Lydia (name)

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Lydia is a feminine first name of Greek origin (Greek: Λυδία, Ludía,^[1][2][3] from λυδία (ludía; "beautiful one", "noble one", "from Lydia/Persia") a feminine form of the ancient given name, Λυδός (Lydus, from λυδός (lydus)). The region of Lydia is said to be named for a king Λυδός (Lydus, from λυδός (lydus)); the given name Lydia originally indicated ancestry or residence in the region of Lydia.

"Lydia" is also a Biblical given name; 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.

People

• Lydia (born 1980), Spanish pop singer who participated at the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest
• Lydia Becker (1820–1890), British suffragette and amateur scientist
• Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet
• Lydia Canaan, Lebanon-born pioneering singer-songwriter, humanitarian, and activist
• 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 Ko (born 1997), Korean born New Zealand Professional Golfer
• Lydia Lamaison (1914-2012), Argentine actress
• Lydia Lassila (born 1982), Australian skier
• 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

Fictional characters

• Lydia Maxwell, a character from the 1987 movie Innerspace, portrayed by Meg Ryan.
• Lydia, a character from John Flanagan's series of novels, Brotherband.
• Lydia Aspen, in Love for Lydia.
• Lydia Wickham (née 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 González, a bullfighter from Pedro Almodóvar's film, Talk to Her
• 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 Languish, a character in Richard Sheridan's first play, The Rivals^[4]
• Lydia Martin, a character from MTV TV show Teen Wolf played by Holland Roden
• 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
• Lydia Branwell, a character from the TV show Shadowhunters

See also

• Lidia

References