Candida (given name)
Candida, Cândida or Cándida is a feminine given name from Latin candidus (white).[1] It may refer to :
- Cándida Arias (born 1992), a volleyball player from the Dominican Republic
- Cândida Branca Flor (1949–2001), a Portuguese entertainer and traditional singer
- Candida Cave, a British artist and writer
- Candida Doyle (born 1963), an Irish keyboard player and occasional backing vocalist with the band Pulp
- Candida Lycett Green (born 1942), an Irish-born British author
- Candida Höfer (born 1944), a German photographer
- Candida Moss, English academic and writer, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at University of Notre Dame.
- Candida Royalle, an American pornographic producer-director and former pornographic actress
- Candida Thompson (born 1967), an English violinist
- Candida Tobin (1926–2008), an author of a music education system
- Saint Candida the Elder (died 78 AD), an early Christian saint and resident of Naples, Italy
- Cándida María de Jesús (1845–1912), a Spanish nun
- Maria Candida of the Eucharist (1884–1949), a Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, beatified by Pope John Paul II