Acting •
Nana Ama McBrown (born 1977), a Ghanaian actress •
Nana Asakawa (born 1999), a Japanese voice actress •
Nana Bryant (1888–1955), an American film actress •
Nana Eikura (born 1988), a Japanese model and actress • (born 1980), a Ghanaian actor •
Nana Gouvêa (born 1975), a Brazilian actress •
Nana Han (born 1979), a South Korean actress •
Nana Jorjadze (born 1948), a Georgian film director and scriptwriter •
Nana Katase (born 1981), a Japanese actress • (born 1998), a Japanese model and actress •
Nana Komatsu (born 1996), a Japanese model and actress • (born 1985), an Indonesian actress •
Nana Ozaki (actress) (born 1948), a Japanese actress •
Nana Palsikar (1907–1984), an Indian film actor •
Nana Patekar (born 1951), an Indian actor and filmmaker •
Nana Visitor (born 1957), an American actress •
Nana Yamaguchi (born 1938), a Japanese voice actress •
Nana Yanagisawa (born 1987), a Japanese actress and fashion model
Art •
Nana Haruta (born 1985), a Japanese manga artist •
Nana Meskhidze (1936–1997), a Georgian artist-painter
Music •
Nana (entertainer) (born 1991), a South Korean actress and singer •
Nana (entertainer, born 2001), a South Korean singer, actress, and dancer, member of the group
Wooah •
Nana (rapper) (born 1968), a German rapper and DJ • (born 1950), a Taiwanese singer •
Nana Caymmi (1941–2025), a Brazilian singer • (1932–2007), a German actress and singer •
Nana Hedin (born 1968), a Swedish singer •
Nana Kitade (born 1987), a Japanese J-Rock singer •
Nana Mahazan (born 1983), a Malaysian
Akademi Fantasia contestant •
Nana Mizuki (born 1980), a Japanese voice actress and singer •
Nana Mori (born 2001), a Japanese actress and singer •
Nana Mouskouri (born 1934), a Greek singer •
Nana Okada (singer, born 1959), a Japanese idol and actress •
Nana Okada (born 1997), a Japanese idol and member of the groups
AKB48 &
STU48 •
Nana Ou-yang (born 2000), a Taiwanese actress and singer •
Nana Owada (born 1999), a former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48 •
Nana Kwame Abrokwa (born 1968), a German rapper and DJ •
Nana Tanimura (born 1987), a Japanese pop singer •
Naná Vasconcelos (1944-2016), a Brazilian Latin jazz percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player • , a Chinese record producer
Politics •
Nana (chief) (1800?–1896), a Chiricahua Apache leader •
Nana Akufo-Addo (born 1944), President of the Republic of Ghana •
Nana Effah-Apenteng, the Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations •
Nana Fadnavis (1742–1800), an influential minister and statesman of the Maratha Empire in Pune, India • , a Chinese politician •
Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah (born 1979), Equerry to Queen Elizabeth II •
Nana of Iberia, a 4th-century Georgian queen •
Nana Olomu (1852–1916), an Itsekiri chief and merchant from the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria •
Nana Osei Bonsu II (born 1939), the regent of the Ashanti Kingdom •
Nana Owusu-Nsiah, a Ghanaian diplomat and ambassador •
Nana Patil (1900–1976), an Indian independence activist •
Nana Sahib (1824–?), an Indian leader during the rebellion of 1857 •
Nana Sir Ofori Atta I (1881–1943), a King of Akyem Abuakwa in 1912
Religion •
Nana Dharmadhikari (1922–2008), an Indian spiritual guru •
Nana of Pécs, a 12th-century bishop in the Kingdom of Hungary
Sports •
Nana Alexandria (born 1949), a Georgian chess Grandmaster •
Nana Arhin Duah (born 1980), a Ghanaian football player •
Nana Attakora (born 1989), a Canadian football player •
Nana Boateng (footballer, born 1994), a Ghanaian football player •
Nana Boateng (footballer, born 2002), an English football player •
Nana Eshun (born 1969), a Ghanaian football player •
Nana Eshun (footballer, born 1982), a Ghanaian football player •
Nana Falemi (born 1974), a Romanian-Cameroonian football player •
Nana Fujimoto (born 1989), Japanese ice hockey player •
Nana Ichise (born 1997), Japanese woman footballer •
Nana Ioseliani (born 1962), a Georgian chess player •
Nana Iwasaka (born 1990), a Japanese volleyball player •
Nana Joshi (1926–1987), a cricketer •
Nana Konadu (born 1964), a retired Ghanaian boxer •
Nana Kuffour (born 1985), a Ghanaian-American soccer player •
Nana Miyagi (born 1971), a Japanese American tennis player •
Nana Ofori-Twumasi (born 1990), a professional Ghanaian-born English footballer •
Nana Takeda (born 1988), a Japanese figure skater •
Nana Wu (born 1990), a Chinese handball player
Other •
Nana Asma’u (1793–1864), a poet, teacher and a revered figure in northern Nigeria •
Nana Chudasama (1933–2018), an eminent jurist, former mayor and Sheriff of Mumbai •
Nana Keum (born 1983), a South Korean author and beauty pageant titleholder •
Nana Klutse (born 1981), a Ghanaian climate scientist •
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (born 1991), a US-American author •
Nana Nánabeszter, a 13th century Hungarian nobleman and soldier •
Nana Natsume (born 1980), a Japanese former AV idol and celebrity •
Nana Ozaki (born 1982), a Japanese gravure idol ==Fictional characters==