Wanja Explained

Wanja is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:

First name

• Astrid Wanja Brune Olsen (born 1999), Norwegian tennis player
• Barbara Wanja (born 1959), former freestyle swimmer from East Germany then known as Barbara Krause
• Dorothy Wanja Nyingi (born 1974), Kenyan ichthyologist
• Wanja Hlibka, singer with the Don Cossack Choir
• Wanja Lundby-Wedin (born 1952), Swedish trade unionist and politician
• Wanja Michuki, Kenyan businesswoman
• Wanja Ronald Ngah (born 12 September 1991), Cameroonian footballer
• Wanja Mary Sellers (born 1962), American-Italian actress and director

Surname

• Iwa Wanja (1905–1991), Bulgarian actress based in Germany
• Janet Wanja (born 1984), Kenyan volleyball player
• Lutz Wanja (born 1956), German swimmer
• Mbangi Wanja, Sultan of Bagirmi, central Africa, from 1722 to 1736

Fictional characters

• Wanja, character in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's novel Petals of Blood (1977)

See also

• Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize, Nordic design award
• Vanja, a given name
• Vanya (disambiguation)
• Wangarr, a concept in Yolngu culture, also spelt Wanja