Shoshana (Shoshanna(h)) (שושנה) is a Hebrew feminine first name. It is the name of at least two women in the Bible, and via Σουσάννα (Sousanna), it developed into such European names as Susanna, Susan, Susanne, Susana, Susannah, Suzanne, Suzie and Sanna. The original Hebrew form Shoshana, from which all these are derived, is still commonly used in contemporary Israel, often shortened to "Shosh" or "Shoshi". In Biblical times "shoshana" referred to a lily (from Lilium family); in modern Hebrew it is often understood as referring to a rose.
It may refer to:
Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino (born 1926), former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Health between 1986 and 1988
Shoshana Bean (born 1977), American stage actress and singer known for her roles in Broadway musicals during the 2000s
Shoshana Bush (born 1988), American actress
Shoshana Damari (1923–2006), Yemenite-Israeli singer known as the queen of Hebrew music
Shoshana Felman, Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Emory University
Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss (born 1975), American fashion designer
Shoshana Johnson (born 1973), Panamanian former United States soldier, the U.S. first black female prisoner of war
Shoshana Kamin, Soviet-born Israeli mathematician
Shoshana Netanyahu (born 1923), Israeli lawyer and judge, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
Shoshana Parsitz (1892–1969), Zionist activist, educator and Israeli politician
Shoshana Ribner (born 1938), Israeli Olympic swimmer
Shoshana Riseman (born 1948), Israeli music educator, stage director and composer
Shoshana Rudiakov, Latvian pianist
Shoshana Zuboff (born 1951), the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (retired)
