# Banana (disambiguation)

Banana is the common name for flowering plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce.
Banana or bananas may also refer to:

## In nature

* Ensete ventricosum (Ethiopian banana, false banana, enset), an important foodcrop in Ethiopia
* Nymphoides aquatica (banana plant), an aquatic species known for its unusual root structure
* Strelitzia nicolai (wild banana), a banana-like plant with an erect woody stem
* Banana spider

## Places

* Banana, Cape Verde, a settlement on Santiago Island
* Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a small seaport in Kongo Central Province
* Banana, Florida, an unincorporated community
* Banana, Kiribati, a settlement on Kiritimati Island
* Banana Island (disambiguation)
* Banana Lake, Florida
* Banana River, Florida
* Shire of Banana, a local government area in Queensland, Australia
** Banana, Queensland, Australia, a small town in the Shire of Banana

## Arts and entertainment
### Film and television

* Bananas (film), a 1971 comedy film directed by and starring Woody Allen
* Bananas!*, a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten
* Banana, a 2010 short film from the Despicable Me franchise
* Banana (film), a 2015 comedy-drama film directed by Andrea Jublin
* The Bananas (TV series), a 1969 Canadian children's television series
* Banana (TV series), a 2015 British anthology series by Russell T. Davies

### Music

* Banana (band), a former Yugoslav pop rock band
* Bananas (Deep Purple album), a 2003 album
* Bananas (Malcolm Middleton album), a 2018 album
* The Velvet Underground & Nico, a 1967 rock album sometimes referred to as the "Banana Album"
* "Banana" (Anitta song) (with Becky G), a track from the 2019 album Kisses by Anitta
* "Banana" (Conkarah song), a 2019 song by Conkarah featuring Shaggy
* "Bananas (Who You Gonna Call?)", a 1998 single by Queen Latifah
* "Bananas", a track from the 2008 album Inherit by Free Kitten
* "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", a traditional Jamaican folk song.
* "Banana", a skit from the 2005 album Arular by M.I.A.
* "Banana Man", a song by the band Tally Hall, from their 2005 album Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

### Other arts and entertainment

* WWBN ("Banana 101.5"), a rock music radio station in Michigan
* Bananas (literary magazine), a British literary magazine from 1975 until 1979
* Banana (magazine), an Asian-American themed magazine
* Banana (1986 video game), a video game released on the Family Computer in 1986 in Japan.
* Banana (2024 video game), a clicker game released through Steam in 2024
* Bananas Comedy Club, two venues for stand-up comedy in the northeastern United States

## People

* Banana (gamer), Chinese competitive Dota 2 player
* Banana (name), a list of people with the given name, surname, pen name or stage name
* Banana (slur), an Asian person living in a Western country who has lost touch with their Asian cultural identity
* Robert "Bananas" Foster, a member of the American electronic band Freezepop

## Other uses

* Banana equivalent dose, an informal measurement of ionizing radiation exposure
* Savannah Bananas, an amateur baseball team in the Coastal Plain League
* Banana', a dialect of the Bamayo language of Borneo, Indonesia
* Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything, an acronym used by "not in my backyard" practitioners opposed to land development