Callista

Callista, also spelled Calista, Callistee, Kallista, Kalista and Kallistee, comes from the Greek for "most beautiful (feminine)" (καλλίστη – kallístē).

Callista may refer to:

Nature

 * Callista (bivalve), a genus of bivalves
 * Callista Lour., a synonym of Dendrobium, an orchid genus
 * Callista D.Don, a synonym of Erica, a heath or heather genus

Entertainment

 * A SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron character, the presumed ancestor of Deputy Mayor Callie Briggs
 * Callista (novel), 1855 novel by John Henry Newman
 * Callista Ming, a character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
 * A main character from the video game The Last Story

People

 * Callista Balko, American athlete
 * Callista Chimombo, Malawian politician
 * Calista Flockhart, American actress
 * Callista Gingrich, wife of Newt Gingrich
 * Callista Roy, American nursing theorist
 * Callista Carter, Canadian massuse

Science

 * 204 Kallisto, an S-type asteroid which was discovered in 1879
 * Callisto (moon), one of the moons of Jupiter, discovered in 1610

Places

 * Kallista, Victoria, a town in Australia
 * Kalista, a village in south-western Bulgaria

Other

 * Panther Kallista, a retro-style automobile manufactured by Panther Westwinds from 1982 to 1993
 * Calista (steamboat), a small steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet
 * RV Callista Southampton University research vessel