Callista

Callista, also can be spelt as Calista, Callistee, Kallista, Kalista or Kallistee comes from the Greek for "most beautiful (fem.)" (καλλίστη - kalliste).

As a name it is derived from the Greek name of a huntress in the myth of Callisto, who was loved by Zeus. The name Callisto was changed to the common Callista for use as a name because in Latin Callista is the feminine form.

Callista may refer to:

Nature

• Callista (mollusc) - a genus of bivalve, see List of molluscs of the Houtman Abrolhos
• Callista Lour., a synonym of Dendrobium, an orchid genus
• Callista D.Don, a synonym of Erica, a heath/heather genus

Entertainment

• A SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron character - the presumed ancestor of Deputy Mayor Callie Briggs
• Callista (novel), 1855 novel by John Henry Newman
• Callista Ming, a character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
• Callista Henderson Tyrol AKA Callandra or Cally, fictional character from the Battlestar Galactica series

People

• Callista Balko American athlete
• Callista Chimombo Malawian politician
• Callista Flockhart American actress
• Callista Gingrich wife of Newt Gingrich

Science

• 204 Kallisto - An S-type asteroid which was discovered in 1879
• Callisto (moon), one of the moons of Jupiter, discovered in 1610

Places

• Kallista, Victoria - a town in Australia
• Kalista - is a village in south-western Bulgaria

Other

• Calista, a small steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet

See also

• Calista (disambiguation)
• Callisto (disambiguation)
• Calisto (disambiguation)
• Callistus (disambiguation)