Famous People with Name Tonya

Tonya Lee Williams            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tonya Lee Williams: a black Canadian actress, best known for her role as Dr. Olivia Barber Winters on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless, from 1990 to 2005, and for a brief time in 2007. Williams returned to the series in the fall of 2008.Williams and her family lived in London and Kingston, Jamaica while she was a young child. At age 5, she contracted rheumatic fever; she and her mother went to live in Birmingham, England. In 1969, she and her family settled in Oshawa, Ontario. As a teenager, she modeled in Eaton's catalogues and danced on a television series called Boogie! which ran on CityTV. In 1977, Williams was crowned Miss Black Ontario.

Tonya "Teee" Sanders-Williams            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tonya "Teee" Sanders-Williams: is a retired female volleyball player from the United States, who won the bronze medal with the USA National Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, finishing in seventh place.

Tonya Maxene Harding            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tonya Maxene Harding: is an American figure skating champion. In 1991 she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and placed second in the World Championships. She was the second woman, and the first American woman, to complete a triple axel jump in competition. Harding bega

Tonya Verbeek            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tonya Verbeek: is a Canadian wrestler. She was born in Grimsby, Ontario. She took up wrestling in grade eleven and was undefeated throughout high school in Beamsville, Ontario. She trains at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, and is coached by Marty Calder.

Tonya Knight            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tonya Knight: is an American former IFBB professional female bodybuilder. Knight was a regular on American Gladiators as Gold from 1989 to 1992 until she left due to an injury to her left knee. Tonya won the Ms. International title in 1989. However, it was later discov