Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor.

Lydia may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

  • Lydia (band), an indie rock band
  • Lydia (singer), Spanish pop singer Lydia Rodríguez Fernández (born 1980)
  • Lydia, a 1974 album by Cold Blood
  • "Lydia" (Fur Patrol song), 2000
  • "Lydia" (Highly Suspect song), 2015
  • "Lydia", a 1978 song by Dean Friedman
  • "Lydia", a song from the 1979 album Back in Your Life by Jonathan Richman
  • "Lydia", a song from the 2004 album F.I.R. by F.I.R.
  • "Lydia", an 1871 composition by Gabriel Fauré
  • "Lydia the Tattooed Lady," a 1939 signature tune of Groucho Marx

Other arts and entertainment

  • Lydia (film), a 1941 drama starring Merle Oberon
  • Lydia (play), a 2008 play by Octavio Solis
  • HMS Lydia, a fictional ship commanded by Horatio Hornblower in The Happy Return, a novel by C.S. Forester

People and fictional characters

  • Lydia (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
  • Giota Lydia (born 1934), Greek Laiko singer
  • Lydia of Thyatira, a woman mentioned in the New Testament in Acts 16

Biology

  • Lydia, a genus of crabs

Places

United States

  • Lydia, Kansas, an unincorporated community
  • Lydia, Louisiana, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
  • Lydia, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
  • Lydia, South Carolina, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
  • Lydia, Virginia, an unincorporated community

Elsewhere

  • Lydia (satrapy), an administrative province of the ancient Achaemenid Empire
  • Lydia Mountain, British Columbia, Canada
  • Mount Lydia, New Zealand
  • 110 Lydia, an asteroid

Ships

  • Lydia (whaling bark), a wrecked ship beneath King Street in San Francisco, California, US
  • , an Australian coastal passenger ship renamed Lydia in 1955 and Le Lydia in 1967
  • USS Lydia (SP-62), a patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919
  • USS Lydia (ID-3524), a cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919

See also

  • "Lydia the Tattooed Lady", a 1939 song written by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg
  • Lidia (disambiguation)
  • Lydian (disambiguation)