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) (born 1997) * Mona (Brazilian footballer), Marcelo Alexandre Pires Correia (born 1973) *Mona, ring name of American wrestler

Nora Greenwald Nora Kristina Greenwald (born September 7, 1977) is an American retired professional wrestling, professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE, under the ring name Molly Holly, as a producer. She is also known for her tenure in World Championship Wr ...

Museums

Museum of Nebraska Art The Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) is the official art museum of the state of Nebraska. The museum is located in Kearney, Nebraska, and is administratively affiliated with the University of Nebraska at Kearney. The official charter of MONA makes ...

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

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. History La Conner was first sett ...

, United States *

Museum of Old and New Art The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is an art museum located within the Moorilla Estate, Moorilla winery on the Berriedale, Tasmania, Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest privately funded museum in the South ...

, 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 b ...

, a Nashville-located alternative rock band ** ''Mona'' (album), released in 2011 *''

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 album by The Deviants *"

Mona (I Need You Baby) "Mona (I Need You Baby)" is a song written by Ellas McDaniel (Bo Diddley) that appeared as the B-side to his 1957 single " Hey! Bo Diddley". According to Diddley's obituary in ''The New York Times'', "Mona" was a song of praise he wrote for a 4 ...

", a 1957 song by Bo Diddley *"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 part ...

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

Nick Mulvey Nick Mulvey (born 4 November 1984) is an English musician, singer and songwriter. He played the hang as a founding member of the band Portico Quartet. In 2011 he started his career as a singer-songwriter releasing the EPs ''The Trellis'' (20 ...

from his 2022 album ''New Mythology'' * ''Mona'' (opera), a 1912 opera by Horatio Parker

Places

Settlements

Mona, Anglesey Mona is a hamlet in Anglesey Anglesey ( ; ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms the bulk of the Principal areas of Wales, county known as the Isle of Anglesey, which also includes Holy Island, Anglesey, Holy Island ( ...

, a village on the Welsh island of Anglesey (in the UK) *

Mona, Iowa Mona is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mitchell County, Iowa, Mitchell County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census the population of Mona was 35. History Mona go ...

, 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, 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 populat ...

, United States, a city *

Mona Mona, Queensland Mona Mona is a rural locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mona Mona had a population of 29 people. Geography The Great Dividing Range passes through the north-western corner of the locality, but most of the local ...

, 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 2020 census, its population was 267 and it contained 130 housing units. The township was formed as Delhi Township from a portion of Rogers Township on March 2, 1 ...

, United States

Landforms

Anglesey Anglesey ( ; ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms the bulk of the Principal areas of Wales, county known as the Isle of Anglesey, which also includes Holy Island, Anglesey, Holy Island () and some islets and Skerry, sker ...

(), an island off the north-west coast of Wales *

Isla de Mona Mona Island () 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, the strait between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, with the othe ...

, Puerto Rico, an island in the Mona Passage *

Isle of Man The Isle of Man ( , also ), or Mann ( ), is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland. As head of state, Charles III holds the title Lord of Mann and is represented by a Lieutenant Govern ...

(), a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea *

Mona Islands The Mona Islands or Mohn Islands () 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 in Siberia, Russia. Etymology ...

, 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 () 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 Canal. The Mona Pas ...

, 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 Juab County ( ) is a county in western Utah, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 11,786. Its count ...

, Utah, United States

Fictional locations

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

Science and technology

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 Swedish coaster in service 1957–63 * , a Greek cargo ship wrecked in 1976

Other uses

* Monā, an ASCII art character * Mona (deity), in mythology *

Mona (elephant) Mona (c. 1951 — June 21, 2007) was a 7,800 pound Asian elephant (''Elephas maximus'') on exhibit at the Birmingham Zoo in Birmingham, Alabama (United States). Mona's age was contested. According to zoo officials, she was born in the wild around ...

, 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 () is located in Pakistan. See also * List of railway stations in Pakistan * Pakistan Railways Pakistan Railways is the state-owned railway operator in Pakistan. Founded in 1861 as the North Western State Railway and ...

, Pakistan * Mona or

Mouna Mouna or Mona, also known as Lamona or Khobz soltani is an Algerian orange scented brioche that is indigenous to the city of Oran. It has a sweet taste enriched with oil and eggs and often contains anise, sesame Sesame (; ''Sesamum indicum ...

, an Algerian pastry * RAF Mona, a Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey, Wales * ''

Mona the Virgin Nymph ''Mona'' (also promoted as ''Mona; the Virgin Nymph'') is a 1970 American pornographic film directed by Michael Benveniste and Howard Ziehm, produced by Bill Osco, and starring Judy Angel, Gerard Broulard, Orrin North, Susan Stewart and Fifi Wat ...

'', 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 Oloixarac studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. Since finishing her post-graduate studies ...

* Mona, the codename for Morgana, a character from ''Persona 5''