Ivana
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Ivana is a feminine given name, of Slavic origins. It is the feminine form of the name Ivan
, which is the Slavic cognate of the name John.
Variants Iva and Ivanka are diminutives derived from Ivana. Name day is celebrated on April 4.
Ivan
-Meteorology:* Tropical Storm Ivan - a number of tropical storms - Places:* Ivan Mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina* Iván, a village in Hungary* Ivaň, name common to two villages in Czech Republic...
, which is the Slavic cognate of the name John.
Variants Iva and Ivanka are diminutives derived from Ivana. Name day is celebrated on April 4.
Famous bearers
- Ivana (singer)Ivana (singer)Vania Todorova Kaludova , better known as Ivana , is a popular Bulgarian female singer. She is one of the most prolific performers in the pop-folk music style in Bulgaria.- Biography :...
(born 1969), Bulgarian pop-folk singer - Ivana AbramovićIvana AbramovicIvana Abramović is a Croatian professional tennis player. Her career high on the WTA singles rankings was number 143 on January 3, 2004. She reached her career high doubles ranking of No...
(born 1983), Croatian professional tennis player - Ivana Andrlová, Czech actress
- Ivana BacikIvana BacikIvana Catherine Bacik is an Irish politician and academic. She has been Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College, Dublin Law School since 1996, and was a made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2005. She was elected a Senator for the University of Dublin...
(born 1968), Czech-Irish politician - Ivana BanfićIvana BanficIvana Banfić is a Croatian dancer and pop singer. She became famous under the stage name I BEE in the 1990s during the period of popularity of dance music in Croatia....
(born 1969), Croatian dancer and pop singer - Ivana Baquero (born 1994), Spanish actress
- Ivana BozilovicIvana BozilovicIvana Božilović is an American model and actress.Božilović was born in Belgrade, SR Serbia and grew up in Crystal Lake, Illinois, United States. Her credits includes small roles in the films 100 Girls, National Lampoon's Van Wilder and Wedding Crashers...
(born 1977), American model and actress - Ivana BrkljačićIvana BrkljacicIvana Brkljačić is a former female hammer thrower from Croatia.She achieved good results as a teenager, winning the World Junior Championships twice and finishing 11th in the 2000 Olympic finals at the age of 17...
(born 1983), Croatian hammer thrower - Ivana Brlić-MažuranićIvana Brlic-MažuranicIvana Brlić-Mažuranić was a Croatian writer. Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.-Life:She was born on April 18, 1874 in Ogulin into a well-known Croatian family of Mažuranić...
(born 1874), Croatian writer - Ivana Čornejová, Czech historian
- Ivanka Devátá, Czech actress and author
- Ivana Dulić-MarkovićIvana Dulic-MarkovicDr Ivana Dulić-Marković is Serbian politician of Croat ethnicity. She was the Deputy Prime Minister in the Government of Serbia....
(born 1961), Serbian politician - Ivana HongIvana HongIvana Hong is an American artistic gymnast. She was a member of the gold medal American team at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and the all-around bronze medalist at the 2007 Pan American Games. Hong was named an alternate to the 2008 U.S. Olympic team and was a member of the U.S...
(born 1992), American gymnast - Ivana HudziecováIvana HudziecováIvana Buzková is a Czech figure skater. She is the 2006-2007 Czech national champion.-Results:-References:...
(born 1985), Czech figure skater - Ivana Chýlková, Czech actress
- Ivana JanečkováIvana JaneckováIvana Janečková is a Czech cross country skier who has competed since 2002. Her best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was fifth in the 4 x 5 km relay at Sapporo in 2007 while her best individual finish was 21st in the 30 km event at those same championships.Janečková's best...
(born 1984), Czech cross country skier - Ivana KišIvana KišIvana Kiš is a Croatian composer of classical music, electronic music and music theatre.Ivana finished her Bachelor composition studies with Marko Ruzdjak , and her Master studies in the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Louis Andriessen, Gilius van Bergeijk and Diderik Wagenaar .Kiš'...
(born 1979), Croatian composer - Ivana KobilcaIvana KobilcaIvana Kobilca was a Slovene realist painter who lived, worked and studied in various European cities including Vienna, Sarajevo, Berlin, Paris and Munich. She was a member of Société Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. Many of her paintings are still lifes, portraits or country settings...
(born 1861), Slovenian realist painter - Ivana KubešováIvana KubešováIvana Kubešová is a retired middle distance runner who represented Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic. She won three medals at the European Indoor Championships as well as a silver medal at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships.-Achievements:-External links:...
(born 1962), Czech athlete - Ivana LieIvana LieIvana Lie is a former female Chinese Indonesian badminton player who played at the world level from the late 1970s to the late 1980s.-Career:...
, Indonesian badminton player - Ivana LisjakIvana LisjakIvana Lisjak is a female tennis player from Croatia. Her current WTA ranking is No. 266 . She began playing tennis at the age of three when her sister introduced her to the sport at their tennis club....
(born 1987), Croatian professional tennis player - Ivana LoudováIvana LoudováIvana Loudová is a Czech composer.Loudová was born at Chlumec nad Cidlinou. She studied at the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts under Miloslav Kabeláč and Emil Hlobil...
(born 1941), Czech composer - Ivana MiličevićIvana Milicevic-Early life:Miličević was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Croatian family, the daughter of Tonka, a homemaker, and Damir Miličević, a slaughterhouse worker and entrepreneur. She emigrated to the United States at the age of five and was raised in Michigan...
(born 1974), American actress - Ivana PetersIvana PetersIvana Peters , born Ivana Pavlović is a Serbian Pop rock singer-songwriter, composer and musician, the leader of pop rock band Negative.-Private life:...
(born 1974), Serbian singer - Ivana ReitmayerováIvana ReitmayerovaIvana Reitmayerová is a Slovak figure skater. She is the 2009 & 2010 Slovak national champion and 2008 national bronze medalist. Reitmayerová began competing on both the senior and junior level internationally in 2007. Her brother, Peter Reitmayer, is also a competitive skater. She is coached by...
(born 1992), Slovak figure skater - Ivana SantilliIvana SantilliIvana Santilli is a Canadian R&B singer and multi-instrumentalist, who has recorded both as a solo artist and as a member of the 1990s R&B/pop combo Bass is Base. Santili is presently signed to CP Records.-Early life and career:...
, Canadian singer and multi-instrumentalist - Ivana SelakovIvana SelakovIvana Selakov is a Serbian singer, former member of the girlband Beauty Queens.-Before Beauty Queens:...
(born 1978), Serbian singer - Ivana Spagna (born 1954), Italian singer and songwriter
- Ivana ŠpanovićIvana ŠpanovicIvana Španović is a Serbian long jumper.She finished seventh at the 2006 World Junior Championships, won the silver medal the 2007 World Youth Championships and the gold medal at the 2008 World Junior Championships...
(born 1990), Serbian long-jumper - Ivana LoudováIvana LoudováIvana Loudová is a Czech composer.Loudová was born at Chlumec nad Cidlinou. She studied at the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts under Miloslav Kabeláč and Emil Hlobil...
(born 1941), Czech composer - Ivana TrumpIvana TrumpIvana Trump is a former Olympic athlete, socialite, and fashion model noted for her marriage to mogul Donald Trump.-Early years:...
(born 1949), socialite, fashion model, and former athlete - Ivanka TrumpIvanka TrumpIvanka Marie Trump is an American businesswoman, socialite, heiress, and fashion model. The daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump, she is Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization...
, Czech-American model - Ivana Maria Vidović, Croatian pianist
- Ivana Zrůnková, Czech absolvent VŠCHT PrahaPraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
- Ivana WongIvana WongIvana Wong was born on 18 June 1979. She is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer-songwriter.-Biography:Wong's first public performance was at the CASH Song Writers contest in 2000 in which her Mandarin piece "It is just misunderstanding and not tragic at all" placed first...
(born 1979), Cantopop singer - Iva Marešová - Czech singer and actress
- Iva BittováIva BittováIva Bittová is a Czech avant-garde violinist, singer and composer. She began her career as an actress in the mid 1970s, appearing in several Czech feature films, but switched to playing violin and singing in the early 1980s. She started recording in 1986 and by 1990 her unique vocal and...
- Czech-Indian singer, violinist and actress - Iva FrűhlingIva FrühlingováIva Frühlingová is Czech female singer and model, famous in the Czech Republic and France. Despite her Czech descent she sings mostly in French.- Biography :...
- Czech singer - Iva HercíkováIva Hercíková-Carrier:Iva Hercíková, née Vodňanská, graduated from grammar school in Liberec. In 1954 she studied dramaturgy and theatre sciences at DAMU, the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, graduating in 1958. She married her second husband, Jiří Robert Pick, in 1961....
, Czech author - Iva JanžurováIva JanžurováIva Janžurová is a Czech actress. She attended grammar school in České Budějovice, but her love to theatre won after all and in 1963 she graduated from the Faculty of Theatre of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague...
, Czech actress - Iva Kubelková, Czech model, moderator and actress
- Iva PekárkováIva PekárkováIva Pekárková is a Czechoslovakia-born author who started writing and publishing novels after moving to New York City.-Novels:*Pera a perutě, 1989...
, Czech author - Ivana Tipton, London Tipton's Dog
Other uses
- Ivana BaiulIvana BaiulIvana Baiul is a comic book character from DC Comics/Wildstorm. She has starred in Gen¹³ and DV8.-History:Ivana Baiul was the head of Sci-Tech, the scientific division of I.O. There she worked on creating a group of genetically enhanced soldiers for the government, a task previously done 12 times...
, character in the comic books Gen¹³Gen¹³Gen¹³ is a fictional superhero team and comic book series originally written by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi and illustrated by J. Scott Campbell. It was originally published by Image Comics under the banner Wildstorm, which went on to become an imprint for DC Comics, who continued publishing the Gen¹³...
and DV8DV8DV8 is a comic book published by Wildstorm. The series revolves around the lives of a group of Gen-Active people , initially living in New York under the supervision of Ivana Baiul, who sends them on life-threatening black ops assignments.-Publication history:The series lasted 32 issues, and was a... - Ivana Helsinki, Finnish fashion company