Lydia is a feminine
first name
First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1).
First or 1st may also refer to:
*World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement
Arts and media Music
* 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and reco ...
. It derives from the Greek Λυδία, ''Ludía'', from λυδία (''ludía''; "
beautiful
Beautiful, an adjective used to describe things as possessing beauty, may refer to:
Film and theater
* ''Beautiful'' (2000 film), an American film directed by Sally Field
* ''Beautiful'' (2008 film), a South Korean film directed by Juhn Jai-h ...
one", "
noble
A noble is a member of the nobility.
Noble may also refer to:
Places Antarctica
* Noble Glacier, King George Island
* Noble Nunatak, Marie Byrd Land
* Noble Peak, Wiencke Island
* Noble Rocks, Graham Land
Australia
* Noble Island, Grea ...
one", "from
Lydia
Lydia ( Lydian: 𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish provin ...
/
Persia
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkme ...
"), a
feminine form of the ancient
given name Λυδός (
Lydus
Lydus (Ancient Greek: Λυδός), a son of Atys and Callithea, grandson of Manes, and brother of Tyrrhenus or Torybus, is a legendary figure of the 2nd millennium BC who is attested by Herodotus to have been an early king of Lydia, then proba ...
). The region of
Lydia
Lydia ( Lydian: 𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish provin ...
is said to be named for a king named Λυδός; the given name Lydia originally indicated ancestry or residence in the region of Lydia.
Bible
Lydia is a
Biblical
The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a ...
given name:
Lydia of Thyatira
Lydia of Thyatira ( el, Λυδία) is a woman mentioned in the New Testament who is regarded as the first documented convert to Christianity in Europe. Several Christian denominations have designated her a saint.
The name, "Lydia", meaning "th ...
,
businesswoman
A businessperson, businessman, or businesswoman is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) for the ...
in the city of
Thyatira
Thyateira (also Thyatira) ( grc, Θυάτειρα) was the name of an ancient Greek city in Asia Minor, now the modern Turkish city of Akhisar ("white castle"). The name is probably Lydian. It lies in the far west of Turkey, south of Istanbu ...
in the New Testament's ''
Acts of the Apostles''. She was the apostle
Paul
Paul may refer to:
*Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name)
* Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
* Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chr ...
's first convert in
Philippi
Philippi (; grc-gre, Φίλιπποι, ''Philippoi'') was a major Greek city northwest of the nearby island, Thasos. Its original name was Crenides ( grc-gre, Κρηνῖδες, ''Krenides'' "Fountains") after its establishment by Thasian col ...
and thus the first convert to
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesu ...
in
Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located enti ...
. Lydia hosted Paul and
Silas
Silas or Silvanus (; Greek: Σίλας/Σιλουανός; fl. 1st century AD) was a leading member of the Early Christian community, who according to the New Testament accompanied Paul the Apostle on his second missionary journey.
Name and ...
after their release from prison. It is possible that Lydia was the host for a
house church
A house church or home church is a label used to describe a group of Christians who regularly gather for worship in private homes. The group may be part of a larger Christian body, such as a parish, but some have been independent groups that see ...
during that time. According to Coleman Baker, "Lydia is described as a “worshipper of God” (probably synonymous with “God-fearer,” used elsewhere in Acts) “from the city of Thyatira” (located in Western Asia Minor) and “a dealer in purple cloth” (a luxury item in the ancient Mediterranean). She and her household are soon baptized and offer hospitality to the traveling preachers. Lydia's house becomes the site for the church in Philippi, with her as its host and perhaps leader.... According to the book of Acts, Paul and his associates founded the church in Phillipi when Lydia and her household were baptized. One might conjecture that several of the women from the “place of prayer” were among those who joined with Lydia in this new movement."
People
*
Lydia Baxter
Lydia Baxter (, Odell; September 2, 1809 – January 23, 1874) was an American poet and hymnwriter. She is chiefly remembered as the author of "The Gate Ajar for Me" and other Sunday school hymns, which became widely known and very popular. This ...
(1809–1874), American poet
*
Lydia Becker
Lydia Ernestine Becker (24 February 1827 – 18 July 1890) was a leader in the early British suffrage movement, as well as an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. She established Manchester as a centre for the suffrage m ...
(1820–1890), British suffragette and amateur scientist
*
Lydia Cabrera
Lydia Cabrera (May 20, 1899, in Havana, Cuba – September 19, 1991, in Miami, Florida) was a Cuban independent ethnographer.
Cabrera was a Cuban writer and literary activist. She was an authority on Santería and other Afro-Cuban religions. Du ...
(1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet
*
Lydia Canaan
Lydia Canaan ( ar, ليديا كنعان) is a Lebanese singer-songwriter and humanitarian activist.
Credited as the first internationally successful Lebanese recording artist,Sinclair, David. "Global Music Pulse", ''Billboard'', New York, Dec ...
, Lebanon-born pioneering singer-songwriter, humanitarian, and activist
*
Lydia de Crescenzo, Italian fashion designer working as "Lydia de Roma"
*
Lydia Maria Child
Lydia Maria Child ( Francis; February 11, 1802October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism.
Her journals, both fiction and ...
(1802–1880), American abolitionist, women's rights activist, novelist and journalist
*
Lydia Avery Coonley
Lydia Arms Avery Coonley-Ward (January 31, 1845 – February 26, 1924) was a social leader, clubwoman and writer. Coonley served as a president of the Chicago Women's Club and was known for her poetry. She also helped her second husband, Henr ...
(1845 - 1924), American social leader, clubwoman and writer
*
Lydia Cornell
Lydia Cornell (born Lydia Korniloff, July 23, 1953) is an American actress best known for her role as Sara Rush on the ABC situation comedy ''Too Close for Comfort''.
Early life and family
Cornell was born Lydia Korniloff in El Paso, Texas o ...
(born 1953), American actress, blogger and radio talk show host
*
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes short (one or two pages long) short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of ...
(born 1947), American author
*
Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn
Lydia Selina Dunn, Baroness Dunn, (; born 29 February 1940) is a Hong Kong-born retired British businesswoman and politician. She became the second person of Hong Kong origin (the first was Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie) and the first femal ...
(born 1940), Hong Kong politician
*
Lydia Echevarría (born 1931), Puerto Rican actress
*
Lydia Hoyt Farmer
Lydia Hoyt Farmer (, Hoyt; July 19, 1842 or 1843 – December 27, 1903) was a 19th-century American author and women's rights activist. For many years, Farmer contributed to the leading newspapers and magazines, on various lines: poems, essays, j ...
(1842–1903), American author, women's rights activist
*
Lydia Mary Fay (1804-1878), American missionary, educator, writer, and translator
*
Lydia Rodríguez Fernández (born 1980), Spanish pop singer who participated in the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest
*
Lydia Field Emmet
Lydia Field Emmet (January 23, 1866 – August 16, 1952) was an American artist best known for her work as a portraitist. She studied with, among others, prominent artists such as William Merritt Chase, Harry Siddons Mowbray, Kenyon Cox and To ...
(1866–1952), American painter
*
Lydia Gibson
Lydia Gibson (1891-1964) was an American socialist illustrator who contributed work to ''The Masses,'' '' The Liberator,'' '' The Workers' Monthly,'' ''New Masses,'' and other radical publications.
Biography Early years
Lydia Gibson was born in ...
(1891–1964), American artist
*
Lydia Gromyko
Lydia Gromyko (russian: Лидия Громыко; Grinevich (Гриневич); 14 April 1911 – 9 March 2004) was a Belarusian teacher who was the wife of Soviet diplomat Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989).
Biography
Lydia Dmitrievna Grinevich wa ...
(1911–2004), Belarusian agriculturist
*
Lydia Hatuel-Czuckermann (born 1963), Israeli foil fencer
*
Lydia Hearst
Lydia Marie Hearst-Shaw (born September 19, 1984) is an American fashion model, actress, socialite, and lifestyle blogger. She is a great-granddaughter of newspaper publisher and politician William Randolph Hearst and a daughter of the author an ...
(born 1984), American model and socialite
*
Lydia Jacoby
Lydia Alice Jacoby (born February 29, 2004) is an American professional swimmer. She was the first Alaskan to qualify for an Olympic Games in swimming, competing at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, where she won the gold medal in the ...
(born 2004), American swimmer
*
Lydia Kavina
Lydia Evgenevna Kavina (; born 8 September 1967) is a Russian-British theremin player, based in Oxfordshire, UK.
The granddaughter of Léon Theremin's first cousin, Soviet anthropologist and primatologisMikhail Nesturkh Kavina was born in Mosco ...
(born 1967), Russian theremin player and conductor
*
Lydia Ko
Lydia Ko (born 24 April 1997) is a New Zealand professional golfer and the No. 1-ranked woman professional golfer. She first achieved the top ranking on 2 February 2015 at of age, making her the youngest player of either gender to be ranked ...
(born 1997), Korean-born New Zealand Professional Golfer
*
Lydia Koidula
Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen, ( – ), known by her pen name Lydia Koidula, was an Estonian poet. Her sobriquet means 'Lydia of the Dawn' in Estonian. It was given to her by the writer Carl Robert Jakobson. She is also frequently referred to ...
(1843–1886), Estonian poet
*
Lydia Lamaison (1914-2012), Argentine actress
*
Lydia Lassila (born 1982), Australian skier
*
Lydia Lazarov
Lydia Lazarov (born January 16, 1946) is an Israeli former yachting world champion.
Biography
Lazarov is Jewish, and was born in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Yachting career
Lazarov and Zefania Carmel were teammates in the Zevulun Sailing Club in Bat Yam, ...
(born 1946), Israeli yachting world champion
*
Lydia Lindeque
Lydia Lindeque, born Rachel Alida du Toit (15 January 1916 – 16 July 1997), was a South African actor of Afrikaner descent. Initially known by the stage name Alida du Toit, she started touring at the age of seventeen with Paul de Groot's acting ...
(1916–1997), South African actor
*
Lydia Litvyak
Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (russian: Лидия Владимировна Литвяк; 18 August 1921, in Moscow – 1 August 1943, in Krasnyi Luch), also known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Historians ...
(1921–1943), Russian fighter pilot in World War II
*
Lydia Lopokova
Lydia Lopokova, Baroness Keynes (born Lidia Vasilyevna Lopukhova, russian: Лидия Васильевна Лопухова; 21 October 1891 – 8 June 1981) was a Russian ballerina famous during the early 20th century.
Lopokova trained at the I ...
, Baroness Keynes (1892–1981), Russian ballerina
*
Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Anne Koch; June 2, 1959)Martin Charles Strong. ''The Great Indie Discography''. 2003, page 85 is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker. Her career began during the 1970s New York City no ...
(born 1959), American No Wave singer
*
Lydia Mackay
Lydia Marie Mackay is an American voice and stage actress, known internationally for her work for Funimation and OkraTron 5000. She has provided voices for a number of English versions of Japanese anime films, television series and video games.
E ...
(born 1977), American actress and voice actress
*
Lydia Mei
Lydia Mei (2 July 1896 – 14 September 1965) was an Estonian artist who specialized in watercolors.
Born on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa, Lydia Mei was the middle child of the three daughters of a ship's captain. All three sisters would be ...
(1896–1965), Estonian painter
*
Lydia Mendoza
Lydia Mendoza (May 31, 1916December 20, 2007) was a Mexican-American guitarist and singer of Tejano and traditional Mexican-American music. Historian Michael Joseph Corcoran has stated that she was "The Mother of Tejano Music", an art form that ...
(1916–2007), American guitarist and singer of Tejano music
*
Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet (born December 5, 1968) is an American novelist. Her 2020 novel '' A Children's Bible'', was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and named one of the ten best books of the year by the ''New York Times Book Review''. S ...
(born 1968), American author
*
Lydia Night
Lydia Victoria Night (born October 13, 2000) is an American musician primarily known for her work as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of California rock band The Regrettes. She was also the lead vocalist and guitarist of pop rock bands Pret ...
(born 2000), American punk musician
*
Lydia Pense
Lydia Pense (born Lydia Jane Pense in San Francisco, California on December 14, 1947)
is an American rock-soul-jazz singer who, since 1969, has performed with the band Cold Blood. Critics have compared her style to powerful singers including ...
(born 1948), American singer
*
Lydia Pinkham
Lydia Estes Pinkham (born Estes; February 9, 1819 – May 17, 1883) was an American inventor and marketer of an herbal-alcoholic "women's tonic" for menstrual and menopausal problems, which medical experts dismissed as a quack remedy, but w ...
(1819–1883), American patent medicine manufacturer and businesswoman
*
Lydia Polgreen
Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) is an American journalist. She is best known for having been the editor-in-chief of ''HuffPost''. She also spent about one year between 2021 and 2022 as the head of content for Gimlet Media. Prior to that she wa ...
(born 1975), American journalist
*
Lydia Shum
Lydia Shum Din-ha or Lydia Tin Ha Sum (; 21 July 1945 – 19 February 2008) was a Hong Kong comedian, MC, actress and singer. Known for her portly figure, signature dark rimmed glasses and bouffant hairstyle, she was affectionately known to pee ...
(1945–2008), Hong Kong actress and comedian
*
Lydia Simoneschi
Lydia Simoneschi (4 April 1908 – 5 September 1981) was an Italian actress and voice actress. During her career, she gave her voice to actresses mainly during the Golden Ages.
Biography
Born in Rome and the daughter of silent film actor and dir ...
(1908–1981), Italian actress and voice actress
*
Lydia Stahl
Lydia Stahl (1885-?) was a Russian-born secret agent who worked for Soviet Military Intelligence in New York and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s.
Early life
Lydia Stahl was born Lydia Chkalova in Rostov-on-Don, Russian Empire, in 1885.
Personal lif ...
(1890), a Russian espionage agent
*
Lydia H. Tilton
Lydia H. Tilton (, Heath; July 10, 1839 – July 26, 1915) was an American journalist and temperance worker. Also a poet, she was well known in literary circles. "Old Glory", lyrics by Tilton, set to the tune of " Dixie", was the national song ...
(1839–1915), American journalist and temperance activist
*
Lydia de Vega
Maria Lydia de Vega-Mercado (; December 26, 1964 – August 10, 2022) was a Filipina athlete who was considered Asia's fastest woman in the 1980s.
Athletic career
De Vega was discovered in the Palarong Pambansa () in the 1970s, and was recrui ...
(1964–2022), Filipina former athlete
*
Lydia Venieri
Lydia Venieri (born 1964) is a Greek artist.
Personal life
Background
Venieri was born in Athens, Greece. She studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. She has lived in Paris and is currently living in New York. Her web si ...
(born 1964), Greek artist
*
Lydia Louisa Anna Very
Lydia Louisa Anna Very (November 2, 1823 – September 10, 1901) was an American writer, educator, and illustrator known for authoring the earliest shape books in America.
Biography
She was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the daughter of two fir ...
(1823–1901), American author and illustrator
*
Lydia Wahlström
''Lydia'' Katarina Wahlström (28 June 1869 – 2 June 1954) was a Swedish historian, author and feminist. She was one of the founders of the National Association for Women's Suffrage and its chairman in 1909–1911.
Life and career
Wahlstr ...
(1869–1954), Swedish historian, author and feminist
*
Lydia Weld
Lydia “Rose” Gould Weld (1878January 5, 1962), was one of the first women to graduate with an engineering degree from any college in the United States and the first in Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Biography
Lydia Weld was born a ...
(1878–1962), engineer and naval architect
Fictional characters
* Lydia, a character from
John Flanagan John Flanagan or Jack Flanagan may refer to:
Sportspeople
* Jack Flanagan (footballer) (1902–1989), English footballer
* John Flanagan (hammer thrower) (1868–1938), Irish-American three-time Olympic champion in athletics
* John Flanagan (Lim ...
's series of novels, ''
Brotherband
''Brotherband'' is a series of children's fantasy novels written by Australian author John Flanagan. The first book, '' The Outcasts,'' was released in Australia and the United States on 1 November 2011 and in New Zealand on 4 November 2011. T ...
''
* Lydia Sharp, a character from
Silas House
Silas Dwane House (born August 7, 1971) is an American writer best known for his novels. He is also a music journalist, environmental activist, and columnist. House's fiction is known for its attention to the natural world, working class character ...
's novel, Southernmost, in which the character is symbolic of a fanatical Christian
* Lydia, a follower (
housecarl
A housecarl ( on, húskarl; oe, huscarl) was a non- servile manservant or household bodyguard in medieval Northern Europe.
The institution originated amongst the Norsemen of Scandinavia, and was brought to Anglo-Saxon England by the Danish c ...
)
NPC in the video game ''
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim''
*
Lydia
Lydia ( Lydian: 𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish provin ...
, a character from
''The Walking Dead'' comic book series
* Lydia, a character from the television show ''
Hotel Transylvania: The Series''
* Lydia, the second portrait ghost from the
Nintendo GameCube
The is a home video game console developed and released by Nintendo in Japan on September 14, 2001, in North America on November 18, 2001, and in PAL territories in 2002. It is the successor to the Nintendo 64 (1996), and predecessor of the ...
game ''
Luigi's Mansion
is a 2001 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo. The game was a launch game, launch title for the GameCube and was the first game in the ''Mario (franchise), Mario'' franchise to be released for the console; it was released ...
''
* Lydia Aspen, in the 1952 novel ''
Love for Lydia
''Love for Lydia'' is a semi-autobiographical novel written by British author H. E. Bates, first published in 1952.
Plot
Lydia Aspen, a seemingly shy girl from a wealthy but isolated background, is encouraged by her aunts, her new carers, to dis ...
''
*
Lydia Wickham (''née'' Bennet), a character from
Jane Austen's novel, ''
Pride and Prejudice
''Pride and Prejudice'' is an 1813 novel of manners by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreci ...
''
* Lydia Branwell, a character from the TV show ''
Shadowhunters
''Shadowhunters'', also known as ''Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments'', is an American supernatural drama television series developed by Ed Decter, based on the book series '' The Mortal Instruments'' written by Cassandra Clare. It premiered ...
''
* Lydia Brenner, a character in ''
The Birds''
* Lydia Brown, a character in ''
The Birth of a Nation
''The Birth of a Nation'', originally called ''The Clansman'', is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play '' The Clansm ...
''
* Lydia Davis, a character from the television series ''
Revenge
Revenge is committing a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. Francis Bacon described revenge as a kind of "wild justice" that "does... offend the law ndputteth the law out of office." Pr ...
''
* Lydia Deetz, a character in the 1988 feature film ''
Beetlejuice
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'' and the subsequent television show ''
Beetlejuice
''Beetlejuice'' is a 1988 American fantasy horror comedy film directed by Tim Burton, written by Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, and Warren Skaaren, produced by The Geffen Company, distributed by Warner Bros., and starring Alec Baldwin ...
''
* Lydia Douce, a barmaid in the "Sirens" chapter of
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the Modernism, modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important ...
's 20th century novel, ''
Ulysses''
* Lydia Fox, a character from the ''
Arthur
Arthur is a common male given name of Brythonic origin. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. The etymology is disputed. It may derive from the Celtic ''Artos'' meaning “Bear”. Another theory, more w ...
'' television show
* Lydia González, a
bullfighter
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from the 2002 film, ''
Talk to Her
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''
* Lydia Gwilt, the
femme fatale in
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for '' The Woman in White'' (1859), a mystery novel and early "sensation novel", and for ''The Moonstone'' (1868), which has be ...
's novel, ''
Armadale''
* Lydia Hadley, mother in
Ray Bradbury
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's short story, ''The Veldt''
* Lydia Hillard, in the 1993 film ''
Mrs. Doubtfire
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''
* Lydia Karenin, a former character on the ABC
soap opera
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''
General Hospital''
* Lydia King, a character in
Charles Bukowski
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's 1982 novel ''
Ham On Rye
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''
* Lydia Languish, a character in
Richard Sheridan's first play, ''
The Rivals
''The Rivals'' is a comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in five acts which was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre on 17 January 1775. The story has been updated frequently, including a 1935 musical and a 1958 episode of th ...
''
* Lydia Marlowe, a character in ''
The Woman in Green
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''
* Lydia Martin, a character from MTV TV show ''
Teen Wolf
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'' played by
Holland Roden
Holland Roden is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Lydia Martin in MTV's teen drama series ''Teen Wolf'', Zoe Woods in Syfy's horror anthology series '' Channel Zero: Butcher's Block'', Bridget Cleary in Amazon Prime Video's ho ...
* Lydia Maxwell, a character from the 1987 movie ''
Innerspace
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'', portrayed by Meg Ryan
*
Lydia Rodarte-Quayle
''Breaking Bad'' is a neo-Western crime drama franchise created by American filmmaker Vince Gilligan, primarily based on the television series ''Breaking Bad'' (2008–13), its prequel/sequel series, ''Better Call Saul'' (2015–22), and its s ...
, a character from ''
Breaking Bad
''Breaking Bad'' is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White ( Bryan Cranston), an underpaid, overqualified, and dispirited ...
''
* Lydia, Countess of Walden, a character in
Ken Follett
Kenneth Martin Follett, (born 5 June 1949) is a British author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 160 million copies of his works.
Many of his books have achieved high ranking on best seller lists. For example, in the ...
's 1982 novel ''
The Man from St. Petersburg''
* Lydia "Lyddie" Worthen, the main character of the 1991 historical novel ''
Lyddie
''Lyddie'' is a 1991 novel written by Katherine Paterson. Set in the 19th century, this is a story of determination and personal growth. When thirteen-year-old Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as indentured servants to help pay off the ...
'' by
Katherine Paterson
Katherine Womelsdorf Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is an American writer best known for children's novels, including '' Bridge to Terabithia''. For four different books published 1975-1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Aw ...
and the 1993 TV movie based on it
*
Raven Lydia Baxter, the titular character of
That's So Raven
''That's So Raven'' is an American television teen sitcom that was created by Michael Poryes and Susan Sherman, and aired on Disney Channel for four seasons between January 2003 and November 2007. The series centers on Raven Baxter (Raven-Sym ...
* Lydia, a
neutral good goddess
A goddess is a female deity. In many known cultures, goddesses are often linked with literal or metaphorical pregnancy or imagined feminine roles associated with how women and girls are perceived or expected to behave. This includes themes of s ...
of music, light and knowledge in the
Greyhawk
Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy roleplaying game. Although not the first campaign world developed for ''Dungeons & Dragons''—Dave Arneson ...
setting of the
Dungeons & Dragons
''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (T ...
fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama ...
roleplaying game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal ac ...
*
Aunt Lydia
''The Handmaid's Tale'' is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which h ...
,
The Handmaid's Tale
''The Handmaid's Tale'' is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which ...
Other
* HMS ''Lydia'', a fictional ship captained by
Horatio Hornblower
Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester. He later became the subject of films, radio and television programmes, a ...
in the
C.S. Forester
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Roya ...
's novel ''
The Happy Return
''The Happy Return'' (''Beat to Quarters'' in the US) is the first of the Horatio Hornblower novels by C. S. Forester. It was published in 1937. The American title is derived from the expression "beat to quarters", which was the signal to prep ...
'' (called ''Beat to Quarters'' in the US)
* , a US patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919
* , a US cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919
* Lydia stone, a stone used to test the quality of gold and silver, a
touchstone
Touchstone may refer to:
* Touchstone (assaying tool), a stone used to identify precious metals
* Touchstone (metaphor), a means of assaying relative merits of a concept
Entertainment
* ''Touchstone'' (album), a 1982 album by Chick Corea
* T ...
See also
*
Lidia
*
Lidija Lidija is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Lidija Abrlić (born 1969), former Yugoslavian and Croatian basketball player
* Lidija Auza (1914–1989), Latvian painter
* Lidija Bajuk (born 1965), Croatian singer-songwrite ...
*
Lidiya
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