Nijolė is a

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

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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 ...

. It is one of the numerous pseudomythological names invented in the 19th century by Lithuanian writer

Teodor Narbutt Teodor Narbutt (; 8 November 1784 – 27 November 1864) was a Polish–Lithuanian romantic historian and military engineer in service of the Russian Empire. He is best remembered as the author of a nine-volume Polish-language history of Lithuani ...

for Lithuanian pagan mythology (in his book the name was given in Polish language style "Nijola").Theodor Narbutt, ''Dzieje staroźytne narodu litewskiego: Mytologia Litewska'', 1835
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List of Lithuanian gods and mythological figures The list of Lithuanian gods is based on scarce written sources and late folklore. Many of them were outright invented. Lithuania converted to Christianity in 1387, but elements of Lithuanian mythology survived into the 19th century. The earlies ...

for more. Notable people with the name Nijolė include: *

Nijolė Ambrazaitytė Nijolė Ambrazaitytė (21 February 193927 November 2016) was an opera singer, politician, and signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. Biography Ambrazaitytė was born in , Lithuania. Ambrazaitytė's parents m ...

(1939–2016), Lithuanian opera singer and politician * Nijolė Būraitė (born 1956), Lithuanian painter and painting restorer *

Nijolė Medvedeva Nijolė Medvedeva (née Bluškytė; 21 October 1960 or 20 June 1960.) is a retired Lithuanian long jumper who won a bronze medal at the 1985 World Indoor Championships. She competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and made 4th, but was disqualified ...

(born 1960), Lithuanian long jumper * Nijolė Oželytė-Vaitiekūnienė (born 1954), Lithuanian actress * Nijolė Sabaitė (born 1950), Lithuanian middle distance runner *

Nijolė Sadūnaitė Nijolė Sadūnaitė (22 July 1938 – 31 March 2024) was a Lithuanian clandestine Catholic nun of the Soviet period who worked with the '' Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania''. In 1975 she faced three years of imprisonment for her effort ...

(born 1938), Lithuanian Catholic nun and Soviet dissident

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