List of Famous people named Monica
Monica Abbott
Monica Cecilia Abbott is an American professional softball player, former collegiate All-American and silver medal winning Team USA Olympian, a left-handed softball pitcher originally from Salinas, California. She pitched for the Tennessee Lady Vols in college and professionally in NPF, and in the Japan Softball League. In international competition, she played for Team USA from 2005 including the national softball team winning a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Abbott is the NCAA Division I leader in wins, strikeouts, shutouts and innings.
Monica Bleibtreu
Monica Bleibtreu was an Austrian actress and screenwriter, best known in the German-speaking world for her German film, television and stage roles.
Mónica Cahen D'Anvers
Mónica Cahen D'Anvers is an Argentine journalist and TV news host. She began to work in the TV news Telenoche in 1966 with César Mascetti. Both of them received the Golden Martín Fierro award in 2001 for their long work. They were married in 2003 and left Telenoche in 2004, and worked instead in the radio program "Mónica y César" in Radio del Plata.
Monica Niculescu
Monica Niculescu is a Romanian professional tennis player. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 28 in February 2012, and has three singles titles to her credit on the WTA Tour since she turned pro in May 2002, the last one coming at the end of 2016, at the BGL Luxembourg Open. Although she was a steady top 30 player for several years and enjoyed relative success in singles, she is also a doubles specialist, where she achieved a career-high ranking of No. 11 in April 2018, after partnering with Grand Slam winner and Olympic medalist Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková at Indian Wells. Her biggest doubles result up to date is reaching her first Grand Slam doubles final at Wimbledon in 2017, alongside Chan Hao-ching. She was also runner-up at three Premier Mandatory events: the 2015 Wuhan Open, with fellow Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu, the 2016 Rogers Cup, with former world No. 1 Simona Halep, and the 2017 Cincinnati Open, partnering former world No. 1 in doubles, Hsieh Su-wei.
Monica Aldama
Monica Aldama is an American cheerleading coach. She is the coach of the co-ed cheerleading team at Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas.
Monica Medina
Monica Medina is an American attorney who served as principal deputy undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere, deputy associate attorney general, and general counsel of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She was also the U.S. commissioner to the International Whaling Commission.
Monica Vitti
Monica Vitti is an Italian actress best known for her starring roles in films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the early-to-mid 1960s. After working with Antonioni, Vitti changed focus and began making comedies, working with director Mario Monicelli on many films. She has appeared with Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon, Richard Harris, Terence Stamp, Michael Caine, and Dirk Bogarde.
Mónica Ayos
Mónica Ayos Crámer is an Argentine actress.
Monica of Hippo
Saint Monica was an early African Christian saint and the mother of St. Augustine of Hippo. She is remembered and honored in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, albeit on different feast days, for her outstanding Christian virtues, particularly the suffering caused by her husband's adultery, and her prayerful life dedicated to the reformation of her son, who wrote extensively of her pious acts and life with her in his Confessions. Popular Christian legends recall Saint Monica weeping every night for her son Augustine.
Mónica Spear
Mónica Spear Mootz was a Venezuelan actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela 2004. She also represented Venezuela at Miss Universe 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand where she finished as 4th runner-up.