Bani
Bani stands for:
Geography:
- Bani (river) , right tributary of the Niger
Places:
- Bani (Burkina Faso) , municipality in Burkina Faso
- Bani (Pangasinan) , Filipino township in Pangasinan Province
- Baní , provincial capital of Peravia in the Dominican Republic
- Bani Suwaif , city in Egypt
- Bani Walid , city in Libya
- Bani (Gambia) , locality in Gambia
Administrative districts:
- Bani Bu Ali , district in Oman
- Bani Bu Hasan , District in Oman
- Sir Bani Yas , private island in the emirate of Abu Dhabi
- Bani Suwaif , Governorate of Egypt
- Bani Walid , province in Libya
Banī (Arabic "sons of ...", cf. Ibn ) is part of the name of the tribes and groups:
- Bani Hassan , Jordanian Bedouin tribe
- Banī Hassān , group of Arab tribes in Mauritania
- Bani Yas , Bedouin tribe from Abu Dhabi
- Bani Hanifah , Arab tribe
- Bani Khalid , Arab tribe
- Bani Israel , Jewish group based in India
Bani is the family name of the following people:
- Ali Bani Hashemi (* 1934), Iranian wrestler
- John Bennett Bani (born 1941), President of Vanuatu
- Martin Waïngue Bani (* 1963), Chadian clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop of Doba
- Mattia Bani (* 1993), Italian soccer player
- Nikola Bani (1736–1815), Archbishop of Dubrovnik
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad (* 1954), Iranian film director and screenwriter
- Zahra Bani (* 1979), Italian athlete
Bani means:
- Bani, style within a gharana in Indian classical music
- Bani, Gurbani , verses from Adi Granth , the sacred scriptures of the Sikhs
- Bani, plural of the coin unit Ban in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, see Romanian Leu , Moldovan Leu