Ana or ANA may refer to:

People

Ana (given name) Ana ( Cyrillic: Ана) is a version of the female given name Anna meaning "favour" or "grace". In Croatia, the name Ana was the second most common feminine given name, or among the top ten most common, in almost all decades for which there is cens ...

, a list of people with the name * Ana people or Atakpame people, an ethnic group of West Africa *

ana (gamer) Anathan Pham (born 26 October 1999), better known as ana, is an Australian professional '' Dota 2'' player. As a member of OG, he has played in three iterations of The International, winning in 2018 and 2019, and has also won two Major champ ...

, Anathan Pham, an Australian professional ''Dota 2'' player known as ana

Places

* Ana, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, village in Iran * Ana or

Anah Anah or Ana ( ar, عانة, ''ʾĀna'', syr, ܐܢܐ), formerly also known as Anna, is an Iraqi town on the Euphrates river, approximately midway between the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Persian Gulf. Anah lies from west to east on the right ban ...

, town in Iraq * Ana, populated place in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea * Ana or Anié, town in Togo

Arts and entertainment

* ''Ana'' (1982 film), a Portuguese film * ''Ana'' (2020 film), an American film * ''The Hole'' (1957 film) or ''Ana'', a 1957 Japanese film * ''Ana'' (1984 TV series), a Pakistani drama on PTV * ''Ana'' (2004 TV series), a Pakistani drama on Geo TV * ''Ana'' (2020 TV series), a Mexican comedy show * ''ana'' (2021 TV series), Syrian TV series starring

Taim Hasan Taim Hasan ( ar, تيم حسن) (born February 17, 1976) is a prominent Syrian actor, known for his distinct dramatic roles in Syria and the Arab world. Hasan achieved fame in Syria through a number of highly acclaimed and extremely successful Sy ...

* "Ana", a song by the Pixies from '' Bossanova'' * ''Ana'' (Ralph Towner album), 1996 *

Ana (Ana album) ''Ana'' is the debut studio album by Cuban-American singer Ana, released by Parc Records in 1987. It features her debut single "Shy Boys", which peaked at No. 94 on the ''Billboard Hot 100 The ''Billboard'' Hot 100 is the music industry ...

, 1987 * Ana (''Overwatch''), a player character in the video games ''Overwatch'' and ''Heroes of the Storm'' * Ana (''Mother''), a character in the original ''Mother'' video game

Businesses

* , a Swedish auto manufacturer *

African News Agency The African News Agency (ANA) is a news and content syndication service, focusing on news about Africa written by Africans for an African and international audience. ANA was launched in Cape Town in February 2015 by Sekunjalo Investments Chair an ...

, *

All Nippon Airways , also known as ANA (''Ē-enu-ē'') or is an airline in Japan. Its headquarters are located in Shiodome City Center in the Shiodome area of Minato ward of Tokyo. It operates services to both domestic and international destinations and had mo ...

, a Japanese airline *

Athens News Agency The Athens News Agency (ANA; el, Αθηναϊκό Πρακτορείο Ειδήσεων) was one of the two major news agencies in Greece, the other being the Macedonian Press Agency, before they merged into the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA ...

, the national news agency of Greece *

Australian National Airways Australian National Airways (ANA) was Australia's predominant aerial carrier from the mid-1930s to the early 1950s. The Holyman's Airways period On 19 March 1932 Flinders Island Airways began a regular aerial service using the Desoutter Mk.I ...

, a defunct airline

Organizations

Military

Afghan National Army Afghan may refer to: *Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia * Afghans, people or citizens of Afghanistan, typically of any ethnicity **Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pas ...

Albanian National Army The Albanian National Army (ANA; sq, Armata Kombëtare Shqiptare, AKSh), is an Albanian paramilitary organization which operates in North Macedonia, Serbia and Kosovo. The group opposes the Ohrid Framework Agreement which ended the 2001 insurge ...

Other organizations

* Administration for Native Americans, a program in the Administration for Children and Families *

Agency for New Americans The Agency for New Americans (ANA) is the arm of the Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) in Boise, Idaho, which serves the primary and secondary enculturation needs of refugees. It is part of Jannus, Inc., formerly the Mountain States Group (a c ...

, a refugee organization in Boise, Idaho * , the Brazilian National Water Agency * Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, a network of organizations collaborating on issues of nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup *

American Numismatic Association The American Numismatic Association (ANA) is an organization founded in 1891 by George Francis Heath. Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, it was formed to advance the knowledge of numismatics (the study of coins) along educational, histori ...

American Nurses Association The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a 501(c)(6) professional organization to advance and protect the profession of nursing. It started in 1896 as the Nurses Associated Alumnae and was renamed the American Nurses Association in 1911. It is ba ...

* , an airport authority *

Association of National Advertisers The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) represents the marketing community in the United States. Its headquarters is in New York City and it has another office in Washington, D.C. ANA's membership includes over 600 companies with 25,000 b ...

* Association of Naval Aviation, one of the sponsors of the

Wesley L. McDonald Wesley Lee McDonald (July 6, 1924February 8, 2009) was a United States Navy admiral and naval aviator. He led the first air strike against North Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin incident and was the commander in charge of Operation Urgent Fury, t ...

Leadership Award * , the Italian National Alpini Association *

Australian National Alliance The Australian National Alliance (ANA) was a far-right political party active in Australia from 1978 to 1981. Founded in January 1978, it was one of Australia's earliest anti-Asian immigration parties. The ANA contested the 1979 Grayndler by-elec ...

, a far-right political party active from 1978 to 1981 *

Australian Natives' Association The Australian Natives' Association (ANA) was a mutual society founded in Melbourne, Australia in April 1871. It was founded by and for the benefit of native-born white Australians and membership was restricted exclusively to that group. The A ...

, a white Australian organisation founded in 1871

Science and technology

Anti-nuclear antibody Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs, also known as antinuclear factor or ANF) are autoantibodies that bind to contents of the cell nucleus. In normal individuals, the immune system produces antibodies to foreign proteins (antigens) but not to human pro ...

, an autoantibody that binds to contents of the cell nucleus * Ana (mathematics), a name proposed for a direction in the fourth spatial dimension * Ana (programming language) *

Anorexia nervosa Anorexia nervosa, often referred to simply as anorexia, is an eating disorder characterized by low weight, food restriction, body image disturbance, fear of gaining weight, and an overpowering desire to be thin. ''Anorexia'' is a term of Gr ...

or ana *

Anandamide Anandamide (ANA), also known as ''N''-arachidonoylethanolamine (AEA), is a fatty acid neurotransmitter. Anandamide was the first endocannabinoid to be discovered: it participates in the body's endocannabinoid system by binding to cannabinoid rec ...

, a neurotransmitter

Other uses

Anaheim Ducks The Anaheim Ducks are a professional ice hockey team based in Anaheim, California. The Ducks compete in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division, and play their home games at Honda Center. ...

, a National Hockey League team; based in Anaheim, California, US * Ana River, river in Oregon, US *

-ana -ana (variant: -iana) is a Latin-origin suffix that is used in English to convert nouns—usually proper names—into mass nouns, most commonly in order to refer to a collection of things, facts, stories, memorabilia, and anything else, that rela ...

, a Latinate suffix to form a mass noun * List of storms named Ana, tropical and extratropical storms named Ana *

Ana tree ''Faidherbia'' is a genus of leguminous plants containing one species, ''Faidherbia albida'', which was formerly widely included in the genus '' Acacia'' as ''Acacia albida''. The species is native to Africa and the Middle East and has also been ...

, a hardwood tree native to Africa and the Middle East * Ana (search dog) (1995–2008) *

Autonomic Network Architecture The Autonomic Network Architecture (ANA) project aims at exploring novel ways of organizing and using networks beyond legacy Internet technology. The ultimate goal is to design and develop a novel autonomic networking architecture that enables flex ...

, a project of the European Union * ANA (motorcycle), Australian motorcycle *

Authorised Neutral Athletes Authorised Neutral Athlete (ANA) is a capacity under which athletes can compete at international sporting competitions without representing their nations, as is standard convention under the Olympic Charter. As of August 2022, only Russian and ...

, Russian athletes who can compete at international athletic competitions after the doping scandal *

Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) is an intermodal transit center in Anaheim, California, United States. It serves as a train station for Amtrak intercity rail and Metrolink commuter rail, as well as a bus station u ...

(in California, USA) (Amtrak code "ANA")