Vanya
Ваня (Vanya), a male diminutive of the Russian, Croatian, Serbian, and other Slavic given names Ivan and female diminutive in Bulgaria. It is the Russian, Serbian, and other Slavic form of John 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina mainly a male given name, in Serbia and Croatia it is a unisex name and. In the Scandinavian countries and in Bulgaria, it is a female given name.
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Vanya may refer to:
People
Given name
- Vanya Cullen, winemaker
- Vanya Dermendzhieva (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 (born 1950), retired Bulgarian gymnast
- Vanya Milanova (born 1954), violinist and recording artist
- Vanya Mirzoyan (born 1948), Armenian scientist-mathematician
- Vanya Mishra (born 1992), Indian actress, engineer, entrepreneur, and beauty pageant titleholder
- Vanya Petkova (1944–2009), Bulgarian poet and writer
- Vanya Shivashankar, competitive speller
- Vanya Shtereva (born 1970), Bulgarian singer and writer
- Vanya Sokolova (born 1971), former Bulgarian volleyball playernational team
- Vanya Voynova (1934–1993), Bulgarian basketball player
Surname
- Mária Vanya, Hungarian handballer
Art and entertainment
- Uncle Vanya, a 1897 tragicomedy by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov
- The Vanyar are a kindred of elves in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien. The singular form of "Vanyar" is "Vanya".
- Vanya/Viktor Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy comic book by Gerard Way
Other uses
- The codename for the Tsar Bomba, a powerful nuclear weapon
- Vanya-class minesweeper, minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy between 1960 and 1973
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