Usha may refer to:

Geography

Usha (city) Usha () was a city in the Western part of Galilee. The Arab village of Hawsha later occupied the ruins of the old site. The modern kibbutz of Usha, Israel is located nearby to the ruins. History The site came to renown in the 2nd century (c. 135) ...

, an ancient city in western part of Galilee, Israel *

Usha, Israel Usha ( he, אוּשָׁה) is a kibbutz in the western Galilee area of Israel. Located near the city of Kiryat Atta, it falls under the jurisdiction of Zevulun Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The kibbutz was founded on 9 No ...

, a modern kibbutz *

Usha, Bardhaman Usha is a village in Bhatar (community development block), Bhatar Community development block in India, CD block in Bardhaman Sadar North subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. History Census 2011 Usha Vill ...

, a village in India

Personal name

Mythology

Ushas Ushas (Vedic Sanskrit: / ') is a Vedas, Vedic goddess of dawn in Hinduism. She repeatedly appears in the Rigvedic hymns, states David Kinsley, where she is "consistently identified with dawn, revealing herself with the daily coming of light to t ...

or Usha, a Vedic goddess *

Uṣā Usha (Sanskrit: उषा, IAST: Uṣā) is a character in Hindu mythology. She is the daughter of the asura king Banasura and the wife of Aniruddha, the grandson of Krishna. Her story of falling in love with Aniruddha and wedding him is desc ...

, daughter of Asura Banasura **''

Usha Parinayam ''Usha Parinayam'' ( te, ఉషా పరిణయము; English: Marriage of Usha) is one of the famous Indian drama. It is also a popular Yakshagana. The play was written in 1901 by Vedam Venkataraya Sastry. Plot Banasura, the king of dem ...

'' (Telugu: ఉషా పరిణయము; English: Marriage of Usha) Indian drama

Given name

Usha (actress) Haseena Haneef, better known as Usha N (her stage name), is an Indian actress, who has worked predominantly in Malayalam film industry. She has acted in more than 70 movies. Usha made her acting debut as a child artist in the 1984 film Nokketha ...

(born 1972), Indian actress and singer in Malayalam movies *

Usha (Telugu singer) Usha (born 29 May 1980) is an Indian singer who works predominantly in Telugu. She has sung in Kannada and Tamil also. In a career spanning about 10 years, she has established herself as one of the leading playback singers in the Telugu film i ...

(born 1980), Indian singer in Telugu language *

Usha Choudhari Usha Prakash Choudhari (born 1942) is an Indian National Congress politician and two-times MP from Amravati. Around hundred of her poems have been published. Early life Usha was born 22 February 1942 in Amravati and after completing her school e ...

(born 1942), Indian National Congress politician *

Usha Gupta This is a list of many of the characters from the long-running British radio soap ''The Archers''. The Archer family tree The Archer family Jill Archer née Patterson (born 3 October 1930) ( Patricia Greene) is ...

, a fictional character in ''The Archers'' *

Usha Haley Usha C. V. Haley is an American author and academic, currently W. Frank Barton Distinguished Chair of International Business and Professor of Management at the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University in the U.S. state of Kans ...

, American academic *

Usha Majere This is a list of characters in the ''Dragonlance'' series of fantasy novels and related fantasy role-playing game materials. It includes accounts of their early lives in the series. Characters Alhana Starbreeze Alhana Starbreeze, Silvanesti El ...

, a fictional character in ''Dragonlance'' *

Usha Mangeshkar Usha Mangeshkar (born 15 December 1935) is an Indian singer who has recorded many Marathi, Manipuri, Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Nepali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati and Assamese songs. Personal life Usha Mangeshkar is an Indian singer. She is the fou ...

(born 1935), Indian singer *

Usha Mehta Usha Mehta (25 March 1920 – 11 August 2000) was a Gandhian and freedom fighter of India. She is also remembered for organizing the Congress Radio, also called the ''Secret Congress Radio'', an underground radio station, which functioned for f ...

(1920–2000), Indian Gandhian and freedom fighter *

Usha Menon Usha Menon is Professor of Gynaecological Cancer at University College London, described as "one of Britain’s foremost specialists in gynaecological cancer". She has been a lead investigator on UK ovarian cancer screening trials and on studie ...

, Indian-British gynaecologist *

Usha Sanyal Usha Sanyal is an American scholar and historian. Her PhD dissertation analysed the Islamic legal scholar Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi. She is Visiting assistant professor of history at Wingate University in North Carolina. Education Sanyal has grad ...

, historian specializing in Asia *

Usha Uthup Usha Uthup Iyer (born 7 November 1947) is an Indian pop, filmi, jazz, and playback singer who sang songs in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. "Darling", which she recorded with Rekha Bhardwaj for the film ''7 Khoon Maaf'', won the Filmfare Award ...

(born 1947), Indian singer

Surname

* K. K. Usha (1939–2020), Chief Justice of the high court of Kerala, India from 2000 to 2001 * P. T. Usha (born 1964), Indian athlete

Acronyms

United States Housing Authority The United States Housing Authority, or USHA, was a federal agency created during 1937 within the United States Department of the Interior by the Housing Act of 1937 as part of the New Deal. It was designed to lend money to the states or commu ...

United States Handball Association The United States Handball Association (USHA) is the national governing body for American handball in the United States, a game played mostly in that country. The organization is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation which promotes the game and gov ...

{{disambiguation, geo, surname