Nana (given name)

People

Acting

• Nana Komatsu, a Japanese model and actress
• Nana Ama McBrown, a Ghanaian actress
• Nana Bryant, an American film actress
• Nana Jorjadze, a Georgian film director and scriptwriter
• Nana Eikura, a Japanese model and actress
• Nana Katase, a Japanese actress
• Nana Ozaki, a Japanese actress
• Nana Palsikar, an Indian film actor
• Nana Patekar, an Indian actor and filmmaker
• Nana Visitor, an American actress
• Nana Yamaguchi, a Japanese voice actress
• Nana Yanagisawa, a Japanese actress and fashion model

  Art

• Nana Haruta, a Japanese manga artist
• Nana Meskhidze, a Georgian artist-painter

  Music

• Nana Caymmi, a Brazilian singer
• Nana Gualdi, a German singer and actress
• Nana Hedin, a Swedish singer
• Nana Kitade, a Japanese J-Rock singer
• Nana Mizuki, a Japanese voice actress and singer
• Nana Mouskouri, a Greek singer
• Nana Okada, a Japanese idol and actress
• Nana Okada, a Japanese idol
• Nana Kwame Abrokwa, a German rapper and DJ
• Nana Tanimura, a Japanese pop singer
• Naná Vasconcelos, a Brazilian Latin jazz percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player

  Politics

• Nana Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana
• Nana , a Chiricahua Apache leader
• Nana Effah-Apenteng, the Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations
• Nana Fadnavis, an influential minister and statesman of the Maratha Empire in Pune, India
• Nana of Iberia, a 4th-century Georgian queen
• Nana Olomu, an Itsekiri chief and merchant from the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria
• Nana Osei Bonsu II, the regent of the Ashanti Kingdom
• Nana Owusu-Nsiah, a Ghanaian diplomat and ambassador
• Nana Patil, an Indian independence activist
• Nana Sahib, an Indian leader during the rebellion of 1857
• Nana Sir Ofori Atta I, a King of Akyem Abuakwa in 1912
• Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah, Equerry to Queen Elizabeth II

  Religion

• Nana Dharmadhikari, an Indian spiritual guru
• Nana of Pécs, a 12th-century bishop in the Kingdom of Hungary

  Sports

• Nana Alexandria, a Georgian chess Grandmaster
• Nana Arhin Duah, a Ghanaian football player
• Nana Attakora, a Canadian football player
• Nana Eshun, a Ghanaian football player
• Nana Eshun, a Ghanaian football player
• Nana Falemi, a Romanian-Cameroonian football player
• Nana Fujimoto, Japanese ice hockey player
• Nana Ichise, Japanese women's footballer
• Nana Ioseliani, a Georgian chess player
• Nana Iwasaka, a Japanese volleyball player
• Nana Joshi, a cricketer
• Nana Konadu, a retired Ghanaian boxer
• Nana Kuffour, a Ghanaian-American soccer player
• Nana Miyagi, a Japanese American tennis player
• Nana Ofori-Twumasi, a professional Ghanaian-born English footballer
• Nana Takeda, a Japanese figure skater

  Other

• Nana Asma’u, a poet, teacher and a revered figure in northern Nigeria
• Nana Chudasama, an eminent jurist, former mayor and Sheriff of Mumbai
• Nana Natsume, a Japanese award-winning former AV idol and celebrity
• Nana Ozaki, a Japanese gravure idol

  Fictional characters

• Nana April Jun, one of the personae of Christofer Lämgren, a Swedish artist
• Nana Dawson, a character in Heroes
• Nana Komatsu, a character in the Japanese manga Nana
• Nana McQueen, a character in Hollyoaks
• Nana Moon, a character in the popular British BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Nana Osaki, a character in the Japanese manga Nana
• Nana Oyl, the mother of cartoon character Olive Oyl
• Nana, the Newfoundland dog nurse of Wendy, John and Michael in Peter Pan
• Nana, the protagonist of Émile Zola's novel, Nana
• Nana, a character in the Elfen Lied series
• Nana Shimura, a character in the popular Japanese manga, My Hero Academia