List of Famous people named Norma
Norma McCorvey
Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey, better known by the generic legal pseudonym "Jane Roe", was the plaintiff in the landmark American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional.
Norma Dumont
Norma Dumont Viana is a Brazilian mixed martial artist in the Featherweight division who fights in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Norma Duval
Purificación Martín Aguilera known as Norma Duval is a Spanish actress, presenter and Vedette
Norma Shearer
Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated ingénues. She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare, and was the first person to be nominated five times for an Academy Award for acting, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930).
Norma Foley
Norma Foley is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Minister for Education since June 2020. She has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Kerry since 2020.
Norma Paulus
Norma Jean Paulus was an American lawyer and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Nebraska, she was raised in Eastern Oregon before becoming a lawyer. A Republican, she first held political office as a representative in the Oregon House of Representatives, and then became the first woman elected to statewide public office in Oregon when she became Oregon Secretary of State in 1977. Paulus later served as Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction for nine years. She made unsuccessful bids to become Governor of Oregon and United States Senator. Prior to her death on February 28, 2019, Paulus lived in Portland, where she was involved with several non-profit groups and sponsored a ballot measure to create open primaries in Oregon's statewide elections.
Norma Nolan
Norma Beatriz Nolan is an Argentine beauty queen who was the first woman from Argentina to win the Miss Universe title. Nolan is of Irish and Italian descent. She was crowned Miss Argentina in 1962 by her predecessor, Adriana Gardiazábal, who was the second runner-up in the previous pageant.
Norma Tanega
Norma Cecilia Tanega was an American folk and pop singer-songwriter, painter, and experimental musician. In the 1960s, she had a hit with the single "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog" and wrote songs for Dusty Springfield and other prominent musicians. In later decades, Tanega worked mostly as a percussionist, playing various styles of music in the bands Baboonz, hybridVigor, and Ceramic Ensemble. She is also known for "You're Dead", the theme song of the film What We Do in the Shadows and the TV series of the same name.
Norma Pons
Norma Delia Orizi known by her stage name Norma Pons, was an Argentine actress and vedette.
Norma Bengell
Norma Bengell was a Brazilian film and television actress, singer, screenwriter and director. Appeared in several episodes of T.H.E Cat, the first being in 1966 episode “To Kill A Priest”