Albina (given name)
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Albina is a feminine Tatar
Tatar language
The Tatar language , or more specifically Kazan Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars of historical Kazan Khanate, including modern Tatarstan and Bashkiria...

, Italian
Italian language
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, Polish
Polish language
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, Galician
Galician language
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, Kyrgyz
Kyrgyz language
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 ("girl who brings happiness"), and Slovene given name
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 from the Roman
Ancient Rome
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 cognate
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 Albinus, derived from the Latin
Latin
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 albus, meaning "white" or "bright". There are masculine
Masculine
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 variants including Albin in Poland
Poland
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, Scandinavia
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, and Slovenia
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; and Aubin
Aubin (name)
Aubin is a masculine French given name variant of Albin, from the Roman cognate Albinus, derived from the Latin albus, meaning "white" or "bright". It is also common as a surname...

in France
France
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. In Estonia, France, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Sweden March 1 is Albina’s Name day
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. Albina is uncommon as a surname
Surname
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. People with the given name Albina include:
  • Albina Akhatova
    Albina Akhatova
    Albina Khamitovna Akhatova is a Russian biathlete.At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, she won bronze medals in the 10 km pursuit and 15 km individual; she originally finished fourth in the individual but was promoted when her teammate Olga Pyleva was disqualified after failing a doping...

     (born 1976), Russian biathlete
  • Albina Digaeva (born 1978), Chechen-American human rights activist, student, and former refugee
  • Albina Dzhanabaeva
    Albina Dzhanabaeva
    Albina Borisovna Dzhanabaeva is a Russian singer. She completed music school majoring in piano and also in the department of musical theatre at the Gnesynikh Institute. Then, in 1999 she traveled to Korea to take part in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves where she sang the part of the foreign Snow...

     (born 1979), Chechen-Russian singer, soloist of popular Ukrainian/Russian group Nu Virgos
    Nu Virgos
    Nu Virgos is the name used to promote the group VIA Gra outside of Russia, Ukraine and other nearby countries. The name VIA Gra is both a reference to the drug Viagra and a play on words, since the first three letters stand for "vocal-instrumental ensemble" in Ukrainian, and "gra" means "game" in...

  • Albina Guarnieri
    Albina Guarnieri
    Albina Guarnieri, PC, MP is a former politician. She was a member of Paul Martin's Liberal government and was Canada's 24th Minister of Veterans Affairs...

     (born 1953), Canadian politician
  • Albina du Boisrouvray
    Albina du Boisrouvray
    Albina du Boisrouvray is a former journalist and film producer who has become a global philanthropist and social entrepreneur working with AIDS orphans and vulnerable children around the world. She is a grandchild of the Bolivian King of Tin, Simón Patiño, who was one of the wealthiest men in the...

     (born 1941), French former journalist and film producer who has become a global philanthropist and social entrepreneur
  • Albina Kamaletdinova
    Albina Kamaletdinova
    Albina Kamaletdinova is an athlete from Tajikistan who competes in archery.-2008 Summer Olympics:At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Kamaletdinova finished her ranking round with a total of 547 points. This gave her the 63rd seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Yun Ok-Hee...

     (born 1969), Tajik
    Tajikistan
    Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

     Olympic archer
  • Albina Osipowich
    Albina Osipowich
    Albina Lucy Charlotte Osipowich Van Aiken was an American swimmer, with Lithuanian or Belarusian roots, who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics....

    (born 1911), American-Lithuanian two time Olympic Gold Medal winner
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