Mona may refer to:

People

Mona (name) Mona is a female, and sometimes male, given name and a surname of multiple origins. Given name As a given name, Mona can have the following meanings and origins; In northern Europe, where the name is much more popular, Mona is interpreted as a ...

, a female given name, nickname and surname *

Mona (Angolan footballer) Nelson Miango Mudile (born 26 July 1997), commonly known as Mona, is an Angolan association football, footballer who currently plays as a Defender (association football), defender for C.D. Primeiro de Agosto, Primeiro de Agosto. In July 2020, Mo ...

(born 1997) *Mona, ring name of American wrestler Nora Greenwald

Museums

* Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska, US *

Museum of Neon Art The Museum of Neon Art (MONA) is an institution that exists to encourage learning and curiosity through the preservation, collection, and interpretation of neon art. The first museum devoted to art that incorporates neon lighting, it exclusively ex ...

, Los Angeles, California, United States *

Museum of Northwest Art The Museum of Northwest Art (also referred to as MoNA) is an art museum located in La Conner, Washington, and is focused on the Northwest School art movement, which had its peak in the mid-20th century. The Museum was founded by Art Hupy in 198 ...

La Conner, Washington La Conner is a town in Skagit County, Washington, United States with a population of 965 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Mount Vernon– Anacortes, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town hosts several events as part of ...

, United States * Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Music

Mona (band) MONA is a project started by Nick Brown. Though there has been a revolving cast of band members, Nick has been the sole driving force behind the band. He began in Dayton, Ohio, though he is now based in Nashville, Tennessee. Brown revealed the ba ...

, a Nashville-located alternative rock band ** ''Mona'' (album), released in 2011 *"Mona", a song by James Taylor from his 1985 album ''

That's Why I'm Here ''That's Why I'm Here'' is the eleventh studio album by singer-songwriter James Taylor released in 1985, four years after his previous effort, '' Dad Loves His Work''. The album contains a version of Buddy Holly's "Everyday", as well as the par ...

'' *"Mona", a song by the Beach Boys from their 1977 album '' Love You'' *''

Mona – The Carnivorous Circus ''Mona—The Carnivorous Circus'' is a 1970 album by the UK underground artist Mick Farren. The album was recorded to fulfill contractual obligations. Farren had recently returned from a tour of the west coast of North America without his band ...

'', a 1970 record by The Deviants *" Mona (I Need You Baby)", a 1957 song by Bo Diddley * ''Mona'' (opera), a 1912 opera by Horatio Parker

Places

Settlements

* Mona, Anglesey, a village on the Welsh island of Anglesey (in the UK) * Mona, Iowa, United States, an unincorporated community *

Mona, Jamaica Mona is a neighbourhood in southeastern Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, Saint Andrew Parish, approximately eight kilometres from Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica. A former sugarcane Sugar plantations in the Caribbean, plantation, it is the sit ...

, a residential neighbourhood of Kingston *

Mona, South Australia Bute is a town in the Northern Yorke peninsula of South Australia, approximately east of Wallaroo and 24 kilometres west of Snowtown. It was proclaimed as a town in 1884 and named after the Isle of Bute, in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. It wa ...

, part of the town of Bute, Australia *

Mona, Utah Mona is a city in Juab County, Utah, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 1,547. It is part of the Provo–Orem metropolitan area. The city is about halfway between Santaquin and Nephi along Interstate 15. The populatio ...

, United States, a city *

Mona Mona, Queensland Mona Mona is a locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = ...

, a locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia *

Mona Township, Ford County, Illinois Mona Township is one of twelve townships in Ford County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 334 and it contained 152 housing units. The township was formed as Delhi Township from a portion of Rogers Township on March 2, 18 ...

, United States

Landforms

Anglesey Anglesey (; cy, (Ynys) Môn ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms a principal area known as the Isle of Anglesey, that includes Holy Island across the narrow Cymyran Strait and some islets and skerries. Anglesey island ...

( la, Mona, link=no), an island off the north-west coast of Wales *

Isla de Mona Mona ( es, Isla de Mona) is the third-largest island of the Puerto Rican archipelago, after the main island of Puerto Rico and Vieques. It is the largest of three islands in the Mona Passage, a strait between the Dominican Republic and Puerto R ...

, Puerto Rico, an island in the Mona Passage *

Isle of Man ) , anthem = "O Land of Our Birth" , image = Isle of Man by Sentinel-2.jpg , image_map = Europe-Isle_of_Man.svg , mapsize = , map_alt = Location of the Isle of Man in Europe , map_caption = Location of the Isle of Man (green) in Europe ...

( la, Mona, link=no), a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea *

Mona Islands The Mona Islands or Mohn Islands (russian: Острова Мона) is a group of a few scattered small islands covered with tundra vegetation. They are located in the Kara Sea, about 30 km north of the western coast of the Taymyr Peninsula i ...

, Siberia, Russia *

Mona Lake Mona Lake is a freshwater lake located in Norton Shores just outside the city of Muskegon in the U.S. state of Michigan ( Muskegon County). Mona Lake is a sandy bottom lake that flows into Lake Michigan via the Mona Lake channel. History Duri ...

, Michigan, United States *

Mona Passage The Mona Passage ( es, Canal de la Mona) is a strait that separates the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. The Mona Passage connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean Sea and is an important shipping route between the Atlantic and the Panama ...

, separating the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico *

Mona Reservoir Mona Reservoir is a large reservoir on Currant Creek in the north end of Juab Valley, Juab County, Utah. It was created in 1895 by the construction of an earthen dam. External links * by the Utah Division of Water Quality The Utah Dep ...

, Utah, United States

Fictional locations

Isle of Mona ''The Chronicles of Prydain'' is a pentalogy of children's high fantasy Bildungsroman novels written by American author Lloyd Alexander and published by Henry Holt and Company. The series includes: ''The Book of Three'' (1964), ''The Black Cauld ...

, a fictionalized version of the Isle of Anglesey in Lloyd Alexander's "The Chronicles of Prydain" series

Science and technology

*''Aechmea'' 'Mona', a hybrid cultivar *

Modular Neutron Array The Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) is a large-area, high efficiency neutron detector that is used in basic research of rare isotopes at Michigan State University's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), a nuclear physics research facil ...

MONA number A MONA number (short for Moths of North America), or Hodges number after Ronald W. Hodges, is part of a numbering system for North American moths found north of Mexico in the Continental United States and Canada, as well as the island of Greenl ...

ing scheme used for moths of North America, also called a Hodges number

Ships and boats

* , a British paddle steamer * , a British packet steamer * , a British paddle steamer originally named ''Calais/Douvres'' * , a British packet steamer originally named ''Hazel'' * , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1918 to 1919 * RNLB ''Mona'' (ON 775), 1935, a lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland * , a wooden paddle steamer operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company * , an iron paddle steamer operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, sank in a storm in Liverpool Bay in 1909 * , a paddle steamer operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company until she was purchased by [he Admiralty in 1915 * , a packet steamer operated by the South Eastern & Chatham Railway Company and the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company * , a Swedish coaster in service 1957–63 * , a Greek cargo ship wrecked in 1976 * , a passenger vessel operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company * , a ''roll on - roll'' off car and passenger ferry operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company

Other uses

*Monā, an ASCII art character *Mona (deity), in mythology *Mona (elephant), at Birmingham Zoo in the United States *Mona language (disambiguation) *Mona Modern English Medium School, Sarangarh, Chhattisgarh, India *

Mona monkey The mona monkey (''Cercopithecus mona'') is an Old World monkey that lives in western Africa between Ghana and Cameroon. The mona monkey can also be found on the island of Grenada as it was transported to the island aboard slave ships headed to ...

, a species of monkey that lives through Western Africa and the Caribbean *

Mona railway station Mona Railway Station ( ur, ) is located in Pakistan. See also * List of railway stations in Pakistan * Pakistan Railways Pakistan Railways ( ur, ) is the national, state-owned railway company of Pakistan. Founded in 1861 and headquart ...

, Pakistan *Mona or

Mouna Mouna, also known as Mona, is an Algerian Jewish sweet bread of Sephardi origin, similar to challah, kubaneh or brioche, that is traditionally consumed for the Jewish holidays of Mimouna and Shabbat, which is commonly found today in France, and ...

, an Algerian pastry *

RAF Mona RAF Mona is a Royal Air Force station near Bodffordd on the island of Anglesey, Wales. It is primarily used as a relief landing ground for RAF Valley. RAF Mona is also the home of Mona Flying Club who operate some evenings and most weekends. H ...

, a Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey, Wales *''

Mona the Virgin Nymph ''Mona'' (1970) (also promoted as ''Mona; the Virgin Nymph'') is a sexually explicit adult film that contains a number of unsimulated non-penetrative sex scenes as well as penetrative ones. The film is regarded as the second sexually explicit f ...

'', also known as ''Mona'', a 1970 theatrical release pornographic film *''Mona'', a 2019 novel by Argentinian author

Pola Oloixarac Paola Caracciolo, better known by her pseudonym, Pola Oloixarac, is an Argentine writer, journalist, librettist and translator. Biography She studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. After finishing her post-graduate studies for Ph ...