Lydia (name)
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Lydia is a feminine first name of Greek origin Λυδια. The name means "woman from Lydia
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Lydia
Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkish provinces of Manisa and inland İzmir. Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian....
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People named Lydia
- LydiaLydia (singer)Lydia Rodríguez Fernández , better known as Lydia, is a Spanish pop singer.-Career:When Fernández was 16 years old, she released her first album, Lydia, which went platinum in Spain. She became famous after dedicating a song to her musical idol Alejandro Sanz...
(b. 1980), a Spanish pop singer who participated at 1999 Eurovision Song Contest - Lydia of ThyatiraLydia of ThyatiraLydia of Thyatira is a character in the New Testament. She is regarded as the first recorded convert to Christianity in Europe.-Name:The name, "Lydia", meaning "the Lydian woman", by which she was known indicates that she was from Lydia in Asia Minor. Though she is commonly known as “St...
, a deacon in the New Testament of the Bible and the first convert to Christianity in Europe - Lydia BeckerLydia BeckerLydia Ernestine Becker was a leader in the early British suffrage movement, as well as an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy...
(1820–1890), a British suffragette and amateur scientist - Lydia CabreraLydia CabreraLydia Cabrera was a Cuban anthropologist and poet.Cabrera was born in Havana; She was an authority on Santería and other Afro-Cuban religions. Over her lifetime she published over one hundred books; little if any of her work is available in English...
(1899–1991), a Cuban anthropologist and poet - Lydia ChildLydia ChildLydia Maria Child was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, Indian rights activist, novelist, and journalist and Unitarian....
(1802–1880), an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, novelist and journalist - Lydia CornellLydia CornellLydia Cornell is an American actress, writer, novelist, comedienne, blogger, and talk-radio host.-Early life and acting career:...
(b. 1962), an American actress, blogger and radio talk show host - Lydia DavisLydia DavisLydia Davis is a contemporary American writer noted for her short stories. Davis is also a French translator, and has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Proust's Swann’s Way and Flaubert's Madame Bovary....
(b. 1947), an American author - Lydia Dunn, Baroness DunnLydia Dunn, Baroness DunnLydia Selina Dunn, Baroness Dunn, DBE, JP was the Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council in Hong Kong in 1985-1988 and 1988-1995, after Rogerio Hyndman Lobo and Chung Sze Yuen respectively...
(b. 1940), a Hong Kong politician - Lydia EchevarríaLydia EchevarríaLydia Echevarría is a Puerto Rican actress who was convicted of plotting the murder of her husband, renowned Puerto Rican television show producer, Luis Vigoreaux.-Early years:...
(b. 1931), a Puerto Rican actress - Lydia Field EmmetLydia Field EmmetLydia Field Emmet was an American artist best known for her work as a portraitist. She studied with, among others, prominent artists such as William Merritt Chase, Henry Siddons Mowbray, Kenyon Cox and Tony Robert-Fleury...
(1866–1952), an American painter - Lydia GibsonLydia GibsonLydia Gibson was an American socialist illustrator who contributed work to The Masses, The Liberator, The Workers' Monthly, The New Masses, and other radical publications.-Early years:...
(1891–1964), a politically radical American artist - Lydia Hatoel-Zuckerman (b. 1963), an Israeli foil fencer
- Lydia Hearst (b. 1984), an American model and socialite
- Lydia KoidulaLydia KoidulaLydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen, , known after her pen name Lydia Koidula was an Estonian poet. Her sobriquet means ‘Lydia of the Dawn’ in Estonian. It was given her by the writer Carl Robert Jakobson...
(1843–1886), an Estonian poet - Lydia KavinaLydia KavinaLydia Kavina is a Russian theremin player, and is currently the leading performing musician on the instrument.The grandniece of Léon Theremin, Kavina was born in Moscow and began studying the instrument under the direction of Theremin when she was nine years old...
(b. 1967), a Russian theremin player and conductor - Lydia LazarovLydia Lazarov-Yachting career:Lazarov and Zefania Carmel were teammates in the Zevulun Bateam Club in Israel. They won the 1966 Israeli 420-class national championship.Lazarov and Carmel also won the 1969 world title in the Team 420 Sailing Class, at Sandhem, Sweden...
(b. 1946), Israeli yachting world champion - Lydia Lopokova, Baroness Keynes (1892–1981), a Russian ballerina
- Lydia LunchLydia LunchLydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, and actress whose career was spawned by the New York No Wave scene...
(b. 1959), an American No Wave singer - Lydia MackayLydia MackayLydia Marie Mackay is an American theatre actress and voice actress who works for Funimation Entertainment and OkraTron 5000...
, American actress and voice actress - Lydia MeiLydia MeiLydia Mei was an Estonian artist who specialized in watercolors and still lifes.Born on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa, Lydia Mei was the middle child of the three daughters of a ship's captain...
(1896–1965), an Estonian painter - Lydia MendozaLydia MendozaLydia Mendoza was an American guitarist and singer of Tejano music. She is known as La Alondra de la Frontera ....
(b. 1916), an American guitarist and singer of Tejano music - Lydia MilletLydia MilletLydia Millet is an American novelist. Her third novel, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. Her fifth novel, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was short-listed for the 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award...
(b. 1968), an American author - Lydia PenseLydia PenseLydia Pense is an American rock-soul-jazz singer who since 1969 has performed with the band Cold Blood...
(b. 1948), an American singer - Lydia PinkhamLydia PinkhamLydia Estes Pinkham was an iconic concocter and shrewd marketer of a commercially successful herbal-alcoholic "women's tonic" meant to relieve menstrual and menopausal pains.-Biography:...
(1819–1883), an American patent medicine manufacturer and businesswoman - Lydia PolgreenLydia PolgreenLydia Frances Polgreen is an American journalist who was the West Africa bureau chief of The New York Times, based in Dakar, Senegal, from 2005-2009.She has won many awards, most recently the Livingston award in 2009. She is currently reporting from India.-Biography:Polgreen graduated from...
(b. 1975), an American journalist - Lydia ShumLydia ShumLydia Shum Din-Ha, also known as Lydia Sum , was a Hong Kong comedienne, MC, and actress known for her portly figure, signature dark rimmed glasses and bouffant hairstyle. She was affectionately known to peers and fans as Fei-fei...
(1947–2008), a Hong Kong actress and comedian - Lydia StahlLydia StahlLydia Stahl was a secret agent who worked for Soviet Military Intelligence in New York and Paris.She was born Lydia Chkalov in Rostov, in the south of Russia, in 1890. Once the wife of a Tsarist officer, she later married Baron Stahl, a Baltic nobleman, and emigrated to the United States where...
(1890-????), a Russian espionage agent - Lydia VenieriLydia VenieriLydia Venieri is a major Greek artist, and a descendant of the Greek branch of the Venier family. Born in Athens, she studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, and later lived in Paris. She is currently living in New York...
, a Greek artist - Lydia is also the name of a woman from the Acts of the ApostlesActs of the ApostlesThe Acts of the Apostles , usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age...
who was a purple cloth dealer. She was the apostle PaulPaul of TarsusPaul the Apostle , also known as Saul of Tarsus, is described in the Christian New Testament as one of the most influential early Christian missionaries, with the writings ascribed to him by the church forming a considerable portion of the New Testament...
's first convert in PhilippiPhilippiPhilippi was a city in eastern Macedonia, established by Philip II in 356 BC and abandoned in the 14th century after the Ottoman conquest...
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People named Lydia in fiction
- Lydia Bennet, a character from Jane AustenJane AustenJane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...
's novel, Pride & Prejudice. - Lydia Deetz, a character in Beetlejuice.
- Lydia Douce, a barmaid in the Sirens chapter of James JoyceJames JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
's 20th century novel, UlyssesUlyssesUlysses is derived from Ulixes, the Latin name for Odysseus, a character in ancient Greek literature. For more on the name Ulysses, see Ulysses .Ulysses may also refer to:- Literature and film :...
. - Lydia Hadley, mother in Ray BradburyRay BradburyRay Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
's short story, The Veldt. - Lydia Karenin, a former character on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.
- Lydia Martin, a junior political science professor working to get tenure in The Ticking Tenure Clock by Blaire French.
- Lydia "Lyddie" Worthen, the main character of LyddieLyddieLyddie is a 1991 novel by Katherine Paterson. Set in the 19th century, this is a story of determination and personal growth. When thirteen-year-old Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their family's debts, Lyddie is determined to find a way to reunite her...
, by Katherine PatersonKatherine PatersonKatherine Paterson is an American author of children's novels. She wrote Bridge to Terabithia and has received several of the major international awards for children's literature.- Early life:...
. - HMS Lydia, a ship captained by Horatio HornblowerHoratio HornblowerHoratio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester. He was later the subject of films and television programs.The original Hornblower tales began with the 1937 novel The Happy Return Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy...
in the C.S. Forester's novel The Happy ReturnThe Happy ReturnThe Happy Return was the first of the Horatio Hornblower novels published by C. S. Forester. It appeared in 1937. The American name derives from the expression "beat to quarters", which was the signal to prepare for combat...
(called Beat to Quarters in the US).