Nina (name)
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Nina is a feminine
given name
. It is a short form of names such as Antonina
and Giannina.. Another meaning nice in Persian
; nice eyes in Hindu
; mother Swahili
; powerful, excellent Native American language; friend Arabian and flower Old Greek
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Femininity
Femininity is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with girls and women. Though socially constructed, femininity is made up of both socially defined and biologically created factors...
given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
. It is a short form of names such as Antonina
Antonina
Antonina may refer to:*Antonina is a genus from the Lamiaceae*Antonina *Antonina *Antonina is a municipality in Brazil*Antonina is a novel by Wilkie Collins...
and Giannina.. Another meaning nice in Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
; nice eyes in Hindu
Hindu
Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...
; mother Swahili
Swahili language
Swahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia...
; powerful, excellent Native American language; friend Arabian and flower Old Greek
Old Greek
The term "Old Greek" is sometimes used to describe the Greek language as spoken from Late Antiquity to around AD 1500. Greek spoken during this period is usually split into:...
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People with the given name
- Nina (singer)Nina (singer)Nina, is a Spanish musical actress and singer.She started in the 1980s with bands like "Costa Brava" or "Xavier Cugat"...
(born Ana Maria Agustí Flores), Spanish musical actress and singer - Nina AgapovaNina AgapovaFyodorovna Agapova is a Soviet/Russian actress.She graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1951.In 1987, she was named an Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR.-External links:...
, Russian actress - Nina Alekseyevna Lobkovskaya, Russian sniper
- Nina AlisovaNina AlisovaNina Ulyanovna Alisova was a Soviet actress. After her death, she was laid to rest at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.-Selected filmography:* Without Dowry * Rainbow...
, Russian actress - Nina AnaniashviliNina AnaniashviliNina Ananiashvili is a Georgian ballerina and artistic director of the State Ballet of Georgia.- Career :...
, Georgian Ballerina - Nina AndreyevaNina AndreyevaNina Aleksandrovna Andreyeva was a Russian chemist. A supporter of classical Soviet principles, she wrote an essay that defended many aspects of the traditional Soviet system, and criticized General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his closest supporters for not being real communists.- Career in...
, Soviet Communist Party Official - Nina Anisimova (sportswoman), Russian athlete
- Nina Anisimova (dancer), Russian dancer and choreographer
- Nina AntoniaNina AntoniaNina Antonia is an English music journalist and author. She has written articles and books about punk-rock era recording artists, including Johnny Thunders and Peter Perrett and has contributed to Mojo and Spiral Scratch magazines, written liner notes for The Stooges live recording Studio Sessions...
, British music critic - Nina ArsenaultNina Arsenault- External links :* * Arsenault's at Fab Magazine.* Nina Arsenault...
, Canadian sex worker - Nina ArvesenNina ArvesenNina Arvesen is an American actress of Norwegian extraction, best known for her performances on American soap operas. Arvesen speaks fluent Norwegian....
, American actress - Nina ÅströmNina ÅströmNina Åström is a Finnish gospel singer and songwriter, who represented Finland in the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest. She started performing in the 1980s, and published her debut album in 1991. She currently lives in Kokkola and she is married...
, Finnish singer - Nina AuerbachNina AuerbachNina Auerbach is the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Her special area of concentration is nineteenth-century England...
, American professor - Nina AxelrodNina AxelrodNina Kether Axelrod is an American actress who appeared in television and films mainly during the late 1970s through the early 1980s. Since the early 1990s, she has worked as a casting director on films....
, American actress - Nina Baden-SemperNina Baden-SemperNina Baden-Semper is a British actress of West Indian descent, best known for her role as Barbie Reynolds in the controversial sit-com of the 1970s, Love Thy Neighbour. She has appeared mainly in character parts in TV, most recently in the ill-fated revival of Crossroads in 2002...
, British actress - Nina BadrićNina BadricNina Badrić is a Croatian pop singer. Before starting her career in the entertainment industry she used to be a bank teller. She began performing in early 1990s, exploiting the sudden popularity of dance music, but her repertoire gradually became more mainstream...
, Croatian singer - Nina BangNina BangNina Henriette Wendeline Bang née Ellinger was a Danish social democratic politician and historian...
, Danish Politician - Nina BariNina BariNina Karlovna Bari was a Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series. She was killed by a train in the Moscow Metro, and her colleagues speculated that she committed suicide, prompted by the death of her mentor Nikolai Luzin ten years earlier, a man who may have been her lover....
, Russian Mathematician - Nina BarkaNina BarkaNina Barka , real name Marie Smirsky, was a prominent naive artist. She was born in Odessa, Russian Empire of Ukrainian parents, but moved to France, where she became a French citizen. Her work had many Russian and Byzantine themes.-External links:*...
(born Marie Smirsky), French-Ukrainian naïve artist - Nina Barr WheelerNina Barr WheelerNina Barr Wheeler was an American artist who worked with Hildreth Meiere on many of her murals, and also a painter of Catholic religious art in her own right, who eventually went on to design stained glass windows for the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, and murals for the interior of The...
, American artist - Nina BatesNina BatesNina Bates is a Bosnian figure skater. She is the 2005 Bosnia and Herzegovinan national champion. She is the first single skater to represent Bosnia and Herzegovina in an ISU Championship, which she achieved at the 2003 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.She moved from Sarajevo to the...
, Bosnian figure skater - Nina BawdenNina BawdenNina Bawden CBE is a popular British novelist and children's writer. Her mother was a teacher and her father a marine.-Life:...
, British author - Nina BendigkeitNina Bendigkeit- Career :She only sang in their debut album, Child Of Glass. As she left the band she started doing photography. She also contributed in Seelenkrank albums during 1997. She made the Blutengel's Angel Dust promotional photoshoot in 2002. Nina had her own band, Formalin . She left the...
, German singer - Nina BerberovaNina BerberovaNina Nikolayevna Berberova was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of Russian exiles in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia and died in Philadelphia.-Biographical Sketch:...
, Russian author - Nina BermanNina BermanNina Berman is an American documentary photographer. Her wedding photo of wounded Iraq War veteran Ty Ziegel and his bride, Renee Kline, won the 2007 World Press Photo competition. She is the author of the book Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq portraits and interviews with 20 veterans, 2004...
, American photographer - Nina BjörkNina BjörkNina Björk is a Swedish feminist, author and journalist. She is most well known for Under det rosa täcket , a feminist book written in 1996....
, Swedish author - Nina BlackwoodNina BlackwoodNina Blackwood is an American disc jockey and music journalist, who was the first of the original five MTV VJs. She has also been an actress and model.-Early life and career:...
, American Disk Jockey - Nina BocharovaNina BocharovaNina Antonovna Bocharova is a former Soviet/Ukrainian gymnast, who won five medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics....
, Soviet gymnast - Nina BonnerNina BonnerNina Bonner is a retired female field hockey goalkeeper from Australia. She made her debut for the Australian women's national team during the 1996 season...
, Australian field hockey goalkeeper - Nina BottNina BottNina Bott is a German actress.-Acting:Between August 1997 and September 2005 she played Cora Hinze Moreno on the popular German soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten. She then appeared in the period drama Unter den Linden - Das Haus Gravenhorst. Nina Bott then joined the soap opera Alles was...
, German actress - Nina BouraouiNina BouraouiNina Bouraoui is a French writer born in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, of an Algerian father and a French mother. She spent the first fourteen years of her life in Algiers, then Zürich and Abu Dhabi...
, French author - Nina Bracewell-SmithNina Bracewell-SmithNina, Lady Bracewell-Smith is an Indian-born, United Kingdom-based businesswoman. She was a major shareholder and former non-executive director of the English Premier League football club Arsenal.-Background:...
, British royal - Nina BroshNina BroshNina Brosh is an Israeli model and actress.She is of Ashkenazi Jewish and Russian descent on her father's side, and Chinese descent on her mother's side.Brosh is notable among high fashion models for her highly visible tattoos....
, Israeli model - Nina Burleigh, American journalist
- Nina ByersNina ByersNina Byers is a theoretical physicist, Research Professor and Professor of Physics emeritus in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA. have mainly been in...
, American physicist - Nina ByronNina ByronNina Byron was a silent film actress from Christchurch, New Zealand. Her given name was Nina Betts.-Film actress:She came to America with her mother. Her father stayed behind in New Zealand and committed...
, American silent film actress - Nina CarterNina CarterNina Carter is an English former 1970s Page Three girl and occasional singer. She currently runs an image consultancy and works as a life coach.-Career:...
, English singer - Nina CassianNina CassianNina Cassian is a Romanian poet, composer, journalist and film critic.. , The Independent She is noted for her translating abilities, and has rendered into Romanian the works of William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Christian Morgenstern, Yiannis Ritsos, and Paul Celan...
(pen name of Renèe Annie Cassian), Romanian poet - Nina CliffordNina CliffordFrom 1889 to 1929 , Nina Clifford ran a brothel under the streets of Saint Paul, Minnesota. She was the most famous madam in Minnesota history , both because of her success and for the ingenuity she showed in attracting customers. A small cave-complex was built underground, linking the...
, American madam - Nina ColtartNina ColtartNina Coltart , a British psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, and essayist, was born in Kent, England. Her father was a medical doctor and her mother, a housewife. In 1940 she and her younger sister Gill were evacuated to Cornwall, where they lived with their maternal grandmother and a nanny who, years...
, British psychoanalyst - Nina ContiNina ContiNina Conti is a British actress, comedian and ventriloquist. Her on-stage puppet sidekick is a depressed monkey named Monk.- Early life :...
, British actress - Nina DaviesNina DaviesNina Davies is a Welsh racing cyclist from the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. She represented Wales at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England...
, Welsh cyclist - Nina de VriesNina de VriesNina de Vries is a Dutch sex worker or sexual surrogate who offers erotic massages to intellectually disabled men and women in Berlin and other parts of Germany. She also trains others to do the same....
, Dutch sex worker - Nina DobrevNina DobrevNina Dobrev is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress. She played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's sixth to ninth season...
, Bulgarian-Canadian actress - Niña DolinoNina DolinoNiña Dolino is a Filipina actress. She is currently under contract with ABS-CBN and Star Magic. She was one of the finalist of MTV VJ Hunt 2005.- Filmography :-External links:...
, Filipino actress - Nina DorohNina DorohNina Doroh is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s. She won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold , a silver K-2 500 m: 1978), and a bronze .-References:**...
, Soviet sprint canoer - Nina Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, British royal
- Nina DumbadzeNina DumbadzeNina Yakovlevna Dumbadze was a discus thrower who represented the USSR. Her greatest achievement being a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, she also won the European Championships in 1946 and 1950....
, Soviet discus thrower - Nina EastonNina EastonNina Jane Easton is an American journalist. She serves as the Washington Bureau Chief for Fortune Magazine as well as a commentator on the Fox News Channel, appearing regularly on Special Report with Bret Baier, Fox News Sunday, and Hannity...
, American journalist - Nina Elias-BambergerNina Elias-BambergerNina Elias-Bamberger , originally known as Nina Elias, was the Executive Producer of Dragon Tales and other children's shows on PBS Kids Channel....
, American children television show producer - Nina EtkinNina EtkinNina L. Etkin was an anthropologist and biologist. Dr. Etkin was noted for her work in medical anthropology, ethnobiology, and ethnopharmacology. She studied the relation between food and health for over thirty years...
, American anthropologist and botanist - Nina FedoroffNina FedoroffNina Vsevolod Fedoroff is an American professor at Penn State university known for her research in life sciences and biotechnology. She received in 2006 the National Medal of Science in the field of Biological Sciences, the highest award for lifetime achievement in scientific research in the...
, American biologist - Nina FochNina FochNina Foch was a Dutch-born American actress and leading lady in many 1940s and 1950s films.- Personal life :...
, Dutch-American actress - Nina Fyodorova, Soviet skier
- Nina GershonNina GershonNina Gershon is a federal district judge in the Eastern District of New York. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1996 at the recommendation of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
, American judge - Nina GiradoNina GiradoMarifil Niña Girado , better known by her stage name Nina, is a Filipino pop/R&B singer, occasional songwriter, record producer, TV and radio personality. She made her recording debut in 2002 after signing a recording contract with Warner Music Philippines...
, Filipino singer - Nina GordonNina GordonNina Rachel Shapiro Gordon is an American rock singer, and is the co-founder of the band Veruca Salt, having written the songs "Seether" and "Volcano Girls"...
, American Rock Singer - Nina GrewalNina GrewalNarinder Kaur Grewal, MP , is a Canadian politician of the Conservative Party. She was elected in the general election of June 2004 to represent the constituency of Fleetwood—Port Kells, British Columbia....
, Canadian politician - Nina HagenNina HagenNina Hagen is a German singer and actress.-Early years:Hagen was born as Catharina Hagen in the former East Berlin, East Germany, the daughter of Hans Hagen , a scriptwriter, and Eva-Maria Hagen, an actress and singer...
(born Catharina Hagen), German singer - Nina HamnettNina HamnettNina Hamnett was a Welsh artist and writer, and an expert on sailors' chanteys, who became known as the Queen of Bohemia.- Early life :...
, British artist - Nina HartleyNina HartleyNina Hartley is an American pornographic actress, pornographic film director, sex educator, feminist, and author.-Early life:...
(born Marie Louise Hartman), American porn actress - Nina Kiriki HoffmanNina Kiriki HoffmanNina Kiriki Hoffman is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer.-Profile:Hoffman started publishing short stories in 1975. Her first nationally published short story appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in 1983...
, American novelist - Nina HossNina Hoss-Early life:Nina's father, Willi Hoss, was a German trade unionist and politician . Her mother, Heidemarie Rohweder, was an actress at Stuttgart National Theatre and later director of the Esslingen-based Württemberg State Playhouse .-Career:In 1997 Hoss graduated from the Drama School "Ernst Busch"...
, German actress - Nina HossainNina HossainNina Hossain is a British journalist, presenter and newscaster.Hossain is currently employed on a freelance basis by ITN where she is the main presenter of ITV London's regional news programme London Tonight. Nina also acts as a relief newscaster for ITV News.-Background:Hossain was born in...
, British journalist - Nina HuntNina HuntNina Hunt was an English Latin American dance coach and choreographer. She had a high reputation for coaching competitive Latin dancers.-Biography:...
, British dance choreographer - Nina Katzir, wife of former Israeli President Ephraim Katzir
- Nina KinertNina KinertNina Kinert is a Swedish musician/artist.Her sound is a mix between pop, folk and electronic music .In 2004 she released her first album "Heartbreaktown" with SonyMusic....
, Swedish singer - Nina KoshetzNina KoshetzNina Koshetz ; December 30, 1891 - May 14, 1965) was a Ukrainian, later American, soprano opera and recital singer.Her father, a famous opera singer Pavel Koshetz , committed suicide. She was then 12 years....
, Ukrainian American opera singer - Nina Kostroff NobleNina Kostroff NobleNina Kostroff Noble, aka Nina K. Noble, is an American television producer.Before entering television she worked extensively in film. Initially she was a production assistant and then became a second assistant director after joining the Directors Guild of America in 1984...
, American television producer - Nina KotovaNina KotovaNina Kotova is a Russian Americancellist.Nina Kotova was accepted by the cello faculty into an adult class of the Moscow Conservatory at the age of seven, while studying at the Central Music School Pre-Conservatory. Nina gave her first performance as a soloist with an orchestra at the age of 11 and...
, Russian cellist - Nina KraftNina KraftNina Kraft is a German professional triathlete. Before turning professional, she used to work as a draughtswoman. As well as being a pro Triathlete Nina is also an accomplished artist...
, German athlete - Nina KumagayaNina Kumagaya' is a seiyū who is affiliated with 81 Produce.-TV Anime:*Beyblade *Colorful *Kaleido Star *Ki Fighter Taerang *Konjiki no Gash Bell!! *Pokémon *Tenchi Muyo! GXP...
, Japanese voice actor - Nina KuscsikNina KuscsikNina Kuscsik is a retired female long-distance runner from the United States.-Achievements:*All results regarding marathon, unless stated otherwise- External links :**...
, American long-distance runner - Nina LawsonNina LawsonNina Lawson was a Scottish wigmaker who ran the Metropolitan Opera wig department from 1956 to 1987. She was responsible for cleaning up to 750 wigs a week in her early tenure, from every chorus member's wig to those of stars including Birgit Nilsson, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Beverly...
, Scottish wig maker - Nina LemeshNina LemeshNina Lemesh is a Ukrainian biathlete.- Career :*World Championships*2000 - Bronze medal on the relay*2001 - Bronze medal on the relay-References:*...
, Ukrainian athlete - Nina Li ChiNina Li ChiNina Li Chi is a retired former Hong Kong actress. She is currently married to Chinese action superstar Jet Li. They have two children together, including daughter Jada...
, Chinese actress - Nina LobovaNina LobovaNina Romanivna Lobova is a former Soviet/Ukrainian handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.In 1976 she won the gold medal with the Soviet team. She played all five matches.-External links:*...
, Soviet handball athlete - Nina Lola BachhuberNina Lola BachhuberNina Lola Bachhuber is a contemporary artist working in the realm of sculpture, installation art and drawing.Nina Lola Bachhuber was born in Munich, Germany, and obtained her Masters of Fine Arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg....
, German contemporary artist - Nina MakarovaNina MakarovaNina Vladimirovna Makarova was the wife of composer Aram Khachaturian and a composer in her own right who had great interest in Russian and Mari folksongs. She co-composed several pieces with her husband, including the Music to M. Aliger's Play "A Tale of Truth" and Music to Yu. Chepurin's Play...
, Russian composer - Nina MercedezNina MercedezNina Mercedez is a Mexican-American pornographic actress, producer and director.-Biography:Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, Nina Mercedez' family background is Mexican....
, American porn actress - Nina MorgunovaNina MorgunovaNina Morgunova is a retired female middle distance runner who represented the USSR in the 1970s. She set her personal best in the women's 1,500 metres on 1975-09-07 at a meet in Moscow.-References:*...
, Soviet middle distance runner - Nina NastasiaNina NastasiaNina Nastasia is a New York City-based singer-songwriter born in Hollywood, California.-Biography:She began writing songs in 1993, and released her first album, Dogs, in 2000. Only 1,500 copies of the album were initially pressed, with Nastasia putting together the album packaging herself in her...
, American singer-songwriter - Nina Oulanova, Russian ice skater
- Nina PekermanNina PekermanNina Pekerman is an Israeli athlete that competes in Triathlon and Ironman Triathlon competitions. She rated 25th in the second level of world championship in Racing bicycle in 2003, was Israel's champion in Thriathlon during the years 2004–2007 and 2009 and was the champion of the Maccabiah Games...
, Israeli triathlete - Nina PerssonNina Perssonis the lead singer and lyricist for the Swedish pop group The Cardigans. She has also worked as a solo artist, releasing two albums as A Camp and appearing on the tribute album to Serge Gainsbourg entitled Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited...
, Swedish singer - Nina Schenk Gräfin von StauffenbergNina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg"Nina" Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg was the wife of Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the leader of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944, after which she was arrested and imprisoned, where she delivered her youngest child.-Early years:She was born Magdalena...
, wife of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the person who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler - Nina SicilianaNina SicilianaNina Siciliana was the composer of one Italian sonnet, and a candidate to be the first Italian poetess. She only came to light in 1780, along with 74 other poets, in the Étrennes du Parnasse...
, Italian poet - Nina SimoneNina SimoneEunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...
(born Eunice Kathleen Waymon), American musician and civil rights activist - Nina TotenbergNina TotenbergNina Totenberg is an American legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio focusing primarily on the activities and politics of the Supreme Court of the United States. Her reports air regularly on NPR's newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition...
, American journalist specializing in law - Nína TryggvadóttirNína TryggvadóttirNína Tryggvadóttir was born Jónína Tryggvadóttir in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland.Nína Tryggvadóttir is one of Iceland's most important abstract expressionist artists and one of very few Icelandic female artists of her generation. Mainly working in painting she also did paper collage, stained glass work,...
, Icelandic artist - Nina baroness van Pallandt, Danish singer and actress, used to be half the Nina & Frederick duo
- Nina VanceNina VanceNina Eloise Whittington Vance was the founder and first artistic director of the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, United States. She received awards and recognition, both nationally and internationally, for her work and contribution to the theater community.-Biography:Nina Vance, the only child of...
, American entrepreneur - Nina VannaNina VannaNina Yasikova Kind Hakim Provatoroff, known by her stage name of Nina Vanna , was a Russian-born British film actress who appeared in a number of films during the 1920s....
, British actress - Nina VislovaNina Vislova-Career:Vislova won four medals at the European Junior Badminton Championships, two gold medals in women's doubles , a silver medal in mixed doubles , and a bronze medal also in mixed doubles . Nina also won at the 2006 US Open in women's doubles and mixed. She won the bronze medal at the 2008...
, Russian badminton athlete - Nina WadiaNina Wadia-Television and film:Wadia first came to prominence in BBC sketch show Goodness Gracious Me, playing characters such as Mrs "I can make it at home for nothing!" and one half of The Competitive Mothers...
, Parsi actress - Nina WangNina WangNeena Wang or Kung Yu Sum was Asia's richest woman, with a recent estimated net worth of US$4.2 billion at the time of her death...
, Chinese billionaire - Nina ZhivanevskayaNina ZhivanevskayaNina Aleksandrovna Zhivanevskaya is a 5-time Olympic backstroke swimmer from Russia, who has swum for Spain since 1999, following her marriage to a Spaniard ....
, Russian swimmer
Fictional characters
- Nina, a character in the Disney JuniorDisney JuniorDisney Junior is a current program block on Disney Channel and an upcoming American basic cable and satellite television network intended to replace SOAPnet in February 2012. It began airing on February 14, 2011, replacing Playhouse Disney....
television series Imagination MoversImagination Movers (TV series)Imagination Movers is an American television series that premiered on September 6, 2008 on Disney Channel. The program was originally part of the Playhouse Disney daily block intended for preschoolers...
. - Nina, a character in the PlayStation role-playing game Suikoden II
- Nina Ash, from the American television series Angel
- Nina Bibikova, from the novel The Man from BarbarossaThe Man from BarbarossaThe Man from Barbarossa, first published in 1991, was the eleventh novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.More so than...
- Nina Brown, from the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Nina Callas, from The Clique series of books
- Nina Campbell, from the American sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
- Nina CassadyNina CassadyDet. Nina Cassady is a fictional character on the NBC crime drama Law & Order, portrayed by Milena Govich. Cassady, the first, and only, female detective in the original Law & Order series, appeared in the first episode of the seventeenth season. Cassady worked alongside Det. Ed Green Det. Nina...
, from the American drama Law & Order - Nina Cortex, from the Crash Bandicoot series of games
- Nina Cortlandt, from the soap opera All My Children
- Nina Einstein, from the anime Code Geass
- Nina Frost, from the book Perfect MatchPerfect Match (novel)Perfect Match is a novel by Jodi Picoult. It deals with family issues and crime, primarily child sexual abuse and murder. It is one of Picoult's only novels not to follow her typical back-and-forth flashback format.-Plot summary:...
by Jodi Picoult - Nina HarrisNina HarrisNina Harris is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Troy Titus-Adams between 1999 and 2000. The character was axed by John Yorke, making her final appearance in June 2000...
, from the BBC soap opera EastEnders - Nina JarvisNina JarvisNina Jarvis is a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400.Nina became the director of NTAC in season two after succeeding Dennis Ryland; Ryland took his role back temporarily while Nina recovered from a gunshot wound...
, from the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400 - Nina MyersNina MyersNina Myers is a fictional character on the television series, 24, played by Sarah Clarke. Nina was second-in-command of the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit during the first season of the show.-Characterization:...
, a terrorism analyst in the TV series 24 - Nina Martin a characters in House of AnubisHouse of AnubisHouse of Anubis is a jointly American/British/Belgian produced teen mystery/drama television show based on the Belgian/Dutch television series Het Huis Anubis. The series was created by Hans Bourlon & Gert Verhulst and premiered on Nickelodeon on New Year's Day 2011 in the United States and on 25...
. - Nina Sakura, from Ultra Maniac
- Nina Sayers, from the 2010 film Black SwanBlack Swan (film)Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel and Mila Kunis. Its plot revolves around a production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet by a prestigious New York City company. The production requires a ballerina to...
- Nina Sharp, from FringeFringe (TV series)Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security...
- Nina TuckerNina TuckerNina Tucker is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Delta Goodrem. She made her first on-screen appearance on 11 June 2002. Goodrem was approached by producers after they saw her video for her debut single. Goodrem, who had just signed a record deal, almost...
, from the Australian soap opera Neighbours - Nina Van Horn, from the American sitcom Just Shoot Me!
- Nina WángNina Wángis one of the main characters of the anime TV series My-Otome. She is the top student in the Coral class and also one of Arika's roommates. She hails from Artai, a poorer kingdom than Windbloom with no Otome of its own. She and Juliet Nao Zhang are intended to fill this void and serve their country...
, from the anime Mai Otome - Nina WebsterNina WebsterNina Webster is a fictional character on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, played by American actress Tricia Cast from June 26, 1986 to February 1, 2001, as a guest star from November 14 to November 20, 2008, and returned on a regular basis on May 1, 2009. Cast won a Daytime Emmy Award...
, from the soap opera The Young and the Restless - Nina WilliamsNina Williamsis a character from Namco's Tekken game series. She is known to be a cold-blooded assassin who had made her very first appearance in the original Tekken game and since has appeared in every Tekken game released...
, a fictional assassin from the Tekken series of games - Nina Windia, from the Breath of Fire series of games
- Nina Yamada, from Mamotte! Lollipop
See also
- Nina (disambiguation)
- Nena (given name)
- Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, British royal known as Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon
- 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...
, an American professional wrestler formerly known as Nina - Saint NinoSaint NinoSaint Nino , ), Equal to the Apostles in and the Enlightener of Georgia, was a woman who preached Christianity in Georgia....
(anglicized to Nina), an Eastern-orthodox saint - Nina Never KnewNina Never Knew"Nina Never Knew" is a popular song with music by Louis Alter and lyrics by Milton Drake, published in 1952.Recordings that charted in 1952 were by the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra on RCA Victor Records and by Johnny Desmond on Coral Records .-Recorded versions:*Jonny Abeles*Kenny Ball*Tony...
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