Liliana is derived from the Latin word 'lilium' or 'lilion', both mean 'lily' in English. Due to this, the name means "pure" and "innocent". The name is generally found in North America, though it is more common in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Notable people and fictional characters with the name include:
People
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Liliana Abud
Liliana Abud (born 5 July 1948) is an actress in telenovelas and Mexican cinema. She is also a screenwriter of telenovelas.
Abud played Raquel RodrÃguez, the main character in the educational television program ''Destinos''.
As an actress
Film ...
, Mexican actress in telenovelas and cinema
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Liliana Allen
Liliana Allen Doll (born March 24, 1970) is a track and field athlete, who started competing for Mexico in 1998. She previously represented Cuba. She won a bronze medal at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships
The 3rd IAAF World Indoor Cham ...
(born 1970), Cuban track and field athlete, competing for Mexico
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Liliana Leah Archibald
Liliana Leah Archibald ( Kalmanowsky, later Barou; 25 May 1928 – 1 June 2014) was an English insurance broker for Lloyd's of London. She began her career as an economics lecturer at the University of Otago and translated books on the history o ...
(1928–2014), English insurance broker
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Liliana Ayalde
Liliana Ayalde (born March 1956) is the former United States Ambassador to Brazil and was previously the Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for the United States State Department with responsibility for the Offices of Caribbean Affairs, Central Am ...
, American diplomat, former United States ambassador to Brazil
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Liliana Barba, Latin American voice actress
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Liliana V. Blum (born 1974), Mexican short story writer
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Liliana Campos
Liliana Campos (born 27 April 1971) is a Portuguese television presenter and fashion model. She has a degree in international relations, and started her professional career at SIC
The Latin adverb ''sic'' (; "thus", "just as"; in full: , "thus ...
(born 1971), Portuguese television presenter and model
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Liliana Castro
Liliana Rezende de Castro (born 29 June 1979) is an Ecuadorian-born Brazilian actress.
Life
Castro was born in Quito, the capital of Ecuador where her father was a diplomat. Her family also lived in Italy and Venezuela, before relocating to ...
(born 1979), Ecuadorian-born Brazilian actress
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Liliana Cavani
Liliana Cavani (born 12 January 1933, Carpi, Italy) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She belongs to a generation of Italian filmmakers from Emilia-Romagna that came into prominence in the 1970s, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Pa ...
(born 1933), Italian film director and screenwriter
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Liliana Chalá (born 1965), female athlete from Ecuador
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Liliana DÃaz Mindurry (born 1953), Argentine writer
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Liliana Delfino Liliana Delfino was an Argentine Marxist militant. She was born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, on June 16, 1944, She was kidnapped on July 19, 1976 in the town of Villa Martelli, province of Buenos Aires. Along with her husband Ma ...
, Marxist of Argentina
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Liliana Dobrescu
Liliana is derived from the Latin word 'lilium' or 'lilion', both mean 'lily' in English. Due to this, the name means "pure" and "innocent". The name is generally found in North America, though it is more common in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese ...
(born 1971), freestyle swimmer from Romania
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Liliana Fellner
Liliana Beatriz Fellner (born 28 February 1957) is an Argentine politician. She was a National Senator representing Jujuy Province from 2005 to 2017, and a National Deputy elected in the same province from 2003 to 2005.
She is a member of the ...
(born 1957), Argentine Justicialist Party politician
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Liliana Gafencu
Liliana Gafencu (born 12 July 1975 in Suceava) is a Romanian rower
Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat ...
(born 1975), Romanian rower who has won three Olympic gold medals
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Claudia Liliana González
Claudia Liliana González Aragón (born 1969) is a Colombian actress from Cali.
González studied Architecture but decided to become an actress after taking some acting courses while at college. She started to play small roles in television until ...
(born 1970), Colombian actress
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Liliana Greenfield-Sanders
Liliana is derived from the Latin word 'lilium' or 'lilion', both mean 'lily' in English. Due to this, the name means "pure" and "innocent". The name is generally found in North America, though it is more common in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese ...
(born 1981), American filmmaker
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Liliana Heker
Liliana Heker (born 1943) is an Argentine writer. She wrote and edited left-wing literary journals during the Dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s, using veiled critiques as a means of protest and engaging in vigorous debate with exiled writers suc ...
(born 1943), Argentine writer
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Liliana Herrero
Liliana Herrero is an Argentine musician born in 1948 in Villaguay, Entre RÃos. In 1966, she moved to Rosario, Santa Fe, in order to study Philosophy, and has since become an adoptive citizen.
In her youth, she took part in the vocal groups '' ...
(born 1948), Argentine musician
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Liliana Kostova, Bulgarian football striker
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Liliana Lewińska (born 2008), Polish rhythmic gymnast
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Liliana Lovell
Liliana Lovell (born September 29, 1967) is an entrepreneur who founded the Coyote Ugly Saloon and Ugly Inc. Lovell was the host of the reality TV show ''The Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search''. In the 2000 movie '' Coyote Ugly'', she was portrayed by Ma ...
(born 1967), entrepreneur, founder of the Coyote Ugly Saloon and Ugly Inc
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Liliana Lozano
Liliana Andrea Lozano Garzón (September 28, 1978 – January 10, 2009) was a Colombian actress and beauty queen, and was the girlfriend of drug lord Leonidas Vargas. Lozano won a national beauty contest at the Carnival in Colombia in 1995. She ...
(1978–2009), Colombian actress and beauty queen
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Liliana Martinelli
Liliana MarÃa Martinelli (born May 20, 1970) is a retired female discus thrower from Argentina.
Career
She competed in the discus contest at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she ended up in 35th place (55.68 metres). M ...
(born 1970), female discus thrower from Argentina
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Liliana Mayo
Liliana Mayo (born March 30, 1952) is a Peruvian psychologist and special education teacher.
Biography
Liliana Mayo is the founder and general director of Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú, an organization that serves people with developmental disa ...
(born 1952), Peruvian psychologist and special education teacher
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Liliana Mumy
Liliana Berry Davis Mumy (; born April 16, 1994) is an American actress. Between 2002 and 2006, she appeared as Jessica Baker in the two ''Cheaper by the Dozen'' movies and as Lucy Miller in the second and third films of ''The Santa Clause'' tr ...
(born 1994), American teen actress and voice actress
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Liliana Năstase
Liliana Năstase (later Alexandru, born 1 August 1962) is a retired Romanian heptathlete
A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and á ...
(born 1962), Romanian heptathlete
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Liliana Negre de Alonso
Liliana Alonso (born 18 May 1954) (née Negre) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician. She was a National Senator representing San Luis Province in the Federal Commitment bloc from 2001 to 2017.
Negre graduated with a law degree at t ...
(born 1954), Argentine politician
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Liliana Olivero
Maria Liliana Olivero (born 20 January 1956) is a former member of the Legislature of Córdoba, provincial legislature in Córdoba Province, Argentina.
She is a member of the Socialist Left (Argentina).
She was elected in 2003, and re-elected in ...
(born 1956), member of the provincial legislature in Córdoba Province, Argentina
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Liliana Ortega
Liliana Ortega (born 1965) is a Venezuelan professor, and human rights lawyer and advocate. Her work as a human rights defender has earned her several awards, including the Ordre national du Mérite.
Biography
Liliana Ortega Mendoza was born in C ...
(born 1965), Venezuelan professor, human rights lawyer and advocate
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Liliana Palihovici
Liliana Palihovici (born 26 November 1971) is a Moldovan politician.
She has been a member of the Parliament of Moldova
The Parliament of the Republic of Moldova is the supreme representative body of the Moldova, Republic of Moldova, the onl ...
(born 1971), Moldovan politician
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Liliana Popescu
Liliana Popescu, née Barbulescu (born 5 February 1982) is a Romanian middle distance runner, who specializes in the 800 metres.
Career
Her personal best is 1:59.34 minutes, achieved in May 2008 in Bucharest. She has 4:00.35 minutes in the 1500 me ...
(born 1982), Romanian middle-distance runner
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Liliana Porter
Liliana Porter (born 1941) is a contemporary artist working in a wide variety of media, including photography, printmaking, painting, drawing, installation, video, theater, and public art.
Education and teaching experience
Porter was born in B ...
(born 1941), contemporary artist from Argentina
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Liliana Queiroz (born 1985), Portuguese model
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Liliana Rojas-Suarez (born 1954), Peruvian-born economist
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Liliana Ronchetti
Liliana Ronchetti (15 September 1927 – 4 February 1974) was an Italian basketball player.
Background
On club level, Ronchetti played for Società Ginnastica Comense (1947–55, won the Italian League in 1950, 1951 (undefeated season), 1952 ...
(1927–1974), Italian basketball player
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LiliAna Rose
Music
Rose is a member of the new folk revival which began in England in the late 2000s with acts such as Mumford and Sons and Laura Marling. and has continued onto American shores with acts such as The Relatives, and Andrew Duncan.
Since the l ...
(born 1984), folk-pop, singer-songwriter from New York City
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Liliana Santos
Liliana Santos (born 22 September 1980) is a Portuguese actress and model.
Career
As a model she has been cover girl for several men's magazines, such as the Portuguese editions of Maxim and GQ.
As an actress she participated in " Queridas F ...
(born 1980), Portuguese actress and model
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Liliana Zagacka (born 1977), Polish triple jumper
Fictional characters
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Liliana Vess, necromancer in the trading card game ''Magic: The Gathering''
See also
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Ljiljana, the Serbian form of Liliana
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Lobocla liliana'', commonly called Marbled Flat, a hesperiid butterfly which is found in Asia
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Macomona liliana
''Macomona liliana'', or the large wedge shell, is a bivalve mollusc of the family Tellinidae. It is endemic to New Zealand
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'', or the large wedge shell, a bivalve mollusc of the family Tellinidae
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Tomb of Liliana Crociati de Szaszak
The tomb of Liliana Crociati de Szaszak is a tomb in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, known for its unusual design.
26-year-old Liliana Crociati de Szaszak (1944–1970) was in Innsbruck, Austria on 26 February 1970, when her hotel ...
, tomb in Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, known for its unusual design
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