Wanja
# Wanja

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)
