Dana

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Contents 1 Spirituality 2 People 2.1 See also 3 Organizations/companies 4 Things 5 Locations 6 See also

Dana may refer to:

• Dana (singer) now known as Dana Rosemary Scallon

[edit] Spirituality

• Dana (Buddhism), the practice of generosity or giving in Buddhism
• Dana (Sikhism), the material virtue of charity in Sikhism
• Danu (Irish goddess), the Celtic mother goddess
• Dana (pronounced "Dah-nuh"), European name derived from Bohdana or Bogdana meaning "of God"

[edit] People

see Dana (name)

Surnames:

• Bill Dana, an American comedian, writer, producer and composer, well-known for his character Jose Jimenez in the Steve Allen Show
• Charles Anderson Dana, American author, journalist and government official
• Daniel Dana, American educator, the president of Dartmouth College
• Francis Dana, an American lawyer
• Henry Dana, founder of the Native Police force in Victoria, Australia in the nineteenth century
• James Dwight Dana, an American zoologist and geologist
• John Cotton Dana, a highly influential American librarian and museum director
• Mazen Dana, a Reuters cameraman who was shot to death by US soldiers
• Paul Dana, a former American race car driver in the Indy Racing League, who died in a crash in March 2006
• Richard Henry Dana, Jr., an American lawyer and politician , most famous for his classic book Two Years Before the Mast
• Samuel Dana Horton, an American writer on bimetallism
• Samuel W. Dana, an American lawyer and politician
• Sophia Dana, a nineteenth-century feminist, a Transcendentalist and later a Catholic
• Vic Dana, an American dancer and singer
• Viola Dana, (also known as Viola Flugrath, born Virginia Flugrath) a silent movie actress
• William H. Dana, a retired American astronaut

Given names:

• Dana Rosemary Scallon, Irish singer & Eurovision Song Contest winner
• Dana (Korea), a South Korean pop singer
• The Dana Girls
• DJ Lady Dana, a Dutch DJ

In fiction:

• Dana (Buffyverse), a fictional character on the television show Angel
• Dana, a Bratz character
• Dana, a character on Zoey 101
• Dana Scully an FBI Agent on The X-Files.
• Dana Fairbanks, a fictional character of the television show The L Word.

In mythology:

• King Dana, a Corinthian king, son of Sysiphus and Merope

Other:

• Dana International, Israeli transsexual singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner

[edit] See also

• Dannah Feinglass

[edit] Organizations/companies

• The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a Boston, Massachusetts-based cancer treatment and research center*
• The Dana Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation founded by Charles A. Dana, a New York State legislator, industrialist, and philanthropist
• Dana Corporation, a USA based auto parts firm
• Dana Design, a small manufacuter of backpacks for mountain climbing
• Aes Dana, a French black metal and pagan metal band
• Dana College, an accredited baccalaureate college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, located in Blair, Nebraska
• Dana Centre, opened in 2003, an event venue in London, England
• Dana (weapon), a brand of artillery gun
• Dana (magazine), an Irish free-thinking literary magazine which published some of James Joyce's earliest poems

[edit] Things

• Dana (software) [1], a German IRC client (computer software)
• Dana Hills High School, a high school in Dana Point, California
• ZAZ Dana, a model of ZAZ automobile
• AlphaSmart Dana, a personal digital assistant made by AlphaSmart
• DANA (weapon), a Czech made self-propelled artillery gun

[edit] Locations

• ancient Dana or Tyana in Cappadocia
• Dana, Massachusetts, United States, a former town that was disincorporated as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir
• Dana Point, California, a town in the state of California, USA
• Dana, Illinois, a town in the state of Illinois, USA
• Dana, Indiana, a town in the state of Indiana, USA
• Dana, Iowa, a town in the state of Iowa, USA
• Mount Dana, a mountain peak in Yosemite National Park, USA
• Dana Meadows, are meadows at the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park, at the foot of Mount Dana
• Dana Point Harbor
• Dana, Jordan a town in Jordan
• Dana reserve, one of the Biosphere reserves located in Jordan

[edit] See also

• Danaë