Academics and scientists •
Nadia Abu El Haj (born 1962), assistant professor at Barnard College •
Nadia E. Brown, American political scientist •
Nadia Chaudhri (1978–2021), Canadian psychologist •
Nadia Makram Ebeid, Egyptian academic •
Nadia Fröbisch (born 1976), German vertebrae paleontologist and developmental biologist •
Nadia Ghazzali (born 1961), Moroccan-Canadian statistician and university administrator •
Nadia Hohn, Canadian educator and author •
Nadia Yala Kisukidi (born 1978), French philosopher, writer and academic •
Nadia Lapusta, professor of mechanical engineering and geophysics •
Nadia Maftouni (born 1966), Iranian philosopher and artist •
Nadia Nurhussein (born 1974), American academic •
Nadia Pinardi (born 1956), Italian oceanographer •
Nadia Robotti, Italian historian of physics •
Nadia Rosenthal (born 1953), heart development-related researcher •
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann (born 1946), computer graphics scientist •
Nadia Waloff (1909–2001), English entomologist •
Nadia Zakamska, Russian-American astronomer and professor •
Nadia Zyncenko (born 1948), Argentine weather forecaster and meteorologist
Actresses, entertainers and models •
Nadia Aboulhosn (born 1988), American fashion blogger, model and designer •
Nadia Afgan (born 1970), Pakistani actress and comedian •
Nadia Ahmed (born 1982), Bangladeshi actress and dancer •
Nadia Al-Gindi (born 1946), Egyptian actress and producer •
Nadia Al-Iraqia (1963–2021), Iraqi actress •
Nadia Alexander (born 1994), American actress •
Nadia Ali, Pakistani American former pornographic actress •
Nadia Almada (born 1977), Portuguese-born British television personality •
Nadia Barentin (1936–2011), French actress •
Nadia Ben Rachid (born 1962), French-Tunisian film editor •
Nadia Bjorlin (born 1980), American actress •
Nadia Buari (born 1982), Ghanaian actress •
Nadia Cassini (1949–2025), American actress •
Nadia Cattouse (born 1924), British actress, singer and songwriter •
Nadia Chambers (born 1968), Welsh actress •
Nadia Dajani (born 1965), American actress •
Nadia de Santiago (born 1990), Spanish actress •
Nadia Di Cello (born 1989), Argentine actress •
Nadia El Fani (born 1960), French-Tunisian film director •
Nadia Farès (1968–2026), Moroccan-born French actress •
Nadia Fares Anliker (born 1962), Swiss film director •
Nadia Ferreira (born 1999), Paraguayan fashion model and beauty pageant titleholder •
Nadia Forde (born 1989), Irish model and television personality •
Nadia Gray (1923–1994), Romanian film actress •
Nadia Hamza, Egyptian filmmaker •
Nadia Hasnaoui (born 1963), Norwegian television presenter •
Nadia Heng (born 1985), Malaysian model •
Nadia Hilker (born 1988), German actress and model •
Nadia Hussain (born 1979), Pakistani TV actress, host, model entrepreneur and fashion designer •
Nadia Jae (born 1986), British radio presenter and DJ •
Nadia Jamil (born 1980), Pakistani actress and host •
Nadia Kaci (born 1970), Algerian actress •
Nadia Khan (born 1972), Pakistani actress and presenter •
Nadia Kounda (born 1989), Moroccan film actress •
Nadia Labidi (born 1954), Algerian filmmaker •
Nadia Litz (born 1976), Canadian actress •
Nadia Lun (born 1986), Miss Hong Kong 2008 contestant and actress •
Nadia Lutfi (1937–2020), Egyptian actress •
Nadia Mejia (born 1995), American-Ecuadorian model and beauty pageant titleholder •
Nadia Afrin Mim, Bangladeshi actress and model •
Nadia Mukami (born 1996), Kenyan singer •
Nadia Nadarajah, Sri Lankan-British actress •
Nadia Nerina (1927–2008), South African dancer •
Nadia Niazi, Moroccan actress •
Nadia Parfan (born 1986), Ukrainian film director and creative producer •
Nadia Parkes, English actress •
Nadia Sawalha (born 1964), English actress and television presenter •
Nadia Szold (born 1984), American filmmaker •
Nadia Tass (born ), Macedonian-Australian film director and producer •
Nadia Tereszkiewicz (born 1996), French-Finnish actress •
Nadia Townsend (born 1979), Australian actress
Artists •
Nadia Benbouta (born 1970), Algerian artist •
Nadia Benois (1896–1975), Russian-British painter •
Nadia Chomyn (1967–2015), British autistic artist •
Nadia Granados (born 1978), Colombian performance artist •
Nadia Hebson, British artist •
Nadia Huggins (born 1984), Trinidadian photographer •
Nadia Kaabi-Linke (born 1978), Tunisian artist •
Nadia Lee Cohen (born 1992), British artist, photographer and filmmaker •
Nadia Khodasevich Léger (1904–1982), French painter •
Nadia Lichtig (born 1973), German visual artist •
Nadia Myre, Canadian artist •
Nadia Plesner, Danish/Dutch painter •
Nadia Sirry (born 1958), Egyptian artist •
Nadia Stacey, British make-up artist
Athletes •
Nadia Abdalá (born 1988), Mexican professional tennis player •
Nadia Akpana Assa (born 1995), Norwegian long jumper •
Nadia Al-Hindi (born 1972), Jordanian table tennis player •
Nadia Assaf (born 1985), Lebanese football manager and former football and futsal player •
Nadia Báez (born 1989), Argentine Paralympic swimmer •
Nadia Battocletti (born 2000), Italian long-distance runner •
Nadia Belakhdar (born 1991), Algerian handball player •
Nadia Ben Azizi (born 2002), Tunisian fencer •
Nádia Bento de Lima (born 1966), Brazilian basketball player •
Nadia von Bertouch (born 1995), Australian rules footballer •
Nadia Bisiach (born 1965), Australian table tennis player •
Nadia Bonfini (born 1965), Italian alpine skier •
Nadia Bordon (born 1988), Argentine handball player •
Nadia Centoni (born 1981), Italian volleyball player •
Nadia Colón (born 2002), Dominican footballer •
Nadia Comăneci (born 1961), Romanian Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast •
Nadia Coolen (born 1994), Dutch football forward •
Nadia Cortassa (born 1978), Italian triathlete •
Nádia Cruz (born 1975), Angolan swimmer •
Nadia Dandolo (born 1962), Italian long-distance runner •
Nadia Davy (born 1980), Jamaican sprinter •
Nadia De Nardin (born 1975), Italian ice hockey player •
Nadia Delago (born 1997), Italian alpine skier •
Nadia Ducreux (born 1992), Panamanian footballer •
Nadia Echeverría Alam (born 1995), American-Venezuelan tennis player •
Nadia Ejjafini (born 1977), Moroccan-born long-distance runner •
Nadia Eke (born 1993), Ghanaian triple jumper •
Nadia Fadhil, Iraqi footballer •
Nadia Falvo (born 1963), Italian middle-distance runner •
Nadia Fanchini (born 1986), Italian alpine skier •
Nadia Fezzani (swimmer), Libyan swimmer •
Nadia Gautschi (born 1954), Swiss archer •
Nádia Gomes (born 1996), Portuguese footballer •
Nadia Graham (born 1974), Jamaican sprinter •
Nadia Gruny (born 1984), American cricketer •
Nadia Guimendego (born 1997), Central African-French judoka •
Nadia Haro Oliva (1918–2014), French-Mexican fencer and actress •
Nadia Hațegan (born 1979), Romanian gymnast •
Nadia Margrét Jamchi, Icelandic figure skater •
Nadia Johnston (born 1977), Australian beach tennis player •
Nadia Kassem (born 1995), Australian mixed martial arts fighter •
Nadia Khan (footballer) (born 2001), Pakistani footballer •
Nadia Kjældgaard (born 1978), Danish footballer •
Nadia Krüger (born 1968), Swiss swimmer •
Nadia Lalami (born 1990), Moroccan tennis player •
Nadia Lawrence (born 1989), Welsh footballer •
Nadia Livers (born 1979), Swiss snowboarder •
Nadia Mapunda (born 1988), Australian netball player •
Nadia Marchi (born 1963), Sammarinese sports shooter •
Nadia Medjmedj (born 1974), Algerian Paralympic athlete •
Nadia Mielke-Offendal (born 1994), Danish handball player •
Nadia Mikriukova (1972–2020), Russian mountain bike orienteer •
Nadia Mimoun, French rhythmic gymnast •
Nadia Nadim (born 1988), Afghan-Danish footballer •
Nadia Negm (born 1998), Egyptian rower •
Nadia Noujani (born 1981), Moroccan long-distance runner •
Nadia Olla (born 2000), New Zealand footballer •
Nadia Petrova (born 1982), Russian tennis player •
Nadia Pfister (born 1995), Swiss squash player •
Nadia Podoroska (born 1997), Argentine tennis player •
Nadia Power (born 1998), Irish middle-distance runner •
Nadia Prasad (born 1967), French runner •
Nadia Prinoth, Italian luger •
Nadia Quagliotto (born 1997), Italian cyclist •
Nadia Riquelme (born 1986), Argentine slalom kayaker •
Nadia Röthlisberger-Raspe (1972–2015), Swiss curler •
Nadia Styger (born 1978), Swiss alpine skier •
Nadia Valentin (born 1987), Haitian footballer •
Nadia Vigliano (born 1977), French javelin thrower
Musicians and singers •
Nadia Ali (singer) (born 1980), Pakistani-American singer-songwriter •
Nadia Almada (born 1977), Portuguese reality television star, winner of
Big Brother UK •
Nadia Azzi (born 1998), American classical pianist of Lebanese-Japanese origin •
Nadia Batson, Trinidadian singer, songwriter, producer and model •
Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), French composer, conductor and teacher •
Nadia Krasteva, Bulgarian mezzo-soprano •
Nadia López (born 1983), Mexican singer and reality television star •
Nadia Malm (born 1986), Danish singer who collaborated with Svenstrup & Vendelboe •
Nadia Meikher (born 1982), Ukrainian singer-songwriter, actress, poet, television personality and fashion designer •
Nadia Mladjao (born 1979), French pop-soul singer better known by her stage name Imany •
Nadia Nakai (born 1990), Zimbabwean-South African rapper and television personality •
Nadia Oh (born 1990), English singer, rapper, producer and model •
Nadia Reid (born 1991), New Zealand folk singer-songwriter •
Nadia Reisenberg (1904–1983), American pianist of Lithuanian birth •
Nadia Rose (born 1993), British musician •
Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg (born 1961), Italian and American classical violinist and teacher •
Nadia Sirota, American viola player •
Nadia Tagrine (1917–2003), Franco-Russian classical pianist •
Nadia Tehran (born 1990), Iranian-Swedish rapper and singer •
Nadia Turner (born 1977), contestant on
American Idol season 4 •
Nadia Zighem or Nâdiya (born 1973), French R&B singer of Algerian origin
Politicians and activists •
Nadia Ahmad Samdin, Singaporean politician and consultant •
Nadia Al-Sakkaf, Yemeni politician •
Nadia Fettah Alaoui, Moroccan entrepreneur and politician •
Nadia Aziz (born 1973), Pakistani politician •
Nadia Binte Amin (born 1963), Bangladeshi politician •
Nadia Boubeghla, Algerian politician •
Nadia Brédimas-Assimopoulos, Canadian politician •
Nadia Calviño (born 1968), Spanish economist and civil servant •
Nádia Campeão (born 1958), Brazilian engineer and politician •
Nadia Clancy, Australian politician •
Nadia Cruz (born 1982), Bolivian lawyer and politician •
Nadia de León Torres, Guatemalan politician •
Nadia Arop Dudi (born 1971), South Sudanese politician •
Nadia Makram Ebeid, Egyptian politician •
Nadia El-Nakla, Scottish politician and wife of the First Minister of Scotland •
Nadia Essayan (born 1957), French politician •
Nadia Gallico Spano (1916–2006), Italian politician •
Nadia Giannakopoulou (born 1977), Greek politician •
Nadia Ginetti (born 1969), Italian politician •
Nadia Hai (born 1980), French politician •
Nadia Hashem (died 2023), Jordanian journalist and politician •
Nadia Hilou (1953–2015), Arab-Israeli politician •
Nadia Kanegai, Vanuatu politician and entrepreneur •
Nadia Khar, Pakistani politician •
Nadia Matar (born 1966), Israeli activist •
Nadia Mohamed (born 1996), American politician •
Nadia Moscufo (1963), Belgian politician •
Nadia Murad (born 1993), Yazidi-Iraqi human rights activist •
Nadia Naji (born 1992), Belgian politician •
Nadia Navarro Acevedo, Mexican politician •
Nadia Oleszczuk, Polish activist and founding member of the Consultative Council of Poland •
Nadia Ramassamy (born 1961), Indian-French politician from Réunion •
Nadia al Rawabdeh, Jordanian politician •
Nadia Savchenko (born 1981), Ukrainian politician and former Army aviation pilot •
Nadia Schadlow, American government official •
Nadia Sher, Pakistani politician •
Nadia Sminate (born 1981), Belgian politician •
Nadia Smyrnytska (1852–1889), Ukrainian revolutionary •
Nadia Theodore, Canadian diplomat •
Nadia Valavani (born 1954), Greek politician •
Nadia Whittome (born 1996), British politician •
Nadia Zakhary, Egyptian politician
Writers and journalists •
Nadia al-Ghazzi (born 1935), Syrian lawyer and writer •
Nadia Al-Kokabany, Yemeni novelist, short story writer and academic •
Nadia Ali (broadcaster) (born 1984), English broadcaster •
Nadia Al Najjar, Emirati writer •
Nadia Anjuman (1980–2005), poet from Afghanistan •
Nadia Brown, American poet, writer, and author •
Nadia Bulkin, Indonesian-American author and political scientist •
Nadia Cavalera (born 1950), Italian novelist, poet and literary critic •
Nadia Chafik (born 1962), Moroccan novelist •
Nadia Colburn (born 1972), American poet and non-fiction writer •
Nadia Crow, American TV news reporter •
Nadia Daam (born 1978), French journalist •
Nadia Davids (born 1977), award-winning South African writer •
Nadia Drake (born 1980), science journalist who writes the
No Place Like Home blog for
National Geographic •
Nadia Fezzani, Canadian journalist/author; researches American serial killers •
Nadia Fink, Argentine author •
Nadia Ghulam (born 1985), Afghan writer •
Nadia Hashimi (born 1977), pediatrician, novelist, and former congressional candidate •
Nadia Hijab, Palestinian political analyst, author and journalist •
Nadia Yala Kisukidi (born 1978), French philosopher, writer and academic •
Nadia Manzoor, British writer, performer and producer •
Nadia Mifsud, Maltese-French poet, novelist and literary translator •
Nadia Mitsopoulos (born 1971), Australian journalist •
Nadia Muhsen (born 1965), British author •
Nadia Origo (born 1977), French-Gabonese writer and editor •
Nadia Owusu, Ghanaian-American author •
Nadia Sharmeen (born 1986), Bangladeshi journalist •
Nadia Terranova (born 1978), Italian writer •
Nadia Toffa (1979–2019), Italian journalist •
Nadia Tueni (1935–1983), Lebanese-French poet, who authored of numerous volumes of poetry •
Nadia Wheatley (born 1949), Australian writer whose work includes picture books, novels, biography and history; author of
Five Times Dizzy Other •
Nadia Badawi, Australian physician •
Nadia Bakhurji, Saudi interior designer who announced her candidacy in the 2005 Saudi elections •
Nadia Bartel, Australian model and fashion designer •
Nadia Bolz-Weber (born 1969), American Lutheran minister •
Nadia Bouras, Dutch historian of Moroccan descent •
Nadia Bukhari, British pharmacist of Pakistani origin •
Nadia Dowshen, American pediatrician •
Nadia Essex (born 1981), English media personality •
Nadia Gamal (1937–1990), Egyptian dancer of Greek descent •
Nadia Geller (born 1976), American interior designer, artist and TV personality •
Nadia Giosia (born 1980), Canadian-Italian chef, comic actress and singer, presenter of ''
Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen'' •
Nadia Heninger (born 1982), American cryptographer and computer security expert •
Nadia Lim (born 1985), New Zealand celebrity chef, entrepreneur, food writer and TV personality •
Nadia Marcinko (born 1986), Slovak-born pilot, flight instructor and CEO of Aviloop •
Nadia Roccia (died 1998), Italian female murder victim •
Nadia Russo (1901–1988), Romanian aviator •
Nadia Samdani, British-born Bangladeshi businesswoman •
Nadia Santini, Italian chef •
Nadia Shahram, Iranian-American attorney and women's rights advocate •
Nadia Tromp (born 1977), South African architect •
Nadia Yanowsky, Spanish ballet dancer •
Nadia Yassine (born 1958), founder and head of the feminine branch of the Moroccan Islamist movement Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane •
Nadia Younes (1946–2003), Egyptian national who worked for the UN and the WHO, victim of the Canal Hotel bombing == Fictional characters ==