Selina Explained
Selina is a feminine given name, considered either a variant of Selene, the goddess and personification of the Moon in Greek mythology and religion, or a spelling variation of the name Celina, which is derived from the Roman name Cecilia, referring to a woman from the Caecilia gens. This spelling variant had begun to be used in the United Kingdom by the 1600s.[1]
People
- Selina Büchel (born 1991), Swiss middle-distance runner
- Selina Chow (born 1945), Hong Kong politician and broadcaster
- Selina Cooper (1864–1946), English suffragist
- Selina Cossgrove (1849 - 1929), one of the early developers of the Girl Peace Scouts movement in New Zealand
- Selina Foote (born 1985), New Zealand artist
- Selina Gasparin (born 1984), Swiss biathlete
- Selina Griffiths (born 1969), British actress
- Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707–1791), English Christian revivalist, Methodist
- Selina Hastings (Lady Selina Shirley Hastings, born 1945), British biographer and journalist
- Selina Hornibrook (born 1978), Australian netball player
- Selina Hossain (born 1947), Bangladeshi novelist
- Selina Jen (born 1981), Taiwanese girl-band member
- Selina Jörg (born 1988), German snowboarder
- Selina Kuruleca, Fijian psychotherapist and commentator
- Selina Leem, Marshallese climate change activist and spoken word performer
- Selina Perera (1909-1986), Sri Lankan Sinhala Trotskyist
- Selina Robinson (born c. 1964), Canadian politician from British Columbia
- Selina Scott (born 1951), English newsreader, journalist, television producer and presenter
- Selina Siggins (1878–1964), Australian trade unionist and politician
- Selina Tusitala Marsh (born 1971), Pasifika poet-scholar
- Selina Zumbühl (born 1983), Swiss football midfielder
Variants
- A Spanish version of the name is Selena.
- A Greek version of the name is Σελένα.
- A French version of the name is Sélene.
- A Hebrew version of the name is סלינה.
- A Turkish version of the name is Selin.
Fictional characters
- Selina Peake De Jong, the protagonist of Edna Ferber's novel So Big
- Selina Kyle (disambiguation), alter ego of the original Catwoman, the DC Comics character
- Selina Meyer, protagonist of the HBO television comedy series Veep
- Selina Roberts, from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
- Selina, the secondary antagonist in the sixth season of Winx Club
- Selina Khan, main character from CBBC's Wolfblood
- Selina D'Arcey, main character from 1965 American film A Patch of Blue
- Selina Plymdale, a character in Middlemarch - a novel by English author George Eliot
Other
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Hanks. Patrick. Hardcastle. Kate . Hodges. Flavia. 2006. Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press . 243. 0-19-861060-2.
