List of Famous people named Dona
Dona Ivone Lara
Yvonne Lara da Costa, better known as Dona Ivone Lara, was a Brazilian singer and composer.
Dona Onete
Dona Onete is a Brazilian singer and composer. She has been referred to as the "Queen of Carimbó".
Dona Branca
Maria Branca dos Santos, more commonly referred to as "Dona" Branca (1902–1992), was a Portuguese criminal known chiefly for maintaining a Ponzi scheme in Portugal between 1970 and 1984 that paid a ten percent monthly interest. During this time she became popularly known as "The people's banker".
Dona Bertarelli
Dona Bertarelli is a Swiss businesswoman of Italian origin. She is co-president of the Bertarelli Foundation. She is also a sailor, having won the 2010 Bol d’Or Mirabaud and, with her team Spindrift Racing, the Rolex Fastnet in 2013. In the same year, she and her team also broke the record for the America Discovery Route. In 2020 she became an adviser to UNCTAD.
Dona Militana
Dona Zica
Euzébia Silva de Oliveira, better known as Dona Zica,, was a Brazilian samba dancer at the Mangueira Samba school in Rio de Janeiro, who went on to play an important role in the Mangueira favela.
Dona Drake
Dona Drake was an American singer, dancer and film actress in the 1930s and 1940s. Of three-quarters black heritage, she presented herself as Mexican and went by the names Una Novella and Rita Novella, typically being cast in "ethnic" roles including Hispanics and Middle Easterners, though occasionally took the role of white characters As Mexican "Rita Rio", she led a touring all-girl orchestra in the early 1940s, also known as "Dona Drake and her Girl Band", among other names for her musical and dance acts.
Dona Ganguly
Dona Ganguly is an Indian Odissi dancer. She took her dancing lessons from guru Kelucharan Mohapatra. She has a dance troupe Diksha Manjari. In 1997 she eloped with and married her childhood friend and later Indian cricketer and skipper Sourav Ganguly, 39th president of Board of Control for Cricket in India. The couple has a daughter named Sana.