Linda Tuero (born October 21, 1950) is an American tennis player and paleoanthropologist.

She started playing tennis at the age of 11 and was taught by Emmett Paré throughout her career.

In 1972, playing her first year as a professional, Linda won the Italian Open.

[13] In 1973, while working as an extra in The Exorcist, she met the author William Peter Blatty.

She is now married to Dr. William Lindsley who is a former business consultant and former dean and professor at Boston College, Vanderbilt University Owen School of Management, and Belmont University Graduate School of Business.

In 2005, she was part of an excavation in the Lake Turkana region of northern Kenya.