Selina
Selina /səˈliːnə/ is a feminine given name, from Greek "Selēnē" meaning "Moon". It reached peak popularity in the 1980s.
| Pronunciation | /səˈliːnə/ |
|---|---|
| Gender | feminine |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Greek |
| Meaning | Moon |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Selena, Celina, Selene, Selin |
People
- Selina Büchel (born 1991), Swiss middle-distance runner
- Selina Chow (born 1945), Hong Kong politician and broadcaster
- Selina Cooper (1864–1946), English suffragist
- Selina Foote (born 1985), New Zealand artist
- Selina Gasparin (born 1984), Swiss biathlete
- Selina Griffiths (born 1969), British actress
- Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707–1791), English Christian revivalist, Methodist
- Selina Hastings (Lady Selina Shirley Hastings, born 1945), British biographer and journalist
- Selina Hornibrook (born 1978), Australian netball player
- Selina Hossain (born 1947), Bangladeshi novelist
- Selina Jen (born 1981), Taiwanese girl-band member
- Selina Jörg (born 1988), German snowboarder
- Selina Kuruleca, Fijian psychotherapist and commentator
- Selina Perera (1909-1986), Sri Lankan Sinhala Trotskyist
- Selina Robinson (born c. 1964), Canadian politician from British Columbia
- Selina Scott (born 1951), English newsreader, journalist, television producer and presenter
- Selina Siggins (1878–1964), Australian trade unionist and politician
- Selina Tusitala Marsh (born 1971), Pasifika poet-scholar
- Selina Zumbühl (born 1983), Swiss football midfielder
Variants
- A Spanish version of the name is Selena.
- A Greek version of the name is Σελένα.
- A French version of the name is Sélene.
- A Hebrew version of the name is סלינה.
- A Turkish version of the name is Selin.
Fictional characters
- Selina Peake De Jong, the protagonist of Edna Ferber's novel So Big
- Selina Kyle (disambiguation), alter ego of the original Catwoman, the DC Comics character
- Selina Meyer, protagonist of the HBO television comedy series Veep
- Selina Roberts, from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
- Selina, the main antagonist in the sixth season of Winx Club
- Selina Khan, main character from CBBC's Wolfblood
- Selina D'Arcey, main character from 1965 American film A Patch of Blue
- Selina Plymdale, a character in Middlemarch - a novel by English author George Eliot
Other
- Selina, a novel by German author Jean Paul, published posthumously in 1827
- Selina (1948), a ballet for Sadler's Wells, choreographed by Andrée Howard to music by Rossini.
See also
- Celina (disambiguation)
- Céline (disambiguation)
- Selene (disambiguation)
- Selenia (moth), a genus of moths
- Selena (disambiguation)
- Tselina (disambiguation)
- Selin (disambiguation)
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