Gemma is an Italian female name, of Latin origin, meaning "gem" or "precious stone".^[1][2][3][4] The name has been amongst the most popular in England and Scotland during the 1980s.^[5]

People with the given name

Female

• Gemma Arterton (born 1986), English actress
• Gemma Atkinson (born 1984), English actress and model
• Gemma Beadsworth (born 1987), Australian water polo player
• Gemma Bissix (born 1983), English actress
• Gemma Bond (born 1982), English ballet dancer
• Gemma Booth (born 1974), English photographer
• Gemma Chan (born 1982), British actress
• Gemma Collins (born 1981), English media personality and businesswoman
• Gemma Cowling, Australian model
• Gemma Craven (born 1950), Irish actress
• Gemma di Manetto Donati, the wife of medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri
• Gemma Doyle (politician) (born 1981), British Labour Party politician
• Gemma Frizelle (born 1998), British rhythmic gymnast
• Gemma Galgani or Saint Gemma of Lucca (1878–1903), Italian mystic with signs of stigmata, venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint
• Gemma Geis (born 1979), Catalan politician
• Gemma Hayes (born 1977), Irish singer-songwriter
• Gemma Houghton (born 1993), Australian rules footballer
• Gemma Hunt (born 1982), English children's TV presenter
• Gemma Jackson (born 1951), British production designer
• Gemma Jones (born 1942), English actress
• Gemma Mengual (born 1977), Catalan synchronised swimmer
• Gemma Peacocke, composer from New Zealand
• Gemma Sanderson (born 1983), Australian model and the winner of Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 1
• Gemma Smith (born 1978), Australian painter and sculptor
• Gemma Ward (born 1987), Australian model
• Gemma Whelan (born 1981), English actress and comedian

Male

• Gemma Frisius (1508–1555), Frisian mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker

Fictional characters

• Gemma, in the first series of the Sky One supernatural TV series Hex
• Gemma, in the children's Hospital Radio series The Space Gypsy Adventures
• Gemma, in the 2023 sci-fi horror film M3GAN
• Gemma Ball, a character in the television series Shameless
• Gemma Bovery, a character in the film Gemma Bovery
• Gemma Doyle, heroine of Libba Bray's novels A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing; see List of Gemma Doyle Trilogy characters
• Gemma Foster, the main character in the British series Doctor Foster
• Gemma Larson, a character in the ABC series Grey's Anatomy
• Gemma Nerrick, a character in the Netflix mockumentaries Death to 2020 and Death to 2021
• Gemma Palmer, played by Felicity Kendal in Solo, a British sitcom
• Gemma Reeves, a character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Gemma T., a character in the Stephen King novel Doctor Sleep
• Gemma Teller Morrow, a character in the FX TV series Sons of Anarchy
• Gemma Warren, heroine of the 1897 novel The Gadfly
• Gemma Winter, a character from the British soap opera Coronation Street