title: Millicent
text: # Millicent
  
  Millicent or Milicent is a female given name that has been in use since the Middle Ages. The English form Millicent derives from the Old French Melisende, from the Germanic amal "work" and swinth "strength".
  
  ## People
  
  * Millicent Armstrong (1888–1973), Australian playwright
  * Millicent Aroi, Nauruan diplomat
  * Milicent Bagot (1907–2006), British intelligence officer
  * Millicent Bandmann-Palmer (1845–1926), English actress
  * Millicent Baxter (1888–1984), New Zealand pacifist
  * Millicent Borges Accardi, Portuguese-American poet and writer
  * Millicent Browne (1881-1975), British suffragate
  * Millicent Dillon (born 1925), 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 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, 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, 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 Bagnold, in the Harry Potter series
  * 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
  * Millicent Carter, recurring character in ER.
  * Millicent Arnold, in the short story "Initiation" by Sylvia Plath
  * Millicent "Penny" Woods, a character on the television series Good Times
  * Millicent "Millie" Princey, a character on the episode "Wet Saturday" of the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  * Millicent Barnes, main character in the 1960 Twilight Zone episode "Mirror Image"
  * Millicent Gergich, recurring character in the television series Parks and Recreation
  * Millicent Collins, a Collins family ancestor in the 1960s soap opera Dark Shadows
  * Milicent Darnham, in the 1831 novel Mothers and Daughters (vol. 3) by Catherine Gore
  * Millicent Crosswire, mother of Muffy Crosswire in the 1996 cartoon adaption Arthur (TV series)
  * Millicent "Minx" Lawrence, a young girl who becomes a friend of Drill and player of his game in the television series The Whispers
  * Aunt Millicent, an original character created for the 2003 film adaptation of Peter Pan, portrayed by Lynn Redgrave
  * Millicent Margaret Amanda, full name of the title character in the Milly-Molly-Mandy series
  
  ## Places
  
  * Millicent, Alberta, an unincorporated community
  * Millicent, South Australia, a town
  