Cristina is a female given name, and it is also a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
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Cristina (daughter of Edward the Exile)
Cristina, daughter of Edward the Exile and Agatha, was the sister of Edgar Ætheling and Saint Margaret of Scotland, born in the 1040s. Cristina's nieces Edith and Mary were sent to Romsey Abbey, near Southampton, in 1086 when she was abbess.
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, 11th-century English princess
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Cristina (singer)
Cristina Monet Zilkha ( Monet-Palaci,
January 17, 1959 – April 1, 2020),
known during her recording career simply as Cristina, was an American singer and writer, best known for her no wave recordings made for ZE Records in the late 1970s an ...
, Cristina Monet-Palaci (1956–2020), American singer
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Infanta Cristina of Spain
Infanta Cristina of Spain (Cristina Federica Victoria Antonia de la Santísima Trinidad de Borbón y de Grecia, born 13 June 1965) is the younger daughter of the former King and Queen of Spain Juan Carlos I of Spain, Juan Carlos I and Queen So ...
(born 1965), Spanish princess
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Cristina D'Avena
Cristina D'Avena (born 6 July 1964) is an Italian actress, singer and television personality. She has sold nearly 7 million copies of her albums.
D'Avena was selected to join the prestigious Institute of Antoniano choir, following her debut, ...
(born 1964), Italian singer and actress
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Cristina Bazgan, French computer scientist
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Cristina Boiț
Cristina Boiţ (born 14 May 1968 in Bucharest) is a retired discus thrower from Romania. She set her personal best (64.58 metres) in the women's discus throw event in 1988. Boiţ competed for her native country at two Summer Olympics: 1992 and 1996 ...
(born 1968), Romanian discus thrower
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Cristina Bowerman
Cristina Bowerman is an Italian chef, who holds a Michelin star at Glass Hostaria in Rome. She originally studied foreign languages and law, and worked as a graphic designer. However, she trained at Le Cordon Bleu and began working as a chef when ...
, Italian chef
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Cristina Butucea
Cristina Butucea is a French statistician at ENSAE Paris and at the University of Paris-Est, known for her work on non-parametric statistics, density estimation, and deconvolution.
Butucea completed her Ph.D. in 1999 at Pierre and Marie Curie Un ...
, French statistician
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Cristina Cini
Cristina Cini (born 11 July 1969 in Florence, Tuscany), is the first Italian woman to play the role of assistant referee in Italian professional football.
She made her debut in Serie B in the season 2002–03, assisting referee Antonio Dattilo in ...
(born 1969), Italian football assistant referee
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Cristina Conati
Cristina Conati is an Italian and Canadian computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence and computer-human interaction. She is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, and has served as president of the ...
, Italian and Canadian computer scientist
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Cristina Deutekom
Cristina Deutekom (28 August 1931 – 7 August 2014) was a Dutch operatic coloratura soprano.
She sang with many of the leading tenors of her time, including Carlo Bergonzi, José Carreras, Franco Corelli, Plácido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Al ...
(1931–2014), Dutch opera singer
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Cristina Dorcioman
Cristina Dorcioman (born 7 August 1974) is a Romanian football referee.
On 26 July 2013, Dorcioman was announced referee for the 2013 UEFA Women's Euro Final between Germany and Norway at Friends Arena in Solna, Sweden. During the competiti ...
(born 1974), Romanian football referee
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (; born 19 February 1953), often referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and politician who has served as the Vice President of Argentina since 2019. She also served as the President ...
(born 1953), President of Argentina
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Cristina Fink (born 1964), Mexican high jumper
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Cristina Gallardo-Domâs
Cristina Lourdes Gallardo-Domâs Tudezca is a soprano, born in Santiago, Chile, who frequently performs in operas by Puccini.
Gallardo-Domâs made her debut as Madama Butterfly in 1990 at the Municipal Theatre of Santiago and, three years later, ...
, Chilean soprano
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Cristina Lasvignes
Cristina Lasvignes Martín (born 9 January 1978) is a Spanish television presenter, radio broadcaster, journalist and businessperson. A journalism graduate of the Complutense University of Madrid, she began her broadcasting career in local televis ...
(born 1978), Spanish television and radio broadcaster
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Cristina Narbona
María Cristina Narbona Ruiz (born 29 July 1951) is a Spanish politician who currently serves as First Vice President of the Senate. She also presides over the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).
From 18 April 2004 to April 2008, she serv ...
(born 1951), Spanish Minister of Environment
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Cristina Odone
Cristina Patricia Odone (born 11 November 1960) is an Italian-British journalist, editor, and writer. She is the Founder and Chair of the Parenting Circle Charity. Odone is formerly the Editor of ''The Catholic Herald'', Deputy Editor of the ' ...
(born 1960), Italian journalist, editor, and writer
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Cristina Perez (judge)
Cristina Perez (born October 27, 1964) is an American actress, television personality, writer and TV judge.
Biography
She was born in New York City, raised in California to parents of Colombian descent, received two BAs at UCLA and her JD at ...
(born 1964), American TV judge
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Cristina Pérez (reporter)
Cristina Pérez (born c. 1973 in San Miguel de Tucumán) is an Argentine television news journalist. Since 2002, she has worked alongside Rodolfo Barilli, as news anchor of Telefe's Telefe Noticias a las 20 ("Telefe News at 8 PM").
Career
Crist ...
(born 1973), Argentine television news journalist
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Cristina Pucelli
Cristina R. Pucelli (; born June 11, 1969) is an American voice actress. She is best known for her voices in animated series and video games.
Early life and education
Pucelli was born on June 11, 1969, in Orange County, California, to a family ...
(born 1969), American voice actress
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Cristina Rosato
Cristina Rosato (born January 6, 1983) is a Canadian actress. She has also appeared in TV series such as ''Rookie Blue'', ''Trauma'' and ''Turner and Hooch''.
Early life
Rosato grew up in the Italian neighborhood of Montreal and spent summer ...
(born 1983), Canadian actress
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Cristina Saralegui
Cristina María Saralegui de Ávila (born January 29, 1948) is a Cuban-born American journalist, television personality, actress and talk show host of the Spanish-language eponymous show, '. Before her television career, she worked for ten years ...
(born 1948), host of the Univision talk show ''El Show de Cristina''
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Cristina Scabbia
Cristina Adriana Chiara Scabbia (; born 5 June 1972) is an Italian singer, best known as one of the two vocalists of gothic metal band Lacuna Coil.
Scabbia used to write an advice column in the popular rock magazine ''Revolver'', alongside mus ...
(born 1972), Italian singer, vocalist of Lacuna Coil
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Cristina Scarlat
Cristina Scarlat (; born 3 March 1981) is a Moldovan pop singer. She was born in Chișinău and represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the song "Wild Soul
Moldova participated in the Eurovision So ...
(born 1981), Moldovan singer
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Cristina Stenbeck
Cristina Mayville Stenbeck, born 27 September 1977 in New York City, United States, is a Swedish business woman and investor. She is the principal owner and former executive chairman of Investment AB Kinnevik, one of the largest family-controlle ...
(born 1977), Swedish businesswoman
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Cristina García-Orcoyen Tormo
Cristina García-Orcoyen Tormo (born 2 January 1948) is a Spanish People's Party politician and environmentalist who served a single term as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2004. She was the g ...
(born 1948), Spanish politician and environmentalist
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Cristina Torrens Valero
Cristina Torrens Valero (born 12 September 1974) is a former professional female tennis player from Spain. She won two singles and two doubles WTA titles. Cristina reached her career-high singles ranking world No. 27 on 4 March 2002.
In 199 ...
(1974), Spanish professional tennis player
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Cristina Zenato
Cristina Zenato is an Italian-born shark diver and conservationist. She is known for her work with Caribbean reef sharks in The Bahamas.
Early life
Zenato was born in Italy in 1971. Her father was a special forces military diver. She was rais ...
(born 1971), Italian shark diver
Surname
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Albert Cristina
Albert Maximo Cristina (born 18 November 1970 in Curaçao, Dutch Antilles) is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000
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(born 1970), Dutch volleyball player
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(born 1949), Maltese Minister of Education, Employment and Family
Fictional
*Cristina Rosales, from the novel trilogy ''
The Dark Artifices
''The Dark Artifices'' is a trilogy written by Cassandra Clare. The series is chronologically the fourth series in ''The Shadowhunter Chronicles'' and a sequel to ''The Mortal Instruments''. It is set in Los Angeles. The series consists of three b ...
'' by Cassandra Clare
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Cristina Yang
Cristina Yang, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S. is a fictional character from the medical drama television series ''Grey's Anatomy'', which has aired for over 16 years on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States. The character was crea ...
, from the TV series ''
Grey's Anatomy
''Grey's Anatomy'' is an American medical drama television series that premiered on March 27, 2005, on ABC as a mid-season replacement. The series focuses on the lives of surgical interns, residents, and attendings as they develop into se ...
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Princess Christina (disambiguation) Princess Christina may refer to:
* Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson (born 1943), daughter of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
*Princess Christina of the Netherlands
Princess Christina of th ...
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Cristiana
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