Lydia Lopokova
Origin/Culture/Country: RussianLydia Lopokova: was a famous Russian ballerina dancer during the early 20th-century. She is known also as Lady Keynes, the wife of the economist, John Maynard Keynes. Lopokova was born in St. Petersburg, where her father was a theatre usher. All his four children became
Lydia Selina Dunn, Baroness Dunn
Origin/Culture/Country: ChineseLydia Selina Dunn, Baroness Dunn: was the Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council in Hong Kong in 1985-1988 and 1988-1995, after Rogerio Hyndman Lobo and Chung Sze Yuen respectively. She has been deputy chairman of banking giant HSBC in 1992-2008.As one of the most senior politicians in Hong Kong, Dunn had considerable influence in the Government of Hong Kong before her retirement in 1992, after Chris Patten was made Governor
Lydia Koidula
Origin/Culture/Country: EstonianLydia Koidula: was the pen name of Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen, an Estonian poet. Her sobriquet, Lydia Koidula, meaning ‘Lydia of the Dawn’ in Estonian, was given her by the writer Carl Robert Jakobson. She is also frequently referred to as Koidulaulik – ‘Singer of
Lydia Mei
Origin/Culture/Country: EstonianLydia Mei: was an Estonian artist who specialized in watercolors and still lifes. Born on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa, Lydia Mei was the middle child of the three daughters of a ship's captain. All three sisters would become artists, with Lydia and Natalie Mei ac
Lydia Venieri
Origin/Culture/Country: GreekLydia Venieri: is a major Greek artist, and a descendant of the Mykinian branch of the Venieri family. Born in Athens, she studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, and later lived in Paris. She is currently living in New York. Her web site dates from 1995, and showed some of the first Internet-based art.[citation needed]