, Disney cartoon characters Mickey Mouse, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Pluto (Disney), Pluto, Goofy, and ...
* Millie, a principal character
in the web series ''Helluva Boss''
* Millicent Mudd, a character in the webcomic ''
Ozy and Millie
''Ozy and Millie'' is a daily comic strip that ran from 1998 to 2008, created by Dana Simpson (originally published under D.C. Simpson). It follows the adventures of assorted anthropomorphized animals, centering on Ozy and Millie, two young fo ...
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* Millie Rusk, in the science-fiction comedy ''
Free Guy
''Free Guy'' is a 2021 American science fiction action comedy film directed and produced by Shawn Levy from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, and a story by Lieberman. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Utkars ...
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* Millicent
Millie Tant
Millicent "Millie" Buckridge Tant is a fictional comic strip character in the British comic '' Viz''.
She is a caricature of a left-wing militant feminist. She thinks of herself as a champion of " wimmin's" rights but is often self-centred and ...
, in the British comic ''Viz''
See also
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Milly, another feminine given name
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Feminine given names
English feminine given names
Hypocorisms