Wanda (first name)
Wanda (also Vanda ) is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
The name Wanda comes from Polish and means " Wendin ".
name day
Name day is July 14th.
Well-known namesake
Wanda:
- Wanda Achsel (1886–1977), German singer
- Wanda Badwal (* 1985), German photo model, musical artist and actress
- Wanda Bibrowicz (1878–1954), Polish artist
- Wanda Brońska-Pampuch (1911–1972), German-Polish publicist and translator
- Wanda Curtis (* 1975), Hungarian porn actress
- Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski (1870–1935), German portrait photographer
- Wanda Gág (1893–1946), American artist, author, translator and illustrator
- Wanda Hanke (1893–1958), doctor and ethnologist
- Wanda Heger (1921–2017), Norwegian humanitarian activist in World War II
- Wanda Jackson (* 1937), American rockabilly and country singer
- Wanda Jakubowska (1907–1998), Polish film director
- Wanda Kuchwalek (1947-2004), Viennese pimp, known as "Wilde Wanda"
- Wanda Landowska (1879–1959), Polish harpsichordist and pianist
- Wanda Makuch-Korulska (1919–2007), Polish neurologist and professor, "Righteous Among the Nations" (Yad Vashem)
- Wanda Nowicka (* 1956), Polish feminism activist and politician
- Wanda Panfil-Gonzales (* 1959), Polish long-distance runner
- Wanda Perdelwitz (* 1984), German actress
- Wanda Półtawska (* 1921), Polish psychiatrist and concentration camp survivor
- Wanda Rutkiewicz (1943–1992), Polish mountaineer
- Wanda von Sacher-Masoch (1845–1933), writer and wife of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
- Wanda Sykes (* 1964), American actress and comedian
- Wanda Treumann (* 1889; † probably in the 1940s), German actress and film producer
- Wanda Ventham (born 1935), British actress
- Wanda Warska (1932–2019), Polish jazz and chanson singer
- Wanda Wasilewska (1905–1964), Polish and Soviet politician and writer
- Wanda Wiłkomirska (1929–2018), Polish violinist
- Wanda Zacharias (1931–2008), German painter and illustrator
Vanda:
- Vanda Briedienė (1932–2013), Lithuanian politician, member of the Seimas
- Vanda Gomes (* 1988), Brazilian sprinter
- Vanda Hădărean (* 1976), Romanian gymnast and fitness model
- Vanda Lukács (* 1992), Hungarian tennis player
- Vanda Vieira-Schmidt (* 1949), German art brut painter and conceptual artist
Fictional and legendary namesake
- Wanda , Polish queen who is said to have lived around the year 700
- Wanda Nevada , title heroine of a 1979 American western
- Wanda, main character in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Pelz
- Vanda, the evil queen of the planet Vandalusia in the animated series Sport Billy
- Wanda, elf and wife of Cosmo from the cartoon series Cosmo and Wanda - When Elves Help
- Wanda from the film A Fish Called Wanda (A Fish Called Wanda), 1986, main character