Lucinda (given name)

Lucinda is a female given name of Latin origin, meaning light.^[1] It can be abbreviated as Lucy or Cindy.

The name may refer to:

People[]

• Lucinda Armstrong Hall, Australian actress
• Lucinda Ballard (1906–1993), American costume designer
• Lucinda Banister Chandler (1828–1911), American social reformer, author
• Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne, Scottish chef and writer
• Lucinda Collins, Australian pianist
• Lucinda Cowden (born 1965), a Neighbours actress
• Lucinda Creighton (born 1980), an Irish politician
• Lucinda Foote, an American student
• Lucinda Barbour Helm (1839–1897), American author, editor, women's religious activist
• Lucinda Jenney (born 1954), an American actress
• Lucinda Riley (1965–2021), Northern Irish author and actress
• Lucinda Todd (1903–1996), an African-American teacher and education activist.
• Lucinda Williams (born 1953), an American rock, folk and country music singer and songwriter
• Lucinda Williams (athlete) (born 1937), an American athlete
• Lucinda "Lucy" Sanders (born 1954), CEO and co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology
• Lucinda Hinsdale Stone (1814–1900), American feminist, educator, traveler, writer, philanthropist

Fictional characters[]

• Lucinda Walsh, a fictional character on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns
• Lucinda Embry, a haunted girl who predicted apocalyptic events through numerology in Knowing
• Lucinda Leplastrier, the heroine from Peter Carey's 1988 novel Oscar and Lucinda
• Lucinda Merrill, wife of protagonist Neddy Merrill in John Cheever's 1964 short story "The Swimmer"
• Lucinda, a fictional witch character in Sofia the First
• Lucinda Allen, RJ's childhood crush, and later, his girlfriend in "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins"
• Lucinda Perriweather, a well-meaning but misguided and often unhelpful fairy who gave the "gift" of obedience to Ella in "Ella Enchanted"
• Lucinda Mcmichal, a girl from Lucy talking

Songs[]

• "Lucinda", by Tom Waits from the album Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
• "Lucinda", by The Knack from the album Get the Knack
• "Lucinda", by Post Punk industrial funk band, A Certain Ratio, from the album

Others[]

• Lucinda, Queensland, a town in Australia
• Lucinda (steam yacht), a steam yacht of the Queensland Government

References[]

Name list

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