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Miranda

"Miranda" can refer to:

Places:
- Miranda, a moon of Uranus
- Miranda do Douro, a town in Portugal
- Terra de Miranda, a cultural area of northeastern Portugal
- Miranda de Ebro , a town in Spain
- Miranda, a suburb of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia
- Miranda, a state of Venezuela
Characters
- Miranda, the daughter of Prospero in William Shakespeare's The Tempest
- Miranda Cornielle, a character in the webcomic User Friendly
- Miranda Sanchez, a character in the television program Lizzie McGuire
- Miranda, mother of Vismund Cygnus on The Mars Volta album, Frances the Mute
People
- Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary against the Spanish
- Carmen Miranda, Brazilian singer and actress
- Miranda Silvergren, a Swedish psytrance artist and producer
- Miranda Richardson, Oscar-nominated British actress
Technology
- The Miranda programming language
- Miranda IM, an open-source instant messaging client software for Windows
Works
- Miranda , an 1874 novel written by Antonio Fogazzaro
- Miranda a 1984 British film starring Glynis Johns
Other
- The Miranda class starships, a ship class in the fictional Star Trek universe
- The short name for Miranda v. Arizona, a U.S. Supreme Court case

384 US 436 (1966).

- The Miranda warning, a means of protecting the right to remain silent in the U.S.

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