Famous People with Name Shona

Shona Laing            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Shona Laing: a New Zealand born musician. She has had several hits in her native country, as well as a few minor international hits, most notably "(Glad I'm) Not a Kennedy" and "Soviet Snow". Laing also contributed to the Manfred Mann's Earth Band album Somewhere in Afrika. Laing also contributed music to, and appeared in, the 1985 action film Shaker Run.Currently she resides in New Zealand and occasionally plays live shows, enjoying a small but devoted fan base.

Shona Urvashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Shona Urvashi: She graduated with a BA in Economics from Nowrosjee Wadia College Pune (Pune University).She further went on to study film making at the Vancouver film school. Her student film Maya's story has won and been nominated for several awards. She is also the sister of Bollywood actor Masumeh.

Shona Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Shona Morgan: is an Australian gymnast, training at the Waverley Gymnastics Centre in Victoria under John Hart and Shaoyi Jiang. She was a member of the Australian team at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Shona Thorburn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Shona Thorburn: is a Canadian professional basketball player, formerly a point guard for the Seattle Storm of the WNBA.

Shona Rubens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Shona Rubens: is a Canadian alpine skier. Rubens qualified to compete for Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics after placing 18th in a World Cup downhill in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Her other career highlights including placing second in downhill at the 2004 Lake Louise

Sei Shonagon            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Sei Shonagon: was a Japanese author and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi/Empress Sadako around the year 1000 during the middle Heian Period, and is best known as the author of The Pillow Book (??? makura no soshi).Sei Shonagon's actual given name is not known. It was the custom among aristocrats in those days to call a court lady (??nyobo) by a combined appellative taken from a) her clan name and b) some court office belonging either to her or some close relative. Sei (?) thus derives from the Kiyohara (??) clan, while Shonagon was a government post. It is unknown which of her relatives held the post of shonagon. Her actual name has been a topic of debate among scholars, who generally favor Kiyohara Nagiko (?? ??) as a likely possibility.

Yokoi Shonan            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yokoi Shonan: was a Bakumatsu and early Meiji period scholar and political reformer in Japan, influential around the fall of the Tokugawa bakufu. His real name was Yokoi Tokiari.Yokoi was a samurai born in Kumamoto, Higo Province (present-day Kumamoto Prefecture), and a distant descendant of Hojo Takatoki. He was sent by the domain to Edo in 1839 for studies, and developed contacts with pro-reform members of the Mito domain. After his return to Kumamoto, he started a group to promote the reform of domain administration along Neo-Confucianism lines, opening a domain school called Shonan-do.