Selina

Selina is a feminine given name, considered either a variant of Selene, the goddess and personification of the Moon in Greek mythology and religion, or a spelling variation of the name Celina, which is derived from the Roman name Cecilia, referring to a woman from the Caecilia gens. This spelling variant had begun to be used in the United Kingdom by the 1600s.

People

 * Selina Büchel (born 1991), Swiss middle-distance runner
 * Selina Chow (born 1945), Hong Kong politician and broadcaster
 * Selina Cooper (1864–1946), English suffragist
 * Selina Cossgrove (1849 - 1929), one of the early developers of the Girl Peace Scouts movement in New Zealand
 * Selina Foote (born 1985), New Zealand artist
 * Selina Gasparin (born 1984), Swiss biathlete
 * Selina Griffiths (born 1969), British actress
 * Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707–1791), English Christian revivalist, Methodist
 * Selina Hastings (Lady Selina Shirley Hastings, born 1945), British biographer and journalist
 * Selina Hornibrook (born 1978), Australian netball player
 * Selina Hossain (born 1947), Bangladeshi novelist
 * Selina Jen (born 1981), Taiwanese girl-band member
 * Selina Jörg (born 1988), German snowboarder
 * Selina Kuruleca, Fijian psychotherapist and commentator
 * Selina Leem, Marshallese climate change activist and spoken word performer
 * Selina Perera (1909-1986), Sri Lankan Sinhala Trotskyist
 * Selina Robinson (born c. 1964), Canadian politician from British Columbia
 * Selina Scott (born 1951), English newsreader, journalist, television producer and presenter
 * Selina Siggins (1878–1964), Australian trade unionist and politician
 * Selina Tusitala Marsh (born 1971), Pasifika poet-scholar
 * Selina Zumbühl (born 1983), Swiss football midfielder

Variants

 * A Spanish version of the name is Selena.
 * A Greek version of the name is Σελένα.
 * A French version of the name is Sélene.
 * A Hebrew version of the name is סלינה.
 * A Turkish version of the name is Selin.

Fictional characters

 * Selina Peake De Jong, the protagonist of Edna Ferber's novel So Big
 * Selina Kyle (disambiguation), alter ego of the original Catwoman, the DC Comics character
 * Selina Meyer, protagonist of the HBO television comedy series Veep
 * Selina Roberts, from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
 * Selina, the secondary antagonist in the sixth season of Winx Club
 * Selina Khan, main character from CBBC's Wolfblood
 * Selina D'Arcey, main character from 1965 American film A Patch of Blue
 * Selina Plymdale, a character in Middlemarch - a novel by English author George Eliot

Other

 * Selina, a novel by German author Jean Paul, published posthumously in 1827
 * Selina (1948), a ballet for Sadler's Wells, choreographed by Andrée Howard to music by Rossini.