Miranda

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Miranda is commonly a person's name:

• Miranda (given name)
• Miranda (surname)

Miranda may also refer to:

In places:

• Miranda (state), Venezuela
• Miranda, California, USA
• Miranda, Cauca, Colombia
• Miranda, Italy, province of Isernia
• Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
• Miranda, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Miranda, New Zealand, historical fort and small village
• Portugal
  • Miranda do Corvo, town and municipality
  • Miranda do Douro, municipality
  • Terra de Miranda, historical name of a mesa
• Spain
  • Belmonte de Miranda, municipality in Asturias
  • Miranda de Arga, town and municipality
  • Miranda de Ebro, city in the Burgos province

In music:

• Miranda!, Argentine electropop band
• Miranda Sex Garden, British musical group
• Miranda (Tappi Tíkarrass), album
• Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore, song by The Mars Volta on the album Frances the Mute
• Miranda warning, Spanish pop band
• Miranda Silvergren, Swedish psytrance artist
• Miranda Lambert, country artist

In fiction:

• Characters
  • Miranda (Picnic at Hanging Rock), the main character in the 1967 novel by Australian author Joan Lindsay
  • Miranda (Doctor Who), Eighth Doctor Adventures novel series, spin-off of the TV series, Doctor Who
  • Miranda (Shakespeare), The Tempest
  • Miranda (W.I.T.C.H.), TV series
  • Miranda Bailey, American TV series Grey's Anatomy
  • Miranda Cornielle, webcomic User Friendly
  • Miranda Frost, James Bond movie Die Another Day
  • Miranda Goshawk, Harry Potter
  • Miranda Hobbes, HBO series Sex in the City
  • Miranda Keyes, Halo video game series
  • Miranda Killgallen, Nickelodeon animated series As Told By Ginger
  • Miranda Montgomery, US soap opera All My Children
  • Miranda Priestly, novel and movie The Devil Wears Prada
  • Miranda Sanchez, Disney Channel series Lizzie McGuire
  • Miranda Wright, Disney Channel series Bonkers
• Movies and TV
  • Miranda (1948 film), British comedy/fantasy starring Glynis Johns
  • Miranda (2002 film), starring Christina Ricci
  • Miranda class starships, Star Trek
  • Miranda II, spaceship in Transformers: Energon
  • Miranda, Latin American country in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
  • Miranda Colony, in SeaQuest DSV
  • Miranda, planet in the film Serenity
• Books
  • Miranda. The novel, novel by Antoni Lange

In science and technology:

• Miranda IM, computer application for Microsoft Windows
• Miranda (moon), moon of Uranus
• Miranda (programming language), functional programming language
• Miranda aurantia, scientific name for the yellow garden spider
• Miranda herba, another name for the pitcher plant Nepenthes distillatoria

In other uses:

• Miranda v. Arizona, American legal case
• Miranda Camera Company, former Japanese camera manufacturer
• Miranda Do Douro language, see Mirandese language spoken in parts of Portugal
• Miranda House, part of Delhi University, India
• Miranda Naturalists' Trust, New Zealand conservation organisation
• Miranda railway station, Sydney, Australia
• Miranda warning, police warning in USA

In People:

• Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan independence revolutionary.