Lucinda (given name)
This article is about the given name Lucinda. For other uses, see Lucinda (disambiguation).
| Lucinda | |
| Gender: | Female |
|---|---|
| Origin: | Latin |
| Meaning: | "Light" |
Lucinda /ljuːˈsɪndə/ is a female given name of Latin origin, meaning light.[1][2]
The name may refer to:
People
- Lucinda Ballard, a costume designer
- Lucinda Cowden, a Neighbours actress
- Lucinda Creighton, an Irish politician
- Lucinda Jenney, an American actress
- Lucinda Todd, an African-American teacher and education activist.
- Lucinda Williams, an American rock, folk, and country music singer and songwriter
- Lucinda Williams (athlete), an American athlete
- Lucinda (Lucy) Sanders, CEO and co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology
Fictional characters
- Lucinda Walsh, a fictional character on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns
- Lucinda Perriweather, the well-meaning but misguided fairy played by Vivica A. Fox in Ella Enchanted
- Lucinda, the little witch from Sofia the First
- Princess Lucinda, a Dreamtastic Groovy Girls doll.
- Lucinda Price, the protagonist of Fallen (2015 film)
- Lucinda Leplastrier, a character in Peter Carey's 1988 Booker Prize winning novel, Oscar and Lucinda
- Lucinda, one of Cinderella's stepsisters in Into the Woods
- Lucinda Merrill, wife of Neddy Merrill in John Cheever's short story "The Swimmer"; Lucinda is also the name Neddy gives to his imagined, eight-mile 'river' of pools
Songs
- "Lucinda", by Tom Waits from the album Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
- "Lucinda", by The Knack from the album Get the Knack
Others
- Lucinda, Queensland, a town in Australia
- Lucinda (steam yacht), a steam yacht of the Queensland Government
References
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