Dana

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Dana may refer to:

People

Given name

• Dana (given name)
• Dana Andrews (1909 – 1992) American film actor
• Dana Leslie Fields (born 1956), American digital media figure
• Dana International (born 1972), Israeli singer, winner of Eurovision Song Contest 1998
• Dana Rosemary Scallon (born 1951), Irish singer, winner of Eurovision Song Contest 1970 and politician known as Dana

Surname

• Dana (surname)
• James Dwight Dana (born 1813), a geologist commonly referred to as "Dana"

Nickname or stage name

• Dana (South Korean singer) (born 1986), South Korean pop singer

Places

• Ancient Dana or Tyana in Cappadocia, capital of a Neo-Hittite kingdom in the 1st millennium BC
• Dana, Jordan, a town
• Dana, Nepal, a village development committee
• Dana, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, a village
• Al-Dana, Syria, a town in northern Syria
• CFS Dana, a former military radar installation in Saskatchewan, Canada
• Dana Biosphere Reserve, the largest nature reserve in Jordan
• Dana County, an administrative subdivision of Iran
• Dana Rural District, an administrative subdivision of Iran

United States

• Dana, Illinois, a town
• Dana, Indiana, a town
• Dana, Iowa, a town
• Dana, Kentucky
• Dana, Massachusetts, a former town that was disincorporated as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir
• Mount Dana, a mountain peak in Yosemite National Park, California
  • Dana Meadows, meadows at the foot of Mount Dana

Enterprises

• Dàna, an independent online Scottish Gaelic periodical
• Dana (Mirna), a beverage company from Mirna, Slovenia
• Dana Air, a Nigerian airline
• Dana Centre, opened in 2003, an event venue in London, England
• Dana College, a former accredited college in Blair, Nebraska
• Dana Holding Corporation, a US-based auto parts firm
• Dana Design, a small manufacturer of backpacks for mountain climbing
• Dana Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation founded by Charles A. Dana
• Dana Mall, a shopping mall in Manama, Bahrain
• House of Dana, a perfumery founded in Barcelona, Spain, by Javier Serra in 1932

Art, entertainment, and media

• Dana Freeling, a character in the film Poltergeist (1982)

Religion

• Danu (Irish goddess) (Dana in modern Irish), the Celtic mother goddess
• Dāna, the practice of generosity or giving in Dharmic religions

Other

• 152mm SpGH DANA, a brand of artillery gun
• Dana octopus squid, a deep sea dwelling squid
• ZAZ Dana, a model of ZAZ automobile

See also

• Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, a Boston, Massachusetts-based cancer treatment and research center
• D'Anna (disambiguation)
• Danna (disambiguation)
• Dannah
• Dana Island