Raisa (given name)
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Raisa or Raissa is a female personal name. It is popular in Russia and South Asia (as a feminine form of Rais). It was also a historically typical female name amongst Jews of the Russian Empire,[1] as a Hebrew and Yiddish origin variant. In Yiddish, Raisa blossomed from the word roiz, meaning“rose”.
Notable people named Raisa include:
- Raisa Akhmatova, internationally recognized Chechen poet
- Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer
- Raisa Blokh, Russian poet
- Raisa Bogatyrova, Ukrainian politician
- Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and a fundraiser for preservation of Russian heritage
- Raissa Khan-Panni, English singer
- Raissa Maritain, Russian-French philosopher and poet
- Rayisa Nedashkivska, Ukrainian and Soviet-era theater and cimema actress
- Raisa Orlova, Soviet/Russian writer and Americanist
- Raisa Smekhnova, former Soviet/Belarusian long-distance runner
- Raisa Smetanina, former Soviet/Russian Nordic skiing champion
- Raisa Surnachevskaya, Soviet World War II fighter pilot
Fictional
- Raisa Pöttgen, a character from the second season of the anime Strike Witches
See also
- Francia Raisa, American actress
- Miss Raisa, rapper
- Rosa Raisa, soprano
References
- ^ Russian-Jewish Given Names Boris Feldblyum (1998), page 39