Gemma may refer to one of several things;
Physical and life sciences
- A traditional name for the star Alpha Coronae Borealis.
- A gemma, an asexual reproductive structure in plants and fungi.
- A genus of clam (Gemma) in the family Veneridae; see amethyst gem clam.
- Gas phase Electrophoretic Mobility Molecular Analysis (GEMMA), which produces a beam of multiply charged ions by electrospray ionization and transforms them into singly charged ions or neutral particles, separates these particles according to electrophoretic mobility, and records the particle count at each EM.
- Gemma is a database and software system for the meta-analysis of gene expression data
The given name or surname of famous men
The given name of famous women
Gemma is a female given name, of
Italian origin, relatively popular in
Spain, Italy and the
United Kingdom.
- Gemma Arterton, an English actress
- Gemma Atkinson, an English actress and model
- Gemma Beadsworth, an Australian water polo player
- Gemma Bond, American Ballet Theatre dancer and from first soloist at the Royal Ballet, London
- Gemma Craven, an Irish actress
- Saint Gemma Galgani, a young Italian woman who showed signs of stigmata in the late 1800s/very early 1900s, known as the first lay saint of the Passionists
- Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter
- Gemma Jones, English actress
- Gemma Ward, an Australian supermodel
The name of fictional characters and titles
Works of fiction
See also