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American bodybuilder (born 1962)
After a brief tenure cheerleading for the Michigan Panthers in the now defunct United States Football League, she worked with the Michigan Panthers for two years and then was invited to try out for the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. After she auditioned for the group and made the next to last cut, she decided she might need to slenderize her thighs a bit.

In 1984, Murray joined a gym, the Powerhouse Gym, in Highland Park, Michigan. Within the first two days of joining the gym, Ron Love, an NPC Nationals contender told her that she had the physique to be a bodybuilder. After about a year of training to just stay in shape, Murray decided to compete in the 1985 Ms. Michigan Championships. After placing fourth, she was hooked on the sport. Murray's father did not show up for her first bodybuilding competition, but eventually did for others.

Murray soon became a regular presence in bodybuilding magazines and a favorite subject of photographer Bill Dobbins who focused extensively on her in his books The Women and Modern Amazons.

Murray lost the Ms. Olympia title to Kim Chizevsky Nicholls in 1996, and went into retirement after finishing second to Chizevsky Nicholls again in December 1997. After four years of retirement, Lenda returned to the Ms. Olympia stage, and won two more Ms. Olympia titles in 2002 and 2003.

Murray finished second in the heavyweight class to Iris Kyle in 2004, and again retired from competition. Murray has previously done commentary for bodybuilding events on ESPN from 1993 to 1996. She was inducted into the IFBB Hall of Fame in 2010 and the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. In March 2011, she became a member of the National Fitness Hall of Fame and received the award from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Every year there is an NPC competition, held at Norfolk State University, called the Lenda Murray Bodybuilding, Figure and Bikini Championships, which she is a promoter and organizer for. Murray is also spokesperson for Wings of Strength and she owns a nutritional products company Crystal Planet Nutrition.

Murray is single and lives in Los Angeles, California with her cats, Martin and William. She is a Christian. She is a grandmother of eleven and a stepmother of four.

In 2015, Murray appeared in Adam Sandler's The Ridiculous 6 where she played (Terry Crews's character) Chico's mother.