Effie
Effie is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Euphemia. It may refer to:
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Women
- Effie Bancroft (1840–1921), English actress and theatre manager
- Effie Boggess (born 1927), American politician
- Effie Cardale (1873–1960), New Zealand community and welfare worker
- Effie Cherry (1869–1944), 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, pioneering motorcyclist
- 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 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, character 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, a character 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 Perine, Sam Spade's secretary in the novel The Maltese Falcon and its film adaptations
- 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, a character in the book series The Hunger Games
- Effie White, one of the lead characters in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls
- Effie, a character in the video game Fire Emblem Fates
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See also
- Effie M. Morrissey, a schooner used for arctic research
- Effi (disambiguation)
- Effy Stonem, a character on Skins
- Eftychia, a Greek given name
- Euphemia (disambiguation)
- Euthemia, a Greek give name
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