Banta (disambiguation)

Banta is a carbonated lemon or orange-flavoured soft drink popular in India.

Banta may also refer to:

Places

• Banta, California, an unincorporated community
• Banta, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• an early name of Dunlap, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Banta Island, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
• the 'Banța', a hill next to the center of the town of Ocna Mureș, Romania

People

• Albert Franklin Banta (1843–1924), American newspaperman, politician, jurist and army scout
• Arthur M. Banta (1877–1946), American zoologist
• Bradford Banta (born 1970), American former football player
• George Banta (1857–1935), American businessman
• Jack Banta (American football) (1917–1977), American National Football League player
• Jack Banta (baseball) (1925–2006), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Lisa Banta (born 1979), American Paralympic goalball player and discus thrower
• Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta (1834–1907), American poet
• Parke M. Banta (1891–1970), a United States Representative from Missouri

Fictional characters

• Tony Banta, in the American TV series Taxi, played by Tony Danza
• Banta, a stock character in Sardarji jokes

Other uses

• Golisoda (English title Banta), a 2016 Indian Kannada-language film
• Banta, a work by American photographer Osamu James Nakagawa (born 1962)
• Banta (butterfly), a genus of butterflies
• Neoregelia 'Banta', a hybrid cultivar
• bantã, a Malinké name for the Ceiba pentandra tropical tree
• Banta Corporation, an America printing, imaging, and supply chain management company
• Manta language (also Banta), spoken in Cameroon
• banta, a Swedish verb for "being on a diet", derived from dieting pioneer William Banting (1796–1878)

See also

• Jean LaBanta (c. 1879–after 1926), American conman, forger and train robber