title: Zelia (given name)
text: # Zelia (given name)
  
  Zelia is a feminine given name. People named Zelia or Zélia include:
  
  * Zealia Bishop (1897–1968), sometimes spelled Zelia, American short story writer
  * Zelia N. Breaux (1880–1956), African-American music instructor and musician
  * Zélia Cardoso de Mello (born 1953), Brazilian economist, Minister of the Economy from 1990 to 1991
  * Zélia Duncan (born 1964), Brazilian singer and composer
  * Zélia Gattai (1916–2008), Brazilian photographer, memoirist, novelist and author of children's literature
  * Zelia Hoffman (1867–1929), American horticulturalist and British politician
  * Zelia Nuttall (1857–1933), American archaeologist and anthropologist
  * Zelia Ball Page (1850–1937), African-American teacher, first matron of Langston University and mother of Zelia Breaux
  * Zelia Peet Ruebhausen (1914–1990), American civic leader and policy advisor
  * Zelia Trebelli-Bettini (1836–1892), also known as Zelia Gilbert, French operatic mezzo-soprano
  