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Livia Corona Benjamin is a Mexican artist that centers her work on the relationship of human experience and the man-made. Her recent work is artisanal but combines multi genre practice of the developing world and new innovations.

Livia Bitton-Jackson (1931 – 2023) was an author and a Holocaust survivor. She was born as Elli L. Friedmann in Samorin, Czechoslovakia, She was 13 years old when she, her mother, father, aunt and brother Bubi, were taken to Ghetto Nagymagyar. Eventually, they were transported to Auschwitz, the largest German concentration camp, where her brother and aunt were separated from Livia and her mother. Her aunt perished but her brother survived. She, her mother and brother were liberated in 1945. Bitton-Jackson came to the U.S. on a refugee boat in 1951 to join Bubi, who was studying in New York. She then studied at New York University, from which she received a Ph.D. in Hebrew Culture and Jewish History. She also wrote her 1997 memoir I Have Lived a Thousand Years.

Livia della Rovere (1585 – 1641) was an Italian noblewoman of the House of della Rovere and the last Duchess of Urbino (1599–1631).

Livia Orestilla, or Cornelia Orestilla was a Roman Empress and the second wife of the Emperor Caligula in AD 37 or 38.

Livia was the name of the younger daughter of Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei.

Livia Soprano was the name of Tony Soprano's mother on the hit TV series, The Sopranos.

Livia Drusa is a leading character in Colleen McCullough's The Grass Crown. Although not famous in herself, she was the sister of tribune Marcus Livius Drusus, mother of Servilia Caepionis and Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, and grandmother of Brutus and Porcia.

I simply adore this name: Livia Drusilla, the wife of Augustus, was the most powerful woman in Roman Empire. She was faithful, determined, strong, wise and bright, clever, and deeply involved in her husband's political questions.

Livia Drusilla, after 14 AD called Julia Augusta (Classical Latin: LIVIA•DRVSILLA, later IVLIA•AVGVSTA[1]) (58 BC-AD 29) was the wife of Caesar Augustus and the most powerful woman in the early Roman Empire, acting several times as regent and being Augustus' faithful advisor. She was also mother to Emperor Tiberius and Drusus, grandmother to Germanicus and Claudius, great-grandmother to Caligula and Agrippina the younger and great-great-grandmother to Nero. She was deified by Claudius who acknowledged her title of Augusta.

Julia Livia, most better known as Livilla who was the sister of Emperor Claudius. She had an affair with few men but most notably Sejanus, agent of Tiberius and they plotted to have him killed. When news got out, Tiberius had all of their friends killed and Livilla was starved to death by her mother Antonia Minor.

This name has been used on TV series "Xena: Warrior Princess". It is assumed by Xena's daughter.