Terri is an alternative spelling of Terry. It is a common feminine

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and is also a diminutive for Teresa. Notable people with the name include: * Terri Allard (born 1962), American country/folk singer/songwriter * Terri S. Armstrong, American scientist * Terri Attwood (born 1959), English professor * Terri Austin (born 1955), American educator and politician *

Terri Bennett Terri Bennett is an Irish former cricketer who played as an all-rounder. She appeared in three One Day Internationals for Ireland in 1990. She played domestic cricket for East Midlands The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of ...

, Irish cricketer * Terri Bjerre (born 1966), American musician * Terri Blackstock (born 1957), American Christian fiction writer * Terri Bonoff, American politician * Terri Brisbin, American historical romance author * Terri Brosius, American musician and voice actor * Terri Brown, American athlete * Terri Bryant, American politician * Terri Butler, former Australian politician * Terri Lyne Carrington, jazz drummer, composer, and record producer * Terri Carver, American politician * Terri Cater, Australian former sprinter and middle-distance runner * Terri Clark, Canadian country music artist * Terri Collins, American politician * Terri Conley, American social psychologist * Terri Conn, American actress * Terri Crawford, Canadian musician * Terri Dendy, former American track and field athlete * Terri Dial (1949-2012), American banker * Terri Lynn Doss, American model and actress * Terri Doty, American voice actress, voice director, and ADR writer * Terri Dunning, former British swimmer * Terri Dwyer, English actress * Terri-Rae Elmer, radio news announcer *

Terri Farley American Terri Farley is an American writer. She is the best-selling author of ''Seven Tears into the Sea'', '' The Phantom Stallion'' series for young readers about the contemporary and historic West and many nonfiction magazine articles. Biogr ...

, American writer *

Terri Fields Terri Fields is a book writer and teacher from Phoenix, Arizona. Fields teaches at Sunnyslope High School, where she developed her reading program, Reading Is Sweet. Fields encourages students to read by walking from classroom to classroom and ha ...

, American book writer and teacher * Terri H. Finkel, American pediatric rheumatologist and immunologist *

Terri Garber Terri is an alternative spelling of Terry. It is a common feminine given name and is also a diminutive for Teresa. Notable people with the name include: * Terri Allard (born 1962), American country/folk singer/songwriter *Terri S. Armstrong, A ...

, American actress * Terri Gibbs, American country music artist *

Terri Grodzicker Terri Grodzicker is an American molecular geneticist and virologist who is currently the Dean of Academic Affairs at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She also serves as the editor-in-chief of ''Genes & Development''. Her research is in the field o ...

, American molecular geneticist and virologist *

Terri Hall Terri Hall (January 25, 1953 – June 5, 2007) was an American erotic actress in adult films from 1974 to 1984, during the Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984). Notable films include: ''Alice In Wonderland'' (1976), ''The Opening of Misty Beethove ...

(1953-2007), American erotic actress * Terri Hardin, Muppet puppeteer, actress and stand-up comedian *

Terri Hanauer Terri Hanauer (born March 25, 1964 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian- American actress, film director, screenwriter and photographer. Biography Hanauer grew up in Canada and later moved to the United States; she holds dual citizenship in both ...

, Canadian-American actress *

Terri Crawford Hansen Terri Crawford Hansen (born 1953) is a journalist who focuses primarily on environmental and scientific issues affecting North American tribal and worldwide indigenous communities. Hansen, an enrolled Native American citizen of the Winnebago Tribe ...

, American journalist * Terri Harper, British professional boxer * Terri Hawkes, Canadian actress * Terri Hemmert, American radio personality and musicologist *

Terri Hendrix Terri Ann Hendrix is a Texas-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and independent artist who has been writing and performing an eclectic mix of Americana genre, encompassing folk, pop, country, blues, and jazz, since 1990. Since ...

, contemporary folk singer-songwriter from Texas *

Terri L. Hill Terri Lynn Hill (born May 3, 1959) is an American politician who serves as a Delegate to the Maryland General Assembly representing Maryland's 12th Legislative District, which encompasses portions of Baltimore and Howard Counties. Personal lif ...

, American politician *

Terri Hoffman Terri Lee Hoffman (March 21, 1938 – October 31, 2015), later known as Terri Lilya Keanely, was an American religious cult leader known for the unexplained deaths of some of her followers, including two husbands, shortly after they had wille ...

(1938-2015), American writer *

Terri Hogue Terri S. Hogue is a hydrologist. She is currently a professor and department head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. Her research focuses on different hydrologic and land surface processes in semi-arid regions and ...

, American hydrologist *

Terri Hollowell Terri Hollowell (born July 2, 1956 in Jeffersonville, Indiana), is an American singer. She had five nationally charted singles between 1978 and 1980, has toured internationally, and has appeared on numerous nationally televised programs. Car ...

, American singer * Terri Hoyos, American actress * Terri Irwin, Australian, American-born naturalist, author, and owner of Australia Zoo at Beerwah, Queensland, Australia * Terri Ivens, American actress * Terri Janke, Wuthathi/Meriam Indigenous lawyer *

Terri Jentz The Cline Falls axe attack refers to an Cold case, unsolved attempted homicide that occurred on the evening of June 22, 1977, at the Cline Falls State Scenic Viewpoint, Cline Falls State Park in Deschutes County, Oregon United States. The victims ...

, American writer *

Terri Kimball Terri is an alternative spelling of Terry. It is a common feminine given name and is also a diminutive for Teresa. Notable people with the name include: *Terri Allard (born 1962), American country/folk singer/songwriter *Terri S. Armstrong, Amer ...

, American model and Playmate of the Month * Terri Kwan, Taiwanese actress, model, singer and author * Texas Terri (formerly Terri Laird), punk rock singer and songwriter from Texas *

Terri Lynn Land Terri Lynn Land (born June 30, 1958) is an American politician who served as the 41st Michigan Secretary of State from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, Land was elected to the Republican National C ...

, Michigan Secretary of State * Terri Leigh, Canadian television anchor * Terri McCormick, Wisconsin State Representative *

Terri Meyette Terri Meyette is a Yaqui poet known for her anti-colonialist Decolonization or decolonisation is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. ...

, Yaqui poet * Terri Edda Miller, American screenwriter, producer, and director * Terri Minsky, American television writer and producer *

Terri Mitchell Terri Mitchell (born June 13, 1967) is an associate head women's basketball coach at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously she was the head women's basketball coach at Marquette University. During her tenure, she guided the Golden Eagles to a 3 ...

, American women's basketball coach *

Terri Moss Terri Moss (born January 25, 1966) is a retired female boxer, and a 2015 inductee into the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame. Background Her family moved to Athens, Georgia in 1975 where she grew up and resided until 2003 when she mov ...

, retired female boxer * Terri Nunn, American singer and actress *

Terri O'Connell Terri Leigh O'Connell (born July 7, 1964) is a former motorsports racing champion, artist, author, and fashion model. Life Terri O'Connell was born on July 7, 1964, in Corinth, Mississippi. She is an only child. O’Connell was named JT Hayes ...

, former motorsports racing champion *

Terri Paddock Terri Paddock is an American writer and arts journalist, based in the UK since 1991. A former PR executive, she became editor of the Whatsonstage.com, a portal website about the British theatre, in 1996. She left that position in 2013. She has a ...

, American writer and arts journalist * Terri Poch, American bodybuilder and former professional wrestler * Terri Priest (1928-2014), American artist *

Terri Proud Terri Proud was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives The Arizona State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arizona Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arizona. The upper house is the Senate. T ...

, American politician * Terri Psiakis, Australian comedian and a presenter on radio and television *

Terri Quaye Terri Quaye, also Theresa (born 8 November 1940, Bodmin, England), Val Wilmer"Quaye, Terri (born 1940), singer, pianist, percussionist" Grove Music Online - ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz'', 2nd edition. Published in print January 2002. Publ ...

, English musician *

Terri Rachals Terri Eden Maples Rachals is a former nurse from Georgia who was accused of killing people at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia with potassium chloride, a heart-stopping drug. While suspected of killing at least nine of her patient ...

, American nurse accused of murder *

Terri Rogers Terri Rogers (4 May 1937 – 30 May 1999) was a transgender English ventriloquist and magician. Rogers was born in Ipswich and was a somewhat isolated youth but determined to build a career in variety. Rogers developed a technically highly pr ...

(1937-1999), English ventriloquist and magician * Terri Roth, vice president of conservation and science at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden * Terri Runnels, American former professional wrestling manager, television host and occasional wrestler *

Terri Russell Terri Russell (born 3 June 1954 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia) is a former Australian cricket player. Russell played thirteen one day internationals for the Australia national women's cricket team. Her final WODI appearance was in the final o ...

, former Australian cricket player * Terri Schiavo (1963-2005), diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for several years * Terri Schneider, American endurance athlete, motivational speaker, author, coach, and consultant *

Terri Scott Terri Scott is the former Principal of Northern Regional College, Northern Ireland, a position she held from 2014 to 2021. Prior to this post, she was the first female President of Institute of Technology, Sligo (ITS), from 2008 to 2014. She wa ...

, education executive * Terri Sewell, American politician * Terri Seymour, British television presenter * Terri Sharp (1948-2015), American songwriter * Terri Stoneburner, American lawyer and judge * Terri Swearingen, American nurse * Terri Funk Sypolt, American politician * Terri Tatchell, Canadian screenwriter *

Terri Te Tau Terri Te Tau is a New Zealand contemporary artist and writer. She is a member of the Mata Aho Collective. In 2017, the collective represented New Zealand at documenta, a quinquennial contemporary-art exhibition held in Kassel, Germany. This w ...

, New Zealand contemporary artist and writer * Terri Willingham Thomas, American judge * Terri Thompson, American business journalist * Terri Treas, American actress, writer and director * Terri Utley, beauty queen and motivational speaker *

Terri Vaughan Therese Michele "Terri" Vaughan (born June 12, 1956) is an American insurance academic, regulator, and advisor. She was insurance commissioner of the state of Iowa for 10 years from 1994 to 2005, and was the CEO of the National Association of Insura ...

, American insurance academic, regulator, and advisor *

Terri J. Vaughn Terri Juanita Vaughn (born October 16, 1969) is an American actress, director and producer. She is best known for her role as high school secretary Lovita Alizay Jenkins-Robinson in The WB sitcom ''The Steve Harvey Show'' (1997–2002), for which ...

, American film and television actress * Terri Walker, English R&B and soul singer-songwriter * Terri Lynn Weaver, American politician * Terri Welles, American actress and adult model * Terri White, American actress and singer *

Terri White (journalist) Terri White is a British journalist, editor and author. She was the editor-in-chief of ''Empire (film magazine), Empire'' magazine. Career Around 2001, White served as a features assistant at ''Woman & Home'' magazine. She was the associate e ...

, British journalist, editor and author * Terri L. White, mental health executive * Terri Williams-Flournoy, American women's basketball coach * Terri Windling, American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults *

Terri Witek Terri Witek (born Therese Ann Damm in Sandusky, Ohio, United States) is a U.S. poet. Biography Witek holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and, in addition to teaching Poetry in the Expanded Field in the graduate program, directs the undergrad ...

, American poet * Terri Young, American pediatric ophthalmologist * Terri Zemaitis, retired American female volleyball player

Fictional characters

Terri Alden ''Three's Company'' is an American sitcom television series that aired for eight seasons on ABC from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984. It is based on the British sitcom ''Man About the House''. The story revolves around three single roomma ...

, ''Three's Company'' * Terri Johnstone, ''River City'' *

Terri McGreggor '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' is a Canadian teen drama television series created by Linda Schuyler and Yan Moore. The series is now considered the first incarnation and premiered on CTV on October 14, 2001, and then ended on MTV Canada and ...

, ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'' * Terri Schuester, ''Glee'' *

Terri Stivers Terri Stivers is a fictional character in '' Homicide: Life on the Street''. She was played by actress Toni Lewis. Stivers first appears in Season 5 as a detective in the Baltimore Police Department's narcotics unit, frequently collaborating wit ...

, ''Homicide: Life on the Street'' * Terri Webber, ''General Hospital'' * Sherri and Terri, ''The Simpsons''

People with the last name Terri

* Salli Terri, a singer, arranger, recording artist, and songwriter

Tropical cyclones

* Cyclone Terri (2001)

Fictional characters

People with the last name Terri

Tropical cyclones

See also