Leila

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Leila Given Name
Gender	Female
Origin	Hebrew, Arabic
Related names	Layla, Laila, Lela
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Leila

Leila is a Semitic word for "night" (Hebrew: לילה, Arabic: ليل) and the Swahili word for "injured cub". It is also a common female name that may refer to:

Contents 1 Film 2 People 3 Other 4 See also

[edit] Film

• Leila (film), a 1996 Iranian film

[edit] People

• Leila Aboulela, Sudanese writer
• Leila Ahmed, Egyptian-American professor
• Leila Arab, London-based musician
• Leila Barros, Brazilian volleyball player
• Leila Bela, Iranian-American avant-garde musician, actress and writer
• Leila Forouhar, Iranian singer and actress
• Leila Hatami, Iranian actress, star of the above film
• Leila Hayes, Australian actress
• Leila Hyams, an American film actress
• Leila Khaled, Palestinian Militant and senior PFLP member
• Leila Khatami, Iranian mathematician
• Leila McKinnon, Iranian-Australian journalist
• Leila Mourad, Egyptian-Jewish singer and movie star
• Leila Pahlavi, Iranian princess
• Leila Sobral, Brazilian basketball player
• Leila Tong, Hong Kong actress and singer
• Leila Vaziri, Iranian-American swimmer, world record holder
• Leila Waddell, mistress of notorious British occultist Aleister Crowley

[edit] Other

• Leila, one of the characters of the famous romantic novel Layla and Majnun
• Leila, The Arabic name for Isla Perejil
• Leila (chess), a chess engine

[edit] See also

• Layla (disambiguation), an alternate spelling