Donna (given name)
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Donna is an English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 feminine first name meaning lady in Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

. The original meaning is closer to lady of the home. A title of respect, equivalent to Don
Don
- People :* Don , a short form of the masculine given name Donald in English, also a masculine given name in Irish* Don , a Spanish, Portuguese and Italian title, given as a mark of respect* Don, a crime boss...

 for men. It is rare as a surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

.
The name Anna
Anna
Anna, Anne, or Ann may refer to:*Anna **Anne, a derivation of Anna-People:* Anna , also known as Anna the Prophetess in the Gospel of Luke* Saint Anne, known by tradition as the mother of the Virgin Mary...

 can be used as a short form of Donna.

People

  • Donna Air
    Donna Air
    Donna Air is an English television presenter, singer and actress.-Early life:As a former student of Gosforth High School, Donna attended the Drama School at First Act in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, where she was a pupil alongside Jill Halfpenny, Ant & Dec and Dale Meeks.-Television:She became...

    , British actress
  • Donna Brazile
    Donna Brazile
    Donna Brazile is an American author, professor, and political analyst affiliated with the Democratic Party. She was the first African American to direct a major presidential campaign, for Al Gore in 2000...

    , American political activist
  • Donna Edwards
    Donna Edwards
    Donna F. Edwards is the U.S. Representative for , serving since a special election in 2008. She is a member of the Democratic Party...

    , U.S. House of Representatives, member
  • Donna Lewis
    Donna Lewis
    Donna Lewis is a Welsh singer-songwriter and record producer, best known for the 1996 pop hit single "I Love You Always Forever", and the adult contemporary chart-topper "At the Beginning" with Richard Marx. After releasing her second LP Blue Planet, Lewis left Atlantic Records and independently...

    , Welsh singer
  • Donna Maguire
    Donna Maguire
    Donna Maguire is a former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army once described as Europe's most dangerous woman....

    , Provisional Irish Republican Army member
  • Donna Mayhew
    Donna Mayhew
    Donna Lee Mayhew is a retired female javelin thrower from the United States, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1988 and 1992. She set her personal best in 1988....

    , American javelin thrower
  • Donna Mills
    Donna Mills
    Donna Mills is an American actress, most well known for her role as Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing.-Early years:...

    , American actress who played Abby Cunningham on "Knots Landing"
  • Donna Murphy
    Donna Murphy
    Donna Murphy is an American stage, film, television actress and singer.Murphy has won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion as Fosca and in The King and I as Anna Leonowens...

    , American stage and film actress
  • Donna Noble
    Donna Noble
    Donna Noble is a fictional character played by Catherine Tate in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A secretary from Chiswick, London, she is a companion of the Tenth Doctor, appearing in one scene at the end of the final episode of the 2006 series,...

    , companion in the British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     sci-fi drama Doctor Who
    Doctor Who
    Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

  • Donna Orender
    Donna Orender
    Donna Orender is a sports executive and a former collegiate and professional basketball player. She was recently president of the WNBA. She grew up on Long Island, New York and was a five-sport athlete in high school, lettering in basketball, field hockey, volleyball, softball, and tennis. She is...

     (née Geils), American Women's Pro Basketball League All-Star guard & WNBA president
  • Donna Summer
    Donna Summer
    LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...

    , American singer, notably of disco music
  • Donna Tartt
    Donna Tartt
    Donna Tartt is an American writer and author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend . She won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003.-Early life:...

    , American writer\

Fictional

  • Donna Pinciotti
    Donna Pinciotti
    Donna Marie Pinciotti is a fictional character and one of the two female leads in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show, appearing in all eight seasons...

     is the name of a character from the TV show That 70s Show
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