Diana

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Diana most commonly refers to:

  • Diana (name), given name (including a list of people with the name)
  • Diana (mythology), ancient Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals; later associated with the Moon
  • Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997), formerly Lady Diana Spencer, activist, philanthropist, and member of the British royal family

Diana may also refer to:

Places and jurisdictions

Africa

  • Diana (see), a town and commune in Souk Ahras Province in north-eastern Algeria
  • Diana's Peak, the highest point on the island of Saint Helena
  • Diana Region, a region in Madagascar
  • Diana Veteranorum, an ancient city, former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see in Algeria

Asia

  • Diana, Iraq, a town in Iraqi Kurdistan

Europe

  • Diana (Rozvadov), an almost abandoned settlement in the Czech Republic
  • Diana, Silesian Voivodeship, a village in south Poland
  • Diana Fort, an ancient Roman castrum in Serbia
  • Diana Park, a small park in Helsinki, Finland
  • Diana Strait, a strait in the Kuril Islands, Russia
  • Diana, a Roman fort in the Serbian city of Golubac

North America

  • Diana, New York, a town in Lewis County, New York, United States
  • Diana, Saskatchewan, a ghost town in Canada

Astronomy

  • 78 Diana, an asteroid
  • Diana (crater), a crater on the Moon

Media

Books and comics

  • Diana (pastoral romance), a 1559 text by Jorge de Montemayor
  • Diana (Sailor Moon), the future daughter of Artemis and Luna, good friends with Pluto and Chibiusa; named for the goddess
  • Wonder Woman's real name, despite having more to do with Greek than Roman mythology
  • Diana, a British comics series targeted at young girls, published by DC Thomson from 1963 to 1976

Film

  • Diana (2013 film), a British film about Diana, Princess of Wales
  • Diana (2018 film), a Spanish psychological thriller
  • 4 Hearts, a 2008 Portuguese film developed under the title Diana
  • Diana (Lights Out), a character in the 2013 and 2016 films
  • Diana "Dayan", a fictional dayan (Indian witch) in the 2013 Indian film Ek Thi Dayan, Diana being a word play on dayan

Television

  • Diana (American TV series), a 1973–1974 sitcom starring Diana Rigg
  • Diana (British TV series), a 1984 drama starring Patsy Kensit and Jenny Seagrove
  • "Diana" (Spooks), 2005, final episode of the 4th series of Spooks, concerning the former Princess of Wales

Theatre

  • Diana (musical), a 2019 musical based on the life of Princess Diana

Music

  • Diana (band), a rock group from Toronto, Canada

Albums

  • Diana!, a 1971 Diana Ross TV special, also released as live album
  • Diana (album), a 1980 Chic-produced album by Diana Ross

Songs

  • "Diana" (Paul Anka song), 1957
  • "Diana", a single by Comus from their 1971 album First Utterance
  • "Diana", a song by Wayne Shorter from Herbie Hancock's 1977 album Tempest in the Colosseum
  • "Diana" (Bryan Adams song), 1984
  • "Diana" (One Direction song), 2013
  • "Diana" (Pop Smoke song), 2020
  • "What Have You Got Planned Tonight, Diana" or just "Diana", Merle Haggard and The Strangers from the 1976 album The Roots of My Raising

Paintings

  • Diana (Vouet), a 1637 painting
  • Diana (Renoir painting), an 1867 painting

Sculptures

  • Diana (Felderhoff), an 1898 bronze sculpture in Berlin, Germany
  • Diana (Wiken), a public art work in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Diana (Saint-Gaudens), an 1893 statue, a former New York City landmark
  • Diana of Versailles

Technology

  • Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA), a NATO organization aiming of facilitate the development of dual-use technologies
  • Diana (agricultural machinery), a Greek truck and tractor brand
  • Diana (camera), an inexpensive toy box camera popular with art photographers
  • DIANA (intermediate language), an IDL-based data structure used in Ada compilers and within the PL/SQL runtime system
  • Diana (locomotive), a steam locomotive
  • DIANA FEA, a Finite Element Analysis (FEA) solver
  • DIANA Mayer & Grammelspacher, a German airgun manufacturer
  • Diana Motors Company, a Vintage Era automobile company
  • DIANA (DIvisive ANAlysis), a divisive clustering algorithm

Other uses

  • Diana (ship), a list of ships with the name
  • Diana (swimwear), a swimwear manufacturer
  • Diana monkey, a West African member of the Old World monkey superfamily or Cercopithecidae
  • Democratic Renewal (DIANA), a political party in Greece

See also

  • Diana Department Store, a chain of department stores in southern Thailand
  • All pages with titles beginning with Diana
  • Diane (disambiguation)
  • Dianism, a form of coitus reservatus which can feature in sex magick
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