Nadia

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Nadia may refer to:

[edit] People

• Nadia (name), a girl's name

In sports:

• Nadia Comăneci (born 1961), Romanian Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast
• Nadia Petrova (born 1982), professional tennis player from Russia
• Nadia Davy (born 1980), Olympic bronze medal-winning Jamaican sprinter
• Nadia Styger (born 1978), Swiss alpine skier
• Nadia Cortassa (born 1978), Italian triathlete
• Nadia Dandolo (born 1962), Italian long-distance runner

In film and television:

• Nadia Almada (born 1977), Portuguese reality television star, winner of Big Brother UK
• Nadia Bjorlin (born 1980), American actress
• Nadia Di Cello (born 1989), Argentine actress
• Nadia Sawalha (born 1964), English actress and television presenter
• Nadia Tass (born 1956), Australian film director and producer
• Nadia López (born 1983), Mexican singer and reality television star
• Nadia Chambers (born 1968), Welsh actress
• Nadia Lutfi (born 1938), Egyptian actress
• Nadia Litz (born 1976), Canadian actress
• Nadia Nyce (born 1973), English porn actress
• Nadia Farès (born 1973), French actress
• Nadia Chan (born 1971), Hong Kong actress and singer
• Fearless Nadia (1908–1996) , famous Indian actress and stuntwoman
• Nadia Turner (born 1977), contestant on American Idol season 4

In politics, activism and academia:

• Nadia Yassine (born 1958), founder and head of the feminine branch of the Moroccan Islamist movement Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane
• Nadia Younes (1946–2003), Egyptian national who worked for the UN and the WHO, victim of the Canal Hotel bombing
• Princess Nadia of Leiningen (born 1991), 125th in line to the British throne
• Nadia Abu El Haj, assistant professor at Barnard College, center of a controversy over archaeology in the land of Israel
• Nadia Bakhurji, Saudi interior designer who announced her candidacy in the 2005 Saudi elections
• Nadia McCaffrey, founder of Angel Staff and anti-Iraq War activist
• Nadia Morris Osipovich, naturalized American citizen and Soviet spy during World War II

In music, literature and the arts:

• Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), French composer, conductor, and music professor
• Nâdiya (born 1973), French Pop/R&B singer
• Nadia Anjuman (c. 1980–2005), Afghan poet and journalist killed by her husband
• Nadia Ali (born 1980), American singer and former member of the band iiO
• Nadia Borislova (born 1969), Mexican composer and guitarist
• Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck (1908–2006), American pioneer in modern dance, dance pedagogy and Labanotation
• Nadia Cavalera (born 1950), novelist, poet and literacy critic
• Nadia Chafik (born 1962), Morrocan novelist
• Nadia Dina Ariqat (born 1983), Britney Spears impersonator

Fictional characters:

• Nadia, a character in the computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert
• Nadia Yassir, a character from the TV series 24
• Princess Nadia, a character in the SNES/PS1 game Chrono Trigger
• Nadia Santos, a character in the television series Alias

[edit] Other uses

• Nadia District, in the West Bengal state of India
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, an anime by Gainax
  • Fushigi no Umi Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, a 1991 Famicom game based on the anime
• "Nadia's Theme", the theme music to the American soap opera The Young and the Restless

[edit] See also

• Nadine
• Nadezhda