Leena is a feminine given name. It is a variant spelling of
Lina
Lina (pronounced "Leena") is a feminine given name. Languages of origin include: English, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Persian, Kurdish, Arabic. It is also the short form of a variety of names ending in -lina including ...
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Lena
Lena or LENA may refer to:
Places
* Léna Department, a department of Houet Province in Burkina Faso
* Lena, Manitoba, an unincorporated community located in Killarney-Turtle Mountain municipality in Manitoba, Canada
* Lena, Norway, a village in ...
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It is a direct Quranic Arabic name, meaning "young palm tree", or figuratively "tender, young, delicate".
In Persian, it means "light", "a ray of sunlight" or "beautiful girl". In Kurdish, it means cascade falls (تئاڤگەی بچوک).
Notable people with the name include:
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Leena (model)
Chen-yi Lee (or Li, Chinese: ''李建伊'', born March 14, 1990), better known as ,["Model profile : Leena"](_blank)
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(born 1990), Japanese fashion model
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Leena Alam
Leena Alam (Persian: , born in Kabul, Afghanistan) is an Afghan film, television, and theater actress. She has appeared in films such as '' Kabuli Kid'', ''Black Kite'', ''Loori'', ''A Letter to the President'' and ''Hassan''. She is widely know ...
, Afghan film actress
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Leena Khamis
Leena Khamis (born 19 June 1986) is an Australian soccer player who plays for Perth Glory in the A-League Women.
Biography
Khamis was born in the Sydney suburb of Camden and is of Assyrian heritage. Her family is heavily involved in football, ...
(born 1986), Australian football player of Assyrian-Iraqi descent
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Leena Chandavarkar
Leena Chandavarkar (born 29 August 1950) is an Indian former actress who appeared in Bollywood movies as a leading actress and now appears in reality shows. She was an actress during the late 60s and early 70s. She played leading heroine opposit ...
(born 1950), Indian Bollywood actress
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Leena Dhingra
Leena Dhingra is a British writer, actress and teacher.
Life
Born in India, Dhingra came to Europe after the 1947 Partition of India. She was educated in India, England, France and Switzerland.
She was a key member of the Asian Women Writers' ...
, British Asian actress
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Leena Gade
Leena Gade is a British race engineer who has served as a lead race engineer in the FIA World Endurance Championship and IndyCar race series. In 2011, she became the first female race engineer to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 2012, she won th ...
(born c. 1975), British race engineer
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Leena Günther
Leena Günther (born 16 April 1991 in Cologne) is a German athlete who competes in the sprint with a personal best time of 11.33 seconds in the 100 metres event.
Günther won the gold medal at the 2012 European Athletics Championships – Women ...
(born 1991), German sprint athlete
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Leena Harkimo
Leena Harkimo ( Alamäki; born 28 March 1963) is a Finnish business executive and ex-politician.
Political career
In 1999, Harkimo was elected Member of Parliament from the Uusimaa constituency, representing the centre-right National Coaliti ...
(born 1963), Finnish politician and business executive
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Leena Häkinen (1928–1990), Finnish stage, film and television actress
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Leena Jumani
Leena Jumani is an Indian actress and model, best known as Tanushree "Tanu" Mehta in Kumkum Bhagya.
She played Khemi, a poor village girl, in the television series '' Bandini''. This was followed with the role of Suhasi in the show ''Koi Aane ...
, Indian actress and model
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Leena Kapoor
Leena Kapoor is an Indian model, and actress known for her works in Hindi cinema, and Malayalam Television. Before her debut in films, Leena has appeared in several Punjabi Music Videos, Television commercials and series such as "Love Net - Sea ...
(born 1994), Indian model and actress
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Leena Krohn
Leena Krohn (born February 28, 1947 in Helsinki) is a Finnish author. Her large and varied body of work includes novels, short stories, children's books, and essays. In her books she deals with topics that include man's relationship with himself a ...
(born 1947), Finnish author
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Leena La Bianca
Leena or Leena La Bianca (born January 5, 1963) is a former pornographic actress.
Early life
She grew up in Denver, Colorado. She began in the amateur side of the pornography industry before moving to California to become a full-time pornograph ...
(born 1963), Italian American pornographic actress
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Leena Lander
Leena Lander (born 25 October 1955, in Turku) is a Finnish author. She grew up in Turku, in a boys' home that her father ran. In 1992, she won the Thanks for the Book Award for ''Tummien perhosten koti'' (The Home of the Dark Butterflies), which ...
(born 1955), Finnish author
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Leena Lehtolainen
Leena Katriina Lehtolainen (born 11 March 1964) is a Finnish crime novelist, best known for her series of novels about the policewoman Maria Kallio.
Lehtolainen was born in Vesanto, Northern Savonia. Her first novel was released when she was on ...
(born 1964), Finnish crime novelist
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Leena Luhtanen
Leena Luhtanen (née ''Nikulainen''; born 12 February 1941) is a Finnish politician and a former member of the cabinet. Luhtanen is a member of the Social Democratic Party, and served in the parliament from 1991 until 2007.
She served as the mi ...
(born 1941), Finnish politician, member of the cabinet
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Leena Luostarinen
Leena Estelle Luostarinen (15 May 1949 – 28 July 2013) was a Finnish painter. Working as an artist for over forty years, she was well known for her colourful and mysterious works. Many of her paintings featured felines, ibises, flowers, and ...
(1949–2013), Finnish painter
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Leena Manimekalai
Leena Manimekalai is an Indian filmmaker, poet and an actor. Her works include five published poetry anthologies and a dozen films in genres, documentary, fiction and experimental poem films. She has been recognised with participation, mentions ...
, Indian filmmaker, poet and actor
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Leena Mohanty
Leena Mohanty is a leading exponent of Odissi dance. She has won many awards, such as the Ustad Bismillah Khan Youth award, the Mahari award, the Sanjukta Panigrahi award and performed in many shows throughout the world. She has choreographed d ...
, Indian Odissi dancer
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Leena Nair
Leena Nair (née Menon;born 1969) is a British-Indian business executive who is the Global CEO of Chanel. Nair previously served as the Chief Human Resource Officer of Unilever and member of the Unilever Leadership Executive. Nair was responsi ...
(born 1969), Indian businesswoman
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Leena Peisa
Leena Maria "Awa" Peisa (born 16 March 1979) is a Finnish keyboard player. Her former bands include Lordi, Punaiset Messiaat and Dolchamar. Currently, she plays in Lordi's ex-drummer's Kita's band "Sampsa Astala & Qma".
Biography
Leena Maria P ...
(born 1979), Finnish keyboard player
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Leena Peltonen-Palotie
Leena Peltonen-Palotie (16 June 1952 – 11 March 2010) was a Finnish geneticist who contributed to the identification of 15 genes for Finnish heritage diseases, including arterial hypertension, schizophrenia, lactose intolerance, arthrosis ...
(1952–2010), Finnish geneticist
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Leena Pietilä
Irja Ester Helena "Leena" Pietilä, married surname: Vainio (born 29 March 1925 – 20 May 2014) was a Finnish figure skater. She was a two-time Nordic champion and a seven-time Finnish national champion.
Early life
On 29 March 1925, Pietil� ...
(1925–2014), Finnish figure skater
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Leena Puotiniemi
Leena Puotiniemi (born 19 March 1976) is a Finnish long-distance runner. She competed in the marathon
The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of , usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail ro ...
(born 1976), Finnish long-distance runner
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Leena Puranen
Leena Puranen Skogman (born 18 October 1986) is a Finnish football forward who plays for Swedish lower division team Varbergs BoIS. In 2012 and 2013 she played for Jitex BK in Sweden's Damallsvenskan. She previously played for FC Ilves, Unit ...
(born 1986), Finnish football forward
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Leena Rauhala
Leena Rauhala is a Finnish politician and member of the Parliament of Finland 1999–2015 representing Pirkanmaa.
Career
Rauhala has been a Member of Parliament since 1999. She is a member of the Chancellery Committee, the Finance Committee, the ...
(born 1942), Finnish politician, member of the Parliament of Finland
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Leena Salmenkylä
Leena Salmenkylä (born 13 March 1958) is a Finnish orienteering competitor and world champion.
She won a gold medal in the ''relay event'' at the 1979 World Orienteering Championships in Tampere, with Leena Silvennoinen and Liisa Veijalainen ...
(born 1958), Finnish orienteering competitor
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Leena Silvennoinen
Leena Silvennoinen (born March 7, 1958) is a Finnish orienteering competitor and world champion.
She won a gold medal in the ''relay event'' at the 1979 World Orienteering Championships in Tampere, with Leena Salmenkylä and Liisa Veijalainen ...
(born 1958), Finnish orienteering competitor
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Leena Tiwari
Leena Tiwari is an Indian politician and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Mariyahu, Uttar Pradesh of India. She represents the Mariyahu constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Apna Dal (Sonelal) party.
Political career
Sh ...
, Indian politician, member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Mariyahu, Uttar Pradesh
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Leena Yadav
Leena Yadav (born 6 January 1971) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. She started her career in the television industry and gradually moved on to making feature films. Her first international feature film, ''Parched'', ...
(born 1971), Indian filmmaker and producer
Fictional characters
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Leena (Warehouse 13)
Leena ( Genelle Williams) is a fictional character on the U.S. television science fiction series, '' Warehouse 13'' (2009–2014). She was the proprietor of Leena's Bed and Breakfast, where the Warehouse Agents live. Leena has the ability to read ...
, from ''Warehouse 13''
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character in Chrono Cross
Media
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''Leena'' (film), a Maldivian thriller film
* "Leena", a song by Caravan Palace on the 2019 album ''
Chronologic
''Chronologic'' is the fourth studio album by French electro swing group Caravan Palace, released on August 30, 2019.
Track listing
Personnel
*Zoé Colotis - vocalist
*Charles Delaporte - double bass
*Hugues Payen - violin
*Antoine Toustou - tr ...
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See also
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Lena (name)
Lena is a female given name. The name has evolved in different languages as a variation of several earlier names. In most derivations, and means “light”, “bright” and “shining”. Lena is popular,Arabic, Hindi, Swedish, French, Finnish, ...
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