List of Famous people named Nadia
Nadia Comăneci
Nadia Elena Comăneci Conner, known professionally as Nadia Comăneci, is a Romanian retired gymnast and a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976 at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games. At the same Games, she received six more perfect 10s for events en route to winning three gold medals. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Comăneci won two more gold medals and attained two more perfect 10s. During her career, Comăneci won nine Olympic medals and four World Artistic Gymnastics Championship medals.
Nadia Nadim
Nadia Nadim is an Afghan-Danish football player who plays as a striker for French Division 1 Féminine club Paris Saint-Germain as well as for the Danish national team.
Nadia de Santiago
Nadia de Santiago Capell is a Spanish actress. Luisa Capell is her mother. She appeared in more than thirty films since 2001. In 2007, she was nominated for the Goya Award for Best New Actress for her performance in Las 13 rosas.
Nadia Murad Basee
Nadia Murad Basee Taha is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist who lives in Germany. In 2014, she was kidnapped from her hometown Kocho and held by the Islamic State for three months.
Nadia Calviño Santamaría
Nadia María Calviño Santamaría is a Spanish economist and civil servant who serves as Third Deputy Prime Minister of Spain since 2020 and as Minister of Economy since 2018 under prime minister Pedro Sánchez. In 2020, her portfolio was renamed as Minister for Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.
Nadia Podoroska
Nadia Podoroska is an Argentine professional tennis player. Podoroska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 14 singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 October 2020, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 48 after reaching the semifinals of the French Open. On 23 October 2017, she peaked at No. 111 in the WTA doubles rankings.
Nadia Farès
Nadia Farès is a French actress. She made her film debut in 1992, with My Wife's Girlfriends. She rose to fame with the police thriller Les Rivières pourpres. She appeared as Jade Agent Kinler in the 2007 action/thriller War, and as Pia in the 2007 horror film Storm Warning.
Nadia El Gendy
'Nadia El Gendy'mamak is an Egyptian actress and producer. She is often known in Egypt as "Negmet El gamaheer" because of the high commercial success of her movies in the 1990s. Through her still on-going 6-decades career, she has appeared in 61 movies and 7 TV shows. She is most recognized for her femme fatale roles and spy movies related to Egyptian-Israeli conflict and patriotic issues after 1952 revolution, such as El Gasousa Hekmat Fahmy (1994), Mohemma Fi Tel Aviv (1992). Also, she is known for various crime movies, ranging from vulgar drug dealer in Egyptian suburbs to a professional thief.
Nadia Meikher
Nadiya Oleksandrivna Urzhumtseva, better known by her stage name Nadia Meiher, is a Ukrainian singer-songwriter, actress, poet, television host and fashion designer.
Nadia Kassem
Nadia Kassem is an Australian mixed martial artist and currently fights in the strawweight division. She has previously fought for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).