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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, a village
- 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 Maramureș County, Romania
- Rona (Kristiansand), a neighbourhood in Kristiansand, Norway
- Rona (river), a river in Maramureș County, Romania
- Tinizong-Rona, a Swiss municipality
People
- Rona (tribe), one of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes of India
Given name
- Rona, a diminutive of the Russian male given name Aaron
- Rona Ambrose (born 1969), interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons
- Rona Anderson (1926–2013), Scottish stage, film, and television actress
- Rona Barrett (born 1936), American gossip columnist and businesswoman
- Rona Coleman (active from 1970s), Australian actress
- Rona Dougall (born late 1960s), Scottish broadcast journalist and television presenter
- Rona Elliot (born 1947), American music journalist
- Rona Fairhead, (born 1961), British businesswoman and chairwoman of the BBC Trust
- Rona Green (disambiguation), several people
- Rona Hartner (born 1973), Romanian actress, painter and singer
- Rona Marjory Hurley (1897–1985), New Zealand tobacco grower and buyer
- Rona Jaffe, (1931–2005), American novelist
- Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, awarded annually since 1995 to beginning women writers
- Rona Kenan (born 1979), Israeli singer/songwriter
- Rona E. Kramer (born 1954), American politician from Maryland
- Rona Lightfoot (born 1936), Scottish piper and singer
- Rona Mackay (active from 2016), Scottish politician
- Rona McKenzie (1922-1999), New Zealand female cricketer
- Rona McLeod (active 1990s), Australian TV actress
- Rona Mitra (born 1975), English actress, model and singer
- Rona Moss-Morris (born before 2006), South African-born academic psychologist
- Rona Munro (born 1959), Scottish writer
- Rona Murray (1924-2003), Canadian poet
- Rona Nishliu (born 1986), Kosovo-Albanian singer and radio presenter
- Rona Pondick (born 1952), American sculptor
- Rona Randall (born 1911), British writer
- Rona Robinson, British suffragette who in 1905 was the first woman in the United Kingdom to gain a first-class degree in chemistry
- Rona Rupert (1934–1995), South African author
- Rona Shapiro (born before 1990), American rabbi, the first female rabbi to head a Conservative synagogue in Cleveland
- Rona Stevenson (1911–1988), New Zealand politician
- Rona Tong (born 1915/16), New Zealand track and field athlete who competed at the 1938 British Empire Games
- Rona Yefman (born 1972), Israeli artist based in New York City
Surname
- Aliye Rona (1921–1996), Turkish film actress
- András Róna-Tas (born 1931), Hungarian historian and linguist
- Andrew Rona (born 1971), American film producer and movie executive
- Curtis Rona (born 1992), New Zealand professional rugby league footballer
- Elizabeth Rona (1890-1981), Hungarian nuclear chemist
- Gianarrigo Rona (born 1940), Italian bridge player and administrator, president of the World Bridge Federation from 2009
- Jaroslav Róna (born 1957), Czech sculptor, painter, actor, educator, and writer
- Jeff Rona (born 1957), American film composer
- József Róna (1861-1939), Hungarian sculptor and artist
- Peter A. Rona (1934-2014), American oceanographer
- Thomas P. Rona (1923–1997), American science adviser to the Defense Department and the White House under Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush
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, whose legend is intertwined with that of the Myoporum laetum tree
Other uses
- Cyclone Rona–Frank - A destructive cyclone that hit Queensland, Australia in February 1999
- Return on net assets, a measure of a company's financial performance which takes the use of assets into account
- 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
- Rona Tranby Trust, an Australian-based not-for-profit organisation established in 1991 to support the recording and preservation of Indigenous Australian oral history
- S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A., a Russian military formation which fought for Nazi Germany in World War II
See also
- Čudovita potovanja Zajca Rona, a 2002 novel by Slovenian author Andrej Ivanuša
- Lesedi La Rona, formerly known as Karowe AK6 or as Quad 1, the third-largest diamond ever found, and the second-largest of gem quality
- My Rona Home, a Canadian reality television series which debuted in the 2009-10 television season
- Ronas Hill, the highest point of Mainland, Shetland
- Ronas Ryon (foaled 1984), an American Quarter Horse
- Ronay, a Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides
- Udara rona, a species of butterfly in the Lycaenidae family, found in south-east Asia
- All pages with titles containing Rona
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