Leda may refer to:

Mythology

  • Leda (mythology), queen of Sparta and mother of Helen of Troy in Greek mythology

Places

  • Leda, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia
  • Leda makeshift settlement, Bangladesh, a refugee camp for Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in Myanmar
  • Leda, Burkina Faso, a town
  • Leda, Adamawa State, Nigeria, a village - see List of villages in Adamawa State
  • Leda (river), a tributary of the Ems in Germany
  • Leda Ridge, Antarctica

Astronomy

  • Leda (moon), a moon of Jupiter
  • 38 Leda, an asteroid
  • Leda, the original proposed name for exoplanet Thestias
  • Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database, an astronomical catalog of galaxies
  • Large Aperture Experiment to Detect the Dark Ages, a radio interferometer

Entertainment

  • Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko, a 1985 Japanese OVA
  • Web of Passion, a French film released in the US as Leda
  • Project Leda, a set of female clones in the TV series Orphan Black

Ships

  • Leda-class frigate, a type of frigate in the British Royal Navy
  • HMS Leda, six ships of the British Royal Navy
  • TS Leda, a North Sea ferry
  • Leda (1807 ship), an English merchant ship and West Indiaman

Persons

  • Leda Cosmides (born 1957), American psychologist
  • Leda Gloria (1912–1997), Italian film actress
  • Leda Luss Luyken (born 1952), Greek/American conceptual artist, who lives and works in Germany
  • Leda Mileva (1920–2013), Bulgarian writer, translator and diplomat
  • Leda Nagle (born 1951), Brazilian journalist and TV presenter
  • Leda Sanford (born 1933), author, speaker, former publisher and former advertising director
  • Ferdinando Leda (born 1980), Brazilian football player

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Fictional

  • Leda, a character portrayed by Christine Halford in the Battlestar Galactica episode "Gun on Ice Planet Zero" -->

Other uses

  • Leda clay, also called quick clay, a unique form of marine clay
  • LEDA, ICAO code for Lleida–Alguaire Airport
  • Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms (LEDA)
  • Leda, genus of Algae

See also

  • Leda and the Swan (disambiguation)