Liza is primarily a feminine given name. It is sometimes used as a nickname for
Elizabeth
Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to:
People
* Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name)
* Empress Elisabeth (disambiguation), lists various empresses named ''Elisabeth'' or ''Elizabeth''
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Eliza
ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program developed from 1964 to 1967 at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to explore communication between humans and machines, ELIZA simulated conversation by using a pattern matching and ...
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Liza Andriyani (born 1979), Indonesian tennis player
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Liza Anne, American folk musician
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Liza Anokhina (born 2007), Russian blogger and TikToker
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Liza Arzamasova
Elizaveta Nikolaevna Arzamasova (, or less formally ; born March 17, 1995) is a Russian actress.
Biography
Elizaveta Arzamasova was born in Moscow. She began her acting career at the age of four. When she was 8, she played the main role in the mu ...
(born 1995), Russian actress
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Liza Bagrationi (born 1974), Georgian singer
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Liza Balkan, Canadian actress
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Liza Béar
Liza Béar is a New York-based filmmaker, writer, photographer, and media activist who makes both individual and collaborative works. Béar co-founded two early independent art publications ''Avalanche'' magazinePethick, Emily"Avalanche", ''F ...
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Liza Berggren (born 1986), Swedish model
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Liza Black, Native American author and scholar
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Liza Brönner (born 1989), Afrikaans singer and songwriter
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Liza Burgess (born 1964), Welsh rugby union player
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Liza Butler, Australian politician
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Liza Campbell (born 1959), Scottish artist, calligrapher, columnist and writer
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Liza Chasin, American film producer
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Liza Cody
Liza Cody (born 11 April 1944, in London) is an English crime fiction writer.
Career
Before she began writing, Cody worked mostly in the visual arts, including as a graphic designer, but she also made furniture and was employed by Madame Tuss ...
(born 1944), English novelist
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Liza Colón-Zayas
Liza Colón-Zayas (born 1972) is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for playing Tina Marrero on the comedy-drama series '' The Bear'', for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy ...
(born c. 1972), American actress and playwright
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Liza Comita, American ecologist
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Liza Corso, American Paralympic athlete
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Liza Dalby (born 1950), American anthropologist
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Liza Diño (born 1983), Filipino government official, former beauty pageant winner and actress
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Liza Donnelly, American cartoonist and writer
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Liza Echeverría (born 1972), Mexican actress, model and television presenter
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Liza Essers, art gallery owner
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Liza Featherstone (born 1969), American journalist
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Liza Ferschtman (born 1979), Dutch violinist
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Liza Fior (born 1962), British architect
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Liza Fromer (born 1970), Canadian television host
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Liza Frulla
Liza Frulla (born March 30, 1949, in Montreal, Quebec), formerly known as Liza Frulla-Hébert, is a former Canadian politician. She was a Liberal Member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1989 to 1998, a Liberal Member of Parliament fro ...
(born 1949), Canadian politician
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Liza Gashi, Kosovan politician
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Liza Goddard
Louise Elizabeth Goddard (born 20 January 1950), professionally known as Liza Goddard, is an English television and stage actress, best known for her work in the 1970s and 1980s.
Early life
Goddard was born in Smethwick, Staffordshire.Before ...
(born 1950), British actress
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Liza Grobler
Liza Grobler (born 1974) is a South African Mixed Media artist who lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Grobler works in a diverse range of media, embracing bright colours and often incorporating traditional craft techniques to create sit ...
(born 1974), South African Mixed Media artist
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Liza Hanim (born 1979), Malaysian singer and actress
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Liza Harvey
Liza Mary Harvey (née Browne; born 25 October 1966) is an Australian politician who was the Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 2008 to 2021, representing the seat of Scarborough. She was a minister in t ...
(born 1966), Australian politician
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Liza Makowski Hayes, American nutritional biochemist
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Liza Helder
The Miss Aruba is a national beauty pageant in Aruba. The pageant was founded in 1964, where the winners were sent to Miss Universe.
History
Under the direction of the New Star Promotion Organization since 1992, Aruba has been accumulating pos ...
(born 1989), Aruban model and beauty pageant titleholder
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Liza Huber
Liza Victoria Huber (born February 22, 1975) is an American former television actress, best known for her role as Gwen Hotchkiss on the daytime soap ''Passions''. She is the daughter of actress Susan Lucci.
In 2008, she retired from acting to ...
(born 1975), American television actress
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Liza Hunter-Galvan (born 1969), New Zealand runner
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Liza Jacqueline
''Winx Club'' is an animated television series co-produced by Rainbow and, later, Nickelodeon. It was created and directed by Italian animator Iginio Straffi. It premiered on 28January 2004, becoming a ratings success in Italy and on Nickelodeo ...
a voice actress has work for 4Kids Entertainment
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Liza Johnson (born 1970), American film director, producer, and writer
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Liza Kennedy (born 1989), Japanese model
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Liza Kisteneva (born 1998), Russian chess player
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Liza Koshy
Elizabeth Shaila Koshy (born March 31, 1996) is an American YouTuber and actress. Her main YouTube channel has amassed almost 17 million subscribers, and her two channels have a combined total of over 3 billion views. She has received four Str ...
(born 1996), American YouTuber and actress
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Liza Figueroa Kravinsky
Liza Figueroa Kravinsky (born 1962) is an American composer, filmmaker, and actress living in Arlington, Virginia, USA. She is best known for composing the Go-Go Symphony and founding the Go-Go Symphony ensemble. She is also the filmmaker of ...
(born 1962), American composer, filmmaker, and actress
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Liza Lapira
Liza Lapira (born December 3, 1981) is an American actress. She played Kianna in the 2008 film '' 21'', Special Agent Michelle Lee in the CBS police procedural series ''NCIS'', and Ivy, Topher Brink's assistant, in '' Dollhouse''.
Lapira has also ...
(born 1981), American actress
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Liza Lehmann (1862–1918), English operatic soprano and composer
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Liza Levy, American activist
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Liza Li
Liza Li (born Liza Wilke on March 30, 1988, in Düsseldorf) is a German singer. Her Lyrics, songtexts deal with the themes of love and violence as experienced by young women.
Life
According to the biography of her record label Warner Music Group ...
(born 1988), German singer
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Liza Lim (born 1966), Australian composer
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Liza Loop, technology pioneer
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Liza Lopez-Rosario (born 1963), Filipino lawyer
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Liza Lorena
Elizabeth Ann Jolene Luciano Winsett (born October 31, 1948) known professionally as Liza Lorena is a Filipina actress. She was a First Runner-Up in the Binibining Pilipinas pageant in 1966.
Career
Lorena was a flight stewardess (for PAL domest ...
(born 1949), Filipino actress
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Liza Lou
Liza Lou (born 1969) is an American visual artist. She is best known for producing large scale sculpture using glass beads. Lou ran a studio in Durban, South Africa from 2005 to 2014. She currently has a nomadic practice, working mostly outdoors ...
(born 1969), American visual artist
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Liza Manili (born 1986), French actress and singer
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Liza Araneta Marcos
Marie Louise "Liza" Cacho Araneta Marcos ( Araneta; born August 21, 1959) is a Filipino lawyer and academic who has been the first lady of the Philippines since 2022 as the wife of Bongbong Marcos, the 17th and incumbent president of the Philip ...
(born 1959), Filipina lawyer and academic
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Liza Marklund
Eva Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund (born 9 September 1962) is a Swedish journalist and crime writer.
Her novels, of which most feature the fictional newspaper journalist Annika Bengtzon, have been published in forty languages. Marklund is the co-own ...
(born 1962), Swedish journalist and crime writer
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Liza Maza (born 1957), Filipino activist
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Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli ( ; born March 12, 1946) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Known for her commanding stage presence and powerful alto singing voice, Minnelli has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, ...
(born 1946), American actress and singer
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Liza Monroy (born 1979), American novelist
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Liza Morozova (Born 1973), Russian artist
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Liza Morrow, American actress
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Liza van der Most (born 1993), Dutch footballer
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Liza del Mundo
Liza del Mundo (born March 8, 1975) is an American voice actress. She is best known for her roles as Hay Lin in the animated adaptation of '' W.I.T.C.H'' and as Polaris in the TV series '' Wolverine and the X-Men''.
Early life
She was raised in ...
(born 1975), Filipino-American voice actress
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Liza Mundy (born 1960), American journalist and non-fiction writer
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Liza Nakashidze-Bolkvadze (1885–1938), Georgian politician
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Liza Jessie Peterson, American playwright, actor, activist, and educator
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Liza Parker (born 1980), English badminton player
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Liza Jessie Peterson, American dramatist
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Liza Picard (1927–2022), English historian
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Liza May Post, Dutch artist
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Liza Potvin
'' White Lies (for My Mother)'' is a non-fiction book, written by Canadian writer Liza Potvin, first published in March 1992 by NeWest Press. In the book, the author chronicles her "lost" childhood, as an incest victim, and the subsequent years ...
, Canadian novelist
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Liza Pulman (born 1969), British singer and actress
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Liza Elly Purnamasari (born 1991), Indonesian presenter, model and beauty pageant titleholder
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Liza Pusztai (born 2001), Hungarian fencer
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Liza Quin (born 1982), Cuban-American artist
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Liza Rachetto
Liza Rachetto (born January 30, 1974) is an American professional racing cyclist
Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mou ...
(born 1974), American racing cyclist
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Liza Redfield (1924–2018), American conductor, pianist, and composer
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Liza Renlund (born 1997), Swedish footballer
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Liza Richardson, American music supervisor and DJ
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Liza Fernández Rodríguez
Liza Fernández Rodríguez (born July 23, 1973) is a Puerto Rican attorney and politician affiliated with the New Progressive Party (PNP). Fernández was a member of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico from 2005 to 2012, and of the Sena ...
(born 1973), Puerto Rican attorney and politician
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Liza del Rosario, Filipino bowler
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Liza Ryan (born 1965), American visual artist
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Liza Sadovy
Liza Sadovy is a British actress. She is best known for ''Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' (2007), ''Prime Suspect 3'' (1993) and ''Company'' (1996). Other television work ...
, British actress
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Liza del Sierra (born 1985), French pornographic actress, film director and producer
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Liza Snyder (born 1968), American actress
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Liza Soberano
Hope Elizabeth Soberano (born January 4, 1998) is an American and Filipino actress. Known for playing supporting characters in comedies and dramas as a teenager, she has since expanded her repertoire to leading roles in film and television. She ...
(born 1998), Filipino-American actress and model
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Liza Sylvestre (born 1983), American visual artist
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Liza Tarbuck
Liza Tarbuck ( ; born 21 November 1964) is an English actress, comedian, and television and radio presenter.
Early life
Liza Tarbuck was born in Liverpool and grew up near Kingston upon Thames. She is the daughter of comedian Jimmy Tarbuck an ...
(born 1964), British actress and television presenter
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Liza Umarova (born 1965), Chechen singer and actress
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Liza Vorfi (1924–2011), Albanian stage actress and singer
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Liza Walker (born 1972), English actress
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Liza Wang
Elizabeth "Liza" Wang Ming-chun Gold Bauhinia Star, GBS Silver Bauhinia Star, SBS (born 28 August 1947), is a Hong Kong diva, actress and Master of Ceremonies, MC. She is a personality in Chinese-speaking communities. She has been nicknamed "The ...
(born 1947), Hong Kong opera singer
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Liza Weil
Liza Weil (born June 5, 1977) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Paris Geller in the WB/ CW comedy-drama series ''Gilmore Girls'' (2000–2007) and its Netflix revival series '' Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life' ...
(born 1977), American actress
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Liza Wieland (born 1960), American novelist
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Liza Witt
Teen Queens were an Australian pop music girl group, formed in 1991 by three model-singer-actresses: Roxanne Clarke, Kellie Crawford and Liza Witt. In 1992 and 1993, they scored four Hit song, hit singles on the ARIA Charts with cover versions ...
, member of Australian pop group ''Teen Queens''
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Liza Wright, American politician
Surname
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Sania Sultana Liza
Sania Sultana Liza is a Bangladeshi singer. Her songs have been featured in different albums and films. She was the winner of the musical reality show CloseUp1, Close Up-1 at NTV (Bangladesh), NTV in 2008. She served as the chief judge in the rea ...
, Bangladeshi singer
Fictional people
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Liza Colby, character in the American soap opera, ''All My Children''
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Liza Miller, character in the American television series, ''Younger''
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Liza Moon, character in the English soap opera, ''Eastenders''
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Liza Ortiz, character in the American television series, ''Fear the Walking Dead''
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Liza Walton Sentell, character on American soap opera, ''Search for Tomorrow''
* Liza Snow, a character in the video game, ''
Far Cry 3
''Far Cry 3'' is a 2012 first-person shooter game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the third main installment in the '' Far Cry'' series after ''Far Cry 2''. The game takes place on the fictional Rook Islands, a t ...
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* Liza Giangrande, a Season 4 contestant in ''
Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman''
*Liza, one of the two Gym Leaders in ''
Pokémon Ruby & Sapphires Mossdeep City Gym, along with Tate
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