Lisa (given name)
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The given name Lisa can be a short form of Elizabeth
or Elisabeth.
In the United Kingdom
, it began to gain popularity during the 1960s and by 1974 was the fifth most popular female name there, and a decade later was still as high as 14th. However, by 1996 it had fallen out of the top 100. Similarly, in the US it was the most popular female name for most of the 1960s and in the top 10 through most of the 1970s before falling.
Some people with the given name Lisa include:
Elizabeth (given name)
Elizabeth is a feminine given name derived from the Greek Elisávet , which is a form of the Hebrew name Elisheva , meaning "My God is an oath" or"My God is abundance."...
or Elisabeth.
In the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, it began to gain popularity during the 1960s and by 1974 was the fifth most popular female name there, and a decade later was still as high as 14th. However, by 1996 it had fallen out of the top 100. Similarly, in the US it was the most popular female name for most of the 1960s and in the top 10 through most of the 1970s before falling.
Some people with the given name Lisa include:
People
- Lisa (singer)Lisa (singer)Lisa Gautier is a dancer, actress and singer. She is Michel Gautier's daughter and Mylène Farmer's niece.-Career:...
, Lisa Gautier, a French singer performing under the name "Lisa" - LISA (musician)LISA (musician)is a Japanese-Colombian singer and producer better known as LISA. In 1999 she formed the Japanese urban contemporary group M-Flo with Verbal and Taku Takahashi. Daughter of a Japanese father and Afro-Colombian mother, LISA met her fellow band members while attending international school in Tokyo...
, Elizabeth Sakura Narita, former member of the Japanese hip-hop group m-flo - Lisa AnnLisa AnnLisa Ann is an American pornographic actress.- Career :Lisa Ann was born in Easton, Pennsylvania. She began erotic dancing in 1990 to pay her way through college, where she became a certified dental assistant. In July 1993, she became an adult actress, but quit in 1997 due to an AIDS scare...
, American pornographic actress - Lisa ArceLisa ArceLisa Arce Zimmerman is a retired female beach volleyball player from the United States, who won the silver medal at the 1997 World Championships in Los Angeles, California, partnering with her former college teammate Holly McPeak.-References:*...
, beach volleyball player - Lisa AzizLisa AzizLisa Aziz is a British news presenter. She is best known as the co-presenter of the Bristol based ITV South West nightly weekday news programme The West Country Tonight. Before this she worked for TV-am and Sky News, and was one of the first Asian presenters to be seen on television...
, British television presenter - Lisa BonetLisa BonetLisa Bonet , also known as Lilakoi Moon, is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Denise Huxtable Kendall on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show, and originally starring in its spinoff A Different World.-Early life:Bonet was born in San Francisco, California...
, American actress - Lisa Burnett, founder and President of SPS
- Lisa Curry-KennyLisa Curry-KennyLisa Gaye Curry AO MBE is a former Australian swimmer and is an Australian media personality.Curry was the chair of the National Australia Day Council from 2000 - 2008...
Australian Olympian swimmer - Lisa D'AmatoLisa D'AmatoLisa Marie D'Amato is an American recording artist, fashion model and television personality from Los Angeles, California...
, a model and contestant in America's Next Top Model Cycle Five - Lisa ErlandsdotterLisa ErlandsdotterLisa Erlandsdotter , was a Swedish artist .Daughter of the gardener Erland Hallberg and Anna Maria Kristoffersdotter and the sister of Sven Erlandsson and Katarina Erlandsdotter ; the three siblings all became known as artists...
, Swedish artist - Lisa FoilesLisa FoilesLisa Renee Foiles is an American actress and video game journalist. Foiles has appeared on Seasons 7-10 on the popular Nickelodeon series All That. She and three other cast members were the only members to last through Seasons 7-10...
, actress - Lisa Gherardini, namesake and possible model for the Mona Lisa
- Lisa GleaveLisa GleaveLisa Gleave is an Australian-American glamour model and TV personality, known for her work as a Barker's Beauty on The Price is Right and her appearances as the show Deal or No Deal.-Early life:...
, actress and model - Lisa M. HansenLisa M. HansenLisa M. Hansen is an American film producer, production manager, actor, director, writer, and craft service person. She has worked in various genres, including thriller, action, drama, and science fiction...
, American producer, actress, assistant director, and writer - Lisa HughesLisa HughesLisa Anne Hughes is a television news anchor on WBZ-TV in Boston, Massachusetts.-Broadcast career:Before joining WBZ-TV in 2000, Hughes worked as a reporter and weekend anchor at KIRO-TV in Seattle, Washington beginning in 1995...
, Boston TV News Anchor - Lisa KudrowLisa KudrowLisa Valerie Kudrow is an American actress, best known for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the television sitcom Friends, for which she received many accolades including an Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards...
, actress - Lisa LampanelliLisa LampanelliLisa Lampanelli is an American stand-up comedian and insult comic. She is noted for her racy and raunchy style of comedy, which frequently includes taboo subjects such as race and homosexuality....
, American comedienne - Lisa LangfordLisa LangfordLisa Martine Kehler is a female race walker from England, who twice competed for Great Britain at the Summer Olympics . She later competed 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi....
, English race walker - Lisa LeslieLisa LeslieLisa Deshaun Leslie-Lockwood is a former American professional women's basketball player in the WNBA. She is a three-time WNBA MVP and a four-time Olympic gold medal winner...
, basketball player - Lisa LingLisa LingLisa J. Ling is a Chinese American journalist, best known for her role as a co-host of ABC's The View , host of National Geographic Explorer, reporter on Channel One News, and special correspondent for the Oprah Winfrey Show and CNN. She is the older sister of journalist Laura Ling.-Early...
, American journalist - Lisa LoebLisa LoebLisa Anne Loeb is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She launched her career in 1994 with the song, "Stay ". She was the first artist to have a number one single in the United States while not signed to a recording contract.Loeb's efforts now include music, film, television, voice-over...
, pop singer/songwriter - Lisa LopesLisa LopesLisa Nicole Lopes better known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper, singer, dancer, actress, television host, and songwriter...
, member of the female American R&B trio TLC - Lisa LucasLisa LucasLisa Lucas is a former child actress, best known for her role as "Addie Mills" in the Emmy-winning Christmas television special, The House Without a Christmas Tree. It first aired on CBS-TV in December 1972, spawned three holiday-based sequels from 1973–1976 with the same cast, and was a...
, American actress and journalist - Lisa McPhersonLisa McPhersonLisa McPherson was a member of the Church of Scientology who died of a pulmonary embolism while under the care of the Flag Service Organization , a branch of the Church of Scientology...
, Scientologist - Lisa MarxLisa MarxLisa Marx is a guitarist and classically trained pianist from California.-Musical career:In 2002, Marx joined Seattle hardcore band To See You Broken...
, guitarist and former member of Kittie - Lisa McCuneLisa McCuneLisa McCune , is a four-time Gold Logie Award winning Australian actress, best known for her role as Senior Constable Maggie Doyle in Blue Heelers, and as Lt...
, Australian actress - Lisa MitchellLisa MitchellLisa Helen Mitchell is an Australian singer-songwriter who grew up in Albury, New South Wales. Her debut EP, Said One To The Other topped iTunes in Australia and this success brought her to the attention of boutique London-based publisher, Little Victories , a subsidiary of Sony/ATV, with whom she...
, Australian musician - Lisa MorettiLisa MorettiLisa Moretti is a retired American professional wrestler. She is best known for her appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment between 1999 and 2005 under the ring name Ivory...
, American professional wrestler - Lisa NiemiLisa NiemiLisa Niemi is an American actress and dancer. She is the widow of actor, singer and dancer Patrick Swayze. They were married for 34 years, from 1975 until his death in 2009.-Early life:...
, American actress, widow of Patrick Swayze - Lisa NowakLisa NowakLisa Marie Nowak is a former American naval flight officer and NASA astronaut. Born in Washington, D.C., she was selected by NASA in 1996 and qualified as a mission specialist in robotics...
, American astronaut; arrested under charges of attempted kidnap and attempted murder - Lisa OrigliassoLisa OrigliassoLisa Marie Origliasso is an Australian singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer. Born and raised in Albany Creek, Queensland she, along side twin sister Jessica Origliasso, performed in show business at a young age. Origliasso rose to fame in 2000's when she and her sister formed a pop duo...
, Australian musician, member of The VeronicasThe VeronicasThe Veronicas are an Australian electrorock, pop-punk and rock band. Twin sisters Jessica and Lisa Origliasso formed the band in 1999 in Brisbane. They have their own line of clothing which was released in 2007.... - Lisa Powell, Australian field hockey forward
- Lisa Marie PresleyLisa Marie PresleyLisa Marie Presley is an American singer and songwriter, also known as the "Princess of Rock and Roll". She is the only child of Elvis Presley, and daughter of Priscilla Presley.-Early life:...
, American singer and daughter of Elvis Presley - Lisa RayLisa RayLisa Ray , born 4 April 1972, is a Canadian actress and former model.-Early life:Lisa Ray was born in Toronto to a Bengali Indian father and a Polish mother and grew up in the suburb of Etobicoke...
, Indian-born Canadian actress - Lisa RaymondLisa RaymondLisa Raymond is an American professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world number one ranking in doubles...
, American tennis player - Lisa RinnaLisa RinnaLisa Deanna Rinna is an American television host and actress. She is known for her roles as Billie Reed on Days of our Lives, Taylor McBride on Melrose Place, and most recently as the host of SoapNet's Soap Talk.-Acting:...
, actress - Lisa Scott-LeeLisa Scott-LeeLisa Scott-Lee is a Welsh singer. She has worked as a songwriter and is a graduate of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts stage school. Lisa is best known as one fifth of pop group Steps from 1997 until their split on Boxing Day 2001 and recently reformed in 2011. Scott Lee released her debut...
, British singer formerly of the pop group, Steps - Lisa SparxxxLisa SparxxxLisa Sparks is a stage name of an American pornographic film actress. Sparks is a world record holder for having had sex with the most partners in one day. She achieved this world gangbang record with 919 men on October 16, 2004 in Warsaw, Poland as part of the Third Annual World Gangbang...
, American adult actress - Lisa StansfieldLisa StansfieldLisa Stansfield is an English singer and songwriter.-Early years:Stansfield was born to Marion and Keith Stansfield in Heywood, Lancashire, in England, where she attended Redbrook School, Rochdale. Her first television appearance was on a talent programme in the Granada TV area in 1982...
, British singer - Lisa SteierLisa SteierLisa Steier , was a Swedish ballerina and ballet master.Steier was a student of Gunhild Rosén, Hans Beck and Michel Fokine...
, Swedish ballerina - Lisa Tucker (singer)Lisa Tucker (singer)Lisa Gabrielle Tucker is an American singer, musical theater and television actress who was the tenth-place finalist on the fifth season of American Idol.-Early life and career beginnings:...
, American singer - Lisa Marie VaronLisa Marie VaronLisa Marie Varon , is an American professional wrestler, bodybuilder and fitness competitor of Puerto Rican and Turkish descent...
, American female bodybuilder, fitness competitor, and professional wrestler - Lisa Velez, singer, better known as Lisa Lisa
- Lisa Wallace, Big Brother 2009 contestant
- Lisa Walton, New Zealand field hockey player
- Lisa WoodingLisa WoodingLisa Marie Wooding is an English field hockey defender, who was a member of the England and Great Britain women's field hockey team since making her England debut in January 2001 against India....
, English field-hockey player - Leeza GibbonsLeeza GibbonsLeeza Kim Gibbons is an American talk show host. Gibbons is the host of her own radio show, Hollywood Confidential, part of the United Stations radio syndication company.-Early life:...
, American talk show host - Lyssa Chapman, American bounty hunter
- List of names starting with Lisa
Fictional people
- Lisa, fictional character in Dexter's LaboratoryDexter's LaboratoryDexter's Laboratory is an American animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky and produced by Cartoon Network Studios . The show is about a boy named Dexter who has an enormous secret laboratory filled with an endless collection of his inventions...
- Lisa, mythical girlfriend of the Internet OracleInternet OracleThe Internet Oracle is an effort at collective humor in a pseudo-Socratic question-and-answer format....
- Lisa, portrayed by Juliette Danielle, the female lead in Tommy Wiseau's The Room (film)The Room (film)The Room is a 2003 independent drama film starring Tommy Wiseau, who also wrote, directed, and produced the feature. In addition to Wiseau, the principal cast includes Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero, Philip Haldiman, Kyle Vogt, Carolyn Minnott, and Robyn Paris...
- Lisa, fictional character in Weird ScienceWeird Science (film)Weird Science is a 1985 American teen comedy film written and directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Kelly LeBrock...
- Lisa (Dead or Alive), a fictional character from the Dead or Alive video game series.
- Lisa (film)Lisa (film)Lisa is a film made in 1989 about a serial killer-stalker who rapes women then kills them.-Plot:Fourteen-year-old Lisa Holland lives with her mother Katherine in Venice Beach, California. Lisa is beginning to show a keen interest in boys but is not allowed to date due to her mother’s strict rule...
, a 1989 film starring Cheryl Ladd - Lisa DingleLisa DingleLisa May Dingle is a fictional character in the British soap opera Emmerdale played by Jane Cox.-Casting:Lisa Clegg was first introduced by producer Mervyn Watson in 1996 who cast Jane Cox for the role...
, a character from the popular British soap opera Emmerdale - Lisa DouglasLisa DouglasLisa Douglas was the leading female character in the 1960s CBS situation comedy Green Acres.Lisa , a glamorous Hungarian immigrant, was the wife of...
, the socialite wife of Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 60's sitcom Green Acres - Lisa Fortier, a fictional voodoo priestess portrayed by actress Pam Grier in the 1973 blaxploitation film, Scream Blacula ScreamScream Blacula ScreamScream Blacula Scream is a 1973 blaxploitation horror film, made under the working titles Blacula Is Beautiful and Blacula Lives Again!. This is the only sequel to the 1972 film Blacula...
- Lisa Garland, from the video games Silent HillSilent Hillis a survival horror video game series consisting of seven installments published by Konami and its subsidiary Konami Digital Entertainment. The first four games in the series, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4, have been developed by an internal factor, Team Silent...
- Lisa GrimaldiLisa GrimaldiLisa Grimaldi is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns. The daughter of Henry and Alma Miller, Lisa grew up in Rockford, Illinois, USA before moving to Oakdale...
, a character on the soap opera As The World Turns - Lisa HayesLisa HayesLisa Hayes is one of the fictional characters in the first Robotech anime television series. She is known as Misa Hayase in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the series which was adapted into the first saga of Robotech.- Biography :...
, a main character in the Robotech television series - Lisa NilesLisa NilesDr. Lisa Niles is a fictional character from the ABC soap opera, General Hospital. The character first appeared in November 2009 being portrayed by actress, Julie Mond on contract status. However, just a month after Mond debuted on the show, ABC announced that Lisa would be recast with actress...
, a character on the American soap opera General Hospital - Lisa Rowe, a charismatic sociopath portrayed by Angelina Jolie in the film Girl, InterruptedGirl, Interrupted (film)Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 drama film about a teenager's 18-month stay at a mental institution, starring Winona Ryder, Brittany Murphy, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave, with Jolie winning an Academy Award for her performance....
- Lisa SimpsonLisa SimpsonLisa Marie Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons. She is the middle child of the Simpson family. Voiced by Yeardley Smith, Lisa first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Cartoonist Matt Groening...
, a cartoon character in the television series The Simpsons - Lisa Watmough, a character in the book Room 13Room 13Room 13 is a 1989 horror novel by Robert Swindells. It won the Children's Book Award in 1990.- Plot summary:Felicity 'Fliss' Morgan has a nightmare on the night before her school trip to Whitby; however, on the trip and upon arriving a series of strange events occur, in which she turns purely awesome...
by Robert Swindells - Princess Lisa, a character in War and PeaceWar and PeaceWar and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature...
by Tolstoy