Kanaka may refer to:
People
- Kanaka (given name), an Indian name (including a list of persons with the name)
- Kanaka (actress), Indian film actress
- Kanaka (Pacific Island worker), workers from Pacific Islands employed in British colonies and in North American fur trade and goldfields
- Kānaka Maoli, the traditional name native of the Hawaiian people
Places
- Kanaka Bar, British Columbia, an unincorporated area in the Fraser Canyon of British Columbia
- Kanaka Creek, British Columbia, a historical settlement and modern neighbourhood in the District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
- Kanaka Creek Regional Park, a regional park run by the Greater Vancouver Regional District, in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
- Kanaka, Crimea, Black sea resort town
Other uses
- Kanaka pigeon, an extinct bird of New Caledonia and Tonga
- Kanaka, the Sanskrit name for a species of Datura<!--the term seems to be used in Ayurveda-->
- Kanaka (film), a 2018 Indian romantic action film
- Kanaka Bar First Nation, the Nlaka'pamux First Nations government at the Kanaka Bar, British Columbia
- Kanaka Shree, an award instituted by the government of Karnataka, India
See also
- Kanak (disambiguation)
- Kanake, a racial epithet in the German language, derived from the Melanesian term