# Effie

Effie is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Efthymia (Greek: Ευθυμία), Eftychia (Greek: Ευτυχία), or Euphemia (Greek: Ευφημία). Notable people with the name include:

## Women

* Effie Bancroft (1840–1921), English actress and theatre manager
* Effie Boggess (1927–2021), American politician
* Effie Cardale (1873–1960), New Zealand community and welfare worker
* Effie Cherry (1869–1944), American performer, part of the Cherry Sisters touring vaudeville act
* Effie Crockett (1857–1940), American actress
* Euphemia Effie Ellsler (1855–1942), American stage and film actress
* Euphemia Effie Germon (1845–1914), American stage actress
* Euphemia Effie Gray (1828–1897), Scottish model, married to John Ruskin and John Everett Millais
* Effie Hotchkiss, American pioneering motorcyclist in 1915
* Effie Mae Martin Howard, real name of Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936–2006), African-American quiltmaker
* Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1952), American Universalist minister and suffragette
* Effie Neal Jones (1919–2002), American civil rights activist
* Effie Mona Mack (1888–1969), American historian
* Effie Pedaliu, British historian
* Effie Louise Power (1873–1969), American children's librarian and author
* Euphemia Effie Newbigging Richardson (1849–1928), New Zealand landowner and litigant
* Effie Robinson (1920–2003), American social worker and public housing director
* Effie Hoffman Rogers (1855–1918), American educator
* Effie Adelaide Rowlands (1859–1936), usual pen name of Australian-born British novelist Effie Albanesi
* Effie Shannon (1867–1954), American stage and silent screen actress
* Effie Smith (1914–1977), American jazz and blues singer and comedian
* Effie Anderson Smith (1869–1955), American painter
* Effie Waller Smith (1879–1960), African-American poet
* Effie A. Southworth (1860–1947), American botanist and mycologist
* Effie Wilder (1909–2007), American novelist

## Men

* Elisha Effie Norton (1873–1950), American Major League Baseball pitcher

## Fictional characters

* Effie Clinker, a radio character developed by Edgar Bergen
* Effie Deans, in Sir Walter Scott's 1818 novel The Heart of Midlothian
* Mrs Euphegenia "Effie" Doubtfire, a disguised character in the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire, played by Robin Williams
* Effie Grant Munro, in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Yellow Face"
* Effie Harrison, on the British soap opera Emmerdale
* Effie Kaligaris, in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants novels
* Effie (Euphemia) Macinnes / McDonald, a long standing character in Take the High Road, played by Mary Riggans
* Effie Newsome / Effie Crabtree, in the Canadian series Murdoch Mysteries, played by Canadian actress Clare McConnell since 2018
* Effie Perine, Sam Spade's secretary in the novel The Maltese Falcon and its film adaptations
* Effie Rawlinson - character in The Case of the Late Pig; an Albert Campion mystery by Margery Allingham
* Effie Spicer, on the British soap opera Coronation Street from 1968 to 1969
* Effie Stephanidis, comedic television character, played by Australian actress Mary Coustas
* Effie Trinket, in the book series The Hunger Games
* Effie White, one of the lead characters in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls
* Effie, in the video game Fire Emblem Fates
* Effie, a non playable character in Street Fighter III