Raisa or Raissa is a female personal name. It is popular in
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-ei ...
and South Asia (as a feminine form of ''
Rais
( ar, رئیس), plural , is an Arabic title meaning 'chief' or 'leader'. It comes from the word for head, . The corresponding word for leadership or chieftaincy is . It is often translated as 'president' in Arabic, and as 'boss' in Persian. Sw ...
''). It was also a historically typical female name amongst Jews of the Russian Empire,
[''Russian-Jewish Given Names'',
Boris Feldblyum (1998), page 39] as a Hebrew and Yiddish origin variant.
Notable people named Raisa include:
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Raisa Akhmatova, internationally recognized Chechen poet
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Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer
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Raisa Blokh, Russian poet
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Raisa Bogatyrova
Raisa Vasylivna Bohatyriova ( uk, Раїса Василівна Богатирьова; russian: Раиса Васильевна Богатырёва) (born on January 6, 1953) is a Ukrainian politician and former Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine a ...
, Ukrainian politician
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Raisa Gorbacheva
Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva (russian: link=no, Раи́са Макси́мовна Горбачёва Romanized ''Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova'', , Титаренко; 5 January 1932 – 20 September 1999) was a Soviet-Russian activist and phi ...
, wife of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and a fundraiser for preservation of Russian heritage
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Raissa Khan-Panni, English singer
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Raissa Maritain, Russian-French philosopher and poet
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Rayisa Nedashkivska
Rayisa Nedashkivska (Ukrainian: Раїса Недашківська Rayisa Nedashkivska, Russian: Раиса Недашковская; 17 February 1943, Malyn, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian and Soviet-era theater and cinema actress
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, Ukrainian and Soviet-era theater and cimema actress
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Raisa Orlova
Raisa Davydovna Orlova-Kopeleva (russian: Раи́са Давы́довна Орло́ва-Ко́пелева, 23 July 1918, Moscow – 31 May 1989, Cologne) was a Russian writer and American studies scholar.
She was the second wife of Lev Kop ...
, Soviet/Russian writer and Americanist
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Raisa Smekhnova
Raisa Katyukova-Smekhnova ( be, Раіса Кацюкова-Сьмехава; born September 16, 1950 in Kaltan, Kemerovo) is a retired long-distance runner from the Soviet Union, who won the bronze medal at the 1983 World Championships in Hel ...
, former Soviet/Belarusian long-distance runner
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Raisa Smetanina
Raisa Petrovna Smetanina (russian: Раиса Петровна Сметанина; born 29 February 1952) is a Soviet and Russian cross-country skiing champion. She is the first woman in history to win ten Winter Olympic medals.
Career
Smetanina ...
, former Soviet/Russian Nordic skiing champion
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Raisa Surnachevskaya
Raisa Nefedovna Surnachevskaya (russian: Раиса Нефедовна Сурначевская; 8 August 1922 18 December 2005) was a Soviet fighter pilot and squadron commander during World War II, as well as one of the very few pregnant wome ...
, Soviet World War II fighter pilot
Fictional
* Raisa Pöttgen, a character from the second season of the anime ''
Strike Witches
is a Japanese media mix originally created by Fumikane Shimada via a series of magazine illustration columns. The franchise has since been adapted into several light novel, manga, and anime series and various video gam ...
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See also
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Francia Raisa
Francia Raisa Almendarez (born July 26, 1988) is an American actress. Raisa is known for her roles in '' Bring It On: All or Nothing'', ''The Secret Life of the American Teenager'', and '' Grown-ish''.
Early life and education
Raisa was born a ...
, American actress
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Miss Raisa
Imane Raissali (born 1997), known professionally as Miss Raisa, is a Moroccan-born Spanish rapper.
Early life and education
Born in Tangier, Raisa moved with her family to the Barcelona neighborhood of La Barceloneta at the age of 8. At the a ...
, rapper
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Rosa Raisa, soprano
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Russian feminine given names
Feminine given names
Slavic feminine given names