Miranda may refer to:
Law
* ''
Miranda v. Arizona
''Miranda v. Arizona'', 384 U.S. 436 (1966), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution restricts prosecutors from using a person's statements made in response to ...
'', an American legal case
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''Miranda'' warning, an American police warning given to suspects about their rights, before they are interrogated
Places
Australia
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Miranda, New South Wales
Miranda () is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The suburb is known as a commercial centre for the southern suburbs. Miranda is 24 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, in the Sutherland ...
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Miranda railway station
Miranda railway station is located on the Cronulla line, serving the Sydney suburb of Miranda. It is served by Sydney Trains T4 line services.
History
Miranda station opened on 16 December 1939 when the Cronulla line opened from Sutherlan ...
, New South Wales
Portugal
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Miranda do Corvo
Miranda do Corvo () is a town and a municipality in the Portuguese district of Coimbra, with an area of and 2011 population of 13,098 inhabitants.
History
The first reference to the region of Miranda do Corvo arrived at the end of the 10th cen ...
, a ''município'' in Coimbra District, Centro
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Miranda do Douro (parish), a ''freguesia'' in Bragança District, Norte
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Miranda do Douro
Miranda do Douro () or Miranda de l Douro in Mirandese () is a city and a municipality in the district of Bragança, northeastern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 7,482, in an area of 487.18 km². The town proper had a population of 1,9 ...
, a ''município'' in Bragança District, Norte
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Terra de Miranda
Terra de Miranda ("Land of Miranda") (''Tierra de Miranda'' in Mirandese, ''Terras de Miranda'' in Portuguese) is the historical name of a 500 km² mesa in northeastern Portugal, lying on the border of Spain. It used to be an administrative divi ...
, a plateau in Bragança District, Norte
Spain
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Miranda (Avilés)
Miranda is one of six parishes (administrative divisions) in Avilés, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain
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, a parish of Avilés, Asturias
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Belmonte de Miranda, Asturias
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Miranda de Arga
Miranda de Arga ( eu, Miranda Arga) is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.
The prominent 16th century theologian Bartolomé Carranza
Bartolomé Carranza (15032 May 1576, sometim ...
, Navarre
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Miranda de Ebro
Miranda de Ebro (Spanish: iˈɾan̪da ðe ˈeβɾo is a city on the Ebro river in the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is located in the north-eastern part of the province, on the border with the prov ...
, Castile and Leon
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Los Rábanos
Los Rábanos is a municipality located in the province of Soria, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain
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, in the Province of Soria, Castile and Leon
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Miranda del Castañar, in the Province of Salamanca, Castile and Leon
United States
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Miranda, California
Miranda (formerly Jacobsen's) is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. It is located northwest of Phillipsville, at an elevation of . The ZIP Code is 95553. The population was 520 at the 2010 census.
The name Miranda was o ...
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Miranda, South Dakota
Miranda is an unincorporated community in Faulk County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota.
History
Miranda was plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. Un ...
Venezuela
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Miranda (state)
Miranda State ( es, link=no, Estado Miranda, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela and the second most populous after Zulia State. As of the 2011 census, it had a population of 2,675,165 residents. It also has the greatest Human Development Ind ...
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Francisco de Miranda Municipality, Anzoátegui
Francisco de Miranda is one of the 21 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the eastern Venezuelan state of Anzoátegui and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population o ...
* Francisco de Miranda, in
Guárico
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* Francisco de Miranda, in
Táchira
Táchira State ( es, Estado Táchira, ) is one of the 24 states of Venezuela. The state capital is San Cristóbal.
Táchira State covers a total surface area of and as of the 2011 census, had a population of 1,168,908. At the end of the 19t ...
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Miranda, Carabobo
Miranda is the central town of Miranda Municipality, Carabobo.
Geography of Carabobo
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Miranda Municipality, Falcón
Miranda is a municipality in Falcón State, Venezuela. The municipality is one of several in Venezuela named "Miranda Municipality" for independence hero Francisco de Miranda
Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza (28 March ...
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Miranda Municipality, Mérida
Miranda is one of the 23 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Mérida and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 22,879.h ...
* Miranda, in
Trujillo
* Miranda, in
Zulia
Zulia State ( es, Estado Zulia, ; Wayuu: ''Mma’ipakat Suuria'') is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Maracaibo. As of the 2011 census, it has a population of 3,704,404, the largest population among Venezuela's states. It ...
Other places
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Château Miranda, a former castle in Belgium
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Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul
Miranda is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At ...
, Brazil
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Miranda, Cauca
Miranda is a town and municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia.
History
It was on May 7, 1899 when Don Julio Fernández Medina founded the city, since then the community mixed among Afro-Descendant, Indigenous people
Indigenous pe ...
, Colombia
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Güinía de Miranda
Güinía de Miranda, sometimes shortened as ''Güinía'', is a Cuban village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Manicaragua, in Villa Clara Province. It has a population of circa 3,000 and the council' ...
, Cuba
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Miranda, Molise
Miranda is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Isernia in the Italian region Molise, located about northwest of Campobasso and about north of Isernia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,065 and an area of .All demographic ...
, Italy
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Miranda, New Zealand
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Plaza Miranda
Plaza Miranda is a public square bounded by Quezon Boulevard, Hidalgo Street and Evangelista Street in Quiapo, Manila. It is the plaza which fronts the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene (Quiapo Church), one of the main churches of the City ...
, Philippines
Solar system
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Miranda (moon)
Miranda, also designated Uranus V, is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites. It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on 16 February 1948 at McDonald Observatory in Texas, and named after Miranda from William Shakespeare ...
, a moon orbiting Uranus
Arts and entertainment
Films and television
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''Miranda'' (1948 film), a film about a mermaid by English director Ken Annakin
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''Miranda'' (1985 film), a film by Italian director Tinto Brass
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''Miranda'' (2002 film), a film by British director Marc Munden
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''Miranda'' (TV series), a British television series
* Miranda, a country in the French film ''
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' (french: Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie) is a 1972 surrealist film directed by Luis Buñuel from a screenplay co-written with Jean-Claude Carrière. The narrative concerns a group of bourgeois people ...
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Miranda Sings
Miranda may refer to:
Law
* ''Miranda v. Arizona'', an American legal case
* ''Miranda'' warning, an American police warning given to suspects about their rights, before they are interrogated
Places Australia
* Miranda, New South Wales
* Mirand ...
, a television and social media comedy character portrayed by American comedian Colleen Ballinger
Literature
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Miranda (''The Tempest''), a character from the Shakespeare play ''The Tempest''
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''Miranda'' (novel), a novel by Polish writer Antoni Lange
Music
* "Miranda", a song by
Phil Ochs on his 1967 album ''
Pleasures of the Harbor''
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Miranda!, an Argentine electropop band
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Miranda (group), a French Eurodance group with the frontwoman Sandra Miranda García
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Miranda (Colombian singer), Colombian singer, winner of ''La Voz Colombia''
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''Miranda'' (album), an album by Icelandic band Tappi Tíkarrass
Organisations
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Miranda Camera Company, a Japanese camera manufacturer
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Miranda House, Delhi
Miranda House is a constituent college for women at the University of Delhi in India. Established in 1948, it is one of the top ranked colleges of the country and ranked as number 1 for consecutively six years (as of 2022).
History
Miranda ...
, a college for women at the University of Delhi, India
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Miranda Naturalists' Trust, a New Zealand conservation organisation
Technology
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Miranda (programming language)
Miranda is a lazy, purely functional programming language designed by David Turner as a successor to his earlier programming languages SASL and KRC, using some concepts from ML and Hope. It was produced by Research Software Ltd. of England ...
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Miranda (satellite)
Miranda, also known as X-4, is a British satellite in low Earth orbit. The satellite was launched in March 1974 as an engineering test bed of technologies in orbit.
Miranda was named after a character in the Shakespeare play '' The Tempest'', ...
, a British satellite in low earth orbit
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VRSS-1
VRSS-1 (Venezuelan Remote Sensing Satellite-1), also known as (Satellite) Francisco Miranda, is the first Venezuelan remote sensing satellite, and the second Venezuelan satellite after VENESAT-1. It will be used to study the territory of Venezue ...
, second Venezuelan satellite in low earth orbit, named after Francisco de Miranda
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Miranda NG
Miranda NG is an open-source multiprotocol instant messaging application, designed for Microsoft Windows. Miranda NG is free software distributed under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later.
History
In May 2012 Miranda IM was forked to Miranda NG (New G ...
, a computer software instant messaging client based on Miranda IM
People
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Miranda (given name), includes list of real and fictional people with given name Miranda
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Miranda (surname)
Miranda is a Spanish, Portuguese, Sephardic Jewish, Italian and Maltese surname of Latin origin, meaning "worthy of admiration".
Notable people with the surname Miranda include:
Sports
* David Miranda (cyclist) (born 1942), Salvadoran cyclist
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, includes list of people with surname Miranda
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Miranda (footballer, born 1984)
João Miranda de Souza Filho (born 7 September 1984), known as Miranda, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
Having begun his career at Coritiba, Miranda spent the 2005–06 season with Sochaux in France ...
, Brazilian footballer, currently at São Paulo, played for Brazil national team
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Miranda (footballer, born 1998), Brazilian footballer, currently at Covilhã
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Miranda (footballer, born 2000), Brazilian footballer, currently at Vasco da Gama
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Miranda Hart
Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke (born 14 December 1972) is an English actress and writer. Following drama training at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, Hart began writing material for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and making appearances in va ...
(born 1972), English comedian and actress, sometimes mononymously referred to as Miranda
Other uses
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Miranda station (Caracas), a station of on the Los Teques Metro line of the Caracas Metro in Venezuela
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Miranda station (Valencia)
Francisco de Miranda station (Spanish: ''Estación Francisco de Miranda''), also known as Rectorado station, is one of the stations of the Valencia Metro (Venezuela), Valencia Metro in Venezuela.
History
The system opened in 2006, but Miranda St ...
, a metro station in Valencia
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''Miranda'' (ship), two merchant ships
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HMS ''Miranda'', three ships of the British Royal Navy
See also
* ''
Miranda herba'', a historic term for the carnivorous plant ''Nepenthes distillatoria''
* ''
Miranda cophinaria
''Argiope aurantia'' is a species of spider, commonly known as the yellow garden spider, black and yellow garden spider, golden garden spider, writing spider, zigzag spider, zipper spider, black and yellow argiope, corn spider, Steeler spider, or ...
'', an alternative name for spider ''Argiope aurantia''
* ''
Miranda II
''Transformers: Energon'', known in Japan as , is an anime series which debuted on January 9, 2004. It is a direct sequel to '' Transformers: Armada''. It is also the first Japanese ''Transformers'' show where the ''Transformers'' are compute ...
'', a fictional spaceship in the Japanese television series ''Transformers: Energon''
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Mirinda
Mirinda is a brand of soft drink originally created in Spain in 1959 and now owned by PepsiCo with global distribution. Its name comes from the Esperanto translation of "admirable" or "amazing".
It is available in many fruit varieties, like ...
, a brand of soft drink
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