Callista Explained

Callista, also spelled Calista, Callistee, Kallista, Kalista and Kallistee, comes from the Greek for "most beautiful (feminine)" (καλλίστη – kallístē).

Callista may refer to:

Nature

Callista (bivalve), a genus of bivalves
Callista Lour., a synonym of Dendrobium, an orchid genus
Callista D.Don, a synonym of Erica, a heath or heather genus

Entertainment

A character, the presumed ancestor of Deputy Mayor Callie Briggs
Callista (novel), 1855 novel by John Henry Newman
Callista Ming, a character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
A main character from the video game The Last Story

People

Callista Balko, American athlete
Callista Chimombo, Malawian politician
Calista Flockhart, American actress
Callista Gingrich, wife of Newt Gingrich
Callista Roy, American nursing theorist
Callista Carter, Canadian massuse

Science

204 Kallisto, an S-type asteroid which was discovered in 1879
Callisto (moon), one of the moons of Jupiter, discovered in 1610

Places

Kallista, Victoria, a town in Australia
Kalista, a village in south-western Bulgaria

Other

Panther Kallista, a retro-style automobile manufactured by Panther Westwinds from 1982 to 1993
Calista (steamboat), a small steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet
RV Callista Southampton University research vessel

See also