Lisa (given name)

The given name Lisa can be a short form of Elisabeth or Elizabeth. In the United Kingdom, the name Lisa began to gain popularity during the 1960s, by 1974 it was the fifth most popular female name there, and a decade later it was the 14th most popular female name there. However, by 1996 it had fallen out of the top 100.^[1] Similarly, in the US it was the most popular female name for most of the 1960s and in the top 10 through most of the 1970s before falling.

Notable people with the given name Lisa

• Lisa (French musician), Lisa Gautier, a French singer performing under the name "Lisa"
• LISA (Japanese musician, born 1974) stylized "LISA", Elizabeth Sakura Narita, former member of the Japanese hip-hop group m-flo
• Lisa Ann, American pornographic actress
• Lisa Arce, beach volleyball player
• Lisa Aukland, American professional bodybuilder and powerlifter
• Lisa Aziz, British television presenter
• Lisa Bonet, American actress
• Maja-Lisa Borgman, Swedish coffee house owner
• Lisa Burnett, founder and President of SPS
• Lisa Cross, IFBB professional British bodybuilder
• Lisa Curry-Kenny Australian Olympian swimmer
• Lisa D'Amato, a model and contestant in America's Next Top Model Cycle Five
• Lisa Dahlkvist, Swedish association football player
• Lisa Ekdahl, Swedish singer
• Lisa Erlandsdotter, Swedish artist
• Lisa Foiles, actress
• Lisa Germano, American singer/songwriter
• Lisa Gherardini, namesake and possible model for the Mona Lisa
• Lisa Gleave, actress and model
• Lisa M. Hansen, American producer, actress, assistant director, and writer
• Lisa Hughes, Boston TV newsanchor
• Lisa Kehler, English race walker
• Lisa Kelly (trucker), American trucker
• Lisa Kelly, Irish classical singer
• Lisa Kudrow, actress
• Lisa Lambe, Irish singer and performer
• Lisa Lampanelli, American comedian
• Lisa Lavie, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Lisa Leslie, basketball player
• Lisa Ling, American journalist
• Lisa Loeb, pop singer/songwriter
• Lisa Lopes, member of the female American R&B trio TLC
• Lisa Lucas, American actress and journalist
• Lisa McPherson, Scientologist
• Lisa Marie Presley, American singer and daughter of Elvis Presley
• Lisa Marx, guitarist and former member of Kittie
• Lisa McCune, Australian actress
• Lisa Mitchell, Australian musician
• Ivory (wrestler) neé Lisa Moretti, American retired professional wrestler and former WWE Diva
• Lisa Niemi, American actress, widow of Patrick Swayze
• Lisa Nowak, American astronaut; arrested under charges of attempted kidnap and attempted murder
• Lisa Origliasso, Australian musician, member of The Veronicas
• Lisa Powell, Australian field hockey forward
• Lisa Ray, Canadian actress
• Lisa Raymond, American tennis player
• Lisa Rinna, actress
• Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress
• Lisa Scott-Lee, British singer formerly of the pop group, Steps
• Lisa Sparxxx, American adult actress
• Lisa Marie (actress) neé Lisa Marie Smith, American model and actress, who uses simply Lisa Marie as her professional name
• Lisa Stansfield, British singer
• Lisa Steier, Swedish ballerina
• Lisa Tucker (singer), American singer
• Lisa Marie Varon, American female bodybuilder, fitness competitor, professional wrestler, TNA Knockout, and former WWE Diva
• Lisa Velez, singer, better known as Lisa Lisa
• Lisa Wallace, Big Brother 2009 contestant
• Lisa Walton, New Zealand field hockey player
• Lisa Wooding, English field-hockey player
• List of names starting with Lisa

Fictional characters

• Lisa, mythical girlfriend of the Internet Oracle
• Lisa, portrayed by Juliette Danielle, the female lead in Tommy Wiseau's film The Room
• Lisa in the film Weird Science
• Lisa (Dead or Alive), a character in the Dead or Alive video game series
• Lisa (1990 film), a 1990 film starring Cheryl Ladd, featuring a character named Lisa
• Lisa (2001 film), a 2001 film starring Marion Cotillard, featuring a character named Lisa
• Lisa, one of the protagonists of the book series featuring Gaspard and Lisa
• Lisa Braeden, a character in the television series Supernatural
• Lisa Cuddy, a chracter in House M.D
• Lisa Dingle, a character in the popular British soap opera Emmerdale
• Lisa Douglas, the socialite wife of Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s sitcom Green Acres
• Lisa Fortier, a fictional voodoo priestess portrayed by Pam Grier in the blaxploitation film Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
• Lisa Carol Fremont, a character played by Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock's film Rear Window (1954)
• Lisa Garland, a character in the video game franchise Silent Hill
• Lisa Grimaldi, a character in the soap opera As The World Turns
• Lisa Haglund, a character of the Bert Diaries novels series
• Lisa Hayes, a main character in the Robotech television series
• Lisa Niles, a character in the American soap opera General Hospital
• Lisa Rowe, a charismatic sociopath portrayed by Angelina Jolie in the film Girl, Interrupted
• Lisa Simpson, character in the TV Show The Simpsons
• Lisa Turtle, a character in the teen show Saved by the Bell
• Lisa Watmough, a character in Robert Swindells's book Room 13
• Lisa Loud from The Loud House
• Princess Lisa, a character in Tolstoy's book War and Peace

See also

• Leeza Gibbons, American talk show host
• Liisa (given name)
• Lisa (disambiguation)
• Lisa (surname)
• Lyssa Chapman, American bounty hunter

References