Millicent or Milicent is a feminine given name that has been in use since the Middle Ages. The English form Millicent derives from the Old French Melisende, stemming from the Germanic name Amalasuintha (from amal meaning 'work' and swinth meaning 'strength'). The name has gone through many variations, with Melisent first being more usual, eventually giving way to the now more common Millicent.
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People
Millicent Armstrong (1888–1973), Australian playwright
Milicent Bagot (1907–2006), British intelligence officer
Millicent Bandmann-Palmer (1845–1926), English actress
Barbara Millicent Roberts (Barbie) (March 9, 1959–), American Doll
Millicent Baxter (1888–1984), New Zealand pacifist
Millicent Borges Accardi, Portuguese-American poet and writer
Millicent Browne (1881–1975), British suffragette
Millicent Dillon (1925–2025), American writer
Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929), English suffragist, feminist, intellectual, political and union leader and writer
Millicent Fenwick (1910–1992), American fashion editor and politician
Millicent S. Ficken (1933–2020), American ornithologist
Millicent Hearst (1882–1974), American socialite and philanthropist, wife of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst
Millicent Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (1867–1955), British society hostess, social reformer, author, editor, journalist and playwright
Millicent Mackenzie (1863–1942), British professor of education, first female professor in Wales and the first appointed to a fully chartered university in the United Kingdom
Millicent Martin (born 1934), British actress, singer and comedian
Millicent Preston-Stanley (1883–1955), Australian feminist and politician, first female member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Millicent Rogers (1902–1953), American socialite and art collector
Millicent Selsam (1912–1996), American children's author
Milicent Shinn (1858–1940), American child psychologist, first woman to receive a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley
Millicent Silver (1905–1986), British harpsichordist, pianist and violinist
Millicent Simmonds (born 2003), a deaf actor
Millie Small (1947–2020), Jamaican singer-songwriter
Millicent Sowerby (1878–1967), English painter and illustrator,
See also Amalasuintha, queen of the Ostrogoths
Fictional characters
Millicent Quibb, eccentric mad scientist from the 2024 book The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon.
Millicent, character in the action role-playing game Elden Ring
Millicent Carew, fiancée to Dr. Jekyll in the 1920 film adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Millicent Higgens, secretary to Dr. Turner in Call The Midwife
Millicent, in the 1957 Bugs Bunny cartoon Rabbit Romeo
Millicent, fictional term for police officers in the nadsat slang of the 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Millicent, character in the 1973 Brady Bunch episode "Never Too Young" (Season 5, No. 4)
Millicent Collins, comic book heroine best known as Millie the Model
Millicent Bulstrode, in the Harry Potter series
Millicent Bystander, the mistaken alias of Roddy St. James in the 2006 film Flushed Away
Millicent Min, heroine of Millicent Min, Girl Genius, 2003 novel by Lisa Yee
Millicent Huxtable, in the television series One Tree Hill
Millicent Mudd, in the webcomic Ozy and Millie
Millicent Weems, in the 2008 film Synecdoche, New York