From an Old Testament place name meaning "forest" in Hebrew, referring to a fertile plain near the coast of Israel. This is also the name of a type of flowering shrub, the rose of Sharon. Various nicknames of Sharon include Sharai, Sharona, Sharonald, Sharry, Sherri, Sherrie, Sherye, Shazz, Shazzy and Shazza.

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 Cuneta, Filipina actress and talk show host
• Sharon (talk show), the television show hosted by Sharon Cuneta
• Sharron Davies, British swimmer
• Sharon den Adel, Within Temptation's singer
• Sharon Hanson, American heptathlete
• Sharon Jaklofsky, Australian-Dutch athlete
• Sharon Lawrence, American television actress
• Sharon Mann, American voice actress working in Paris, France
• 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

As a family name

• 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

• Sharon plain, in Israel
• Sharon, Ontario, Canada

Places in the United States of America

• Sharon, Connecticut
• Sharon, Georgia
• Sharon, Kansas
• Sharon, Massachusetts
• 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, Pennsylvania
• Sharon, South Carolina
• Sharon, Vermont
• Sharon, West Virginia
• Sharon, Wisconsin
• New Sharon, Maine
• Sharon Springs, Kansas
• Sharonville, Ohio

Fictional characters

• Sharon Newman Abbott, a character in the daytime soap opera The Young and The Restless
• Sharon Marsh, a character on South Park
• Sharon Rickman, a character from the popular British soap opera EastEnders
• Sharon Strzelecki, a character from Kath & Kim
• Sharon Valerii (Number Eight (Battlestar Galactica)), from the re-imagined television series Battlestar Galactica

Other

• The SS Sharon, a nineteenth century whaling ship, which -- upon its final journey -- underwent a series of desertions, mutinies, murder and mendacity during the course of its three year voyage. The strange story of the SS Sharon is detailed in In the Wake of Madness, by historian Joan Druett