Candida (given name)
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Candida, Cândida or Cándida is a feminine given name from Latin candidus (white). It may refer to :
- Cándida AriasCandida AriasCándida Estefany Arias Pérez is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won the bronze medal with her native country at the 2008 NORCECA Girls' U18 Volleyball Continental Championship in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico wearing the number #15 jersey.-Career:She debuted with her senior...
(born 1992), a volleyball player from the Dominican Republic - Cândida Branca FlorCândida Branca FlorCândida Branca Flor was a Portuguese entertainer and traditional singer whose career spanned for decades before ending in suicide.-Biography:...
(1949–2001), a Portuguese entertainer and traditional singer - Candida CaveCandida CaveCandida Cave is an artist and writer. Her plays have been performed in London and Italy, and include Still Lives, Savonarola, Bonfires and Vanities and Lotte's Journey. Together with Nicholas Cochrane, she founded Fine Arts College London, in 1978.-References:...
, a British artist and writer - Candida DoyleCandida DoyleCandida Doyle is a keyboard player and occasional backing vocalist with the band Pulp, which she joined in 1984...
(born 1963), an Irish keyboard player and occasional backing vocalist with the band Pulp - Candida Lycett GreenCandida Lycett GreenCandida Lycett Green is the author of sixteen books including English Cottages, Goodbye London, The Perfect English House, Over the Hills and Far Away and The Dangerous Edge of Things. Her television documentaries include “The Englishwoman and the Horse” and “The Front Garden”...
(born 1942), an Irish-born British author - Candida HöferCandida HöferCandida Höfer is a Cologne, Germany-based photographer and a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Like other Becher students – Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth – Höfer's work is known for technical perfection and a strictly Conceptual approach...
(born 1944), a German photographer - Candida RoyalleCandida RoyalleCandida Royalle is an American producer and director of couples-oriented pornography and a former pornographic actress. She is member of the XRCO and the AVN Halls of Fame....
, an American pornographic producer-director and former pornographic actress - Candida ThompsonCandida Thompson-Biography:Candida Thompson was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She has been living in Amsterdam since 1992. She studied with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she received her soloist's graduation diploma with honour. She developed her qualities further at the...
(born 1967), an English violinist - Candida TobinCandida TobinCandida Tobin, Hon FTCL, LTCL , was the author of the Tobin Method, a music education system for teaching music theory and practice to students of all ages and abilities.-Personal Life:...
(1926–2008), an author of a music education system - Saint Candida the ElderCandida the ElderSaint Candida the Elder was an early Christian saint and resident of Naples, Italy. The elderly woman was cured of an illness by Saint Peter and converted to Christianity. She was baptized by Peter and later converted Aspren, the first bishop of Naples, to Christianity.She is one of the patron...
(died 78 AD), an early Christian saint and resident of Naples, Italy - Cándida María de JesúsCandida Maria de JesusSaint Candida Maria of Jesus, F.I., , was a Spanish Religious Sister and educator. She founded the Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus on December 8, 1871 in Salamanca, Spain.-Life:...
(1845–1912), a Spanish nun - Maria Candida of the EucharistMaria Candida of the EucharistBlessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist, O.C.D., was a Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, beatified by Pope John Paul II. The daughter of an appellate court judge, Pietro Barba, the family home was in Palermo, Sicily, but she was born in Catanzaro, Italy, during a brief assignment of her father to that...
(1884–1949), a Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, beatified by Pope John Paul II