Danica (
Cyrillic: Даница) is a given name. Notable people and characters with the name include:
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Danica Crnogorčević
Danica Crnogorčević (; ; born 5 November 1993) is a Montenegrin Serb singer of ethno and religious songs and a graduate art historian.
Her song "Veseli se, srpski rode" (''Rejoice, Serb Kin''), which was released on Vidovdan 2020, became an u ...
, singer of ethno and religious songs and a graduate art historian from Montenegro
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Danica Krstajić, tennis player from Montenegro
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Danica Lee
Danica may refer to:
* Danica (given name), people with the given name
* Danica concentration camp, in the Independent State of Croatia
* A personification of the morning star in Slavic mythology
* Danica (magazine), a 19th-century magazine in Cr ...
, American actress, best known for voicing Ming-Ming on ''
Wonder Pets!
''Wonder Pets!'' is an American educational animated children's television series created by Josh Selig for Nickelodeon. The series follows a trio of classroom pets—Linny the Guinea Pig, Turtle Tuck and Ming-Ming Duckling—who use teamwork to ...
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Danica, Hereditary Princess of Serbia
Danica, Hereditary Princess of Serbia and Yugoslavia (, sr-cyr, Даница Карађорђевић, ; born 18 August 1986), also known as Princess Danica Karageorgevitch or Princess Danica Karađorđević, is a Serbian–French graphic des ...
, Serbian graphic designer and wife of Hereditary Prince Philip
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Danica McKellar
Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975) is an American actress, mathematics writer, and education advocate. She played Winnie Cooper in the television series ''The Wonder Years'' from 1988 to 1993, and since 2010 has voiced Miss Martian in ...
, American actress and mathematician, best known for her role as Winnie Cooper on the TV show ''The Wonder Years''
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Danica Patrick
Danica Sue Patrick (; born March 25, 1982) is an American former professional racing driver. She is the most successful woman in the history of American open-wheel car racing—her victory in the 2008 Indy Japan 300 is the only win by a woman i ...
, American race car driver
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Danica Rice, Canadian sprint kayaker
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Danica Roem
Danica Anthony Roem ( ; born September 30, 1984) is an American journalist and politician of the Democratic Party. In the 2017 Virginia elections she was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, winning the Democratic primary for the 13th di ...
, American politician and journalist
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Danica Seleskovitch
Danica Seleskovitch (December 6, 1921 – April 17, 2001) was a French conference interpreter, teacher and prolific academic writer on translation studies. Among other career milestones, she founded the Interpretive Theory of Translation.
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(1921–2001), French conference interpreter, teacher and academic writer
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Danica Thrall
Sonia Danica Thrall (born 30 March 1988) is an English glamour model and reality television personality.
Career
Thrall was discovered in 2006 when she won Miss Derby, organised by Lucie Hide, and went on to compete in the ''Miss England'' pagean ...
, English glamour model and reality television personality
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Danica Wu, Canadian soccer player
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Elvira Dolinar Elvira Dolinar (pen name Danica; 1870–1961) was a Slovenian writer, feminist and teacher. She is best known for writing in favour of women's rights in the magazine ''Slovenka'', and is considered the first Slovenian feminist.
Biography
Dolinar wa ...
(pen name Danica, 1870–1961), Slovenian feminist writer
Fictional
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Danica Maupoissant
''The Cleric Quintet'' is a series of five fantasy novels by American writer R. A. Salvatore, set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the '' Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. They follow the story of Cadderly Bonaduce, a ...
, from the ''Forgotten Realms'' fictional world of ''Dungeons and Dragons''
*Danica Shardae, the protagonist and narrator of Amelia Atwater-Rhodes's fantasy novel ''
Hawksong
''Hawksong'' is the first in a five book series of young adult fantasy shapeshifter novels called The Kiesha'ra Series. It was written by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and published in 2003 when the author was 19. Hawksong is Atwater-Rhodes' most critica ...
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* Danica Talos, a vampire character from the 2004 film ''
Blade: Trinity''
See also
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Danika (disambiguation) Danika may refer to:
People
* Danika Atchia (born 1997), Mauritian model
* Danika Bourne (born 1981), Australian ice dancer
* Danika Brace, American football coach and former player
* Danika Yarosh (born 1998), American actress
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