Nanda may refer to:

Places

• Nanda Empire, occupying what is now northeastern India in the 4th century BCE

• Nanda, Maharashtra, a town in India

People

• Mahapadma Nanda, first emperor of the Nanda Empire

• Dhana Nanda (died c. 321 BCE), last ruler of the Nanda dynasty

• Nanda (Buddhist nun), half-sister of Siddhartha Gautama, who became Gautama Buddha

• Nanda (half-brother of Buddha) or Sundarananda

• Nanda Bayin (1535–1600), King of Burma

• Nanda (actress) (1939–2014), Indian film actress

• Nanda (surname), an Indian surname

• Nanda people, an Aboriginal people of Western Australia

Other uses

• Nanda (Hinduism), a character in Hindu mythology, foster-father of the deity Krishna

• Nanda (film), a 2009 Indian Kannada film

• NANDA International, formerly the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association

See also

• Nanda ministry (disambiguation)

• Nandha (disambiguation)

• Nandhaa, a 2001 Indian Tamil film