Selina () is a feminine given name, considered either a variant of Selene, the goddess and personification of the Moon in Greek mythology and religion, or a spelling variation of the name Celina, which is derived from the Roman name Cecilia, referring to a woman from the Caecilia gens. This spelling variant had begun to be used in the United Kingdom by the 1600s.

People

  • Selina Barrios (born 1993), American former professional boxer
  • Selina Brown, British author and founder of the Black British Book Festival
  • Selina Büchel (born 1991), Swiss middle-distance runner
  • Selina Chow (born 1945), Hong Kong politician and broadcaster
  • Selina Cooper (1864–1946), English suffragist
  • Selina Cossgrove (1849–1929), one of the early developers of the Girl Peace Scouts movement in New Zealand
  • Selina Egle (born 2003), Austrian luger
  • Selina Fillinger (born 1994), American playwright, TV writer, and screenwriter
  • Selina Foote (born 1985), New Zealand artist
  • Selina Gasparin (born 1984), Swiss biathlete
  • Selina Griffiths (born 1969), British actress
  • Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707–1791), English Christian revivalist, Methodist
  • Selina Hastings (Lady Selina Shirley Hastings, born 1945), British biographer and journalist
  • Selina Hornibrook (born 1978), Australian netball player
  • Selina Hossain (born 1947), Bangladeshi novelist
  • Selina Jen (born 1981), Taiwanese girl-band member
  • Selina Jenkinson (1812–1883), British aristocrat
  • Selina Johnson (born 1951), American golf instructor and youth advocate
  • Selina Jörg (born 1988), German snowboarder
  • Selina Kuruleca, Fijian psychotherapist and commentator
  • Selina Leem, Marshallese climate change activist and spoken word performer
  • Selina Özuzun Doğan (born 1988), Turkish politician
  • Selina Peratrovich (1889/1890 – 1984), Haida weaver
  • Selina Perera (1909–1986), Sri Lankan Sinhala Trotskyist
  • Selina Robinson (born c. 1964), Canadian politician from British Columbia
  • Selina Scott (born 1951), English newsreader, journalist, television producer and presenter
  • Selina Siggins (1878–1964), Australian trade unionist and politician
  • Selina Tusitala Marsh (born 1971), Pasifika poet-scholar
  • Selina Zhumatayeva (born 1998), Kazakhstani rhythmic gymnast

Variants

  • A Spanish version of the name is Selena.
  • A Greek version of the name is Σελένα.
  • A French version of the name is Sélène.
  • A Hebrew version of the name is סלינה.
  • A Turkish version of the name is Selin.

Fictional characters

  • Selina Peake De Jong, the protagonist of Edna Ferber's novel So Big
  • Selina Kyle (disambiguation), alter ego of the original Catwoman, the DC Comics character
  • Selina Meyer, protagonist of the HBO television comedy series Veep
  • Selina Roberts, from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
  • Selina, the secondary antagonist in the sixth season of Winx Club
  • Selina Khan, main character from CBBC's Wolfblood
  • Selina D'Arcey, main character from 1965 American film A Patch of Blue
  • Selina Plymdale, a character in Middlemarch - a novel by English author George Eliot

Other

  • Selina, a novel by German author Jean Paul, published posthumously in 1827
  • Selina (1948), a ballet for Sadler's Wells, choreographed by Andrée Howard to music by Rossini.

See also

  • Celina (disambiguation)
  • Céline (disambiguation)
  • Selene (disambiguation)
  • Selenia (moth), a genus of moths
  • Selena (disambiguation)
  • Tselina (disambiguation)
  • Selin (disambiguation)

Notes

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