Melinda is a feminine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
.
Etymology
The modern name ''Melinda'' is a combination of "Mel" with the suffix "-inda". "Mel" can be derived from names such as
Melanie
Melanie is a feminine given name derived from the Greek language, Greek μελανία (melania), "blackness" and that from μέλας (melas), meaning "dark".Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
, or from
Melina meaning "sweet like honey" or from
Melissa
Melissa is a feminine given name. The name comes from the Greek language, Greek word μέλισσα (''mélissa''), "bee", which in turn comes from μέλι (''meli''), "honey". In Hittite language, Hittite, ''melit'' signifies "honey".
Meliss ...
(μέλισσα) meaning "honeybee" in Greek. It is also associated with the Greek word ''meli'', meaning "honey", and with
Linda
Linda is an English feminine given name, derived from the Spanish word , meaning "pretty."
Linda may also refer to:
Names
* Linda (given name), a female given name (including a list of people and fictional characters so named)
* Linda (singer) ...
, from "lind" meaning "gentle, soft, tender" in the
Germanic languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa. The most widely spoke ...
.
[''The Best Baby Name Book in the Whole Wide World'' (1984) by Bruce Lansky]
Pronunciation
The typical English pronunciation of Melinda is . In Hungarian, the stress is on the first syllable: .
Notable people
Academics
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Malinda Carpenter
Malinda Carpenter, Ph.D, FRSE is a professor of developmental psychology at the University of St Andrews, an international researcher specialising in infant and child communications, prosocial behaviour and group reactions, in how people learn ...
, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, child development psychology researcher
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Melinda H. Keefe
Melinda H. Keefe is a research and development director at the Dow Chemical Company, where she works on architectural coatings. She helped to develop the award-winning Evoque pre-composite polymer platform, reducing usage.
Keefe also leads a c ...
, American art restorer
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Melinda Mills
Melinda Mills, (born 1969) is a professor of Demography and Population Health at the University of Oxford and Nuffield College where she is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Demographic Science Unit. She also holds ...
, British sociologist
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Melinda Takeuchi, American art historian
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Melinda Tan, Singaporean linguist
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Melinda Wortz, American art historian
Actors
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Melinda Clarke
Melinda Patrice Clarke (born April 24, 1969) is an American actress. She is known for portraying Faith Taylor on the soap opera ''Days of Our Lives'' (1989–1990), Julie Cooper on Fox's teen drama series '' The O.C.'' (2003–2007), Lady Heath ...
, American actress
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Melinda Y. Cohen, American actress
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Melinda "Mindy" Cohn, American actress
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Melinda Culea
Melinda Culea (born May 5, 1955) is an American actress.
Early life
Culea was born on May 5, 1955, in Western Springs, Illinois. She worked as a model before acting.Dangaard, Colin (1983) "Melinda Culea: The Struggle Goes on", ''Milwaukee Jo ...
, American actress
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Melinda Dillon
Melinda Ruth Dillon (October 13, 1939 – January 9, 2023) was an American actress. She received a 1963 Tony Award nomination for her Broadway debut in the original production of '' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'', and she was nominated for th ...
, American actress
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Melinda O. Fee, American actress
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Melinda Kinnaman
Melinda Rosalie Kinnaman (born 9 November 1971) is a Swedish-American actress.
Early life
Kinnaman is a dual citizen of Sweden and the United States. Kinnaman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to American parents Dee and Steve Kinnaman. Her fathe ...
, Swedish actress
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Melinda Marx
Melinda Marie Marx (born August 14, 1946) is an American former actress, singer, and musician who had a brief movie career. She is the daughter and only living child of Groucho Marx and his second wife, Kay Marvis Gorcey.
Life and work
Marx ...
, American actress and daughter of
Groucho Marx
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (; October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer who performed in films and vaudeville on television, radio, and the stage. He is considered one of America's greatest comed ...
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Melinda McGraw
Melinda McGraw (born October 25, 1968) is an American actress. She has appeared in movies such as ''The Dark Knight'' (2008), ''Wrongfully Accused'' (1998), and '' Skateland'' (2010), and is also known for her television performances on ''Mad Men ...
, American actress
*
Melinda Messenger
Melinda Jane Messenger (born 23 February 1971) is an English television presenter and former glamour photography, glamour model and Page Three girl. She presented the magazine programme ''Live from Studio Five'' and was formerly the co-Televisio ...
, English model and TV presenter
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Melinda Mullins
Melinda Mullins (born April 20, 1958) is an American former film, television and theatre actress.
Early life and education
She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in the Romance languages from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts ...
, American actress
*
Melinda Page Hamilton
Melinda Page Hamilton (born August 22, 1974) is an American actress, best known for her role as Odessa Burakov in the Lifetime comedy-drama series ''Devious Maids'', and for her leading role in the independent film '' Sleeping Dogs Lie'' (2006) ...
, American actress
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Melinda Shankar
Melinda Leanna Shankar (born February 18, 1992) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for starring as Alli Bhandari in the television series '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' (2008–2015) and as Indira "Indie" Mehta in the YTV series ''Ho ...
, Canadian actress
*
Melinda Sullivan
Melinda Sullivan (born September 30, 1987) is an American dancer, choreographer and actress. She is known for her work on the U.S. version of ''So You Think You Can Dance'', where she was a contestant in the television series' seventh season, an ...
, American dancer and actress
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Melinda Sward
Melinda Sward is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Pretty Crane on soap opera '' Passions'' (2007–2008).
Career
She portrayed Pretty Crane on soap opera '' Passions'' from July 30, 2007 to June 30, 2008. She had gues ...
, American actress
*
Malinda Williams
Malinda Williams (born September 24, 1970) is an American actress and producer. She began her career on television, before appearing in films ''A Thin Line Between Love and Hate'' (1996), ''High School High'' (1996), and ''The Wood'' (1999).
Fr ...
, American actress
Artists
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Melinda Bordelon, American painter
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Melinda Doring, Australian costume designer
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Melinda Rackham, Australian artist
Entertainers
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Melinda Bam South African model and beauty pageant titleholder
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Melinda Ledbetter
Melinda Kae Ledbetter (October 3, 1946 – January 30, 2024) was an American talent manager who was the second wife and longtime manager of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. Before her marriage, she also worked as a model and car saleswoman. Ledbe ...
, wife and manager of
Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson (June 20, 1942 – June 11, 2025) was an American musician, songwriter, singer and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. Often Brian Wilson is a genius, called a genius for his novel approaches to pop compositio ...
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Malinda Kathleen Reese, American YouTube personality, actress and singer
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Melinda Saxe
Melinda Saxe (born March 6, 1965) is a magician from Las Vegas, Nevada. She is best known for her television performances and Las Vegas stage shows in which she was billed as "the First Lady of Magic". She often is associated with the Drill of D ...
, American magician
Lawyers
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Melinda Haag
Melinda L. Haag (born 1961) is a San Francisco-based litigator and former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California.
Early life and education
In 1983, Haag graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor's de ...
, former US attorney
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Melinda Harmon
Melinda Sue Harmon (born November 1, 1946) is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, best known as the lead judge in the subsequently overruled Arthur Andersen trial ...
, US judge
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Melinda Taylor
Melinda Taylor is an Australian criminal lawyer who was arrested and detained in Libya in 2012 after being assigned by the International Criminal Court to defend Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Muammar Gaddafi.
Early life and education
Taylor ...
, Australian ICC lawyer
Musicians
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Melinda Ademi, Albanian singer
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Melinda Caroll
Melinda Caroll (born April 4, 1952, Jacksonville, Florida) is a singer, composer, record producer, recording artist, and lifetime Member of Girl Scouts. She has created and produced music for Girl Scouts since 1989.
Caroll sang background voc ...
, American singer
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Melinda Doolittle
Melinda Marie Doolittle (born October 6, 1977) is an American singer who finished as the third place finalist on the sixth season of ''American Idol''. Prior to her appearance on ''American Idol'', Doolittle worked as a professional back-up sin ...
, American singer and ''American Idol'' contestant
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Melinda Kistétényi
Melinda Kistétényi (25 July 1926 – 20 October 1999) was a Hungarians, Hungarian classical organist, composer and chorus master known for her improvisations. She worked as a professor of music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest fo ...
, Hungarian organist
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Melinda Maxwell, English oboist and composer
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Melinda O'Neal Melinda O'Neal is a conductor of choral and choral-orchestral music, professor emerita of music, and author.
O'Neal was music director and conductor of the Handel Society of Dartmouth College (oratorio society of 100 student and community voices) 1 ...
, American conductor
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Malinda Jackson Parker
Malinda Jackson Parker ( 1903 – 1978) was a Liberian singer and pianist. She composed her own music and recorded the album ''The Liberian Landmark Joy'' around 1971. She served a term in the House of Representatives of Liberia representing Mont ...
, Liberian singer and politician
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Melinda Schneider
Melinda Schneider (born Melinda-Jane Bean; 7 October 1971) is an Australian country music singer. She has been performing since she was three and sang with her mother, yodelling country artist Mary Schneider, on the album ''The Magic of Yodell ...
, Australian Country Singer
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Melinda Watts, American singer and musician
Philanthropists
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Melinda Gates
Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she was educated at Ursuline Academy of Dallas, Duke University, and Duke's Fuqua School of Business. Shortly afte ...
, philanthropist and ex-wife of
Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend ...
Politicians
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Malinda Brumfield White
Malinda Grace Brumfield White (born April 1967) is an American businesswoman and a former Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. She previously ran as an Independent politician, independent ...
(born 1967), American politician
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Melinda Bush
Melinda Bush (born March 18, 1956) is a member of the Illinois Senate for the 31st district. The 31st district spans northern Lake County, Illinois, Lake County and includes all or parts of Zion, Illinois, Zion, Round Lake, Illinois, Round Lake, R ...
, Illinois senator
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Melinda Katz
Melinda R. Katz (born August 29, 1965) is an American attorney and politician from New York City, serving as District Attorney of Queens since January 1, 2020. A Democrat, she previously served as the Queens Borough President. Katz was also a ...
, New York politician
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Melinda MacLean
Melinda Jane MacLean (née McLellan; January 19, 1946) is a former Canadian politician. She represented the electoral district of Colchester in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1974 to 1978. She was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Part ...
, Canadian politician
*
Melinda Pavey
Melinda Jane Pavey (; born 1969), is a former Australian politician. Pavey had been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 2015 to 2023, representing the seat of Oxley for The Nationals. She was previously a member of the Ne ...
, Australian politician
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Melinda Schwegmann
Melinda Burge Schwegmann (born October 25, 1946) is an American politician. In 1991, outspending incumbent Paul Hardy by almost two to one in total and being in a runoff with him with David Duke at the top of the Louisiana GOP ticket, she defea ...
, Louisiana state representative and lieutenant-governor
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Melinda Smyser, Idaho senator
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Melinda Széky-Sztrémi
Melinda Széky-Sztrémi (née ''Sztrémi''; born 16 March 1958) is a Hungarian educator and politician, mayor of Salgótarján from 2006 to 2014 and also a member of the National Assembly (MP) for Salgótarján (Nógrád County
Nógrád (, ; ...
, Hungarian politician
Reporters
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Melinda Murphy, American reporter
Scientists
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Melinda Estes, American neuropathologist
Sportswomen
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Melinda Cooper
Melinda "La Maravilla" Cooper (born 6 March 1985) is an American former professional boxer who held the WIBA and IBA flyweight titles and challenged for the IBF super-bantamweight championship during her 12-year career. She is a member of the ...
, American boxer
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Melinda Copp
Melinda Copp (born July 7, 1962), later known by her married name Melinda Harrison, is a former competitive swimmer from Canada. A native of London, Ontario, she attended the University of Michigan where she was the women's captain of the Michig ...
, Canadian swimmer
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Melinda Czink
Melinda Czink (born 22 October 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. On 21 September 2009, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 37.
Czink reached two WTA Tour singles finals. In 2005, she lost to Ana I ...
, Hungarian tennis player
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Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor (born 1 October 1971 in Narromine, New South Wales) is a retired Australian athlete, who specialised in sprint events.
In 1995 Gainsford-Taylor won the World Indoor championship over 200 m. During her career she als ...
, Australian athlete
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Melinda Geiger
Melinda Anamaria Geiger (born 28 March 1987) is a Romanian handball player who is playing for CS Gloria 2018 Bistrița-Năsăud and the Romanian national team.
Geiger announced her retirement in February 2019 at the age of 31 citing recurring ...
, Romanian handballer
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Melinda Hale, American handball player
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Mélinda Hennaoui
Melinda Raissa Hennaoui (born March 18, 1990) is an Algerian female volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's c ...
, Algerian volleyball player
*
Melinda Henshaw
Melinda Henshaw (born 1 February 1977 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand) is a New Zealand yachtswoman.
She competed for New Zealand at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of A ...
, New Zealand yachtswoman
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Melinda Jacques
Melinda Jacques (née Szabó; former Melinda Tóthné Szabó; born 13 October 1971) is a Hungarians, Hungarian born French team handball, handball player. She played many years for Vasas SC (women's handball), Vasas and the French club Metz Handb ...
, French handball player
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Melinda Kunhegyi
Melinda Kunhegyi (born December 1, 1965) is a Canadian former competitive pair skater. With her skating partner, Lyndon Johnston, she is the 1981 Prague Skate champion, the 1981 Grand Prix International St. Gervais champion, and a two-time Canad ...
, Canadian figure skater
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Melinda McLeod, Australian BMX cyclist
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Melinda Padovano
Melinda Padovano (born January 28, 1987), better known by her ring name, Alicia, is an American professional wrestler. She has appeared for Shimmer Women Athletes, Women Superstars Uncensored, and has appeared for many independent promotions in t ...
, American wrestler
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Melinda Pastrovics, Hungarian handballer
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Melinda Patyi, Hungarian canoeist
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Melinda Sun, Australian badminton player
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Melinda Szikora, Hungarian handballer
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Melinda Szik, Hungarian weightlifter
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Melinda Szvorda, Hungarian footballer
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Melinda Vernon, Australian triathlete
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Melinda Vincze
Melinda Vincze (born 12 November 1983) is a Hungarian former handballer who played for Dunaújvárosi KKA and the Hungarian national team.
She made her international debut on 3 March 2007 against Norway.
Achievements
* Nemzeti Bajnokság I: ...
, Hungarian handballer
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Melinda Wang, Taiwanese figure skater
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Melinda Watpool
Melinda Watpool (born 30 April 1989) is a Canadian professional boxer who has challenged for the WBO female super-middleweight title. As an amateur she represented her country at two World Championships.
Career
After an amateur career featuring ...
, Canadian boxer
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Melinda Young, Australia basketball
Writers
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Melinda Camber Porter, British author, poet and painter
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Melinda Gebbie
Melinda Gebbie (born 1947) is an American comics artist and writer, known for her participation in the underground comix movement. She is also known for creating the controversial work ''Fresca Zizis'' and her contributions to '' Wimmen's Com ...
, American comic author and artist
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Melinda Hammond, British romance novelist
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Melinda Haynes
Melinda Haynes (born December 3, 1955) is an American novelist. She grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. For much of her adult life she was a painter. In 1999, she wrote her first published novel, ''Mother of Pearl'', while living in a mobile hom ...
, American novelist
*
Melinda Hsu Taylor
Melinda Hsu (a.k.a. Melinda Hsu-Taylor) is an American television writer and producer, co-creator and showrunner of ''Tom Swift'' and showrunner of ''Nancy Drew'' for the CW Network.
Hsu is well known for her work on the ABC series '' Lost''. S ...
, American TV writer and producer
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Malinda Lo
Malinda Lo is an American writer of young adult novels including '' Ash'', ''Huntress'', ''Adaptation'', ''Inheritance,'' ''A Line in the Dark'', and '' Last Night at the Telegraph Club''. She also does research on diversity in young adult litera ...
, American author
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Melinda Lopez, American playwright
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Melinda Metz
Melinda Metz (born March 7, 1962) is an American author of young adult books as well as a series for adults. Her series '' Roswell High'', about teenage aliens, serves as the basis of The WB television series '' Roswell'' and The CW television ...
, American children's author
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Melinda Nadj Abonji, Hungarian writer and performance artist
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Melinda Rankin (1811–1888), American missionary, teacher, and writer
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Melinda Smith, Australian poet
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Melinda M. Snodgrass, American science fiction writer
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Melinda Tankard Reist, Australian writer and social campaigner
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Melinda Wagner
Melinda Jane Wagner (born 1957 in Philadelphia) is a US composer, and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in music. Her undergraduate degree is from Hamilton College. She received her graduates degrees from University of Chicago and University of P ...
, American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner
Other
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Melinda Loveless, American teenager convicted for her role in the 1992
murder of Shanda Sharer
In popular culture
In film and television
*''
Melinda (film)
''Melinda'' is a 1972 American drama film directed by Hugh A. Robertson and written by Lonne Elder III. The film stars Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Vonetta McGee, Paul Stevens (actor), Paul Stevens, Rockne Tarkington and Ross Hagen. The film w ...
'', American film, 1972
*''
Melinda and Melinda
''Melinda and Melinda'' is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film is set in Manhattan and stars Radha Mitchell as the protagonist Melinda, in two storylines; one tragic and the other comic. It premiered ...
'', American film, 2005
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Melinda Gordon
Melinda Irene Gordon is the title character of the American paranormal television series ''Ghost Whisperer'' created by John Gray. Gordon was portrayed by American actress Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Character background
Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love ...
,
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress, producer and singer. Hewitt began her career as a child actress and singer, appearing in national television commercials before joining the cast of the Disney Channel serie ...
's character from ''
Ghost Whisperer
''Ghost Whisperer'' is an American supernatural television series, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005, to May 21, 2010.
The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon ( Jennifer Love Hewitt), who has the ability to see and communicate w ...
''
*Melinda from ''
The Real World: Austin''
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Melinda Warren and
Melinda Halliwell, from TV show ''
Charmed
''Charmed'' is an American fantasy drama television series created by Constance M. Burge and produced by Aaron Spelling and his production company Spelling Television, with Brad Kern serving as showrunner. The series was originally broadc ...
''
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Melinda Warner,
Medical examiner
The medical examiner is an appointed official in some American jurisdictions who is trained in pathology and investigates deaths that occur under unusual or suspicious circumstances, to perform post-mortem examinations, and in some jurisdicti ...
on ''
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''
*Melinda Cramer,
character
Character or Characters may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Literature
* ''Character'' (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk
* ''Characters'' (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to Theoph ...
on ''
One Life to Live
''One Life to Live'' (often abbreviated as ''OLTL'') is an American soap opera broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC television network for more than 43 years, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and then on the internet as ...
''
*
Melinda May
Melinda Qiaolian May, also known as The Cavalry, is a fictional character that originated in the Marvel Cinematic Universe before appearing in Marvel Comics. The character, created by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, first appea ...
from ''
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
''Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' is an American television series created by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen for ABC based on the Marvel Comics organization S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, ...
''
*
"Melinda" (''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.''), episode
*Melinda, a centaur from the Disney movie ''
Fantasia
Fantasia may refer to:
Film and television
* ''Fantasia'' (1940 film), an animated musical film produced by Walt Disney
** '' Fantasia 2000'', a sequel to the 1940 film
* ''Fantasia'' (2004 film), a Hong Kong comedy film
* ''Fantasia'' (201 ...
''
In music
*"Melinda" by
Curved Air
Curved Air are an English progressive rock group formed in 1970 by musicians from mixed artistic backgrounds, including classical, folk and electronic sound. The resulting sound of the band is a mixture of progressive rock, folk rock, and fu ...
, on the album ''Retrospective''
*"Melinda" by
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were an American rock band formed in Gainesville, Florida, in 1976. The band originally comprised lead singer and rhythm guitarist Tom Petty, lead guitarist Mike Campbell, keyboardist Benmont Tench, drummer ...
In literature
*Melinda, wife of Bánk in
József Katona
József Katona (11 November 1791, Kecskemét – 16 April 1830, Kecskemét) was a Hungarian playwright and poet, creator of the Hungarian historical tragedy '' Bánk bán''.
Biography
József Katona was born and died in Kecskemét. He stud ...
's legendary historical tragedy ''
Bánk bán
Bánk is a village and municipality in the comitat of Nógrád, Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the nor ...
''
*Melinda ("Lindy") in the book ''
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
''The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles'' is a children's novel written by Julie Edwards, the married name of singer and actress Dame Julie Andrews. More recent editions credit the book to "Julie Andrews Edwards".
Plot summary
Three sibling ...
'' by
Julie Andrews
Dame Julie Andrews (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author. She has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over eight decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Fi ...
*
Melinda Sordino, main character of the book ''
Speak'' (1999) by
Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson (born Laurie Beth Halse; October 23, 1961) is an American writer, known for children's and young adult novels. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 for her contributio ...
*Melinda, porn star mentioned in the book ''
Snow
Snow consists of individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.
It consists of frozen crystalline water througho ...
'' by
Orhan Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952; ) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him ...
*Melinda, picture book written by
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman; 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, audio theatre, and screenplays. His works include the comic series ''The Sandman (comic book), The Sandma ...
and illustrated by Dagmara Matusak
In geography
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Melinda Airport, Belize
See also
*
References
English feminine given names
English given names
Feminine given names
Hungarian feminine given names
Notes
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