Linda

Linda is an English feminine given name, derived from the Spanish word linda, 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) (born 1977), stage name of Svetlana Geiman, a Russian singer
• Miss Linda, long-time manager and wife of Welsh wrestler Adrian Street

Surname

• Anita Linda (born Alice Lake, 1924–2020), Filipino film actress
• Bogusław Linda (born 1952), Polish actor
• La Prieta Linda (1933–2021), Mexican singer and actress
• Sarah Linda (born 1987), British actress and model
• Solomon Linda (1909–1962), South African Zulu musician, singer and composer who wrote the song "Mbube" which later became "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"

Places

• Linda, California, a census-designated place
• Linda, Missouri, a ghost town
• Linda, Tasmania, Australia, a ghost town
• Linda, Georgia, village in Abkhazia, Georgia
• Linda, Bashkortostan, village in Bashkortostan, Russia
• Linda Valley, Tasmania
• 7169 Linda, an asteroid
• Linda, a small lunar crater - see Delisle (crater)

Music

• Linda (Linda George album), 1974
• Linda (Linda Clifford album), 1977
• Linda (Miguel Bosé album), 1978
  • "Linda" (Miguel Bosé song), the title song
• "Linda" (1946 song), a popular song written by Jack Lawrence
• "Linda", a song by Ann Ronnell, written for the 1945 film The Story of G.I. Joe
• "Linda (Tokischa and Rosalía song)", 2021

Fiction

• Linda (1929 film), an American film
• Linda (1960 film), a British teen drama
• Linda (1973 film), a TV movie directed by Jack Smight
• Linda (1993 film), starring Richard Thomas and Virginia Madsen
• Linda (Sesame Street), a character appearing in Sesame Street
• Linda (TV series), a Hungarian action adventure series
• "Linda", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1972 book Seventh Heaven

Other uses

• Tropical Storm Linda, various hurricanes, cyclones and storms
• Linda (magazine), a Dutch magazine
• Linda (Estonian magazine) (1887–1905), a feminist literary magazine in Estonia
• Linda (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae
• Linda (coordination language), a programming language
• La Linda International Bridge, across the Rio Grande between the U.S. and Mexico

See also

• "Linda Linda", a 1987 single by the Japanese rock band The Blue Hearts, central to the below film
• Linda Linda Linda, a 2005 Japanese film
• Lynda, a given name
• Pretty (disambiguation)