Shona (given name)

Shona is a female name of Gaelic and Hebrew origin. (Scottish and Irish) also. Coincidentally is the name of an ethnic group in South Africa, Zimbabwe. The name Shona also has a meaning “God is gracious” as well as female name for John.

## Given name

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* Shona (singer), French singer
* Shona Auerbach, British film director
* Shona Banda (born 1978/9), American medical cannabis rights activist
* Shona Barbour (born 1979), Canadian curler
* Shona Bell (1924–2011), New Zealand palaeontologist
* Shona Brown (born c. 1966), American businesswoman
* Shona Brownlee (born 1979), British skier and RAF aircraftwoman
* Shona Rapira Davies (born 1951), sculptor and painter of Ngati Wai ki Aotea tribal descent
* Shona Fraser (born 1975), 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 (born 1962), Scottish artist
* Shona Laing (born 1955), New Zealand musician
* Shona Le Mottee, Canadian Celtic/pop fiddler and vocalist
* Shona Macdonald (born 1969), Scottish artist and academic
* Shona Dunlop MacTavish (1920–2019), New Zealand dancer and dance teacher
* Shona Marshall (born 1964), Scottish sport shooter
* Shona McCallin (born 1992), English international field hockey player
* Shona McGarty (born 1991), British actress
* Shona McIntyre (born 1980), Scottish former international cricketer
* Shona McIsaac (born 1960), British politician
* Shona Mooney (born c. 1984), Scottish fiddle player and composer
* Shona Morgan (born 1990), Australian former gymnast
* Shona Moss (born 1969), Canadian sailor
* Shona Powell-Hughes (born 1991), Welsh Rugby Union player
* Shona Robison (born 1966), Scottish politician
* Shona Rubens (born 1986), Canadian alpine skier
* Shona Schleppe (born 1963), Canadian former field hockey player
* Shona Seawright (born 1977), Irish cricketer
* Shona Thorburn (born 1982), British-born basketball player in the WNBA
* Shona Tucker, American actress

## Fictional characters

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* Shona Ramsey, a character in the TV soap-opera Coronation Street

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