Rana (name)
This article is about the Arabic name. For the Marathi name, see Rane (surname).
Rana also spelled as Raana or Ranaa is a given name and a surname. In Arabic (Arabic: رنا); Persian: رعنا , the name means "beautiful, eye-catching", stemming from the word yarnū يرنو, meaning to "to gaze at longingly". It is very popular in Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
People with the name
Given name
- Rana Bhagwandas (born 1942), former acting chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
- Rana Daggubati (born 1984), Indian film producer, visual effects co-ordinator, photographer and actor
- Rana Dasgupta (born 1971), British-Indian novelist and essayist
- Rana Foroohar (born 1970), journalist, economic analyst and author
- Rana Hussein (born 1969), a daughter of Saddam Hussein
- Rana Mashood Ahmad Khan, Deputy Speaker, Punjab Assembly
- Rana Mitter, British historian and Oxford University professor
- Rana Mohammad Hanif Khan, Finance Minister of Pakistan
- Rana Muhammad Akram Khan - Chairman Executive Punjab Bar Council
- Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan - Speaker Punjab (Pakistan) Assembly
- Rana Naved-ul-Hasan (born 1978), Pakistani cricketer
- Rana Nazeer Ahmed Khan, Pakistani politician
- Rana Sanaullah Khan, Law Minister of Punjab
- Rana Tanveer Hussain, Former Minister of Defence Production
- Rana Waitai (born 1942), New Zealand politician
Surname
- Ashutosh Rana (born 1964), Indian actor
- Azmat Rana - Pakistani cricket player
- Bakhtiar Rana, Pakistan Army lieutenant general
- Bhim Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana; Former Prime Minister of Nepal
- Bhim Singh Rana (c. 1707–1756), ruler of princely state of Goha (in present-day India)
- Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana; Former Prime Minister of Nepal
- Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana (1863-1929), Prime Minister of Nepal
- Deepraj Rana, Indian actor from the 1990s to the present
- Dev Shumsher JBR; Former Prime Minister of Nepal
- Diljit Rana, Baron Rana (born 1938), British politician and life peer
- Iván Raña (born 1979), Galician triathlete
- Jaspal Rana (born 1976), Indian sport pistol shooter
- Jung Bahadur Rana (1816-1877), ruler of Nepal and founder of the Rana dynasty
- Kashiram Rana (1938-2012), Indian politician
- Luigi Rana (born 1986), Italian footballer
- Manjural Islam Rana (1984-2007), Bangladeshi cricketer
- Masood Rana (1938-1995), Pakistani playback singer
- Moammar Rana, Pakistani actor from the 1996 to the present
- Mohan Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana (1885-1967), Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Nepal
- Naseem Rana (born 1942), retired Pakistan Army three-star general and former director-general of the Inter-Services Intelligence
- Padma Shumsher JBR; Former Prime Minister of Nepal
- S. R. Rana (1878–1957), Indian political activist
- Shafqat Rana - former Pakistani cricketer
- Shakoor Rana - Pakistani cricket player
- Santosh Rana, Indian politician
- Santosh Rana (CPI), Indian communist politician
- Sohail Rana (born 1938), Pakistani music composer for films
- Sohel Rana (disambiguation), several Bangladeshis
- Tahawwur Hussain Rana (born 1961), Pakistani-Canadian businessman and former physician convicted of providing support to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and of plotting an attack
Other
- Jadi Rana, a person in the 1559 Zoroastrian epic poem Qissa-i Sanjan
- Moammar Rana, a goddess in Sami mythology
- Rana Jashraj, a Hindu deity
See also
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