Rona

Rona, RONA or Róna may refer to:

Places

• North Rona, a Scottish island in the North Atlantic
• South Rona, a Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides
• Rona, Switzerland
• Tinizong-Rona, Swiss municipality
• Rona, a village in Jibou town, Sălaj County, Romania
• Rona, a peninsula/island of the Isle of May in Scotland
• Rona, Bellevue Hill, a historic house in the Sydney suburb of Bellevue Hill
• Rona de Jos and Rona de Sus, communes in Maramureş County, Romania

People

• Rona (tribe) one of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes of India
• Rona, a variant diminutive of the Russian male first name Aaron

Noted individuals

• Rona Ambrose (b. 1969), interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons.
• Rona Anderson (1926–2013), a Scottish stage, film, and television actress
• Rona Barrett (b. 1936), an American gossip columnist and businesswoman
• Rona Fairhead, (b. 1961), a British businesswoman and chairwoman of the BBC Trust
• Rona Jaffe, (1931–2005), an American novelist
• Rona Mitra (b. 1975), an English actress, model and singer
• Rona Munro (b. 1959), a Scottish writer
• Rona Murray (b. 1986), a Canadian poet
• Rona Nishliu (b. 1986), a Kosovo-Albanian singer and radio presenter
• Rona Pondick (b. 1952), an American sculptor
• Rona Rupert (1934–1995), a South African author
• Rona Stevenson (1911–1988), a New Zealand politician

• Aliye Rona (1921–1996), a Turkish film actress
• Jaroslav Róna (b. 1957), a Czech sculptor, painter, actor, educator, and writer
• Jeff Rona (b. 1957), American film composer
• Thomas P. Rona (1923–1997), a 1980s era science adviser to the Defense Department and the White House under Presidents Reagan and Bush
• András Róna-Tas (b. 1931), a Hungarian historian and linguist

In fiction and mythology

• Rona (Ojamajo Doremi), a fictional character in the Japanese anime series Ojamajo Doremi
• Rona, a minor character on the American television program Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Rona, a legendary Maori woman who cursed the moon. Her legend is intertwined with that of the Myoporum laetum tree

Weather

• Cyclone Rona–Frank - A destructive cyclone that hit Queensland, Australia in February 1999

Other uses

• Rona (1892) a racing yacht built in 1892 in New Zealand, named after the Rona of Maori legend
• Rona, Inc. a Canadian hardware and home improvement retailer
• S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A., a Russian military formation which fought for the Nazis in World War II
• Return on net assets, a measure of a company's financial performance which takes the use of assets into account

See also

• Ronay, Scottish island