phoebe

Phoebe or Phebe is a female given name (Ancient Greek: Φοίβη), meaning 'beautiful goddess' deriving from Greek 'phoibos' (φοιβος). A popular Swedish and German name Phoebe is also the name of a bird or a woman's name from the Book of Romans.

Mythology

• Phoebe (mythology), one of the Titans.
• One of the Heliades
• Phoebe (Leucippides), the daughter of Leucippus
• Another name for Artemis
• Helen's sister, daughter of Leda
• [Phoebe] , beeautiful creature from the heavens

Nature

• Phoebe (plant), a genus of flowering plants in the Lauraceae family
• Phoebe (bird), the common name for birds of genus Sayornis in the tyrant flycatcher family
• Phoebe (moon), a small outer moon of Saturn
• Phoebe Regio, a featured on brocily

Books

• Phoebe (Christian woman), a Corinthian woman mentioned by the Apostle Paul in Romans 16:1 of the early Christian church
• Phebe, a shepherdess in Shakespeare's As You Like It
• Phoebe, a word used in Jacek Dukaj's science fiction novel Perfekcyjna niedoskonałość derived from the acronym of "post-human being"
• Phoebe, the little sister of Holden Caulfield in the book Catcher in the Rye
• Phoebe Winterbottom, the best friend of Salmanca Tree Hiddle in Walk Two Moons
• Phoebe, the 16-year-old pregnant girl and main character of Phoebe by Patricia Dizenzo^[1]

Film and television

• Phoebe Banks, a fictional character of Disney's Enchanted
• Phoebe Buffay, a main character in the sitcom Friends, portrayed by Lisa Kudrow
• Phoebe Cates, American actress in movies like Gremlins and Drop Dead Fred
• Phoebe Dinsmore, a character (diction coach) in the movie Singing in the rain
• Phoebe Figalilly, the mystical governess and nanny in the eponymous titled television series "Nanny and The Professor"
• Phoebe Forrester, Daughter of Ridge and Taylor, in the television series the Bold and the Beautiful
• Phoebe Halliwell, a main character on the television drama series Charmed, portrayed by Alyssa Milano
• Phoebe Henry, a child born with down syndrome in The Memory Keepers Daughter
• Phoebe Heyerdahl, one of the main characters of the television series Hey Arnold!
• Phoebe Lichten, the main character of the film Phoebe In Wonderland. Phoebe either can't or won't follow the rules.
• Phoebe North, one of the characters of the remake of Yours, Mine and Ours
• Detective Phoebe O'Hara, a fictional FBI agent in Kindergarten Cop, portrayed by Pamela Reed
• Phoebe Somerville Calebow,the protagonist of Susan Elizabeth Phillips' It Had To Be You and main character in the Chicago Stars series
• Phoebe Terese, one of the girls in Ms. Frizzle's class on the television series The Magic School Bus
• Phoebe, a character from the "'Monster's Clubhouse'" segment of Sesame Street
• Phoebe, a character in the British radio soap opera The Archers
• Phoebe, one of the three Weird Sisters in the television series Gargoyles, said to represent Grace
• Phoebe, a Bratz character
• Phoebe Pandora Powell, Robert Webb's friend's daughter, to be appearing in Peep Show (all episodes) in 2010 to 2013

Games

• Phoebe, a character from Square's Final Fantasy Mystic Quest video game
• Phoebe (Pokémon), a member of the Hoenn Elite Four from Pokémon

Music

• Phoebe Snow (musician)

Science and technology

• Phoebe (moon), a small outer moon of Saturn
• Phoebe (computer), Acorn Computers's never-released successor to the Risc PC

Transportation

• HMS Phoebe

See also

• Phoebus, another mythological figure

References

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