Famous People with Name Lina

Lina Olsson Rosenberg            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Lina Olsson Rosenberg: is a Swedish handball player who played for the Norwegian club Larvik HK, and later obtained Norwegian citizenship and played for the Norway women's national handball team.

Lina Bo Bardi            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Lina Bo Bardi: was a Brazilian modernist architect born in Italy.After graduating in Rome, she began her career in the office of Giò Ponti in Milan before opening her own office. She did not have many commissions and, in 1943, her office was destroyed by aerial bombing. The event prompted her deeper involvement in the Italian Communist Party. She spent the years following the war documenting destruction across Italy, participating in the National Congress for Reconstruction. She also founded a weekly magazine, A Cultura della Vita, with Bruno Zevi. After the war she married Pietro Maria Bardi.

Lina Stanciute            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Lina Stanciute: is a Lithuanian professional tennis player, who achieved her highest ranking 197 on September 28, 2009 .

Lina Tsaldari            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Lina Tsaldari: was a Greek politician. She was a right-wing member of Parliament and became the first female minister in Greece in 1952, when she served as Minister for Social Welfare, under Konstantinos Karamanlis' government. She died of a stroke on October 17, prior to the general elections of 1981 at the age of 94. She was the daughter of Prime Minister of Greece Spyridon Lambros. In 1919 she married Panagis Tsaldaris who served as Prime Minister in the 1930s. In the 1940s she became increasingly vocal in the battle for women's suffrage in Greece. She was a president of PIKPA after the death of her husband and, after her term in the cabinet, served as Greece's delegate to the United Nations.

Lina Johansson            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Lina Johansson: is a Swedish figure skater. She is the first Swedish skater to qualify for and to medal at the Junior Grand Prix Final. She had many injuries during her career and retired from competitive skating in 2007.