The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 2006. Playboy magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.
January
Athena Lundberg is an American model. She is Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for January 2006. Her centerfold was photographed by Stephen Wayda. She had appeared in Playboy TV's Sexy Girls Next Door contest as Athena Dawnelle, winning the opportunity to become a Playmate.
February
Cassandra Lynn Hensley was an American model and is Playboy's Playmate of the Month for February 2006. At age eighteen, Hensley moved to Newport Beach, California to study to become an aesthetician. She also opened a tanning salon and did some modeling. After placing in the Top 20 in a Hawaiian Tropic pageant, she submitted photos to Playboy. It was not until the second time she submitted photos that she received a callback and became a Playmate. She made an appearance on the television series Bikini Destinations in 2008. Hensley was born in Price, Utah. She was found dead of an apparent overdose, in the bathtub at a friend's home in Los Angeles, California, on January 15, 2014.
March
Monica Leigh is an American Playboy model. She began as Playboy's Cyber Girl of the Week for August 29, 2005, then Cyber Girl of the Month for December 2005. She became a Playmate of the Month in March 2006 and was announced as the 2006 Cyber Girl of the Year later that month.
April
Holley Ann Dorrough is an American model. She is the Playboy Playmate of the Month for April 2006.
Stephanie Eve Larimore is an American model. She is Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for June 2006. Seven years later, Larimore appeared in the third episode of the ninth season of The Bachelorette where she is romantically linking with her boyfriend Brian Jarosinski, who was disqualified from the show after her appearance.
July
Sara Jean Underwood is an American model and actress who is the Playmate of the Month for the July 2006 issue of Playboy magazine and later became Playmate of the Year in 2007. Sara Underwood first appeared in Playboy as the October 2005cover model, and in the accompanying The Girls of the Pac-10 pictorial.
August
Nicole Voss is an American model from the state of Florida. She is the Playmate of the Month for the August 2006 issue of Playboy.
September
Janine Carmen Habeck is a German model. Her father is German and her mother is Italian. Habeck was the Playmate of the Month for February 2004 and Playmate of the Year in 2005 for the German edition of Playboy. She later became the September 2006 PMOM for the United States edition of the magazine.
October
Jordan Monroe is an American glamour model. According to her Playboy pictorial, she is part Polish. She is the Playmate of the Month for October 2006. Monroe is said to be the first Playmate born in Iowa.
November
Sarah Elizabeth is an American model. She was Playboy's Cyber Girl of the Week in the 4th week of December 2005, and Cyber Girl of the Month in April 2006. She is the Playmate of the Month for the November 2006 issue of Playboy. Her pictorial was photographed by Stephen Wayda.
December
Kia Drayton is an American model who is Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 2006. She also was the 2004 Hooter's Restaurant Swimsuit Calendar centerfold.
