Melba may refer to:
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Nellie Melba
Dame Nellie Melba (born Helen Porter Mitchell; 19 May 186123 February 1931) was an Australian operatic dramatic coloratura soprano (three octaves). She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian era and the early 20th centur ...
(1861–1931), Australian soprano opera singer
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''Melba'' (film), a 1953 musical biopic drama film about Nellie Melba
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''Melba'' (miniseries), a 1988 Australian mini series about Nellie Melba
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Melba Montgomery
Melba Joyce Montgomery (born October 14, 1938) is an American country music singer and songwriter. She is known for a series of duet recordings made with George Jones, Gene Pitney and Charlie Louvin. She is also a solo artist, having reaching th ...
(born 1938), country music singer
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Melba Moore
Beatrice Melba Hill or Beatrice Melba Smith (sources differ) (born October 29, 1945), known by her stage name Melba Moore, is an American singer and actress.
Biography Early life and education
Moore was born Beatrice Melba Hill or Beatrice Melba ...
(born 1945), American R&B singer and actress
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''Melba'' (1976 album)
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''Melba'' (1978 album)
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''Melba'' (TV series), a short-lived television series that starred Melba Moore
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Melba Roy Mouton
Melba Roy Mouton (1929–1990) was an American mathematician who served as Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA's Trajectory and Geodynamics Division in the 1960s and headed a group of NASA mathematicians called "computers". She served as ...
(died 1990), American NASA scientist
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Melba (apple)
Melba is a Canadian cultivar of domesticated apple, which was developed by W. T. Macoun at the Central Experimental Farm, in Ottawa, Ontario by crossing a McIntosh with a Liveland Raspberry apple. It has a yellow skin washed with crimson colour. ...
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''Melba'' (beetle), a genus of insects in the family Staphylinidae
Things named after Nellie Melba
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Peach Melba
Peach Melba (french: pêche Melba, pronounced ) is a dessert of peaches and raspberry sauce with vanilla ice cream. It was invented in 1892 or 1893 by the French chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel, London, to honour the Australian soprano ...
, a dessert
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Melba toast
Melba toast is a dry, crisp and thinly sliced toast, often served with soup and salad or topped with either melted cheese or pâté. It is named after Dame Nellie Melba, the stage name of Australian opera singer Helen Porter Mitchell. Its name i ...
, a dry, thin, crisp toast often served with soup
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Melba, Australian Capital Territory
Melba () is a residential suburb in the Belconnen district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The suburb of Melba is named after Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931), the first internationally recognised Austral ...
, a suburb of Canberra, Australia
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Melba Gully State Park
The Melba Gully State Park was formed to protect a small pocket of natural rainforest in the Otway Ranges near Apollo Bay in Victoria, Australia. The park was extremely valuable as much of the rest of the Ranges has been burnt out many times by ...
, an environmentally significant area of the Otway Ranges
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Melba Conservatorium Victoria
The Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music was a school of music located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. During its early days it was closely associated with opera diva Dame Nellie Melba, after whom it was later named. In 1994 it became affil ...
, a music school associated with Victoria University
Other uses
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Melba, Idaho, a small town in the United States
* Melba, the name of a monster from the show ''
Ultraman Tiga
is a Japanese tokusatsu TV drama and the twelfth show in the Ultra Series. Produced by Tsuburaya Productions, ''Ultraman Tiga'' had aired at 6:00pm and aired between September 7, 1996 to August 30, 1997, with a total of 52 episodes with five mo ...
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