Chana, chhana, or chaná may refer to :

Food

Chickpea The chickpea or chick pea (''Cicer arietinum'') is an annual plant, annual legume of the family (biology), family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, cultivated for its edible seeds. Its different types are variously known as gram," Bengal gram, ga ...

, known in South Asia as ''chana'' *

Chhana Chhena () or chhana () is a kind of acid-set cheese originating in the Indian subcontinent that is made from water buffaloDalby, A 2009, ''Cheese: A Global History'', Reaktion Books, p. 73, Kapoor, S & Kapoor, A 2006, ''Sanjeev Kapoor's No-oil V ...

, a type of curds from South Asia

Places

Chana, Illinois Chana is an unincorporated community in Ogle County, Illinois, United States, and is located southeast of Oregon Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., ...

, United States, an unincorporated community *

Chana District Chana (, ; Pattani Malay: จือเนาะ, ) is a district (''amphoe'') in the southeastern part of Songkhla province, southern Thailand. Geography Neighboring districts are (from the east clockwise): Thepha, Na Thawi, Hat Yai, Na Mom, ...

, Songkhla Province, southern Thailand

Other uses

Chang'an Motors Changan Automobile Co., Ltd. (CCAG) is a Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Jiangbei, Chongqing.

commercial vehicles sub-brand known as Chana, a Chinese automaker *

Chaná people Chaná (endonym: ''Chañá'' or ''Yañá'') were one of the native nations of Argentina and Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southw ...

, an ethnic group of Uruguay *

Chaná language The Chaná language ( 'speak' or 'language'; from , "tongue" and a communicative suffix) is one of the Charruan languages, spoken by the Chaná people in what is now Argentina and Uruguay along the Uruguay and Paraná Rivers on the margins of ...

, an extinct language of Uruguay and Argentina * Chana (Bible), alternate transliteration of Hannah, a Biblical character; sometimes spelled "Chane" *

Woman with seven sons The woman with seven sons was a Jewish martyr described in the deuterocanonical 2 Maccabees 7. She and her seven sons were arrested during the persecution of Judaism initiated by King Antiochus IV Epiphanes. They were ordered to consume pork and ...

, a character in 2 Maccabees, sometimes called Chana *

Rosanna Tavarez Rosanna Tavarez (born February 10, 1977) is an American singer, television host, dancer, and teacher. She rose to prominence in 2001 as a contestant on the American version of the reality television franchise ''Popstars''. As one of the show's fi ...

, an American singer who used Chana as a stage name

People with the name

Ameet Chana Ameet Chana (born 12 September 1975 in Epsom, Surrey, England) is a British-Indian actor and producer. His most notable roles include playing Tony in the film ''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002), and Adi Ferreira in ''EastEnders'' (2003–2005). ...

(born 1975), British-Indian actor * Arjan Drayton Chana (born 1994), English field hockey player * Chana Blaksztejn, a Polish-Jewish writer and journalist *

Chana Bloch Chana Bloch (March 15, 1940 – May 19, 2017) was an American poet, translator, and scholar. She was a professor emerita of English at Mills College in Oakland, California. Early life and education Born as Florence Ina Faerstein in the Bronx, Ne ...

(1940–2017), American poet, translator, and scholar *

Chana Eden Chana Eden (, born Chana Mesyngier, ); 23 November 1932 – 30 March 2019) was an Israeli-American actress and singer. Her debut was in 1958, a film '' Wind Across the Everglades''. She appeared in guest roles, in many US television serie ...

(1932–2019), Israeli-American actress and singer *

Chana Joffe-Walt Chana Joffe-Walt is a radio journalist and producer. She has worked for '' Planet Money'' and ''This American Life''. Early life Joffe-Walt's parents, Brian Walt and activist Zara Joffe, are South African. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2 ...

, radio journalist and producer * Chana Katan (born 1958), American-born Israeli gynecologist, and public figure *

Chana Kowalska Chana (Anna) Kowalska Winogora (1899–c.1942) was a Polish Jewish painter and journalist whose artworks reflect her rural origins. While in Paris during the German occupation, she was active in Jewish Communist organizations and wrote about art i ...

(1907–1942), Polish painter and journalist * Chana Masson (born 1978), Brazilian handball player *

Chana Orloff Chana Orloff (; 12 July 1888 – 16 December 1968) was a Ukrainian-born French and Israeli Art deco and figurative art sculptor. Biography Chana Orloff was born the eighth of nine children in a village called Kamenka, also known by the name ...

(1888–1968), Ukraine-born sculptor * Chana Pilane-Majake, South African politician *

Chana Porpaoin Chana Porpaoin (; born 1966-03-25 in Lom Sak District, Phetchabun Province, Thailand) is a Thai boxer. Chana and his younger brother, Songkram Porpaoin, became only the second set of twins to both capture world titles (the Galaxy twins, also o ...

(born 1966), Thai boxer *

Chana Schneerson Chana Schneerson (née Yanovsky; 1880–1964) was the wife of Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, a Chabad Hasidic rabbi in Yekatrinoslav, Ukraine and the mother of the seventh Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Chana Schneerson's ...

(1880–1964), wife of a Chabad Hasidic rabbi in Ukraine *

Chana Timoner Chana Timoner (''née'' Carol Ann Surasky; August 24, 1951 – July 13, 1998) was the first female rabbi to hold an active duty assignment as a chaplain in the U.S. Army, which she began in 1993. Early life and education She was born in New Hav ...

(1951–1998), American rabbi *

Khuli Chana Khulane Morule (born August 27, 1982), better known by his stage name Khuli Chana, is a South African Motswako rapper. In 2014, he released his single titled Hape Le Hape 2.1 featuring Da L.E.S and Magesh. In September of the year, he releas ...

(born 1982), South African Motswako rapper *

Navjot Chana Navjot Chana (born 24 November 1983) is an Indian Judo Player who won silver medal in the men's 60 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow. He hails from Hoshiarpur district of Punjab state of India. Chana is employed with ...

(born 1983), Indian martial artist *

Pindi Chana Pindi Hazara Chana (born 24 January 1974) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and a special seat Member of Parliament since 2010. In January 2022 she began her cabinet career as the Minister of State (Policy, Parliamentary Affairs, Labour, Youth, Emp ...

(born 1974), Tanzanian politician *

Tarlochan Singh Chana Tarlochan Singh Chana (born 10 July 1949) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and officially bra ...

(born 1949), Kenyan field hockey player

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