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Naya (singer) Naya ( ar, نايا; born 11 April 1992, in Lebanon) is a Lebanese singer. She was born to the Daw (Daou) family in El Qrayeh, Lebanon. In 2009, Eli Dib introduced her to the Arabic music scene. Recording career 2008–2009: Melody record an ...

, (born 1992), Lebanese singer *

Naya Rivera Naya Marie Rivera (; January 12, 1987July 8, 2020) was an American actress, singer, and model. Recognized for her work on the popular musical comedy-drama series ''Glee'', she received various awards, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and ...

(1987–2020), American actress and singer *

Naya Tapper Naya Elena Tapper (born August 3, 1994) is an American rugby union player. She debuted for the in 2016. She was selected for the squad to the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland. Like most of her teammates Tapper began her rugby career whi ...

(born 1994), American rugby union player

Surname

Beverly Naya Beverly Naya (born Beverly Ifunaya Bassey; 17 April 1989) is a British-born Nigerian actress. Beverly won Most Promising Talent at the 2010 Best of Nollywood Awards. She also won the award for Fast Rising Actress at the 2011 City People Entert ...

(born 1989), British-Nigerian actress *

Carlo Naya Carlo Naya (1816 in Tronzano Vercellese1882 in Venice) was an Italian photographer known for his pictures of Venice including its works of art and views of the city for a collaborative volume in 1866. He also documented the restoration of Giotto ...

(1816–1882), Italian photographer *

Gorō Naya was a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and theatre director from Hakodate, Hokkaidō. He and his brother were two of seven children, and was a drop-out of the legal education division of Ritsumeikan University. He was connected to Theatre E ...

(1929–2013), Japanese voice actor *

José Naya José Naya (25 July 1896 – 29 January 1977) was an Uruguayan footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American foo ...

(1896–1977), Uruguayan footballer * Kōki Naya (1940–2013), birth name of

Taihō Kōki , ''Ivan Boryshko''; May 29, 1940 – January 19, 2013, lead=yes was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He became the 48th ''yokozuna'' in 1961 at the age of 21, the youngest ever at the time. Kōki won 32 tournament championships bet ...

, Japanese sumo wrestler *

Rokurō Naya was a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and the brother of voice actor Gorō Naya (1929–2013). He was a lifelong resident of Tokyo and was affiliated with Mausu Promotion at the time of his death. Filmography Television animation ;1970 * ...

(1932–2014), Japanese voice actor

Other uses

Naya, Myanmar Naya, Burma is a village in Hsawlaw Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in Bri ...

Naya River The Naya River ( es, Río Naya) is a river in Colombia that flows into the Pacific Ocean. The Naya forms the southern boundary of the Farallones de Cali National Park. The river is long, and is one of the main rivers of the Pacific slope and t ...

, in Colombia *

Naya Waters Naya Waters manufactures, under the name Naya, bottled natural spring water, drawn from a spring in the Laurentian Mountains, in southern Quebec, Canada. Naya's natural spring water is bottled directly at this source, and it is untreated and n ...

, a Canadian water bottler * ''Naya'', a 1982 album by Congolese musician

King Kester Emeneya Jean Baptiste Emeneya Mubiala Kwamambu (November 23, 1956 – February 13, 2014) was a Congolese singer best known as King Kester Emeneya. He was born in Kikwit within the Democratic Republic of the Congo. While being a student of political scie ...

* Naya, a concept in Jainism; see

Anekantavada ( hi, अनेकान्तवाद, "many-sidedness") is the Jain doctrine about metaphysical truths that emerged in ancient India. It states that the ultimate truth and reality is complex and has multiple aspects. According to Jainism, ...

Nāya Nāya ( Prākrit: ; Pāli: ; Sanskrit: ) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of north-eastern South Asia whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. The population of Nāya, the Nāyikas, were organised into a (an aristocratic oligarchic re ...

, the ancient Indo-Aryan tribe in which the Jain Tirthankara

Mahavira Mahavira (Sanskrit: महावीर) also known as Vardhaman, was the 24th ''tirthankara'' (supreme preacher) of Jainism. He was the spiritual successor of the 23rd ''tirthankara'' Parshvanatha. Mahavira was born in the early part of the 6t ...

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