Theodora may refer to:

  • Theodora (given name), a given name of Greek origin, meaning "God's gift"

Modern people

  • Theodora "Dora" Bakoyanni, Greek politician
  • Theodora Goss, American novelist
  • Theodora Keogh, American novelist
  • Theodora Kroeber, American anthropologist
  • Theodora Nathalia Nathan, American media producer and political activist
  • Theodora (singer), French-Congolese singer
  • Theodora Skipitares, American interdisciplinary artist

Historical figures known as Theodora

Byzantine empresses

  • Theodora (wife of Justinian I) ( 500 – 548), saint by the Orthodox Church
  • Theodora of Khazaria, 7th-century empress, wife of Justinian II
  • Theodora (wife of Theophilos), 9th-century empress, saint by the Orthodox Church
  • Theodora (wife of Romanos I), 10th-century empress
  • Theodora (daughter of Constantine VII), 10th-century empress, wife of John I Tzimiskes
  • Theodora Porphyrogenita (c. 980–1056), empress regnant in 1042 and 1055–1056
  • Theodora Palaiologina (Byzantine empress) (c. 1240–1303), wife of Michael VIII Palaiologos

Trebizonian empresses

  • Theodora Axuchina, empress consort of Alexios I of Trebizond
  • Theodora of Trebizond (before 1253 – after 1285), empress regnant from 1284 to 1285
  • Theodora Kantakouzene (c. 1240 – after 1290), empress consort of Alexios III of Trebizond
  • Theodora Kantakouzene (wife of Alexios IV of Trebizond), empress consort of Alexios IV of Trebizond

Others

  • Theodora of Emesa, 5th-century Neoplatonist
  • Flavia Maximiana Theodora, daughter of the Roman emperor Maximian and second wife of emperor Constantius I
  • Episcopa Theodora, mother of Pope Paschal I in the 9th century
  • Theodora (senatrix), Roman senatrix and mother of Marozia; concubine to Pope Sergius III
  • Theodora Komnene (disambiguation)
  • Theodora Tocco, despoina consort of Constantine, Despot in Morea (later Constantine XI Palaiologos).
  • Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969), daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
  • Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (born 1983), daughter of Constantine II of Greece
  • Theodora of Hesse-Darmstadt, daughter of Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt and Duchess consort of Guastalla
  • Theodora Sayn-Wittgenstein (born 1986), German aristocrat
  • Princess Theodora of Liechtenstein (born 2004), Liechtensteiner environmentalist
  • Theodora (Roman martyr), 2nd-century Christian martyr and saint
  • Theodora and Didymus, early Christian martyrs
  • Theodora of Alexandria, Eastern Orthodox saint
  • Theodora of Arta, 13th-century Empress of Epirus
  • Theodora of Sihla, Romanian Orthodox saint

Arts and entertainment

  • Theodora (Handel), an oratorio by George Frideric Handel
  • Theodora (1914 film), Italian silent film
  • Theodora (1921 film), Italian silent film

Other uses

  • Theodora Children's Charity, British charity
  • Theodora, a synonym of the legume genus Schotia

See also

  • Teodora
  • Theodore (disambiguation)
  • Théodore Guérin (Saint Theodora)
  • Thea (name)