Nina

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Nina is a feminine given name. In Hebrew, the name means great-granddaughter.

Nina may refer to:

Contents 1 People 1.1 Actual name 1.2 Stage or pen names 2 Fictional people 3 Places 4 Music 4.1 Bands 4.2 Songs 4.3 Operas 4.4 Albums 5 Productions 5.1 Movies 5.2 Television shows 6 Acronym 7 Other

[edit] People

[edit] Actual name

• Saint Nino (anglicized to Nina), an Eastern-orthodox saint
• Nunu (Nina) Abashidze, a Ukranian shot putter
• Nina Agapova, a Russian actress
• Nina Alexeyevna Lobkovskaya, a Russian sniper
• Nina Alisova, a Russian actress
• Nina Alu, girlfriend of pop singer Iggy Pop
• Nina Ananiashvili, a Georgian Ballerina
• Nina Andersson, a Swedish dancer
• Nina Andreyeva, a Soviet Communist Party Official
• Nina Anisimova, a Russian athlete
• Nina Antonia, a British music critic
• Nina Arsenault, Canadian sex worker
• Nina Arvesen, an American actress
• Nina Åström, a Finnish singer
• Nina Auerbach, an American professor
• Nina Auzias, wife of Leo Stein, an American art critic
• Nina Axelrod, an American actress
• Nina Baden-Semper, a British actress
• Nina Badrić, a Croatian singer
• Nina Bang, a Danish Politician
• Nina Bari, A Russian Mathematician
• Nina Barr Wheeler, an American artist
• Nina Bates, a Bosnian figure skater
• Nina Bawden, a British author
• Nina Beier, a Danish artist
• Nina Bendigkeit, a German singer
• Nina Berberova, a Russian author
• Nina Berman, an American photographer
• Nina Björk, a Swedish author
• Nina Blackwood, an American Disk Jockey
• Nina Bocharova, a Soviet gymnast
• Nina Bott, a German actress
• Nina Bouraoui, a French author
• Cecilia Nina Bowes, a British royal
• Nina Bracewell-Smith, a British royal
• Nina Brosh, an Israeli model
• Nina Burleigh, an American journalist
• Nina Byers, an American physicist
• Nina Byron, an American silent film actress
• Nena Cherry, an American porn actress
• Nina Cieślińska, a Polish singer
• Nina Clifford, an American madam
• Nina Clooney, wife of American journalist Nick Clooney and mother of American actor George Clooney
• Nina Coltart, a British psychoanalyst
• Nina Conti, a British actress
• Nina Cronstedt de Groot, step-daughter of former UN Secretary General Kofi Anan
• Nina Davies, a Welsh cyclist
• Nina de Roy, an American journalist
• Nina de Villiers, a Canadian murder victim who has a garden named after her on the campus of McMaster University
• Nina de Vries, a Dutch sex worker
• Nina Dobrev, a Bulgarian-Canadian actress
• Nina Douglas Hamilton, a British royal
• Nina Dumbadze, a Soviet discus thrower
• Nina Easton, an American journalist
• Nina Elias-Bamberger, an American children television show producer
• Nina Fedoroff, an American biologist
• Nina Foch, a Dutch-American actress
• Nina Fyodorova, a Soviet skier
• Nina Gershon, an American judge
• Nina Girado, Filipino singer. She released a couple of albums bearing her name.
• Nina Gordon, an American Rock Singer
• Nina Grewal, a Canadian politician
• Nina Hamnett, a British artist
• Nina Hirschfeld, daughter of American caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, who often hid her name in his drawings
• Nina Katzir, wife of former Israeli President Ephraim Katzir
• Nina Kent, wife of American drummer Adrian Young
• Nina Li Chi, a Chinese actress
• Nina Lobova, a Soviet handball athlete
• Nina Mercedez, an American porn actress
• Nina Oulanova, a Russian ice skater
• Nina Persson, a Swedish singer
• Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, wife of Claus, the person who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
• Nina Siciliana, an Italian poet
• Nina Slyusar, a Belarusian accordionist who performed as part of the duo Nina & Lena
• Nína Tryggvadóttir, an Icelandic artist
• Nina Totenberg, an American journalist specializing in law
• Nina van Pallandt, a Danish singer and actress, used to be half the Nina & Frederick duo
• Nina Vance, an American entrepreneur
• Nina Vanna, a British actress
• Nina Violić, a Croatian game show host
• Nina Vislova, a Russian badminton athlete
• Nina Wadia, a Parsi actress
• Nina Wang, a Chinese billionaire.
  • The Nina Tower is a skyscraper in Hong Kong named after her.
• Nina Zhivanevskaya, a Russian swimmer

[edit] Stage or pen names

• Nina (born Anna Maria Agustí Flores), a spanish actress and singer
• Nina, one of the ring names used by Lisa Moretti
• Nina Alexander, stage name for Julia Parton, an American porn and B-movie actress
• Nina Barka, pen name for Marie Smirsky, a naïve artist
• Nina Carter, stage name for Penny Mallett, a British model and signer
• Nina Cassian, pen name for Renèe Annie Cassian, a Romanian poet
• Nina Hagen, German singer (born Catharina Hagen). She released several albums bearing her name.
• Nina Hartley, stage name for Marie Louise Hartman, an American porn actress
• Nina Simone, American soul singer (née Eunice Kathleen Waymon). She released several albums bearing her name.
• Nina Venetta, stage name for Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the girl at the center of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal

[edit] Fictional people

• Nina Ash, a character in the American television series Angel
• Nina Bibikova, a character in the novel The Man from Barbarossa
• Nina Brown, a character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Nina Caliente, a pre-made character in the video game The Sims 2
• Nina Callas, a character in the books The Clique series
• Nina Campbell, a character in the American sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
• Nina Cassady, a character in the American drama Law & Order
• Nina Cortex, a fictional character designed for the Crash Bandicoot series
• Nina Cortlandt, a fictional character form the soap opera All My Children
• Nina Einstein, a character from the anime Code Geass
• Nina Fletcher, a character in the American comedy-drama Desperate Housewives
• Nina Harris, a character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Nina Myers, terrorist in TV series 24
• Nina, Princess of Winlan, a video game character from Breath of Fire
• Nina Tucker, a little girl befriended by the protagonists in the anime and manga Fullmetal Alchemist
• Nina Tucker, a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Nina Van Horn, a ficitional character in the American sitcom Just Shoot Me!
• Nina Webster, a fictional character form the soap opera The Young and the Restless
• Nina Williams, a fictional assassin from the Tekken series
• Nina Yamada, a fictional character from Mamotte! Lollipop
• Nina Zero, a paparazza and photographer from Robert Eversz's detective series of books

[edit] Places

• Nina, Kentucky, an unincorporated area in Garrard County
• Nina, Mozambique
• Nina, West Virginia, an unincorporated area in Doddridge County
• Nina Station, Louisiana is an unincorporated community in St. Martin Parish County.
• Ninaview, Colorado, an unincorporated area in Bent County.

[edit] Music

[edit] Bands

• NiNa, a multinational six-piece J-pop group
• Nina Sky, the name for the American twin hip hop duo Nicole and Natalie Albino. They released an album bearing their name.

[edit] Songs

• Draumur um Nínu (I Dream of Nina), Iceland's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991
• Niña, a song by the Mexican pop group Reik.
• Nina Never Knew, a 1950's song by Milton Drake with melody by Louis Alter
• Nina, Pretty Ballerina, a song by the by Swedish pop group ABBA

[edit] Operas

• Nina, o sia La pazza per amore an opera by Giovanni Paisiello
• Nina, ou La folle par amour an opera by Nicolas Dalayrac

[edit] Albums

• Nina Hagen released several albums bearing her name

• Nina Hagen Band, 1978
• Nina Hagen Band - EP, 1980
• Nina Hagen, 1989
• The Very Best of Nina Hagen, 1990
• Rock aus Deutschland: Nina Hagen, 1992
• Rangeh'n - Das Beste von Nina Hagen, 2004

• Nina Girado released a couple of albums bearing her name

• Nina Live!, 2005
• Nina, 2006

• Nina Simone released several albums bearing her name

• Nina Simone and Her Friends, 1959
• Nina Simone at Town Hall, 1959
• The Amazing Nina Simone, 1959
• Nina Simone at Newport, 1960
• Nina at the Village Gate, 1962
• Nina Simone Sings Ellington, 1962
• Nina's Choice, 1963
• Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall, 1963
• Folksy Nina, 1964
• Nina Simone in Concert, 1964
• Nina Simone with Strings, 1966
• Nina Simone Sings the Blues, 1967
• Nina Simone and Piano, 1969
• Nina's Back, 1985

A few albums bearing Nina Simone's name were released after her death:

• Nina Simone's Finest Hour, 2004
• The Soul of Nina Simone, 2005
• The Very Best of Nina Simone, 2006

• Nina Sky released an album bearing their name

• Nina Sky, 2004

[edit] Productions

[edit] Movies

• Nina's Heavenly Delights, a 2006 British movie
• Nina's Tragedies, a 2003 Israeli movie

[edit] Television shows

• Niña Amada Mía, A mexican Telenovela

[edit] Acronym

The following acronyms spell out the word 'Nina'

• National Iraqi News Agency, an Iraqi news service
• No Income No Asset, a mortgage concept
• No Irish Need Apply, a phrase that was sometimes found in employment ads, due to Anti-Irish racism. Signs bearing this phrase were referred to as "NINA signs"

[edit] Other

• Nina (font), a type of Sans-serif font
• Niña, Christopher Columbus's ship
• The original name for Castro, an Israeli garment company.
• La Niña, a phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation phenomenon (ENSO)
• Slang for 9mm Luger Parabellum, prominently used in the hip-hop community