Banta (disambiguation)

Banta or goli soda is a carbonated lemon or orange-flavoured soft drink popular in India.

Banta may also refer to:

Places

 * Banta, California, an unincorporated community
 * Banta, Indiana, an unincorporated community
 * an early name of Dunlap, Missouri, an unincorporated community
 * Banta Island, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
 * the 'Banța', a hill next to the center of the town of Ocna Mureș, Romania

People

 * Albert Franklin Banta (1843–1924), American newspaperman, politician, jurist and army scout
 * Arthur M. Banta (1877–1946), American zoologist
 * Bradford Banta (born 1970), American former football player
 * George Banta (1857–1935), American businessman
 * Jack Banta (American football) (1917–1977), American National Football League player
 * Jack Banta (baseball) (1925–2006), American Major League Baseball pitcher
 * Lisa Banta (born 1979), American Paralympic goalball player and discus thrower
 * Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta (1834–1907), American poet
 * Parke M. Banta (1891–1970), a United States Representative from Missouri

Fictional characters

 * Tony Banta, in the American TV series Taxi, played by Tony Danza
 * Banta, a stock character in Sardarji jokes

Other uses

 * Golisoda (English title Banta), a 2016 Indian Kannada-language film
 * Banta, a work by American photographer Osamu James Nakagawa (born 1962)
 * Banta (butterfly), a genus of butterflies
 * Neoregelia 'Banta', a hybrid cultivar
 * bantã, a Malinké name for the Ceiba pentandra tropical tree
 * Banta Corporation, an America printing, imaging, and supply chain management company
 * Manta language (also Banta), spoken in Cameroon
 * banta, a Swedish verb for "being on a diet", derived from dieting pioneer William Banting (1796–1878)