Yolanda (name)
Yolanda is a female given name from Western Europe and North America, derived from the Greek name Iolanthe meaning "Violet". In German and Dutch the name is spoken similarly but traditionally spelled Jolanda, and in Italian, Portuguese and Romanian Iolanda. Yolonda is an African-American spelling of the name. Cognates are the Czech and Slovak Jolantha and the Polish Jolanta.
Notable people and characters named Yolanda include:
Real people
- Yolanda of Flanders, ruler of the Latin Empire in Constantinople
- Yolanda of Vianden, prioress of Marienthal, Luxembourg, granddaughter of the former
- Yolanda (or Violant) of Hungary, queen consort of James I of Aragon
- Yolanda of Hungary, daughter of Béla IV of Hungary, niece of the former
- Yolanda of Savoy, Italian princess
- Yolanda, an alias of Symbionese Liberation Army member Emily Harris
- Yolanda Adams, American gospel singer
- Yolanda Andrade, Mexican photographer
- Yolanda Andrade, Mexican television personality
- Yolanda Bako, American activist against domestic violence
- Yolanda Bejarano, American union organizer
- YolanDa Brown, British saxophonist
- Yolanda Brown, American singer
- Yolanda Bonnell, Canadian actress and playwright
- Yolanda Cabrera, Mexican artist
- Yolanda Caballero, Colombian long-distance runner
- Yolanda Carenzo, Argentinian pianist
- Yolanda Casazza, American dancer of the Veloz and Yolanda ballroom dancing team
- Yolanda Charles, British musician
- Yolanda Chen, Russian athlete
- Yolanda Ciani, Mexican actress
- Yolanda Cuomo, American artist, educator, and art director
- Yolanda Díaz, Spanish politician
- Yolanda Foster, Dutch American television personality
- Yolanda George-David, Nigerian medical doctor
- Iolanda or Yolanda Gigliotti, known as Dalida, Italian-French singer
- Yolanda Griffith, American basketball player
- Yolanda Gutiérrez, Mexican and German dancer, choreographer and installation artist
- Yolanda Hadid, American television personality and model
- Yolanda Hamilton (footballer), Jamaican footballer
- Yolanda van Heezik, New Zealand professor of zoology
- Yolanda Henry, American track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump
- Yolanda Jones, Puerto Rican basketballer
- Yolanda Jurado, Spanish para-swimmer
- Yolanda King, oldest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King
- Yolanda Klug, missing German who disappeared in 2019
- Yolanda Kondonassis, American classical harpist
- Yolanda Marculescu, Romanian opera singer
- Yolanda Martín, Spanish boccia player
- Yolanda McClean, Canadian library technician and trade unionist
- Yolanda Mero-Irion, Hungarian-American pianist, opera and theatre impresario, and philanthropist
- Yolanda Mohalyi, Hungarian-born Brazilian painter and stained glass artist
- Yolanda Moore, American basketballer and post-game radio analyst
- Yolanda Murphy, American cultural anthropologist, co-author of Women of the Forest
- Yolanda Ortíz (diver), Cuban diver
- Yolanda Panek, American murder victim
- Yolanda Pantin, Venezuelan poet and children's writer
- Yolanda Quijano, Mexican painter and sculptor
- Yolanda Hill Robinson, Second Lady of North Carolina
- Yolanda Saldívar, American convicted murderer
- Yolanda Soares, Portuguese singer and songwriter
- Yolanda Sonnabend, British theatre and ballet designer and painter
- Yolanda Tortolero, Venezuelan politician
- Yolanda Toussieng, makeup artist
- Yolanda Vega (presenter), American television presenter
- Yolanda Villavicencio, Colombian economist and politician
- Yolanda Watkins, American mental health professional
Fictional characters
- Yolanda (Black Lagoon)
- Yolanda Hamilton (The Young and the Restless)
- Yolanda Montez, DC Comics' Wildcat
- Yolanda, a character in Quentin Tarantino's ''Pulp Fiction''