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Sometimes pronounced with a long 'I' sound..."Nine-uh"

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Nina Garcia, fashion director of Marie-Claire, formerly of Elle; judge of reality TV show "Project Runway"
Nina Hagen, German singer
Nina Beilina, Russian violinist, laureate of the Enescu, Long-Thibaud and Tchaikovsky competitions
Nina Dobrev, Canadian actress (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress
Nina Persson, Swedish lead singer of The Cardigans
Nina Simone, musician and civil rights activist
Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio's award-winning legal affairs correspondent

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New York Times' illustrator Al Hirschfeld wrote the name Nina (his daughter's name) in most of his caricatures. Readers of the newspaper would delight in counting the "Ninas" in every one of his drawings in the Sunday NY Times.
"Nina Pretty Ballerina", song by ABBA
Nina, a character in the PlayStation role-playing game Suikoden II
Nina Ash, from the American television series Angel
Nina Bibikova, from the novel The Man from Barbarossa
Nina Brown, from the BBC soap opera EastEnders
Nina Callas, from The Clique series of books
Nina Campbell, from the American sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
Nina Cassady, from the American drama Law & Order
Nina Cortex, from the Crash Bandicoot series of games
Nina Cortlandt, from the soap opera All My Children
Nina Einstein, from the anime Code Geass
Nina Harris, from the BBC soap opera EastEnders
Nina Jarvis, from the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400
Nina Myers, a terrorism analyst in the TV series 24
Nina Sakura, from Ultra Maniac
Nina Tucker, from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
Nina Van Horn, from the American sitcom Just Shoot Me!
Nina Wáng, from the anime Mai Otome
Nina Webster, from the soap opera The Young and the Restless
Nina Williams, a fictional assassin from the Tekken series of games
Nina Windia, from the Breath of Fire series of games
Nina Yamada, from Mamotte! Lollipop