Samantha as First Name

Samantha Reed Smith            Origin/Culture/Country: Houlton, Maine,
Samantha Reed Smith: Smith wrote a letter to the newly appointed Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Yuri Andropov, and received a personal reply which included a personal invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which she accepted.Smith attracted extensive media attention

Samantha Morton            Origin/Culture/Country: England
Samantha Morton: Morton began her career as a child actor. At 13 she joined the Central Junior Television Workshop. At 16 she moved to London and appeared in plays at the Royal Court Theatre, also securing an early break as a guest star in an episode of Cracker. Although she applied to institutions such as RADA, she received no further formal training.[5] She went on to star in television productions like Jane Eyre and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.Starring roles in Band of Gold (1995), and the film Under the Skin in 1997, raised her profile in the UK. The latter impressed Woody Allen so much he cast her in his film Sweet and Lowdown for which she would receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1999. She is the first actress nominated for the Oscar for roles in a film in which she does not utter even a single word. In 2002 she won the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for her work in Morvern Callar, followed by a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for In America in 2003.

Samantha Ronson            Origin/Culture/Country: England
Samantha Ronson: In 2000, Ronson spun live for MTV New Year's Eve 2001's show from the network's studios in New York Times Square.[1] In 2002, it was announced Duncan Sheik would be co-producing an album for Ronson that would be out in the spring[2]. In 2004, she opened for JC Chasez on his Schizophrenic tour.Ronson distinguished herself by becoming the first rock act signed to Roc-A-Fella Records.[3]. She released four songs under the label "Super" with very little public interest: "Pull My Hair Out", "Fool", "If It's Gonna Rain" and "Built This Way," and wrote and recorded her first album, Blue. "Built This Way" was featured in the movie Mean Girls starring Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams[4]

Samantha Rose Hammel            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Samantha Rose Hammel: an American actress, singer, theatre director, choreographer and record producer. She is from Sudbury, Massachusetts. Hammel was most notable for being the executive producer and vocal coach for national recording artists, Girl Authority.Hammel began acting at the age of nine and began her first theater company in 1998 at the age of fourteen. She directed, taught voice and choreographed. She now has six different divisions of her entertainment company all under SAMM Entertainment. She also runs a kids' summer voice and theater camp, specializing in teaching children acting and vocal lessons. She graduated from Wagner College in May 2006 with a B.A. in Theater Education.

Samantha Christine Cope            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Samantha Christine Cope: Her career began with small roles in television programs. She played the character of Andrea in two episodes of Drake & Josh, a Nickelodeon sitcom. She also served as a decoy on To Catch a Predator, a series of hidden camera investigations by the television newsmagazine Dateline NBC devoted to the subject of identifying and detaining potential child sexual abusers who attempt to contact children over the Internet.

Avoiding Unisex Names Names, by their very nature, are meant to reflect the gender of the individual. This is a truth universally acknowledged regardless of the culture to which you belong. However, like everything else, there are exceptions to this rule and the confusion this might create....More..