Lya is a female first or
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
and is usually thought of as a variant of "
Lia" or "
Leah
Leah () appears in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two wives of the Biblical patriarch Jacob. Leah was Jacob's first wife, and the older sister of his second (and favored) wife Rachel. She is the mother of Jacob's first son Reuben. She has thr ...
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Notable people with the name include:
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Lya Barrioz
Ligia Barrios, better known as Lya Barrioz, is a Nicaraguan singer, producer, actress and an environmentalism activist, co-founder of S.O.S. BOSAWAS (a green movement that advocates for one of the world's most important biosphere reserves: Bosaw ...
, Nicaraguan singer
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Lya De Putti (1899–1931), Hungarian actress
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Lya Isabel Fernández Olivares (born 2007), Mexican tennis player
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Lya Imber (1914–1981), Bessarabian-Venezuelan pediatrician
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Lya Ley (1899–1992), Austrian actress
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Lya Luft (born 1938), Brazilian writer
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Lya Lys
Lya Lys (born Nathalie Margoulis; May 18, 1908 – June 2, 1986) was a German-born American actress.
Biography
Lya Lys was born in Berlin on May 18, 1908U.S. Naturalization Records August 7, 1933 to a Russian banker and French pediatrician who ...
(1908–1986), German American actress
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Lya Mara
Lya Mara (born Aleksandra Gudowicz; 1 August 1897 – 1 March 1960) was a Polish people, Polish actress. She was one of the biggest stars of the Cinema of Germany, German silent cinema.
Biography
Lya Mara was born Aleksandra Gudowicz in a Polis ...
(1897–1960), German actress
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