Comments for the name Althea

In the T.V. show "In the Heat of the Night," Anne-Marie Johnson played Althea Tibbs, the wife of the Chief of Detectives, Virgil Tibbs.

Althea Gibson was a famous tennis player.

Althea was the name of Larry Flynt's deceased wife.

Ross and Monica's nana was named Althea in FRIENDS.

Althea Crome is the woman who created some of the clothes for the movie Coraline. She hand knits clothes on a very, VERY small scale.

The Grateful Dead have a well-known song called Althea. Many Dead fans believe the song makes reference to both the mother of Meleager and Leda (Helen of Troy's mother) in Greek Mythology and a poem by Richard Lovelace, "To Althea, From Prison" in the 1600s.