Callista

Callista, also spelled as Calista, Callistee, Kallista, Kalista or Kallistee, comes from the Greek for "most beautiful (feminine)" (καλλίστη – kallístē).

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 (bivalve), a genus of bivalves
Callista Lour., a synonym of Dendrobium, an orchid genus
Callista D.Don, a synonym of Erica, a heath or 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
A main character from the video game The Last Story

People

Callista Balko, American athlete
Callista Chimombo, Malawian politician
Calista Flockhart, American actress
Callista Gingrich, wife of Newt Gingrich
Callista Roy, American nursing theorist

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, a village in south-western Bulgaria

Other

Calista (steamboat), a small steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet