Lydia (name)

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Lydia is a feminine first name of Greek origin (Greek: Λυδία). The name means "woman from Lydia."^[1] Lydia is a name in the Bible. Lydia was a woman of God; she loved to hear God's word and put it into action. She also sold purple clothing. In those days, purple was seen as rich and royal. Lydia of Thyatira, woman and deaconess in the New Testament's Acts of the Apostles was a purple cloth dealer. She was the apostle Paul's first convert in Philippi and thus the first convert to Christianity in Europe.

Variant forms

• Lidia
• Lidie
• Lidija
• Lyda
• Lydie
• Lydiana
• Lydian
• Lydiane
• Lidya

People named Lydia

• Lydia (born 1980), Spanish pop singer who participated at 1999 Eurovision Song Contest
• Lydia Becker (1820–1890), British suffragette and amateur scientist
• Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet
• Lydia Canaan (born ????), Lebanese-Swiss singer-songwriter, poet, humanitarian, activist, United Nations delegate,^[2][3][4][5] and musical pioneer widely regarded as the first rock star of the Middle East^{[6][7][8][9][10]}
• Lydia Child (1802–1880), American abolitionist, women's rights activist, novelist and journalist
• Lydia Cornell (born 1953), American actress, blogger and radio talk show host
• Lydia Davis (born 1947), American author
• Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn (born 1940), Hong Kong politician
• Lydia Echevarría (born 1931), Puerto Rican actress
• Lydia Field Emmet (1866–1952), American painter
• Lydia Gibson (1891–1964), American artist
• Lydia Hatoel-Zuckerman (born 1963), Israeli foil fencer
• Lydia Hearst (born 1984), American model and socialite
• Lydia Koidula (1843–1886), Estonian poet
• Lydia Kavina (born 1967), Russian theremin player and conductor
• Lydia Lamaison (1914-2012), Argentine actress
• Lydia Lazarov (born 1946), Israeli yachting world champion
• Lydia Litvyak (1921–1943), Russian fighter pilot in World War II
• Lydia Lopokova, Baroness Keynes (1892–1981), Russian ballerina
• Lydia Lunch (born 1959), American No Wave singer
• Lydia Mackay (born 1977), American actress and voice actress
• Lydia Mei (1896–1965), Estonian painter
• Lydia Mendoza (1916–2007), American guitarist and singer of Tejano music
• Lydia Millet (born 1968), American author
• Lydia Pense (born 1948), American singer
• Lydia Pinkham (1819–1883), American patent medicine manufacturer and businesswoman
• Lydia Polgreen (born 1975), American journalist
• Lydia Shum (1947–2008), Hong Kong actress and comedian
• Lydia Stahl (1890-????), a Russian espionage agent
• Lydia Venieri (born 1964), Greek artist
• Lydia Wahlström (1869–1954), Swedish historian, author and feminist

People named Lydia in fiction

• Lydia Maxwell, character from the 1987 movie "Innerspace", portraited by Meg Ryan.
• Lydia, a character from John Flanagan's series of novels, Brotherband.
• Lydia Aspen, in Love for Lydia.
• Lydia Bennet, a character from Jane Austen's novel, Pride & Prejudice.
• Lydia Davis, a character from the ABC Series Revenge (TV series)
• Lydia Deetz, a character in Beetlejuice.
• Lydia Douce, a barmaid in the Sirens chapter of James Joyce's 20th century novel, Ulysses.
• Lydia Gwilt, the femme fatale in Wilkie Collins' novel, Armadale.
• Lydia Hadley, mother in Ray Bradbury's short story, The Veldt.
• Lydia Hillard, in Mrs. Doubtfire
• Lydia Karenin, a former character on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.
• Lydia King, a character in Charles Bukowski's "Ham On Rye"
• Lydia Martin, a junior political science professor working to get tenure in The Ticking Tenure Clock by Blaire French.
• Lydia Martin, a character from MTV TV show Teen Wolf, which is based on the 1985 movie of the same name.
• Lydia, a follower NPC in the game Skyrim
• Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, a character from Breaking Bad
• Lydia "Lyddie" Worthen, the main character of Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson.
• HMS Lydia, a ship captained by Horatio Hornblower in the C.S. Forester's novel The Happy Return (called Beat to Quarters in the US).
• Lydia, Countess of Walden, a character in Ken Follett's The Man from St. Petersburg.
• Lydia, a character from The Walking Dead comic book series

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