Lia (first name)
Lia is a feminine given name .
Origin and meaning
Lia is the Greco-Latin form of the biblical name Lea . Lia is also the French short form of Elisabeth and an abbreviation of Julia , Cornelia or other female first names with the ending -lia.
Name bearers
First name
- Lia Amanda (actually Lia Molfesi; * 1932), Italian actress
- Lia Angeleri (1922–1969), Italian actress
- Lia Avé (1924–2008), German journalist
- Lia Boysen (born 1966), Swedish actress
- Lia Corelli (1922–1987), Italian actress
- Lia Eibenschütz (1899–1985), German actress
- Lia Frank (Gerstein) (1921–2012), Lithuanian-German writer
- Lia Hanus , German soprano
- Lia Koenig (* 1929), Israeli actress
- Lia Leismüller (1931–2001), German ski racer
- Lia Di Leo (born 1924), Italian actress
- Lia Manoliu (1932–1998), Romanian discus thrower
- Lia Nirgad , author, editor and translator
- Lia Pahl (* 1924), German actress
- Lia Pale , (actually Julia Pallanch), Austrian musician from Wels
- Lia Perez (* 1982), German actress
- Lia Pirskawetz (* 1938), German writer
- Lia Quartapelle (* 1982), Italian politician
- Lia Roberts (* 1949), Romanian politician
- Lia Sargent (* 1957), American actress and voice actress
- Lia-Tabea Mertens (* 1994), German volleyball player
- Lia Tilon (* 1965), Dutch writer
- Lia Timmermans (1920–2002), Flemish writer and poet
- Lia Vissi (* 1955), Cypriot singer and politician
- Lia Wälti (* 1993), Swiss soccer player
- Lia Weller (* 1976), Austrian-Brazilian pop singer
- Lia Wöhr (1911–1994), German actress
Intermediate name
- Francesca Lia Block (* 1962), American author
- Sandra-Lia Infanger (* 1980), Swiss politician and blogger
stage name
- Lia 74 (* 1987), German rapper
- Lia Amanda (born 1932), Italian actress
- Lia Corelli (actually Lelia Parodi; 1922–1987), Italian actress
- Lia Pale (actually Julia Pallanch), Austrian musician
Lya
- Lya Borré († 1920), silent film actress
- Lya Ley (1899–1992), German-speaking silent film actress
- Lya Luft (* 1938), Brazilian writer and translator of German descent
- Lya Lys (1908–1986), American actress
- Lya Mara (1897–1960), German silent film actress of Latvian-Polish origin
- Lya de Putti (1897–1931), Hungarian dancer and actress
See also
- Lia (disambiguation)
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Rosa and Volker Kohlheim, Das große Namenlexikon, Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2007, page 297