Lynnette, also spelled Lynette, is a feminine given name.
People
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Lynette Boggs (born 1963), American politician
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Lynnette Brooky
Lynnette Teresa Brooky (born 25 January 1968) is a New Zealand professional golfer. She turned professional in 1994 and has spent her career playing mainly on the Ladies European Tour (LET). She has won four LET tournaments including back to b ...
(born 1968), New Zealand golfer
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Lynette Chico
Lynette Chico (born April 22, 1971) is a Puerto Rican fashion model, actress and radio host on 98.5 FM Cadena Salsoul Puerto Rican radio station. She has had parts in many of Puerto Rico's television shows.
Puerto Rican television
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(21st century), Puerto Rican fashion model and actress
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Lynnette Cole
Lynnette Marie Cole-O'Nan (née Cole; born February 9, 1978) is an American television personality, actress, and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title Miss Tennessee USA in 2000. She went on to become the first woman from that state to win ...
(born 1978), Miss USA 2000
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Lynette Coleman (born 1964), Australian Paralympic athlete
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Lynette Curran
Lynette Curran is an Australian actress known for many roles in Australian television series and films, including the soap opera '' Bellbird'', and the films ''Country Town'' (1971) and ''Bliss'' (1985).
Theatre
She started acting in the th ...
(born 1945), Australian actress
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Lynnette Ferguson, New Zealand academic
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Lynette Fromme
Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) is an American criminal who was a member of the Manson family, a cult led by Charles Manson. Though not involved in the Tate–LaBianca murders for which the Manson family is best known, ...
(born 1948), American former prisoner
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Lynette Horsburgh
Lynette Horsburgh ( ; born 1974) is a Scottish-English semi-professional, world champion pool and national champion snooker player, as well as an international-class player of English billiards. In sport, she represents Scotland. Outside sport, ...
(born 1974), Scottish snooker player
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Lynette Lancini (born 1970), Australian composer
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Lynette Lithgow
Lynette Pearson (16 April 1950 - 11 December 2001), known professionally as Lynette Lithgow), was a Trinidad-born, British-based newsreader and journalist who is best remembered for her career as a newsreader for BBC News.
Lithgow's first medi ...
(1950–2001), Trinidad and Tobago journalist
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Lynette Roberts
Evelyn ('Lynette') Beatrice Roberts (4 July 1909 – 26 September 1995) was a Welsh poet and novelist. Her poems were about war, landscape, and life in the small Welsh village where she lived. She published two poetry collections: ''Poems'' ( ...
(1909–1995), Welsh poet
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Lynette Sadleir
Lynette Grant Sadleir (born 1 August 1963) is a New Zealand paediatric neurologist and epileptologist, and a former synchronised swimmer and coach.
Biography
Born on 1 August 1963 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Sadleir competed for N ...
(born 1963), Canadian synchronized swimmer
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Lynnette Seah
Lynnette Seah Mei Tsing () is a Singaporean violinist serving as co-leader of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO). She received the Cultural Medallion for Music in 2006.
Early life
Seah began her formal music training on the piano with her ...
(born 1957), Singaporean violinist
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Lynette Wallworth
Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist and filmmaker, known for her use of emerging technologies such as virtual reality (VR), and interactive installations. She is known for her 2016 VR project ''Collisions'', which tells of the "collision" ...
, Australian artist and filmmaker
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Lynette Washington
Lynette Washington is an American jazz vocalist. She was the winner in the Jazzmobile Anheuser-Busch Jazz Vocal Competition in 2005.
Biography
Washington is a native New Yorker and has had a career that has taken her across the globe. Her tra ...
(21st century), American jazz vocalist
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Lynette White (1967–1988), Welsh murder victim
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Lynette Woodard
Lynette Woodard (born August 12, 1959) is a retired American basketball Hall of Fame player and former head women's basketball coach at Winthrop University. Woodard made history by becoming the first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters an ...
(born 1959), retired American basketball player
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer. She is best known for her portraits of imaginary subjects, or ones derived from found objects, who are painted in muted colours. Her work has contributed to the renaissance in pai ...
(born 1977), British painter
Fictional characters
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Lynette (Arthurian character)
In some versions of Arthurian legend, Lynette (alternatively known as ''Linnet'', ''Linette'', ''Lynet'', ''Lynette'', ''Lyonet'') is a haughty noble lady who travels to King Arthur's court seeking help for her beautiful sister Lyonesse (also '' ...
, a woman in Arthurian legend
* Linnet Oldknow, a character in Lucy M. Boston's ''
Green Knowe
Green Knowe is a series of six children's novels written by Lucy M. Boston, illustrated by her son Peter Boston, and published from 1954 to 1976. It features a very old house, Green Knowe, based on Boston's home at the time, The Manor in Hemin ...
'' series (1954–76)
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Lynette Bishop, a character in the ''
Strike Witches
is a Japanese media mix originally created by Fumikane Shimada via a series of magazine illustration columns. The franchise has since been adapted into several light novel, manga, and anime series and various video games. ...
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Lynette Scavo
Lynette Scavo is a fictional character on the series ''Desperate Housewives''. The character is played by actress Felicity Huffman, who won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the role in 2005, and was nominated for ...
, a character on the American television series ''Desperate Housewives'' (2004–2012)
See also
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Linet (given name)
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Feminine given names
English feminine given names