Lisa

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Lisa
Gender	Female
Meaning	God's promise
Origin	English
Related names	Elizabeth
Popularity	Popular names page

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The girl's name Lisa is pronounced /ˈliːsə/. It is of English origin. Short form of Elisabeth (Hebrew) "God's promise". Lisa may refer to:

Acronyms

• LISA (Computer Science), the Language for Instruction Set Architecture
• LISA (astronomy), the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
• Life Insurance Settlement Association
• LISA (conference), the Annual System Administration Conference, formerly Large Installation System Administration conference
• An acronym for Look In Side Always (used by store cashiers)
• Localization Industry Standards Association
• LISA (Local indicators of spatial association), a statistical method
• LISA (Liaison Interne Satellite Aérogare), one of the two lines of CDGVAL at Charles de Gaulle International Airport
• Library and Information Science Abstracts, a library science index
• LISA for Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques
• LISA+, traffic engineering (transportation) Software

Fiction

• Princess Lisa in War and Peace by Tolstoy
• Lisa, fictional character in Dexter's Laboratory
• Lisa (Dead or Alive), a fictional character from the Dead or Alive video game series.
• Lisa Simpson, a cartoon character in the television series The Simpsons
• Lisa, fictional character in Weird Science
• Lisa, mythical girlfriend of the Internet Oracle
• Lisa Watmough, a character in the book Room 13 by Robert Swindells
• Lisa (film), a 1989 film starring Cheryl Ladd
• Lisa Dingle a character from the popular British soap opera Emmerdale

Art

• Mona Lisa, the oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci
• Lisa's separation, a song by The Legendary Pink Dots from the album The Golden Age
• 'Sad Lisa' by Cat Stevens

Religion

• A creator deity in Dahomeyan religion: See Mahu

Information technology

• Lisa assembler, a 6502 assembler for Apple II
• Apple Lisa computer, the precursor to the Apple Macintosh
• LISA MVC web application framework, based on PHP
• LISA, LAN Information Server

People

• LISA (musician), Elizabeth Sakura Narita, former member of the Japanese hip-hop group m-flo
• Lisa D'Amato, a model and contestant in America's Next Top Model cycle five
• Lisa Arce, beach volleyball player
• Lisa Aziz, British television presenter
• Lisa Bonet, American actress
• Lisa Burnett, founder and President of SPS
• Lisa Curry-Kenny Australian Olympian swimmer
• Lisa, Esteban Esteban Lisa, painter from Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Lisa Foiles, actress
• Leeza Gibbons, American talk show host
• Lisa Gleave, actress and model
• Lisa Grimaldi, a fictional character on the soap opera As the World Turns played by Eileen Fulton since 1960
• Lisa (singer), Lisa Gautier, a French singer performing under the name "Lisa"
• Lisa M. Hansen, American producer, actress, assistant director, and writer
• Lisa Kudrow, actress
• Lisa Lampanelli, American comedienne
• Lisa Langford, English race walker
• Lisa Leslie, basketball player
• Lisa Ling, American journalist
• Lisa Loeb, pop singer/songwriter
• Lisa Lopes, member of the female American R&B trio TLC
• Lisa Marie Presley, American singer and daughter of Elvis Presley
• Lisa Marie Varon, American female bodybuilder, fitness competitor and professional wrestler
• Lisa McPherson, Scientologist
• Lisa Marx, guitarist and former member of Kitie
• Lisa McCune, Australian actress
• Lisa Mitchell, Australian musician
• Lisa Moretti, American professional wrestler
• Lisa Niemi, American actress, widow of Patrick Swayze
• Lisa Nowak, American astronaut; arrested under charges of attempted kidnap and attempted murder
• Lisa Origliasso, Australian musician, member of The Veronicas
• Lisa Powell, Australian field hockey forward
• Lisa Ray, Indian born Canadian Actress
• Lisa Rinna, actress
• Lisa Scott-Lee, British singer formerly of the pop group, Steps
• Lisa Sparxxx, American adult actress
• Lisa Stansfield, British singer
• Lisa Tucker (singer), American singer
• Lisa Velez, singer, better known as Lisa Lisa
• Lisa Wallace, BB contestant
• Lisa Walton, New Zealand field hockey player
• Lisa Wooding, English field-hockey player
• Lisa Zaran, American poet
• Lyssa Chapman, American bounty hunter
• List of names starting with Lisa

Places

• Lisa, Teleorman, Teleorman County, Romania
• Lisa, Braşov, Braşov County, Romania
• Lisa River, Braşov County, Romania

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