Dana (name)
Dana is a female and male given name and a family name.
Origin and meaning of the name
Dana is the short form of Daniela and Daniel (Aramaic) as well as Danuta (Polish).
variants
- Male: Daniel, Danja, Dan , Dano, Daniele (Italian), Danny (English), Danilo (Slav.), Dános (Hungarian), Dana (Kurdish)
- Female: Dana, Dhana, Daniela, Danielle, Dany (French), Daniela (Italian), Daria, Danja, Dania (Slav.), Danniebelle (American)
name day
- July 21 (Catholic)
- December 17th (Orthodox)
- July 25th
stage name
- Dana (born 1950), Irish singer
- Dana (* 1986), South Korean singer
- Dana International (* 1972), stage name of the Israeli singer Sharon Cohen
Well-known name bearers
- Dana Andrews (1909-1992), American film actor
- Dana Ashbrook (* 1967), American actor
- Dana Bönisch (* 1982), German writer and journalist
- Dana Brandt (* 1976) German writer
- Dana Brunetti (* 1973), American film producer
- Dana Carvey (born 1955), American actor
- Dana DeArmond (* 1979), American porn actress
- Dana Delany (born 1956), American actress
- Dana Elcar (1927-2005), American actor
- Dana Friedrich (* 1976), German actress, presenter and voice actress
- Dana Geissler (* 1963), German actress
- Dana Glover (* 1974), American pop singer
- Dana Golombek (* 1970), German actress and singer
- Dana Gould (born 1964), American comedian and actor
- Dana Grigorcea (* 1979), Swiss-Romanian writer and philologist
- Dana Horáková (* 1947), Czech author and politician
- Dana Hussein Abdulrazak (* 1986), Iraqi athlete
- Dana Jessen (* 1983), American musician
- Dana K. Chipman (* 1958), Judge Advocate General (Chief Justice) of the US Army
- Dana Kaproff (* 1954), American composer and music producer
- Dana Milbank (* 1968), American political reporter
- Dana Murzyn (born 1966), Canadian ice hockey player
- Dana Pyritz (* 1970), German rower
- Dana Reizniece-Ozola (* 1981), Latvian politician and chess player
- Dana Rohrabacher (* 1947), American politician
- Dana Schweiger (* 1968), American presenter, model and entrepreneur
- Dana Stewart Scott (* 1932), American mathematician, logician, computer scientist and philosopher
- Dana Snyder (* 1973), American voice actor and actor
- Dana Touran (* 1993), Jordanian Taekwondoin
- Dana Tyrell (* 1989), Canadian ice hockey player
- Dana van Dreven ( Lady Dana ; * 1974), Dutch hardstyle DJane
- Dana Vávrová (1967–2009), German-Czech actress and film director
- Dana Ward (* 1949), Professor of Political Science
- Dana Wilson (1983-2011), New Zealand rugby league player
- Dana Winner (* 1965), Belgian singer
- Dana Wynter ( born Dagmar Winter, 1931–2011), German-British actress
- Dana Z. Anderson (* 1953), American physicist
- Dana Zajac (* 1994), German volleyball player.
- Dana Zátopková (1922–2020), Czech athlete
family name
- Amasa Dana (1792–1867), American politician
- Audrey Dana (born 1977), French actress
- Bill Dana (entertainer) (1924-2017), American actor and entertainer
- Bill Dana (1930-2014), American test pilot, see William H. Dana
- Charles Anderson Dana (1819–1897), American journalist
- Edward Salisbury Dana (1849–1935), American mineralogist
- Francis Dana (1743–1811), American lawyer, judge, and politician
- James Dwight Dana (1813–1895), American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist
- John W. Dana (1808–1867), American politician
- Judah Dana (1772–1845), American politician
- Kamrun Nahar Dana (* around 1960), badminton player from Bangladesh
- Mary SB Dana (1810-1883), American writer
- Mazen Dana (1962-2003), Iraqi cameraman
- Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana (1822–1905), American major general
- Paul Dana (1975–2006), American racing driver
- Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879), American lawyer and writer
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882), American lawyer and writer
- Rodd Dana (born 1934), American actor
- Samuel Dana (politician) (1767–1835), American politician (Democratic Republican Party)
- Samuel Trask Dana (1883–1978), American forest scientist
- Samuel W. Dana (1760-1830), American politician (Federal Party)
- Sabina Dana (* 1988), Albanian pop singer
- Simphiwe Dana (* 1980), South African singer
- Vic Dana (born 1942), American dancer and pop music singer
- Viola Dana (1897–1987), American actress
- William H. Dana (1930-2014), American test pilot
Fictional people
- Dana Barrett, from the Ghostbusters film series
- Dana Scully from the X-Files series
- Dana Wolf, character in the series Forbidden Love
mythology
- Danaë , mother of Perseus (Greek mythology)
- Danu , daughter of the Túatha Dé Danann people (Celtic mythology)