Famous People with Name Nana

Nana Takeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Nana Takeda: a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2006 Japanese junior national champion. She won a gold and a silver medal on the 2006 Junior Grand Prix circuit and placed fifth at the Junior Grand Prix Final.

Nana Smith Rogers            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Nana Smith Rogers: a Japanese American tennis player, born in Seattle, Washington. She plays right handed, and hits both forehand and backhand double-handed. She turned pro in March, 1988, and retired in 2006. She played for Japan, where she spent much of her childhood, and used her mother's surname, Miyagi, for the entirety of her career.Miyagi played at all the grand slams in both singles and doubles - the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. She scored her first and only top 10 win in singles in 1994, over then World No. 8 Lindsay Davenport and also scored wins over many top 20 ranked players, including Martina Hingis. Her highest ranking in singles was 51, which she reached in February 1995. She won four titles on the ITF circuit. She never won a title on the main tour but reached the final in Surabaya in 1996

Nana Iwasaka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Nana Iwasaka: is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Hisamitsu Springs.

Nana Opoku Agyemang-Prempeh            Origin/Culture/Country: Ghana

Nana Opoku Agyemang-Prempeh: is a Ghanaian football player who currently playing for Al Sadd. Opoku began his career by the AshantiGold Soccer Academy and was than promoted to Ashanti Gold SC in July 2005. He left than Ashanti Gold SC and was transferred to Club Sportif Sfaxien as

Nana Attakora            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nana Attakora: is a Canadian soccer player of Ghanaian heritage who currently plays for Toronto FC in Major League Soccer. Attakora has represented Canada at U-16, U-17, U-19, U-20 and U-23 levels. Nana was voted Canadian International U-20 player of the year in December 2009 for the second consecutive year. Nana made his senior national team debut in a friendly match against Jamaica on January 31, 2010.

Lek Nana            Origin/Culture/Country: Thai

Lek Nana: a Thai businessman and politician. He served as Deputy Foreign Minister and as Minister of Science, Technology and Energy.[1] Active in the Democrat Party, he served as its secretary general and repeatedly on its executive committee. As a Muslim, he was also a senior member of the Central Islamic Committee of Thailand.He served as a honorary consul-general for Iraq in Thailand until 1981. A powerful bomb exploded in his office building in Bangkok's Chinatown in December 1982, killing a police bomb disposal expert, injuring 20 people, and causing a fire affecting five buildings. Lek was not in the office at the time.[2] The office was used for an Iraq export business and had formerly been the Iraqi consulate; a connection to the Iran-Iraq war was conjectured at the time.[3]

Parbhu Govan Nana            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Parbhu Govan Nana: was an East African cricketer. He played three One day Internationals in the 1975 World Cup.

Karl Te Nana            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Karl Te Nana: is a rugby player from New Zealand. A professional rugby union player, Te Nana won a gold medal as part of the New Zealand Seven's rugby team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. He played for North Harbour in the NPC. He currently plays for the Point Chevalie

Wu Nana            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wu Nana: is a Chinese team handball player. She plays on the Chinese national team, and participated at the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship in Brazil.