Lt. Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (1921-1943) was a fighter pilot in the Soviet air force during World War II. She was the first female flying ace, the first female in the world to shoot down an enemy aircraft, and is the highest scoring female fighter pilot to this day.
Lydia is the youngest of the five Bennet sisters in Jane Austen’s (fictional) book, Pride and Prejudice. She is frivolous and silly, and runs off with an officer, George Wickham.
Usage: English, German (Rare), Biblical, Old Church Slavic, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek, Literature, Popular CultureIn Popular Culture, several main characters have used this name, including Lydia Deetz from the 1988 movie "Beetlejuice".
Lydia Taylor is the daughter of Josh and Aly of the TV documentary “Rattled”.
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Lydia Renfrew is one of the four female characters in Alma De Groen's 2002 play WICKED SISTERS. She works as a real estate agent and is portrayed as superficial and self-centered, trying desperately to look younger and have an affair with a younger man after her husband left her with their two daughters for a 23-year-old woman. She has been played by Diane Craig.
Lidia Zamenhof indeed is an extraordinary woman, daughter of Dr, Zamenhof, the Esperantist who died in concentration camps in Poland 1942. Her life story is worth reading!
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Lydia Marie Mackay is an American theatre actress and voice actress primarily known for her work for Funimation and OkraTron 5000. She has provided voices for a number of English versions of Japanese anime television series, films and video games.
Lydia Martin is the name of a main character on the TV show Teen Wolf, portrayed by Holland Roden.
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In the book 18, Pete's oldest daughter's name is Lydia. She is sometimes called Liddy.
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Lydia Cornell is an American actress.
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Lydia (portrayed by Sara Canning) appeared as a character in the Supernatural episode "The Slice Girls" in 2012. She is remarkable for having been an Amazon and mothering the child of Dean Winchester.
Lydia was the eldest daughter of Robin Williams's character in Mrs. Doubtfire. She was often called "Lydie". I'm surprised that wasn't already on here! That's where I first fell in love with the name.
Lydia M. Bastianich a well known TV Chef, she is an excellent Italian cook, plus I like this name :-))
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Lydia Lopokova (1892-1981) was a Russian ballet dancer who married the Bloomsbury economist Maynard Keynes. She was friends with T.S. Eliot, H.G. Wells and Pablo Picasso, and helped to form a national ballet company in Britain.
A famous, but fictional, bearer is Lydia Languish, who is a wealthy teenage heiress in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals, a 1775 play. I also think this is a lovely name. :)
Lydia Beardsall Lawrence (1851-1910) was the mother of the writer D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), who subsequently named one of his characters in his 'Sons And Lovers' novel Lydia.
Groucho Marx sang about "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" in the movie "Why a Duck" (1939). The song enjoyed some popularity. A sample of the lyrics: Lydia The Tattooed Lady/She has eyes that folks adore so/and a torso even more so.