Arts and Music

• ''Lydia, The Tattooed Lady''
  • Words and music by Harold Arlen (see list of Names in Song titles)
• Lydia Lili'uokalani (born 1838, died 1917)

  Last reigning monarch of Hawaii, 1891-93.

  • Wrote ''''Aloha Oe'''' and other works blending aspects of Western and traditional Hawaiian music (see list of Composers of the 20th Century)

Leadership

• Lydia Lili'uokalani (born 1838, died 1917)

  Last reigning monarch of Hawaii, 1891-93.

  • Deposed by American troops in 1893; later placed under house arrest when she tried to regin the throne (see list of Miscellaneous Political Leaders)

Miscellaneous

• Lydia

  Rich woman converted and baptized by Paul at Philippi.

  • Appears in Acts (see list of Biblical Names from the New Testament)

Sports

• Lydia Skoblikova

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1960 Olympic speed skating gold medal winner for 1500m and 3000m; 1964 gold medal winner for 500m, 1000m, 1500m, and 3000m (see list of Olympic Gold Medalists in Speed Skating)
• Lydia Wideman

  Finnish athlete.

  • 1952 Olympic Nordic skiing gold medal winner for 10km Cross-country (see list of Olympic Gold Medalists in Cross-country Skiing)

Stage and Screen

• Lydia Brenner

  Fictional character.

  • Played by Jessica Tandy (see list of Character from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds)
• Lydia

  Fictional character.

  • Portrayed by Blythe Danner (see list of Characters in the film Another Woman)
• Lydia Wright, RN

  Fictional character.

  • Portrayed by Ellen Crawford (see list of Characters on ''ER'')
• Lydia Summers

  Fictional character.

  • Character on the soap opera ''''The Young and the Restless'''' (see list of Characters on ''The Young and the Restless'')

The Literary World

• Lydia Bennet

  Fictional character

  • A character in Jane Austen''s novel, Pride and Prejudice (see list of Characters from the Classics)
• Lydia Brown

  Fictional character.

  • Character in The Clansman by Thomas Dixon (see list of Characters in Literature of the American South)