Callista

Callista, also spelled Calista, Callistee, Kallista, Kalista and Kallistee, comes from the Greek for "most beautiful (feminine)" (καλλίστη – kallístē).

Callista may refer to:

Nature

• Callista (bivalve), a genus of bivalves
• Callista Lour., a synonym of Dendrobium, an orchid genus
• Callista D.Don, a synonym of Erica, a heath or heather genus

Entertainment

• A SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron character, the presumed ancestor of Deputy Mayor Callie Briggs
• Callista (novel), 1855 novel by John Henry Newman
• Callista Ming, a character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
• A main character from the video game The Last Story

People

• Callista Balko, American athlete
• Callista Chimombo, Malawian politician
• Calista Flockhart, American actress
• Callista Gingrich, wife of Newt Gingrich
• Callista Roy, American nursing theorist
• Callista Carter, Canadian massuse

Science

• 204 Kallisto, an S-type asteroid which was discovered in 1879
• Callisto (moon), one of the moons of Jupiter, discovered in 1610

Places

• Kallista, Victoria, a town in Australia
• Kalista, a village in south-western Bulgaria

Other

• Panther Kallista, a retro-style automobile manufactured by Panther Westwinds from 1982 to 1993
• Calista (steamboat), a small steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet
• RV Callista Southampton University research vessel

See also

• Calista (disambiguation)
• Callisto (disambiguation)
• Calisto (disambiguation)
• Callistus (disambiguation)