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Linda Carter (New Jersey politician)

Linda S. Carter is an American Democratic politician who has represented New Jersey's 22nd district in the General Assembly since 2018, after serving on the Plainfield City Council.

Linda Carty

Linda Carty, British national born 1958 in Saint Kitts, on Texas death row since 2002 for the 2001 kidnapping-murder of neighbor Joana Rodriguez; case contested over defense counsel and consular notification.

Linda Christian

Linda Christian (Blanca Rosa Henrietta Stella Welter Vorhauer, 1923–2011), Mexican-born Hollywood actress, MGM contract player, first Bond girl in the 1954 Casino Royale TV adaptation, wife of Tyrone Power, mother of Romina Power.

Linda Chung (钟嘉欣)

Linda Chung (鍾嘉欣/钟嘉欣, Zhong Jiaxin, born 1984, Vancouver) is a Canadian actress and singer; Miss Chinese International 2004, TVB dramas Heart of Greed and 星空下的仁医, gold 2008 debut album, left TVB in 2018.

Linda Cohn

Linda Cohn (born 1959) is an American sportscaster, ESPN SportsCenter anchor from July 1992 to June 30, 2026, with over 5,000 editions hosted, and the first full-time female national radio sports anchor (ABC, 1987).

Linda Coleman-Madison

Linda Coleman-Madison is an American politician and Democrat serving in the Alabama Senate from District 20, representing Birmingham, where she has sponsored voting rights restoration legislation.

Linda Cristal

Linda Cristal (Marta Victoria Moya, 1931–2020), Argentine-born actress; starred as Victoria Cannon in NBC's The High Chaparral (1967–71), winning a 1970 Golden Globe and earning two Emmy nominations.

Linda Cube

Linda Cube (リンダキューブ, Linda³) is Shoji Masuda's 1995 PC Engine "psycho thriller and hunting RPG" by Alfa System: capture two of every animal on Neo Kenya before a meteor hits; remade as Again (PS1, 1997) and Kanzenban (Saturn, 1998), Japan-only.

Linda Dano

Linda Dano (Linda Rae Wildermuth, born 1943) is an American actress and TV host, Emmy winner as Felicia Gallant on Another World (1983–1999), also Rae Cummings across ABC soaps, QVC fashion entrepreneur.

Linda Darnell

Linda Darnell (Monetta Eloyse Darnell, 1923–1965), American film actress under long-term Twentieth Century-Fox contract; starred in Blood and Sand, Forever Amber, A Letter to Three Wives, No Way Out; died in 1965 Glenview, Illinois house fire.

Linda Davis

Linda Davis (Linda Kaye Davis, born 1962) is an American country singer, Grammy winner for the 1993 No. 1 duet "Does He Love You" with Reba McEntire; also known for the Scott Family Christian albums with daughter Hillary Scott of Lady A.

Linda E. Wilbrecht

Linda E. Wilbrecht is a systems neuroscientist and professor at UC Berkeley known for research on basal ganglia decision-making circuits and adolescent brain development, and a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award.

Linda Emond

Linda Emond (born 1959) is an American stage, film, and television actor, a three-time Tony nominee for Life (x) 3, Death of a Salesman, and Cabaret, and an Obie and Lucille Lortel winner for Homebody/Kabul.

Linda Evangelista

Linda Evangelista, born 1965 in St. Catharines, Ontario, is a Canadian supermodel of the original 1990s era, the "chameleon" behind "The Linda" haircut, the $10,000-a-day quote, and over 700 magazine covers.

Linda Evans

Linda Evans (born 1942, Linda Evenstad) is the American actress known as Audra Barkley on The Big Valley and Krystle Carrington on Dynasty; not the Manchester education professor, the Macquarie Egyptologist, or the career coach.

Linda Fairstein

Linda Fairstein, former chief of the Manhattan DA's Sex Crimes Unit, oversaw the 1989 Central Park Five investigation, later became a bestselling crime novelist, and settled a 2024 defamation suit against Netflix over When They See Us.

Linda Fiorentino

Linda Fiorentino (born 1960, Philadelphia) is an American actress known for The Last Seduction (1994), Men in Black (1997), and Dogma (1999); her Oscar-bound breakthrough was voided by an HBO airing, and her last film role came in 2009.

Linda G. Alvarado

Linda G. Alvarado (born 1952) is an American entrepreneur who founded Alvarado Construction, a Denver general contractor, and became the first Hispanic owner of a Major League Baseball team.

Linda Ganzini

Linda Ganzini is an American psychiatrist and health services researcher at Oregon Health & Science University known for survey studies of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.

Linda Garcia (Texas politician)

Linda García is an American politician and Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 107, first elected in 2024 after 17 years in the television and film industry.

Linda Górecká

Linda Górecká (born 2003, Dětmarovice) is a Czech model and influencer, Miss Czech Republic 2025, who represented her country at Miss World 2026 in Vietnam; her charity focus is cancer patients and oncology awareness.

Linda Gorton

Linda Gorton is an American politician and registered Republican who has served as Mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, since 2019, after 16 years on the Urban County Council.

Linda Gray

Linda Gray (born 1940), American actress and director, best known as Sue Ellen Ewing on CBS's Dallas (1978–1991) and its TNT revival; 1981 Emmy nominee, former model whose legs appeared on The Graduate poster.

Linda Greenstein

Linda R. Greenstein is an American Democratic politician who has represented New Jersey's 14th district in the State Senate since 2009, after a decade in the General Assembly.

Linda Griffith

Linda Griffith (born 1948), British sprint hurdler for Mitcham AC; Surrey all-time U23 80m hurdles list, 11.2 at White City 1966; distinct from the Olivet Nazarene athlete and MIT researcher of the same name.

Linda Gustavson

Linda Gustavson (Linda Lee Gustavson, later McGuire), American swimmer born 1949 in Santa Cruz, California; won gold, silver, and bronze at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and set world records in the 200 m freestyle and 4x100 m freestyle relay.

Linda Ham

Linda Ham (née Hautzinger) is an American NASA manager who chaired the Mission Management Team during Columbia's 2003 STS-107 mission, which ended in the loss of the orbiter and its seven crew.

Linda Hamilton

Linda Hamilton, American actress from Salisbury, Maryland; Sarah Connor in the Terminator films, Catherine Chandler in Beauty and the Beast, and Dr. Kay in Stranger Things 5; Saturn and MTV award winner.

Linda Harrison

Linda Harrison, American actress born 1945 in Berlin, Maryland; played the mute Nova in Planet of the Apes (1968) and Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970); ex-wife of Fox executive Richard D. Zanuck; also in Cocoon and Airport 1975.

Linda Hazzard

Linda Burfield Hazzard (1867-1938), the 'Starvation Doctor' of Olalla, Washington, ran a fasting sanitarium called Starvation Heights; licensed as a Fasting Specialist without a medical degree, she was convicted of manslaughter in 1912 after at least 14 patients starved to death, and died during her own fast cure in 1938.