# Lindy (name)

Lindy is a unisex given name and a nickname. As a female given name, it is a variant of names like Linda, Belinda, and Melinda, and the meaning of Lindy is "beautiful; pretty; sweet." As a male name, it is a variant of names such as Lindsay and Lyndon, and the meaning is "linden tree mountain; Lincoln's marsh; island of linden trees; linden tree hill."
Lindy was most popular in the year 1979, when it ranked 586th.

## People
### Given name
#### Women

* Lindy Booth (born 1979), Canadian actress
* Lyndy or Lindy Brill (born 1963), British actress and singer
* Lindy Burns, Australian presenter
* Lindy Davies (born 1946), Australian actress, director and drama teacher
* Lindy DeKoven, American television executive
* Lindy Elkins-Tanton, American planetary scientist
* Lindy Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood ( 1941–2020), British artist, conservationist and businesswoman
* Lindy Hemming (born 1948), Welsh Oscar-winning costume designer
* Lindy Hou (born 1960), Australian tandem cyclist and triathlete
* Lindy Kelly (born 1952), New Zealand writer
* Lindy Leveau-Agricole (born 1978), Seychellois javelin thrower
* Lindy Robbins, American songwriter
* Lindy Rodwell (born 1962), South African zoologist and conservationist
* Lindy Vivas (fl. 1979–1992), American former volleyball player and coach
* Lindy Vopnfjörð (born 1972), Canadian singer-songwriter
* Lindy West (born 1982), American writer, feminist and editor
* Lindy Melissa Wiik (born 1985), Norwegian footballer
* Lindy Wilson, South African politician

#### Men

* Lindy Berry (1927-2014), American college football and Canadian Football League quarterback
* Lindy Fralin, American guitar pickup manufacturer
* Lindy Kasperski (1950–2014), Canadian politician
* Lindy Miller (born 1956), American professional golfer
* Lindy Pearson (1929–2011), American National Football League player
* Lindy Remigino (1931–2018), American sprinter, 1952 Olympic 100 m champion
* Lindy Ruff (born 1960), Canadian National Hockey League coach and former player

### Nickname
#### Women

* Lindy Boggs (1916–2013), American politician
* Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton (born 1948), Australian wrongly convicted of murdering her daughter
* Lindy Cochran (born 1953), American alpine skier
* Lindy Jenkins (born 1959), a justice with the Supreme Court of Western Australia appointed in 2004
* Lindy Layton (born 1970), British singer
* Lindy Morrison (born 1951), Australian rock drummer
* Lindy Nelson-Carr (born 1952), Australian former politician

#### Men

* Lindy Delapenha (1927–2017), Jamaican footballer and sports journalist
* Lindy Hood (1907–1972), American college basketball player
* Lindy Infante (1940–2015), American football player and coach
* Lindy McDaniel (1935–2020), American Major League Baseball relief pitcher
* Lucky Lindy Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist

## Fictional characters

* Lindy, from Alex Flinn's novel Beastly and the film of the same name
* Lindy Karsten, from CrossGen Entertainment's Sigilverse
* Lindy, a fairy character from Noddy in Toyland
* Lindy Sampson, the protagonist in R. L. Stine's novel Eye Candy and main character in the hit MTV television series Eye Candy
* Lindy Watson, from Disney Channel's I Didn't Do It