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Tanna (island) Tanna (sometimes misspelled ''Tana'') is an island in southern Vanuatu. Tanna is the most populous island of Tafea Province, and the third most populous in the country (after Efate and Espiritu Santo). It is home to five indigenous languages, w ...

, an island in Vanuatu *

Tanna, Germany Tanna () is a city in Thuringia, in the district of Saale-Orla-Kreis. It is located about 10 km south of Schleiz. Tanna was founded in 1495. The musicologist Paul Willert (1901–1988) was born in the city. History Within the German Empire ...

, a city in Thuringia * Tanna, former name of city of

Thane Thane (; previously known as Thana, List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1996) is a metropolitan city located on the northwestern side of the list of Indian states, state of Maharashtra in India and on ...

in India

People

* Tanna, singular form of

tannaim ''Tannaim'' ( Amoraic Hebrew: תנאים "repeaters", "teachers", singular ''tanna'' , borrowed from Aramaic) were the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 10–220 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also refe ...

, a Rabbinic sage recorded in the Mishna * Tanna, a last name common among

Lohana Lohana are a Hindu ''jāti, caste'', a trading or mercantile community mostly residing in India and some also in Pakistan. The Lohanas are divided into many separate cultural groups as a result of centuries apart in different regions. Thus th ...

s *

Christian Tanna Christian Tanna is a Canadian drummer and music event organizer based in Peterborough, Ontario. He is best known for being a co-founding member and drummer for the band I Mother Earth. Early life Tanna was born Christian Koshowski in Hamilton, ...

, a member of the rock band I Mother Earth * Dan Tanna, fictional character, in the TV series ''

Vega$ ''Vegas'' (stylized as ''Vega$'') is an American crime drama television series starring Robert Urich that aired on ABC from September 20, 1978, to June 3, 1981, with the pilot episode airing April 25, 1978. ''Vegas'' was produced by Aaron Spel ...

'' (1978–1981) *

Jagori Tanna Jagori Tanna (born ''Jagori Andrew Koshowski'', in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian musician. Together with his brother, Christian Tanna, he formed I Mother Earth around 1990. He wrote all of I Mother Earth's music, and produced most of it as w ...

, a member of the rock band I Mother Earth, brother of Christian *

Karishma Tanna Karishma K. Tanna (born 21 December 1983) is an Indian actress and model who predominantly works in Hindi films and television shows. She made her television debut with ''Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi'' in 2001. She is well known for her roles ...

, Indian actress *

Tanna Frederick Tanna Marie Frederick (born August 11, 1977) is an American stage and independent film actress who rose to prominence for her title role in Henry Jaglom's '' Hollywood Dreams'', for which she received the Best Actress Award at the 2008 Fargo F ...

, American actress

Science

* ''Tanna'' (cicada), a genus of cicadas *

Tanna fruit dove The Tanna fruit dove (''Ptilinopus tannensis'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to Vanuatu. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and hea ...

, a bird endemic to Vanuatu *

Tanna ground dove The Tanna ground dove (''Pampusana ferruginea''), also known as Forster's dove of Tanna, is an extinct dove species. Its taxonomic affiliation is uncertain but at its first scientific discussion by Johann Georg Wagler in 1829 it was classified i ...

, an extinct bird endemic to Vanuatu * ''Tanna ornatipes'', a genus of jumping spiders, synonym of ''

Araneotanna ''Araneotanna'' is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae with only one species, ''A. ornatipes'', that occurs only on the New Hebrides. Name The genus was named ''Tanna'' until 2006, when it had to be replaced due to a conflict ...

Other

* Tanna, an Old High German word meaning ''oak'' from which the word

tannin Tannins (or tannoids) are a class of astringent, polyphenolic biomolecules that bind to and Precipitation (chemistry), precipitate proteins and various other organic compounds including amino acids and alkaloids. The term ''tannin'' is widel ...

is derived * ''Tanna'' (film), a 2015 film set on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu *

Tanna languages The nine South Vanuatu languages form a family of the Southern Oceanic languages, spoken in Tafea Province ( Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango, and Aniwa) of Vanuatu. Languages *Erromango family **Southern: Sie, Sorung† **Northern: Ifo (U ...

, a subgroup of the South Vanuatu languages

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