Selina
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, American former professional boxer
- Selina Brown, British author and founder of the Black British Book Festival
- Selina Büchel, Swiss middle-distance runner
- Selina Chow, Hong Kong politician and broadcaster
- Selina Cooper, English suffragist
- Selina Cossgrove, one of the early developers of the Girl Peace Scouts movement in New Zealand
- Selina Egle, Austrian luger
- Selina Fillinger, American playwright, TV writer, and screenwriter
- Selina Foote, New Zealand artist
- Selina Gasparin, Swiss biathlete
- Selina Griffiths, British actress
- Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Christian revivalist, Methodist
- Selina Hastings, British biographer and journalist
- Selina Hornibrook, Australian netball player
- Selina Hossain, Bangladeshi novelist
- Selina Jen, Taiwanese girl-band member
- Selina Jenkinson, British aristocrat
- Selina Jörg, German snowboarder
- Selina Kuruleca, Fijian psychotherapist and commentator
- Selina Leem, Marshallese climate change activist and spoken word performer
- Selina Özuzun Doğan, Turkish politician
- Selina Perera, Sri Lankan Sinhala Trotskyist
- Selina Robinson, Canadian politician from British Columbia
- Selina Scott, English newsreader, journalist, television producer and presenter
- Selina Siggins, Australian trade unionist and politician
- Selina Tusitala Marsh, Pasifika poet-scholar
- Selina Zumbühl, Swiss football midfielder
Variants
- A Spanish version of the name is Selena.
- A Greek version of the name is Σελένα.
- A French version of the name is Sélene.
- 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, 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, a ballet for Sadler's Wells, choreographed by Andrée Howard to music by Rossini.