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Linda Henry
Linda Henry (Linda Valiris, née Henry), English actress born 1959 in Peckham, London; played Yvonne Atkins in Bad Girls (1999–2003) and Shirley Carter in EastEnders (2006–2022), after an earlier role as Lorraine Salter (1991–92), and Sandra in Beautiful Thing (1996).
Linda Hogan (TV personality)
Linda Hogan (Linda Marie Claridge), American TV personality and author, ex-wife of Hulk Hogan; starred on VH1's Hogan Knows Best (2005-2007), published Wrestling the Hulk memoir in 2011, runs Sunny Girl Avocados.
Linda Holmes
Linda Holmes is an American Democratic politician who has represented Illinois' 42nd Senate district since 2007, serves as Assistant Majority Leader, and is retiring at the end of her term.
Linda Hunt
Linda Hunt, born 1945 in Morristown, New Jersey, is an American actor who won the 1984 Best Supporting Actress Oscar as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously, the first actor to win for playing the opposite sex, and played Hetty Lange on NCIS: Los Angeles.
Linda Ikeji
Linda Ikeji (Linda Ifeoma Ikeji), Nigerian blogger born 1980 in Nkwerre, Imo State; founder of Linda Ikeji's Blog (2006), one of Nigeria's most-visited entertainment news sites, later expanded into TV, music, film and social networking.
Linda Jezek
Linda Jezek (Linda Louise Jezek-Witwer), American backstroke swimmer born 1960 in Palo Alto; 1976 Olympic medley relay silver, 1978 world champion and 200 m backstroke world record holder (2:11.93), 1980 U.S. Olympic team member.
Linda Johnson Blair
Linda Johnson Blair (Linda Marie Johnson-Blair), born 1971 in Fort St. John, British Columbia, is a Canadian long track speed skater who competed at the 1994 Lillehammer (500 m, 26th) and 1998 Nagano Olympics (500 m 13th, 1,000 m 21st). Not the American speed skater Bonnie Blair.
Linda Kasabian
Linda Kasabian (Linda Darlene Drouin, later Chiochios), Manson Family member and getaway driver for the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, was the immune star witness whose 18 days of 1970 trial testimony convicted Manson and three followers; she died in 2023.
Linda Kaye Henning
Linda Kaye Henning (born 1944) is an American actress, daughter of producer Paul Henning, best known as Betty Jo Bradley in all 222 episodes of Petticoat Junction (1963-1970), billed as Linda Kaye; later TV guest roles, stage musicals, and California Artists Radio Theatre.
Linda Kozlowski
Linda Kozlowski, also known for Sue Charlton and 'Crocodile' Dundee, is an American actress and former opera-trained Juilliard graduate; her films include Crocodile Dundee II, Almost an Angel, and Village of the Damned, and she now runs a Morocco travel company.
Linda L. Emanuel
Linda L. Emanuel is an American physician, medical ethicist, and psychoanalyst at Northwestern University known for research on advance directives and founding the EPEC program.
Linda L. Randall
Linda L. Randall is an American biochemist known for defining the role of the chaperone SecB in protein export in E. coli, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.
Linda Lavin
Linda Lavin (1937–2024) was an American actress and singer, Tony winner for Broadway Bound and star of the CBS sitcom Alice (1976–1985) as waitress Alice Hyatt, earning an Emmy nomination and two Golden Globes.
Linda Lee Cadwell
Linda Lee Cadwell (Linda C. Emery, born 1945), American teacher and writer, widow of Bruce Lee; author of the 1975 memoir Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew, consultant on Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, and Bruce Lee Foundation co-founder.
Linda Linda
"Linda Linda" (リンダリンダ) is the debut single by Japanese punk band The Blue Hearts, released in May 1987 and written by vocalist Hiroto Kōmoto, now a defining anthem of the late-1980s Japanese band boom.
Linda Linda Linda (リンダ リンダ リンダ)
Linda Linda Linda (リンダ リンダ リンダ) is a 2005 Japanese youth film by Nobuhiro Yamashita in which three high school girls recruit Korean exchange student Son (Bae Doona) as vocalist and learn three Blue Hearts songs in three days for the school festival.
Linda Lopez (federal judge)
Linda Lopez, born 1968, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of California since 2021, nominated by President Biden.
Linda Lovelace
Linda Lovelace (Linda Susan Boreman, 1949-2002), American pornographic actress, star of Deep Throat (1972), later anti-pornography advocate and author of Ordeal; died in Denver after a car crash.
Linda Lusardi
Linda Lusardi (born 1958, London) is an English actress, presenter, and former glamour model; Page 3 star of The Sun (1976–1988), Carrie Nicholls in Emmerdale, wife of actor Sam Kane.
Linda M. Hendershot
Linda M. Hendershot is a cell biologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital known for her work on the ER chaperone BiP and protein folding.
Linda Mackenzie
Linda June MacKenzie, Australian freestyle swimmer born 1983 in Mackay, Queensland; won 4x200m freestyle relay gold at Beijing 2008 in world record 7:44.31; also competed at Athens 2004.
Linda Manz
Linda Manz (1961–2020) was an American actress known for Days of Heaven (1978), whose improvised narration she recorded, and for starring as Cebe in Dennis Hopper's Out of the Blue (1980); she returned in Gummo and The Game (1997) and died of lung cancer at 58.
Linda Manzanilla
Linda Manzanilla, born in New York in 1951, is a Mexican archaeologist and Egyptologist at UNAM known for long-term excavations at Teotihuacan, especially the Teopancazco neighborhood center.
Linda McCartney
Linda McCartney (née Eastman, 1941–1998), American photographer, first woman on Rolling Stone's cover (1968), Wings keyboardist 1971–1981, vegetarian food entrepreneur, wife of Paul McCartney.
Linda McMahon
Linda McMahon, co-founder and former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, is the 13th United States Secretary of Education and previously led the Small Business Administration under President Trump.
Linda Miller (actress)
Linda Miller, birth name Linda Mae Gleason, is an American film, stage, and television actress, daughter of Jackie Gleason and mother of Jason Patric, known for Alice, Sweet Alice.
Linda Moulton Howe
Linda Moulton Howe, American investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker (reported birth 1942, Boise, Idaho), founder of Earthfiles, known for animal-mutilation reporting, the 1980 Emmy-winning A Strange Harvest, and Ancient Aliens appearances.
Linda Nazar
Linda Faye Nazar is a Canadian electrochemist and materials chemist at the University of Waterloo known for lithium–sulfur batteries; she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2020.
Linda Ness
Linda Ann Ness is an American mathematician who earned her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1975 under David Mumford and is known for the Kempf–Ness theorem.
Linda Nicholls
Linda Carol Nicholls is a Canadian Anglican bishop who served as the 14th Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada from 2019 to 2024, its first woman primate.