Famous Ninas

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I was chatting when somehow the thing was broached that we started naming random celebrities, and it got to the point where famous Ninas became the thing. Apparently, there are only two famous Ninas. Name them; name more and prove me wrong.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 07:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nina Hagen and Nina Simone - does Nena Cherry count?

― gazza, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 07:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've never heard of Nina Hagen, and it's Neneh Cherry.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 07:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

OK , there a Nina Somethingorother in Veruca Salt.

― gazza, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 07:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

since this is on ILE not ILM you can include Nina Totenberg the NPR reporter and Nina Ricci the designer

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 07:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh, and just remembered Nina Blackwood from MTV's early days

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 09:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nina Bawden, children's author.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 09:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nina Foch - actress in 50s stuff like Ten Commandments who still pops up every so often (Tales of the City was last time I saw her). I think I'm Nina'd out now.

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 09:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nina Myskow - Brit journo and mouthy gameshow panellist.

Nina Carter - was married to Rick Wakeman and had a brief appearance in American Werewolf in London.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 09:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

nina persson of the cardigans?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 10:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

not very famous, but a good name...

Nina Naana (that ITV news reporter)

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 10:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

nina nastasia, who played at ATP (granted, that doesn't make her famous)

― rener (rener), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 11:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nina Hirschfeld, who is the Nina mentioned in Al Hirschfeld'd illustrations.

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 15:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nina Ricci

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 15:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, that's been said, oops

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 15:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nina Hartley, round buttocked adult film star.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Does Nena 99 Luftballoon count?

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's about 600 or 700 of them listed on IMDB.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 16:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles (i.e. I misread the thread title).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 20:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's a Nina Caplan who writes film reviews for the Metro. That's quite famous. I keep wondering if she's the Nina Caplan I went to school with.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 20:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Martin is my hero (ie, I misread the thread title, too).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 20:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

One of Christopher Columbus's ships was called Nina!
Nina is also my mum's name! My mum is not famous, but she is nice!

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 03:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

La Nina...El Nino's little sister.

― B, Wednesday, 27 November 2002 03:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nina Van Pallandt, the Danish actress who was in Altman movies. Clifford Irving's mistress during the Howard Hughes bio scandal. She was famous for a little while, 30 years ago. She was in Interview constantly in the early 70s.

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 03:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

NINA - Sign often put in storefront windows in the early 19th century meaning "No Irish Need Apply."

― B, Wednesday, 27 November 2002 04:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

eleven years pass...

have any more famous Ninas arrived on the scene since this thread was started nearly 12 years ago? is Nina Power famous? as famous as former Metro film reviewer Nina Caplan, I suppose?

― a puddle of quivering 501s (soref), Monday, 15 September 2014 13:15 (nine years ago) link

Heard Nina Myskow on radio 2 last week

― strychnine, Monday, 15 September 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link

Nina Brown is not your typical guru, healer or teacher. In fact, she rejects those terms in favor of “permission granter.”

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 15 September 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link

Nina Conti, daughter of Tom, ex-lover of Ken Campbell, ventriloquist friend of Monk.

― and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Monday, 15 September 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link

nina kraviz, techno producer
nina dobrev, actress
nina bratchikova, former top 100 tennis player

― lex pretend, Monday, 15 September 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link

Ah, I should have thought of Nina Conti, I'd forgotten that she's Tom Conti's daughter as well. I think that Nina Conti being Tom Conti's daughter is one of those facts I'm going to spend the rest of my life forgetting and re-learing.

Is the Nina Caplan who writes about booze for the New Statesman the same Nina Caplan who used to review films in the Metro? Are either of them the same Nina Caplan that N Dastoor went to school with?

― a puddle of quivering 501s (soref), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link

I was going to post this to the 'Photos taken of famous people together' thread but it isn't a photo- Nina Hagen and Angela Merkel as guests on German TV show (I think it's from the early 90s?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjdUpMZUO0w

― a puddle of quivering 501s (soref), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link

I'm surprised there aren't more pop songs that use the name Nina, it is a very euphonious name.
'Nina, Pretty Ballerina' by ABBA, 'Lazy Nina' by Greg Phillinganes, I can't think of may more. There is a song on Ed Sheeran's new album called 'Nina' but it's no good at all.

― a puddle of quivering 501s (soref), Monday, 15 September 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link

Ed Sheeran's Nina song is about another post-2002 famous Nina called Nina Nesbitt, I hadn't heard of her before today but she seems very zeitgeisty, as well as the Sheeran connection she has a song called 'Selfies' and she is Scottish

― a puddle of quivering 501s (soref), Monday, 15 September 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link

for a second I thought this thread was about famous ninjas

― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Monday, 15 September 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link

if you put 'Nina the ninja' into google you get a video of a 12 yr old girl waiving a cat around to the tune of a song, the cat doesn't seem that into it

― a puddle of quivering 501s (soref), Monday, 15 September 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link

it's probably not as good as that song but Jens Lekman has 'A Postcard to Nina'

― Merdeyeux, Monday, 15 September 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link

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