Nadia
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Nadia may refer to:
[edit] People
- Nadia (name), a female given name
In sports:
- Nadia Comăneci (born 1961), Romanian Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast
- Nadia Petrova (born 1982), professional tennis player from Russia
- Nadia Davy (born 1980), Olympic bronze medal-winning Jamaican sprinter
- Nadia Styger (born 1978), Swiss alpine skier
- Nadia Cortassa (born 1978), Italian triathlete
- Nadia Dandolo (born 1962), Italian long-distance runner
In film and television:
- Nadia Almada (born 1977), Portuguese reality television star, winner of Big Brother UK
- Nadia Bjorlin (born 1980), American actress
- Nadia Di Cello (born 1989), Argentine actress
- Nadia Sawalha (born 1964), English actress and television presenter
- Nadia Tass (born 1956), Australian film director and producer
- Nadia López (born 1983), Mexican singer and reality television star
- Nadia Chambers (born 1968), Welsh actress
- Nadia Lutfi (born 1938), Egyptian actress
- Nadia Litz (born 1976), Canadian actress
- Nadia Nyce (born 1973), English porn actress
- Nadia Farès (born 1973), French actress
- Nadia Chan (born 1971), Hong Kong actress and singer
- Fearless Nadia (1908–1996) , famous Indian actress and stuntwoman
- Nadia Turner (born 1977), contestant on American Idol season 4
In politics, activism and academia:
- Nadia Yassine (born 1958), founder and head of the feminine branch of the Moroccan Islamist movement Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane
- Nadia Younes (1946–2003), Egyptian national who worked for the UN and the WHO, victim of the Canal Hotel bombing
- Nadia Shamsedin (born 1960), Lebanese-American radio talk show host and newspaper columnist
- Princess Nadia of Leiningen (born 1991), 125th in line to the British throne
- Nadia Abu El Haj, assistant professor at Barnard College
- Nadia Bakhurji, Saudi interior designer who announced her candidacy in the 2005 Saudi elections
- Nadia McCaffrey, founder of Angel Staff and anti-Iraq War activist
In music, literature and the arts:
- Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), French composer, conductor, and music professor
- Nâdiya (born 1973), French Pop/R&B singer
- Nadia Anjuman (c. 1980–2005), Afghan poet and journalist killed by her husband
- Nadia Ali (born 1980), American singer and former member of the band iiO
- Nadia Borislova (born 1969), Mexican composer and guitarist
- Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck (1908–2006), American pioneer in modern dance, dance pedagogy and Labanotation
- Nadia Cavalera (born 1950), novelist, poet and literacy critic
- Nadia Chafik (born 1962), Morrocan novelist
- Nadia Noemí Franco Bazán (born 1977), Panamanian writer and lawyer
- Nadia, an Indian song of unknown composer played by English musician Nitin Sawhney, and also by guitar player Jeff Beck.
Fictional characters:
- Nadia, a character in the computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert
- Nadia Yassir, a character from the TV series 24
- Princess Nadia, a character in the SNES/PS1 game Chrono Trigger
- Nadie, a character in El Cazador de la Bruja
[edit] Other uses
- Nadia (1984 film), a 1984 made-for-television biopic of Nadia Comăneci
- Nadia District, in the West Bengal state of India
- Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, an anime by Gainax
- Fushigi no Umi Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, a 1991 Famicom game based on the anime
- "Nadia's Theme", the theme music to the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
[edit] See also
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