Candida (given name)
Candida, Cândida or Cándida is a feminine given name from Latin candidus. Notable people with the name include:
- Cándida Arias, Dominican Republic volleyball player
- Cândida Branca Flor, Portuguese entertainer and traditional singer
- Candida Cave, British artist and writer
- Candida Donadio, American literary agent
- Candida Doyle, Irish keyboard player with the band Pulp
- Candida Gertler, British art collector
- Candida Lycett Green, Irish-born British author
- Candida Höfer, German photographer
- Candida Moss, British intellectual, journalist, New Testament scholar, and professor of theology
- Candida Royalle, American pornographic producer-director and actress
- Candida Thompson, English violinist
- Candida Tobin, British author of a music education system
- Saint Candida the Elder, early Christian saint from Naples
- Cándida María de Jesús, Spanish nun
- Maria Candida of the Eucharist, Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, beatified by Pope John Paul II
- Candida Xu, Chinese Catholic and philanthropist