Viola

Viola Liuzzo (née Gregg) was a civil rights activist who is famous for her help during the march from Selma to Montgomery in the wake of bloody Sunday. While driving a young black passenger her car was chased by 3 members of the KKK, eventually fatally shooting her twice in the head. The FBI would later lead a smear campaign portraying her as a harlot and druggie. She holds a branch on my own family tree, as her husband was my grandmother's uncle.

Viola Desmond (1914 – 1965) was a Canadian civil and women's rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre. For this, she was convicted of a minor tax violation for the one-cent tax difference between the seat that she had paid for and the seat that she used, which was more expensive. Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada.

Viola is the blonde-haired main character of the horror video game and manga "The Witch's House". In the game, the player guides Viola throughout the haunted house, solving puzzles and avoiding traps, uncovering the secrets of the witch who lives there, who is revealed to be a sick and dying purple-haired girl named Ellen who wants to swap bodies with Viola.

Viola Cadaverini, a character in the video game Ace Attorney. Her grandfather is a mafia boss.

Viola Barry (March 4, 1894 – April 2, 1964) was an American silent film actress who starred in a number of films during the decade of the 1910s.

Viola Davis is an American actress and producer. She is the only black woman to be nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one, and is the only black actress or actor to win the Triple Crown of Acting. In 2012, she was listed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Viola Liuzzo was an American civil rights activist. She was assassinated on March 25th, 1965.

Viola Eade is a character in Patrick Ness’s young adult book series ‘Chaos Walking’.

Jake the Dog named his dog/rainicorn hybrid daughter Viola in the show Adventure Time.

Viola is the first Gym Leader in Pokemon X and Y. She uses Bug-type Pokemon.

A famous bearer is American actress Viola Davis (born 11 August 1965). She's well-known for her stage work, including Tony Award-winning performances in "King Hedley II" and "Fences". Her best known film credit is "Doubt" (2008), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

Viola was the name of a woman in Britain directly after the Roman occupation; she wrote one of the poems in admirable Latin inscribed on stones that archaeologists have been finding - the professor of Latin who read out her poem in a TV documentary today pronounced her name as VEE-uh-luh.

Famous bearer: actress Viola Davis.

Does anyone remember Viola Swamp?

Amanda Bynes played Viola in the movie "She's the Man" (a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"). Great movie, too.

In my home state of Illinois there is a small town called Viola. It's in the west-central region of the state. I think I remember that town better because Viola is also the name of my great-grandmother.

Viola Dana (born Virginia Flugrath, June 26, 1897-July 3, 1987) was a silent movie actress.

Connecting to Twelfth Night Gwyneth Paltrow's character in the film Shakespeare In Love was called Viola.