Lorinda and Laurinda are female first names. Notable people with the names include:

People

Laura Cardoso Laura Cardoso, artistic name of Laurinda de Jesus Cardoso Balleroni OMC (born 13 September 1927) is a Brazilian actress. She is celebrated as one of the best and most well known Brazilian actresses of cinema, theater and television. Early li ...

(born Laurinda de Jesus Cardoso, born 1927), Brazilian actress *

Laurinda Cardoso Laurinda Jacinto Prazeres Monteiro Cardoso (born 17 June 1975) is an Angolan lawyer and jurist who has been President of the Constitutional Court since 2021. Early life and education Cardoso has a degree in economics-law and a postgraduate degree ...

(born 1975), Angolan lawyer *

Lorinda Cherry Lorinda Cherry ( Landgraf; November 18, 1944 – February 11, 2022) was an American computer scientist and programmer. Much of her career was spent at Bell Labs, where she was for many years a member of the original Unix Lab. Cherry developed se ...

(1944–2022), American computer scientist *

Lorinda de Roulet Lorinda "Linda" de Roulet (''née'' Payson; born May 8, 1930) is an American philanthropist. She is a former president of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball, succeeding her mother, Joan Whitney Payson, in the role upon her mother's death ...

(born 1931/1932), American philanthropist *

Anna Etheridge Lorinda Anna Blair Etheridge (May 3, 1839 – January 23, 1913) was a Union nurse and vivandière who served during the American Civil War. She was one of only two women to receive the Kearny Cross. She was inducted into the Michigan Women's ...

(born Lorinda Anna Blair; 1839–1913),

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of A ...

nurse *

Laurinda Hope Spear Laurinda Hope Spear, FAIA, ASLA, LEED AP (born 1950) is an American architect and landscape architect based in Miami, Florida. She is one of the founders of Arquitectonica, the international architecture, planning, and interior design firm, which ...

(born 1950), American architect *

Laurinda Jaffe Laurinda A. Jaffe (born January 9, 1952) is an American biologist who is a Professor and chair at the University of Connecticut. Her research considers the physiological mechanisms that regulate oocyte cell and fertilisation. She was elected to t ...

(born 1952), American biologist * Laurinda Mphoko, wife of

Phelekezela Mphoko Phelekezela Mphoko (11 June 1940 – 6 December 2024) was a Zimbabwean politician, diplomat, businessman and military commander who served as Second Vice-President of Zimbabwe from 2014 until 2017, as well as Zimbabwe's ambassador to Russia, Bo ...

, Zimbabwean politician *

Lorinda Munson Bryant Lorinda Munson Bryant (21 March 1855 − 13 December 1933) was an American pharmacist, educator, and writer. Biography She was born near Granville, Ohio, in 1855 to Marvin M. Munson, a lawyer, and Emma Sabin Culbertson. In 1875, she married Charl ...

(1855–1933), American writer and educator *

Lorinda Panther Lorinda Panther (née O'Brynne; born 15 March 1963) is an association football player who represented New Zealand at international level. Panther made her Football Ferns in a 0–0 draw with Australia Australia, officially the Common ...

(born 1963), New Zealand footballer *

Lorinda Perry Lorinda Perry (December 23, 1884 – August 30, 1951) was an American economist, college professor, and lawyer, based most of her life in Illinois. Early life Perry was born December 21, 1884, in Melvin, Illinois, the daughter of Eugene Beauha ...

(1884–1951), American economist, lawyer, professor * Lorinda Theron (born 1967), daughter of

Annique Theron Annique Theron (born Anna Elizabeth nnekieHeystek in North Transvaal, April 18, 1929 - Pretoria, February 22, 2016) was a South African businesswoman best known for her line of cosmetics and health care products featuring rooibos as a main ingr ...

, South African businesswoman * Laurinda Ho（born 1991),

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

businesswoman, daughter of

Macau Macau or Macao is a special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about people and a land area of , it is the most List of countries and dependencies by p ...

entrepreneur

Stanley Ho Stanley Ho Hung-sun (; 25 November 192126 May 2020) was a Hong Kong and Macau billionaire businessman. He was the founder and chairman of SJM Holdings, which owns nineteen casinos in Macau including the Grand Lisboa. Ho was nicknamed variou ...

Fictional characters

* ''Laurinda'' (2014), a novel by

Alice Pung Alice Pung (born 1981) is an Australian writer, editor and lawyer. Her books include the memoirs ''Unpolished Gem'' (2006), ''Her Father's Daughter'' (2011) and the novel ''Laurinda'' (2014). Pung is a practising solicitor. She has also worke ...

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