Vonda Ward is an American former professional boxer and NCAA basketball player. As a boxer, she competed from 2000 to 2008 and held multiple heavyweight world championships, including the WBC title in 2007. She also challenged Ann Wolfe for the WIBA and IBA female light heavyweight titles in 2004, in which she suffered her only defeat, losing by knockout in the first round.
Vonda Phelps, (born Avonda Phelps; 1915 – 2004), was an American child stage actress, vaudeville performer and dancer in the 1920s. She appeared in four silent film productions in 1922 and 1923.
My name is Vonda, and I was named after Vonda Kay Van Dyke. She was Miss America, nee Miss Arizona, in 1965. Her talent was ventriloquism. She was not, however, the daughter of Dick Van Dyke, nor was she Miss Universe.