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Priya is the Sanskrit word (Priyā female and Priya male)[1] for "nice, beloved" (cognate to English free, see Frige (Anglo-Saxon goddess)). It is a common given name in India, Nepal and some countries in Europe.
People
- Priya Anand (born 1986), Indian film actress
- Priya Anjali Rai, pornographic actress
- Priya Arun, actress in the Marathi language film industry of India
- Priya Badlani (born 27 January), Indian actress
- Priya Balachandran, TV producer and writer
- Priya Bapat, Indian Maharashtrian actress
- Priya Basil (born 1977), British author
- Priya Bathija, Indian television actress
- Priya Cooper (born 1974), Australian world-champion disabled swimmer
- Priya David (born 1974), American journalist based in San Francisco, California
- Priya Dutt (born 1966), Indian politician and daughter of Sunil Dutt
- Priya Gill (born 1977), Indian actress
- Priya, Indian film actress in Malayalam and Tamil movies
- Priya Himesh, Indian multilingual Playback singer
- Preeya Kalidas (born 1981), British Indian actress and singer
- Priya Kanungo, Indian Hindustani classical vocalist
- Priya Kaur-Jones (born 1979), British newsreader
- Priya Lal (born 1993), British Indian actress
- Priya Paul (born 1967), owner The Park Hotels chain
- Priya Rajvansh (1937–2000), Indian actress
- Priya Ramrakha (1935–1968), Kenyan photojournalist of Indian background
- Priya Raman (born 1974), Indian actress
- Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi (born 1945), Indian politician
- Priya Ravichandran, divisional fire officer, Central Chennai city
- Priya Sachdev (born 1976), Indian model from New Delhi, India
- Priya Suriyasena, Sri Lankan popular vocalist and lecturer in music
- Priya Tendulkar (1954–2002), Indian actress, social activist and writer
- Priya Wal, Indian television actress
Fictional characters
- Priya Kapoor, fictional character from the Australian television soap opera Neighbours
- Priya Koothrappali, recurrent character on The Big Bang Theory
- Priya Sharma, fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale, played by Fiona Wade, previously Effie Woods
Places
- Priya Cinema (Kolkata), a cinema hall in Kolkata
- Priya Agraharam, a village in the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, India
Entertainment
- Priya (1970 film), an Indian Malayalam film released in 1970
- Priya (1978 film), a 1978 Tamil film directed by S.P. Muthuraman
- Priya (1992 film), an Bengali film directed by Shibu Mitra
- Priya Amar Jaan (earlier titled 'Tomari Chilam Tomari Achi'), is a Bangladeshi romance film
- Priya O Priya, a 1997 Tollywood film starring Abbas, Simran and Naveen in lead roles