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Lady (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ298578 ↗
Source-derived summary

A lady is a term for a woman, the counterpart of "lord" or "gentleman".

Lady or Ladies may also refer to:

People

First Lady, wife of a head of state

Lady (American rapper) (Shameka Shanta Brown; born 1989)

Lady Bardales (born 1982), Peruvian police officer

Lady Bird Johnson, first lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 as the wife of then president, Lyndon B. Johnson

Lady Gaga (born 1986), American singer

Lady Grooms (born 1992), American basketball player

Robert Seldon Lady (born 1954), CIA agent, involved in Abu Omar rendition/kidnaping

Lady Howard Mabuza, Eswatini politician

Wendell Lady (1930–2022), American politician

Places

Poland

Lady, Podlaskie Voivodeship

Lądy, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Łady, Pruszków County

Łady, Sochaczew County

Songs

"Lady" (Brett Young song), 2020

"Lady" (D'Angelo song), 1996

"Lady" (Dennis Wilson song), 1970

"Lady" (EXID song)

"Lady" (Jack Jones song), 1967

"Lady" (Kenny Rogers song), written by Lionel Richie, 1980

"Lady" (Lenny Kravitz song), 2004

"Lady" (Little River Band song), 1978

"Lady" (Stevie Nicks song)

"Lady" (Sangiovanni song), 2021

"Lady" (Styx song), 1973

"Lady (Hear Me Tonight)", a 2000 house song by Modjo

"Lady (You Bring Me Up)", a 1981 song by the Commodores

"Lady", a song by England Dan & John Ford Coley from Nights Are Forever

"Lady", a song by Brotherhood of Man from Good Things Happening

"Lady", a song by Chromatics from Kill for Love

"Lady", a song by CNBLUE from What Turns You On?

"Lady", a song by David Coverdale from White Snake

"Lady", a song by Fela Kuti from Shakara

"Lady", a song by Gino Vannelli from Powerful People

"Lady", a song by Supertramp from Crisis? What Crisis?

"Lady", a song by Simply Red from Stay

"Lady", a song by Kenshi Yonezu from Lost Corner

"Ladies" (song), a 2003 song by Sarai

"Ladies", a song by Inna from the album Hot

"Ladies", a 2009 song by Lee Fields

"Lady", a 2018 song by Kim Yu-bin

Other uses

Lady (sculpture), an outdoor sculpture by Jan Zach

Lady!!, a Japanese shōjo manga

Lady, a fictional character in Lady and the Tramp

LADY, alternative name for an N battery

Lady (Devil May Cry), a character in the Devil May Cry video game series

"The Ladies", a euphemism for the women's bathroom

Ladies, a Cambodian women's magazine

Lady (group), South Korean transgender pop group

Lady apple, a cultivar also referred to as just "Lady".

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“Lady (disambiguation)” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lady, disambiguation and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 1982, 1963, 1969—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lady, disambiguation and Wikimedia.
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Why this record matters

“Lady (disambiguation)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lady, disambiguation and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q298578. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1989, 1982, 1963 and 1969.

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