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'''[[Callista (given name)|Callista]]''', also spelled '''Calista''', '''Callistee''', '''Kallista''', '''Kalista''' and '''Kallistee''', comes from the [[Greek language|Greek]] for "most beautiful (feminine)" (καλλίστη – ''kallístē'').

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'''Callista''' may refer to:
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<!--* Callista (fl. 1st century), pious Greek woman from [[Anatolia]] who was a Christian. She was the stepmother and later the adoptive mother of Saint [[Polycarp]], whom she raised-->
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==Nature==
* [[Callista (bivalve)|''Callista'' (bivalve)]], a genus of bivalves
* ''Callista'' <small>Lour.</small>, a synonym of ''[[Dendrobium]]'', an orchid genus
* ''Callista'' <small>D.Don</small>, a synonym of ''[[Erica (plant)|Erica]]'', a heath or heather genus

==Entertainment==
* A ''[[SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron]]'' character, the presumed ancestor of Deputy Mayor Callie Briggs
* [[Callista (novel)|''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

==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)|''Calista'' (steamboat)]], a small steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet
* [[RV Callista|RV ''Callista'']] Southampton University research vessel

==See also==
* [[Calista (disambiguation)]]
* [[Callisto (disambiguation)]]
* [[Calisto (disambiguation)]]
* [[Callistus (disambiguation)]]

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