Theodora

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 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)