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

United States

• Banana, Florida, an unincorporated community

• Banana Lake, Florida

• Banana River, Florida

Elsewhere

• Banana, Cape Verde, a settlement on Santiago Island

• Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a small seaport in Kongo Central Province

• Banana, Kiribati, a settlement on Kiritimati Island

• Banana Island (disambiguation)

Shire of Banana, a local government area in Queensland, Australia

• Banana, Queensland, Australia, a small town in the Shire of Banana

• Banana belt, any segment of a geographic region with generally warmer climates

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• Bananas (film), a 1971 comedy film directed by and starring Woody Allen

• Bananaz, a 2008 British documentary by Ceri Levy

• 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

• "The Banana" (The Amazing World of Gumball), a season 2 episode

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.

Games

• 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

• Banana (gamer), Chinese competitive Dota 2 player

• Banana, the currency of the Donkey Kong franchise

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

• Bananas Comedy Club, two venues for stand-up comedy in the northeastern United States

People

• 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 barnstorming baseball team in the Banana Ball Championship League

• Banana', a dialect of the Bamayo language of Borneo, Indonesia

• Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything, an acronym used to describe the attitude of people opposed to land development

See also

• Banana boat (disambiguation)

• Banana fish (disambiguation)

• Banana Joe (disambiguation)

• Banana Man (disambiguation)

• Banana republic (disambiguation)

• Banana Split (disambiguation)

• Anana (disambiguation)

• Bana (disambiguation)

• Banan (disambiguation)

• Banani (disambiguation)

• Going bananas (disambiguation)

• Joseph Bonanno (1905–2002), Italian-American Mafia boss also known as "Joe Bananas"

• Antonio Caponigro (1912–1980), American mobster also known as "Tony Bananas"

• Bannana, a genus of goblin spiders from China

• Banania, a chocolate drink

• Bananya, a Japanese animated television series