Dana
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Dana may refer to:
Spirituality
- Dana (Buddhism), the practice of generosity or giving in Buddhism
- Danu (Irish goddess), the Celtic mother goddess
People
Surnames:
- Bill Dana, an American comedian, writer, producer and composer, well-known for his character Jose Jimenez in the Steve Allen Show
- 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 dead 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
see Dana (name)
- Dana Rosemary Scallon, Irish singer & Eurovision Song Contest winner
- Dana (Korea), a South Korean pop singer
- The Dana Girls
- Dana (Buffyverse), a fictional character on the television show Angel
- Dana, a Bratz character
- Dana, a character on Zoey 101
- King Dana, a Corinthian king, son of Sysiphus and Merope
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
Things
- Dana (software), 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
Locations
- 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 reserve, one of the Biosphere Reserves located in Jordan
See also
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