Marcella

Marcella Ng (née Hayes) is an American pilot. She was the first African American woman pilot in the United States Armed Forces. On November 27, 1979, at the U.S. Army Aviation Center at Fort Rucker, Alabama, she became the first black woman, and the 55th woman, to become a pilot in the United States Armed Forces. She went on to serve 22 years in the army, and retired in 2000 as a lieutenant colonel. In 2022 she was inducted into the University of Wisconsin-Madison Army ROTC Hall of Fame.

Marcella LeBeau (1919 – 2021), also known as Marcella Le Beau and Wigmuke Waste' Win (English: Pretty Rainbow Woman), was a Lakota (Native American) elder, politician, nurse, and military veteran.

Marcella Nunez-Smith is an American physician-scientist. She is C.N.H Long Professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, where she serves as the inaugural Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and founding director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center. She also holds joint appointments at the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale School of Management. After co-chairing the Biden-Harris transition’s COVID-19 Advisory Board from November 2020 to January 2021, she was selected by President Joe Biden to serve as Senior Advisor to the White House COVID-19 Response Team and Chair of the Presidential COVID-19 Equity Task Force.

Dame Marcella Liburd, GCMG, JP, is a Kittitian politician who is the fifth governor-general of Saint Kitts and Nevis, serving since 2023. Trained as a teacher and then as a barrister and solicitor, Liburd was the first woman to serve as both the Speaker of the National Assembly of Saint Kitts and Nevis and the Governor-General. She has served in various Ministerial positions including Acting Prime Minister and Chair of the Opposition for the Labour Party. She was the first woman to serve as Chair in the 81-year-old organization’s history.

Marcella Bella (born 18th June 1952) is an Italian singer.

St. Marcella was a highly-educated, widowed Roman noblewoman in the time of the early Church. St. Jerome, the brilliant but curmudgeonly translator of the Bible into Latin, was one of the Christians who lived in her spacious urban home when in need of housing. The story goes that he would check his Greek grammar knowledge against hers, and that she would constantly ask him theological questions in the manner of Socratic dialogue. Only she could snap Jerome out of his crankiness - she wouldn’t take no for an answer. When she died a martyr, Jerome penned a beautiful letter extolling her virtues in both life and death.

Marcella is the mother of Selena Quintanilla. It is a pretty name. I think Marcella would be a prefect middle name.

Marcella Hazan is an Italian cook. My mum has one of her cook-books.

Marcella sticks out in my mind as the little girl in the "Raggedy Ann" series. It is lovely.