Shona (given name)
Shona is a female name of Gaelic and Hebrew origin. also. Coincidentally is the name of an ethnic group in Southern Africa, Zimbabwe. The name Shona also has a meaning “God is gracious” as well as female name for John.
Given name
- Shona (singer), French singer
- Shona Auerbach, British film director
- Shona Banda, American medical cannabis rights activist
- Shona Barbour, Canadian curler
- Shona Bell, New Zealand palaeontologist
- Shona Brown, American businesswoman
- Shona Brownlee, British skier and RAF aircraftwoman
- Shona Rapira Davies, sculptor and painter of Ngati Wai ki Aotea tribal descent
- Shona Fraser, British music journalist
- Shona Holmes, Canadian woman who controversially underwent treatment for a Rathke's cleft cyst in the U.S. and claimed that it threatened her life
- Shona Kinloch, Scottish artist
- Shona Laing, New Zealand musician
- Shona Le Mottee, Canadian Celtic/pop fiddler and vocalist
- Shona Macdonald, Scottish artist and academic
- Shona Dunlop MacTavish, New Zealand dancer and dance teacher
- Shona Marshall, Scottish sport shooter
- Shona McCallin, English international field hockey player
- Shona McGarty, British actress
- Shona McIntyre, Scottish former international cricketer
- Shona McIsaac, British politician
- Shona Mooney, Scottish fiddle player and composer
- Shona Morgan, Australian former gymnast
- Shona Moss, Canadian sailor
- Shona Powell-Hughes, Welsh Rugby Union player
- Shona Robison, Scottish politician
- Shona Rubens, Canadian alpine skier
- Shona Schleppe, Canadian former field hockey player
- Shona Seawright, Irish cricketer
- Shona Thorburn, British-born basketball player in the WNBA
- Shona Tucker, American actress
Fictional characters
- Shona Ramsey, a character in the TV soap-opera ''Coronation Street''