Ваня (''Vanya''), a male diminutive of the Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian and other Slavic given names

Ivan Ivan () is a Slavic languages, Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John (given name), John) from Hebrew language, Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. T ...

. It is the Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and other Slavic form of

John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

itself derived from a Hebrew name, meaning "God is gracious" or "Graced by God". An alternative spelling of the name is ''Vanja''. In Russia it is a male given name, in

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mainly a male given name, in

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and

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it is a unisex name. In the Scandinavian countries and in Bulgaria, it is a female given name. Vanya may refer to:

People

Given name

* Vanya Cullen, winemaker *

Vanya Dermendzhieva Vanya Dermendzhieva ( bg, Ваня Дерменджиева; born 3 December 1958) is a Bulgarian former basketball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officiall ...

(born 1958), Bulgarian former basketball player * Vanya Gospodinova (born 1958), retired Bulgarian middle-distance runner * Vanya Kewley (1937–2012), British journalist, documentary maker, and nurse *

Vanya Marinova Vanya Marinova ( bg, Ваня Маринова, born 22 October 1950) is a retired Bulgarian gymnast. She competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games ...

(born 1950), retired Bulgarian gymnast *

Vanya Milanova Vanya Milanova (born January 12, 1954; also Vania) is a Bulgarian-born solo violinist, recording artist and professor of music. Early life and education Milanova was born in Razgrad, Bulgaria. She was a child prodigy, having performed her first ...

(born 1954), violinist and recording artist * Vanya Mirzoyan (born 1948), Armenian scientist-mathematician *

Vanya Mishra Vanya Mishra (born 27 February 1992) is a technology entrepreneur, former actress and a beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Femina Miss India World in 2012. Vanya was born in Jalandhar, Punjab, and raised in Chandigarh. She studied ele ...

(born 1992), Indian actress, engineer, entrepreneur, and beauty pageant titleholder *

Vanya Petkova Vanya Petkova ( bg, Ваня Петкова; 1944 – April 2009) was a Bulgarian poet, novelist, short story writer, and translator of Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Greek descent. Petkova is widely regarded as one of the most consequential East ...

(1944–2009), Bulgarian poet and writer * Vanya Shivashankar, speller *

Vanya Shtereva Vanya Shtereva ( bg, Ваня Щерева) is a popular Bulgarian singer and writer. She's known for her eccentric attitude and image. She has written songs for a lot of Bulgarian artists such as Stenli, Antibiotika, Aksiniya, etc. Her fi ...

(born 1970), Bulgarian singer and writer * Vanya Sokolova (born 1971), former Bulgarian volleyball playernational team *

Vanya Voynova Vanya Voynova ( bg, Ваня Войнова); December 27, 1934 – March 9, 1993) was a Bulgarian basketball player. She has played for Slavia Sofia from 1950 to 1968, winning the European Champions' Cup in 1959 and 1963 and Bulgarian league 1 ...

(1934–1993), Bulgarian basketball player *Vanya, a Kurdish name, it is the name of a type of flowers.

Surname

Mária Vanya Mária is a Hungarian and Slovak form of Maria (given name) or Mary (given name). * The name is found in the Mária Valéria Bridge between Hungary and Slovakia on the middle of the bridge named after Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria and ma ...

, Hungarian handballer

Art and entertainment

* ''

Uncle Vanya ''Uncle Vanya'' ( rus, Дя́дя Ва́ня, r=Dyádya Ványa, p=ˈdʲædʲə ˈvanʲə) is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1898, and was first produced in 1899 by the Moscow Art Theatre under the direct ...

'', a 1897 tragicomedy by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov * An Elf of the

Vanyar In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Elves or Quendi are a sundered (divided) people. They awoke at Cuiviénen on the continent of Middle-earth, where they were divided into three tribes: Minyar (the Firsts), Tatyar (the Seconds) and Nelyar ( ...

in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien * Vanya/Viktor Hargreeves in

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comic book by

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Other uses

* The codename for the

Tsar Bomba The Tsar Bomba () ( code name: ''Ivan'' or ''Vanya''), also known by the alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. Overall, the Soviet physicist Andrei Sa ...

, a powerful nuclear weapon *

Vanya-class minesweeper The Vanya class were a series of minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy between 1960 and 1973. The Soviet designation was Project 257. Design The ships were designed as coastal mine hunters. The hulls were built out of wood for significantly ...

, minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy between 1960 and 1973

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