Vanya

Vanya (Cyrillic: Ваня) is a Slavic masculine given name, diminutive of the given name Ivan, found in Russia and elsewhere. It is also found as a female given name in Bulgaria.

Notable people with the name include:

People

Given name

Vanya Cullen, winemaker
Vanya Dermendzhieva (born 1958), Bulgarian former basketball player
Vanya Dmitrienko (born 2005), Russian singer
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
Vanya Schmidt, the main character in the YA Little Thieves book series by Margaret Owens
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, a 2012 comedy play written by Christopher Durang

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