Linda may refer to:
As a name
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Linda (given name)
Linda is a female given name, of German origin, but widespread in the English-speaking world since the end of the nineteenth century. The German name ''Linde'' was originally an abbreviated form of older names such as ''Dietlinde'' and ''Sieglinde' ...
, a female given name (including a list of people and fictional characters so named)
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Linda (singer)
Svetlana Lvovna Geiman (russian: Светлана Львовна Гейман; born 29 April 1977), known professionally as Linda (russian: Линда), is a Russian singer and songwriter. Her style incorporates trip hop, electronic music, electro ...
(born 1977), stage name of Svetlana Geiman, a Russian singer
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Anita Linda
Alice Bueñaflor Lake (November 23, 1924 – June 10, 2020), better known by her stage name Anita Linda, was a Filipino film actress. A romantic lead in her youth, she later gained critical acclaim for her portrayals in maternal or elderly r ...
(born Alice Lake in 1924), Filipino film actress
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Bogusław Linda
Bogusław Linda (; born 27 June 1952) is a Polish actor known from films such as ''Psy'' and ''Tato''. He appeared in Andrzej Wajda's ''Man of Iron'' and ''Danton'' and in Krzysztof Kieślowski's ''Blind Chance'' and the seventh episode of Kieśl ...
(born 1952), Polish actor
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Solomon Linda
Solomon Popoli Linda (19098 September 1962), also known as Solomon Ntsele ("Linda" was his clan name),Gilmore, Inigo"Penniless sisters fight record industry over father's hit song" ''The Telegraph'' (UK), 11 June 2000. was a South African musici ...
(1909–1962), South African Zulu musician, singer and composer who wrote the song "Mbube" which later became "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
Places
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Linda, California
Linda (Spanish for "Pretty") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yuba County, California, United States. The population was 17,773 at the 2010 census, up from 13,474 at the 2000 census. Linda is located north-northwest of Olivehurst.
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, a census-designated place
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Linda, Missouri Linda is an extinct town in New Madrid County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The GNIS
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features thro ...
, a ghost town
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Linda, Tasmania
Linda is the site of an old ghost town in the Linda Valley in the West Coast Range of Tasmania, Australia. It has also been known as ''Linda Valley''.
North Mount Lyell
There had been a location or community high on the ridge between Mount Owe ...
, Australia, a ghost town
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Linda, Georgia
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, village in Abkhazia, Georgia
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Linda, Bashkortostan
Linda (russian: links=no, Линда) is a rural locality (a village) in Abdrashitovsky Selsoviet, Alsheyevsky District, Bashkortostan
The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkortostan ( ba, Башҡортостан Республикаһы, Bashqo ...
, village in Bashkortostan, Russia
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Linda Valley
Linda Valley is a valley in the West Coast Range of Tasmania. It was earlier known as the Vale of Chamouni. It is located between Mount Owen and Mount Lyell.
Human settlement
Linda Valley is the location of two historical settlements, Linda a ...
, Tasmania
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7169 Linda, an asteroid
* Linda, a small lunar crater - see
Delisle (crater)
Delisle is a small Lunar craters, lunar impact crater in the western part of the Mare Imbrium. It was named after French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. It lies to the north of the crater Diophantus (crater), Diophantus, and just to the northwe ...
Music
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''Linda'' (Linda George album), 1974
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''Linda'' (Linda Clifford album), 1977
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''Linda'' (Miguel Bosé album), 1978
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"Linda" (Miguel Bosé song), the title song
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"Linda" (1946 song), a popular song written by Jack Lawrence
* "Linda", a song by Ann Ronnell, written for the 1945 film ''
The Story of G.I. Joe
''The Story of G.I. Joe'', also credited in prints as ''Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe'', is a 1945 American war film directed by William A. Wellman, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, i ...
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Linda (Tokischa and Rosalía song)
"Linda" (; stylized in all caps) is a song recorded by Dominican rapper Tokischa and Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalía. Written by both performers alongside Leonardo Felipe Yasmil and El Kagueto del Guetto, and produced by Leo RD alongside Rosalí ...
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Fiction
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''Linda'' (1929 film), an American film
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''Linda'' (1960 film), a British teen drama
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''Linda'' (1973 film), a TV movie directed by Jack Smight
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''Linda'' (1993 film), starring Richard Thomas and Virginia Madsen
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Linda (Sesame Street)
Linda, portrayed by Linda Bove, was a character on the children's program ''Sesame Street''. Bove, who is deaf, appeared on ''Sesame Street'' with the National Theater of the Deaf and made her debut on the show in Episode 0243, which aired in Apri ...
, a character appearing in Sesame Street
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''Linda'' (TV series), a Hungarian action adventure series
* "Linda", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1972 book ''
Seventh Heaven''
Other uses
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Tropical Storm Linda The name Linda has been used for eleven tropical cyclones worldwide.
In the Eastern Pacific:
*Tropical Storm Linda (1985) – Minimal tropical storm that crossed into the Central Pacific as a tropical depression.
*Hurricane Linda (1991) – Catego ...
, various hurricanes, cyclones and storms
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''Linda'' (magazine), a Dutch magazine
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''Linda'' (Estonian magazine) (1887–1905), a feminist literary magazine in Estonia
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''Linda'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae
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Linda (coordination language)
In computer science, Linda is a coordination model that aids communication in parallel computing environments. Developed by David Gelernter, it is meant to be used alongside a full-fledged computation language like Fortran or C where Linda's ro ...
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La Linda International Bridge
La Linda International Bridge (also known as the Gerstaker Bridge, Hallie Stillwell Memorial Bridge, Big Bend Crossing Bridge, Puente La Linda, and Heath Crossing is an international bridge which crosses the Rio Grande, Rio Grande (Río Bravo del N ...
, across the Rio Grande between the U.S. and Mexico
See also
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Linda Linda
is a single by the Japanese rock band The Blue Hearts that was first released on May 1, 1987. Lyrics and music were written by Hiroto Kōmoto, the band's lead vocalist, and was arranged by The Blue Hearts. The track reached #38 on the Oricon cha ...
", a 1987 single by the Japanese rock band The Blue Hearts, central to the below film
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Linda Linda Linda
is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita. It stars Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yu Kashii, and Shiori Sekine (of the band Base Ball Bear) as teenagers who form a band to cover songs by the Japanese punk rock band the Blue Hearts; the ...
'', a 2005 Japanese film
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Lynda Lynda is a spelling variation of the feminine given name Linda. Notable people with the name include:
People Arts and entertainment
* Lynda Adams, later Hunt (1920–1997), Canadian diver
* Lynda Baron (1939–2022), British television actress
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Pretty (disambiguation)
Pretty may refer to:
*Beauty, the quality of being pleasing, especially to look at
**Physical attractiveness, of a person's physical features
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Pretty'' (advertisement), a 2006 television advertisement for Nike ...
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