Rana is:
- A municipality in the county of Nordland, Norway, see Rana, Norway
- The Rana family, who usurped control of Nepal for a period of time, reducing the monarch to a figurehead and ruling through hereditary government posts
- A genus of frogs (rana is Latin for ''frog)
- La Rana is nickname for artist Diego Rivera, because of his purportedly frog-like appearance