Lisa Explained

Lisa or LISA may refer to:

People

People with the mononym

• Lisa Lisa (born 1967), American actress and lead singer of the Cult Jam
• Lisa (Japanese musician, born 1974), Japanese singer and producer, stylized "LISA"
• Lisa Komine (born 1978), Japanese singer formerly known as Lisa, stylized "lisa"
• Lisa (South Korean singer) (born 1980), South Korean singer and musical theatre actress
• Lisa (Japanese musician, born 1987), Japanese singer, stylized "LiSA"
• Lisa (rapper) (born 1997), Thai rapper, member of K-pop group Blackpink
• Lisa (French musician) (born 1997), French singer and actress

People with the name

• Lisa (given name), a feminine given name
• Lisa (surname), a list of notable people with the surname

Places

Romania

• Lisa, Brașov
• Lisa, Teleorman
• Lisa, a village in Schitu, Olt
• Lisa River

United States

• Fort Lisa (Nebraska) (1812–1823), a trading post in the US
• Fort Lisa (North Dakota) (1809–1812), a trading post in the US

Elsewhere

• Lisa, Ivanjica, a municipality in Serbia
• Lisa, Ogun, a village in Ifo, Ogun State, Nigeria
• La Lisa, a municipality of Havana, Cuba

Arts, entertainment and media

Films

• Lisa (1962 film) or The Inspector, a drama starring Stephen Boyd and Dolores Hart
• Lisa (1990 film), a crime thriller film starring Staci Keanan and Cheryl Ladd
• Lisa (2001 film), a French romantic war film starring Marion Cotillard
• Lisa, an Indian Malayalam-language film series
  • Lisa (1978 film), first in the series
  • Veendum Lisa (1987), second in the series
• Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, an American band

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Lisa (TV series)
• "Lisa", a 1960 single by Jeanne Black
• , a post-apocalyptic role-playing video game
• Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, an American band
• "Lisa", a main lyric theme by Franz Waxman from the Rear Window film
• Lisa Amma or Lisamma, a fictional character in Indian films including Lisammayude Veedu (2006)

Organizations

• LISA Academy (Little Scholars of Arkansas), a public charter high school in Little Rock, Arkansas
• Localization Industry Standards Association, from 1990 to 2011 a Swiss-based trade body concerning the translation of computer software
• Louisiana Independent School Association, a defunct athletic association of segregation academies

Science and technology

Computing

• Lisa (computer chip), graphics assistance chip in the Amiga computer in 1992
• LISA (Language for Instruction Set Architecture)
• LISA (organization), the USENIX special interest group for system administrators
• Apple Lisa computer, the precursor to the Apple Macintosh
• Library and Information Science Abstracts, an abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals
• Lisa assembler, a 6502 assembler for Apple II
• LISA+, a traffic engineering software package for microsimulation
• Lisp-based Intelligent Software Agents, a production-rule system implemented in the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS)

Other uses in science and technology

• Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, previously called eLISA (Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), a planned European-American Space Agency space mission designed to measure gravitational waves
  • LISA Pathfinder, a technology demonstrator for eLISA
• Local indicators of spatial association, statistics that evaluate the existence of clusters in the spatial arrangement of a given variable
• Tropical Storm Lisa (disambiguation), various hurricanes, cyclones and a tropical storm

Other uses

• Lisa (mythology), a creator deity in Dahomeyan religion
• Liaison Interne Satellite Aérogare, one of the two shuttle rail lines of CDGVAL at Charles de Gaulle International Airport
• Lifetime ISA, a UK savings and investment product

See also

• Elizabeth (disambiguation)
• Leesa (disambiguation)
• Liisa (given name)
• Liza (disambiguation)