Lila (given name)
Lila is a common Indian female given name meaning "beauty".
Lilavati is a variant of this name that is also the title of a twelfth-century mathematics treatise.
Lila is also a variant of the female given name Leila, derived from the Semitic word for "night".
Lila is also a female given name meaning purple in Spanish
People with the given name Lila
- Lila Diane Sawyer, news anchor
- Lila Downs, Mexican singer
- Lila Karp, American writer and activist
- Lila Kedrova, French actress
- Lila Lamgade, Nepalese footballer
- Lila Lee, American actress
- Lila Majumdar, Bengali writer, also referred to as Leela Majumdar
- Lila McCann, American country music singer
- Lila Rose, American pro-life activist
- Lila Tretikov, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation 2014–2016
- Leela Naidu, an Indian actress, also referred to as Lila
Fictional people
- Lila Allcroft, a minor character in the cartoon strip Peanuts
- Lila (Xena), a recurring character in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess
- Lila Fowler, a character in the book series Sweet Valley High
- Lila West, alias Lila Tournay, a character in the TV serial Dexter (season 2)
- Lila Black, the main heroine of Quantum Gravity novel series by Justina Robson
- Lila Sawyer, a character from the animated television series Hey Arnold
- Lila Test, a character from the animated television series Johnny Test
- Lila Quartermaine, a character on the daytime television series General Hospital
See also
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