Famous People with Name Mona

Mona Jane Van Duyn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mona Jane Van Duyn: was an American poet.Van Duyn was born in 1921 in Waterloo, Iowa. She grew up in the small town of Eldora, Iowa (pop. 3,200) where she read voraciously in the town library and wrote poems secretly in notebooks from her grade school years to her high school years. Van Duyn earned a B.A. degree from Northern Iowa University in 1942, and an M.A. from the University of Iowa in 1943, the year she married Jarvis Thurston. She and Thurston studied in the Ph.D. program at Iowa. In 1946 she was hired as an instructor at the University of Louisville when her husband became an assistant professor there. Together they began Perspective: A Quarterly of Literature in 1947 and shifted that journal to Washington University in St. Louis when they moved there in 1950. Van Duyn was a lecturer in the University College adult education program until her retirement in 1990. In 1983, a year after she had published her fifth book of poems, she was named an adjunct Professor in the English Department and became the "Visiting Hurst Professor" in 1987, the year she was invited to be a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Mona Ingeborg Sahlin            Origin/Culture/Country: Slavic

Mona Ingeborg Sahlin: Sahlin was elected new leader of the Social Democratic Party at an extra party congress on 17 March 2007, succeeding Göran Persson who resigned as leader following the defeat in the 2006 election. Sahlin is the first female leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and should she succeed in leading the opposition to power in the 2010 election, she would become the first female Prime Minister of Sweden.

Mona Malm            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Mona Malm: a Swedish film actor.She was born in Stockholm, Sweden.

Mona May Karff            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mona May Karff: was an American competitive chess player. Karff dominated U.S. women's chess in the 1940s and early 1950s and had an extended career. She held seven U.S. Women's Chess Champion titles and four consecutive U.S. Open titles.

Mona Ghoneim            Origin/Culture/Country: Egyptian

Mona Ghoneim: is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. She is a member of that nation's third generation of such composers.Ghoneim studied piano with E. Puglisi and composition with Gamal Abdel-Rahim at the Cairo Conservatoire beginning in 1