Zenaida (Greek name meaning "Life of Zeus.") Zenaide (
Italian
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), Zénaïde (
French), or Zinaida (russian: Зинаида).
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It is a personal name used in many cultures used for women. It can also refer (as genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
''Zenaida'') to the Zenaida doves
The zenaida doves make up a small genus (''Zenaida'') of American doves in the family Columbidae.
The genus was introduced in 1838 by French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The name commemorates his wife, Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonapart ...
, named after Princess Zénaïde Bonaparte.
As a personal name
Zenaida
* Zenaida (saint), a traditional 1st century Christian saint.
*Zenaida Beveraggi, "Zeny" of pop music duet Zeny & Zory
* Zenaida Manfugás, Cuban-born American pianist
*Zenaida Moya
Zenaida Victoria Moya is a former mayor of Belize City, Belize, first elected in elections held in March 2006. She is a former member of the United Democratic Party (UDP). Moya was Belize City's first female mayor.
Childhood and education
Moya ...
, mayor of Belize City
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, Belize
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* Zenaida Yanowsky, Spanish ballet dancer
Zénaïde
*, wife and cousin of ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte
* Zénaïde Rossi, stage name Irene Reni, Italian-French actress and singer
Zinaida
*Zinaida Aksentyeva
Zinaïda Mikolaïevna Aksentieva ( uk, Зінаїда Миколаївна Аксентьєва; July 25, 1900 – April 8, 1969) was a Ukrainian/Soviet astronomer and geophysicist.
Life
Aksentieva or Aksentyeva was born in Odessa in 1900. She gr ...
(1900–1969), Ukrainian/Soviet astronomer
* Zinaida Amosova, Soviet cross-country skier
*Zinaida Gippius
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (Hippius) (; – 9 September 1945) was a Russian poet, playwright, novelist, editor and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian symbolism. The story of her marriage to Dmitry Merezhkovsky, which laste ...
, Russian poet
*, Moldovan politician
*Zinaida Korotova
Zinaida Fyodorovna Korotova (russian: Зинаида Федоровна Коротова, born 5 April 1936) is a retired Russian rower who won eight European titles in the eights event between 1955 and 1962. For this achievement she was awarded ...
, Russian rower
*Zinaida Kupriyanovich
Zinaida Alexandrovna Kupriyanovich, Łacinka: ''Zinaída Alaksándraŭna Kupryjanóvič''; russian: Зинаи́да Алекса́ндровна Куприяно́вич, Zinaída Aleksándrovna Kupriyanóvich. (born 17 September 2002), sometimes ...
, Belarusian singer
*Zinaida Portnova
Zinaida Martynovna Portnova (russian: Зинаида Мартыновна Портнова; 20 February 1926 – 15 January 1944) was a Soviet teenager, partisan and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union.
Biography
Portnova was born in Lenin ...
, seventh-grade Soviet partisan
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and Hero of the Soviet Union
The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...
*Zinaida Semenova
Zinaida Semenova (russian: Зинаида Семёнова; born 19 March 1962) is a retired female long-distance runner from Russia. She set her personal best in the women's marathon on October 7, 2001, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, clocking 2:26:51. ...
, Russian long-distance runner
*Zinaida Serebriakova
Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (russian: Зинаида Евгеньевна Серебрякова; – 20 September 1967) was a Russian and later French painter.
Family
Zinaida Serebryakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kh ...
, first notable female Russian painter
*Zinaida Turchyna
Zinaida Mykhaylivna Turchyna ( ua, Зінаїда Михайлiвна Турчина, née ''Stolitenko'' on 17 May 1946) is a retired Ukrainian handball player. Coached by her husband Igor Turchin she competed for the Soviet Union in all maj ...
, Soviet handball player
* Zinaida Volkova, daughter of Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein. ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky; uk, link= no, Лев Давидович Троцький; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trotskij'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky''. (), was a Russian ...
*Zinaida Voronina
Zinaida Voronina, born Zinaida Borisovna Druzhinina (also Druginina), (russian: Зинаида Борисовна Дружинина Воронина; 10 December 1947 – 17 March 2001) was a Soviet gymnast who competed at the European, Worl ...
, Soviet gymnast
*Zinaida Yusupova
Princess Zinaida Nikolayevna Yusupova (russian: Зинаи́да Никола́евна Юсу́пова; 2 September 1861 – 24 November 1939) was an Imperial Russian noblewoman, the only heiress of Russia's largest private fortune of her t ...
, Russian noblewoman at the end of the Romanov dynasty
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