Sharon

Sharon (Hebrew: שָׁרוֹן‎‎, Tiberian Hebrew: Šārôn) can be a female name which can be spelled with one "r" or two (Sharron).^{[citation needed]} It also refers to several places in the world.

It derives from a Israelite place name meaning "forest" in Hebrew, referring to a fertile plain near the coast of Israel. This gives its name to a type of flowering shrub, the rose of Sharon. Various nicknames of Sharon include Sha, Sharai, Sharona, Sharonald, Sharry, Sherri, Sherrie, Sherye, Share Bear, Sharonstein Bear, Sharoo, Shazz, Shazzy, Sharoon and Shazam.

Sharon is one of many names that could formerly be applied to males (as in the 19th-century historian Sharon Turner), but is now nearly always used of females (cf. Vivian, Ashley, Beverly, etc.).

In the United Kingdom its popularity peaked during the 1960s. It was the 10th most popular female name by 1964 and was still as high as 17th in 1974, but a sharp decline in popularity followed and since the 1980s it has not even featured in the top 100.

People

• Sharon Bruneau, Canadian female bodybuilder and fitness competitor
• Sharon Cohen, more commonly known as Dana International, an Israeli pop singer
• Sharon Corr, Irish musician and member of The Corrs
• Sharon Sharonna Yosef, Jemen model
• Sharon Creech, author of children's books Walk Two Moons and Ruby Holler
• Sharon Cuneta, Filipina actress and talk show host
  • Sharon (talk show), the television show hosted by Sharon Cuneta
• Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush, American TV personality
• Sharron Davies (born 1962), British swimmer
• Sharon den Adel, co-founder of and singer for Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation
• Sharon Dijksma (born 1971), Dutch politician
• Sharon Epperson, CNBC Personal Finance Correspondent
• Sharon Gibson, English javelin thrower
• Sharon Hanson, American heptathlete
• Sharon Jaklofsky, Australian-Dutch athlete
• Sharon Jordan, American film and television actress
• Sharon Kips, Dutch female singer
• Sharon Lawrence, American television actress
• Sharon Leal, American actress and director
• Sharon Lee (writer), American novelist
• Sharon Maguire, British film director
• Sharon Mann, American voice actress working in Paris, France
• Sharron McClellan, American action-adventure author
• Sharon Osbourne, music promoter and TV personality, wife and manager of Ozzy Osbourne
• Sharon Rendle, British judoka
• Sharon Shannon, Irish musician
• Sharon Stone, American actress, model and producer
• Sharon Tate, American actress and murder victim
• Sharon Vaknin, CNET.com Editor/Host
• Sharon Fernz, PR Manager (India)
• Sharon Stanly, Civil Engineer,Kerala,India

As a family name

• Arieh Sharon, Israeli architect
• Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister
• Gilad Sharon, Israeli son of the former Prime Minister
• Omri Sharon, Israeli son of the former Prime Minister

Places

Places in Canada

• Sharon, Ontario
  • Sharon Peak

Places in France

• Sharon, Saint-Plantes

Places in Israel

• Sharon plain

Places in the United Kingdom

• Sharon, Hampshire
• Sharon, Nottinghamshire

Places in the United States of America

• Sharon, California
• Sharon, Connecticut
• Sharon, Georgia
• Sharon, Kansas
• Sharon, Massachusetts
  • Sharon (MBTA station)
• Sharon, New Hampshire
• Sharon, New York
  • Sharon Springs, New York
• Sharon Township, North Carolina (now part of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina)
• Sharon, North Dakota
• Sharon, Oklahoma
• Sharon, Pennsylvania
• Sharon, South Carolina
• Sharon, Vermont
• Sharon, West Virginia
• Sharon, Wisconsin, a village
• Sharon, Walworth County, Wisconsin, a town
• Sharon, Portage County, Wisconsin, a town
• New Sharon, Maine
• Sharon Springs, Kansas
• Sharonville, Ohio
• Sharon Township (disambiguation) (several places)

Fictional characters

• Sharon (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who magazine character
• Sharon (シャロン), a character from the Street Fighter EX series
• Sharon Collins Newman, a character in the daytime soap opera The Young and The Restless
• Sharon Carter, a Marvel Comics character
• Sharon Marsh, a character on South Park
• Sharon Rainworth, a character in the manga and anime series Pandora Hearts
• Sharon Rickman, a character from the popular British soap opera EastEnders
• Sharon Strzelecki, a character from Kath & Kim
• Sharon Valerii, a character from Battlestar Galactica

Other

• The SS Sharon, a nineteenth century whaling ship whose story is detailed in In the Wake of Madness by historian Joan Druett
• The Rose of Sharon, a flower of uncertain identity mentioned in English language translations of the Bible
• Sharon fruit, a name for one type of Japanese persimmon developed in Israel
• The Sharon School, a Jewish school in Harare, Zimbabwe
• SHARON Wastewater Treatment Process
• The Sharon Statement, the founding statement of principles of the Young Americans for Freedom