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Mendi (disambiguation)

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Mendi is the capital of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.

Mendi may also refer to:

People

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  • Mendi Rodan (1929–2009), Israeli conductor, composer and violinist
  • Mendi Msimang, treasurer of the African National Congress
  • Mendi Mengjiqi (born 1958), Kosovar Albanian composer
  • Mendi Obadike (born 1973), Igbo Nigerian American musician, poet and conceptual artist

Places

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Ships

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  • SS Mendi, a 1905 British steamship used as troop carrier by the Royal Navy, sunk in 1917
  • SAS Mendi (F148), a frigate of the South African Navy, launched 2003
  • Mendi (barque), a black-owned ship serving Liberia

Other

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  • The Mendi people of Sierra Leone, West Africa
    • The Mendi Bible, presented to John Quincy Adams by freed slaves from the Amistad
  • Mendi language, also called Angal, spoken in Papua New Guinea and unrelated to the African people noted above
  • Mendi, Ethiopia, a town
  • Mehndi (or henna), used for body painting
  • CD Mendi, a minor Spanish football club

See also

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