Vanya

Vanya 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:

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