Tímea, Timea or originally, Timéa is a popular Hungarian female

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. The name Tímea was created by the popular Hungarian author

Mór Jókai Móric Jókay de Ásva (, known as ''Mór Jókai''; 18 February 1825 – 5 May 1904), outside Hungary also known as Maurus Jokai or Mauritius Jókai, was a Hungarian nobleman, novelist, dramatist and revolutionary. He was an active participant ...

for a figure in his 1872 novel ''

The Man with the Golden Touch ''The Man with the Golden Touch'' (orig. hu, Az arany ember, lit. "The Golden Man") is an 1872 novel by Hungarian people, Hungarian novelist Mór Jókai. As Jókai states in the afterword of the novel, ''The Man with the Golden Touch'' was base ...

''. It is derived from ''Euthymia'', a

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noun meaning "sweet natured".

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People with the name

Tímea Babos Tímea Babos (; born 10 May 1993) is a Hungarian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles. She is a four-time Grand Slam champion in women's doubles, having won the 2018 and 2020 Australian Opens, as well as the Fre ...

(born 1993), Hungarian tennis player *

Timea Bacsinszky Timea Bacsinszky ( hu, Bacsinszky Tímea; born 8 June 1989) is a Swiss former professional tennis player who won four singles titles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 13 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. A for ...

(born 1989), Swiss tennis player *

Tímea Gál Tímea Gál is a Hungarian football defender currently playing for AS Volos in the Greek A Division. She previously played in the Hungarian First League for MTK Hungária FC, with whom she also played the Champions League, and she is a mem ...

(born 1984), Hungarian football player * Tímea Kiss (born 1973), Hungarian archer * Tímea Kocsis (born 1992), Hungarian almost-doctor and former single-lady, recently domesticated and currently Germanized by a local German demigod * Tímea Lőrincz (born 1992), Romanian cross-country skier *

Timea Majorová Timea Majorova (born October 2, 1974 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) is an IFBB professional fitness competitor. Biography Early life Majorova was born to a Hungarian father and a Slovak mother in 1974 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. She has a ...

(born 1974), Slovak fitness competitor *

Tímea Nagy Tímea Nagy (born 22 August 1970) is a Hungarian right-handed épée fencer, three-time Olympian, 2006 individual world champion, and two-time Olympic champion. Awards * Hungarian Fencer of the Year (3): 2000, 2004, 2006 * National Defence ...

(born 1970), Hungarian fencer *

Tímea Nagy (activist) Timea Nagy (born 1977) is a Canadian activist who has spoken on behalf of victims of human trafficking. She founded Walk With Me, a Toronto-based organization that aids survivors of trafficking. Nagy was featured in an anti-trafficking campaign ...

(born 1977), Hungarian trafficked worker in Canada *

Tímea Paksy Tímea Paksy (born 22 January 1983) is a Hungarian canoe sprinter who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are a ...

(born 1983), Hungarian sprint canoer *

Tímea Papp Tímea Papp (born in Kaposvár) is a Hungarian dancer and choreographer who can be recognized for her work in the Hungarian Film and Television Industry. Apart from graduating from both the Rotterdam Dance Academy and the Hungarian Dance Acad ...

(born 1973), Hungarian dancer *

Tímea Sugár Tímea Sugár (born 21 October 1977 in Pécs) is a former Hungarian international handball player and afterwards goalkeeping coach of Fehérvár KC. She played many years for Ferencváros and Fehérvár KC during her career, which must be ended ...

(born 1977), Hungarian handball coach *

Tímea Szabó Tímea Szabó (born 18 January 1976) is a Hungarian humanitarian worker, journalist and politician. She has been a member of the National Assembly (MP) since 2010 from the Politics Can Be Different (LMP) National List, and since the 2014 electi ...

(born 1976), Hungarian humanitarian worker, journalist and politician *

Tímea Szögi Tímea Szögi (born 20 February 1990 in Szeged) is a retired Hungarian handballer who played as a playmaker. Szögi joined the club in 2007 and was member of the team that finished fourth in the Hungarian Championship in 2009 and 2010. She al ...

(born 1990), Hungarian handball player *

Timea Tătar Timea Judita Tătar (born 28 July 1989) is a Romanian handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pas ...

(born 1989), Romanian handball player *

Tímea Tóth Tímea Tóth (born 16 September 1980) is a former Hungarian handballer who most recently played for Érdi VSE (Women's handball), Érdi VSE and the Hungary women's national handball team, Hungarian national team. Achievements *Nemzeti Bajnoks� ...

(born 1980), Hungarian former handballer *

Timea Toth (swimmer) Timea Toth (טימאה טוט; born February 2, 1968) is an Israeli former Olympic swimmer. She is a former member of the Romanian national team, and immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1990. Toth competed for Israel at the 1992 Summer Olympics ...

(1968), Israeli Olympic swimmer

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