Raissa is a female given name. It is a variant of
Raisa (given name)
Raisa or Raissa is a female personal name. It is popular in russian personal name, Russia and South Asia (as a feminine form of ''Rais''). It was also a historically typical female name amongst Jews of the Russian Empire,''Russian-Jewish Given Nam ...
popular in Russia and South Asia (as a feminine form of Rais)
People
Mononym
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Raissa (singer, born 1971), full name Raissa Khan-Panni, English singer-songwriter
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Raissa (Malaysian-British singer)
Raissa (born 1997 in Zaragoza (Spain)) is a Spanish-British singer-songwriter raised in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. She became publicly known for her debut single "Bullying Boys", followed by "Valentine" and "Angel Energy" and for a collaboration wi ...
, known for her debut single "Bullying Boys"
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Raissa Santana
Raissa Oliveira Santana (born July 6, 1995) is a Brazilian model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Brazil 2016, Miss Brasil 2016. She represented Brazil at Miss Universe 2016 pageant.
Personal life
Santana is a model and a Marketing s ...
(b. 1995), Miss Brasil 2016
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Raissa Kelly (b. 1976) French singer in Tachelhit
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Raissa Calza (1894-1979) Ukrainian dancer who became a prominent classical archaeologist
*Raissa Myshetskaya, mother of
Nadia Boulanger
Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organis ...
, French musicologist and music teacher
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Raïssa Maritain
Raïssa Maritain (née Oumansoff) (September 12, 1883 in Rostov-on-Don – November 4, 1960 in Paris) was a French poet and philosopher. She was the wife of Jacques Maritain, with whom she worked and whose companion she was for more than half a ...
(1883-1960), Russian poet and philosopher who immigrated to France
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Raissa Feudjio (b. 1995), Cameroonian footballer
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Raïssa Koublitskaïa (1928–2021), Soviet Belarusian agricultural worker and politician
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Raissa Venables
Raїssa Venables (born 1977) is an American photographer.
Background and education
Venables was born in 1977 in New Paltz, New York. From 1993 to 1997, she attended the Arts Student’s League in Manhattan, concentrating on Anatomy for Life ...
(b. 1977), American photographer
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Raissa Ruus (1942–1986), Estonian middle-distance runner at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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Raissa L. Berg (1913-2006), Russian geneticist and evolutionary biologist
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Raissa Nitabuch
Raissa Nitabuch (; born 1859) was a Russian Pathology, pathologist who is known for her histological studies of the human placenta. The layer of fibrin that was thought to separate the uterine decidua from the fetoplacental trophoblast after birth ...
(1859-unknown), Russian pathologist
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Raissa Martin
Raissa Martin (born 3 March 1991) is an Australian goalball player who represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Personal life
Martin was born on 3 March 1991 in Hervey Bay, Queensland. She has been ...
(1991), an Australian goalball player selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics
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Raissa D'Souza
Raissa M. D'Souza is the Associate Dean of Research for the College of Engineering and a Professor of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Davis as well as an External Professor and member of the Science Bo ...
Professor of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California
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Raissa Gourevitch
Raissa Gourevitch (, born 1 March 1984) is a former Russian tennis player.
In her career, she won twelve doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 24 September 2001, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 396. On 2 February 2004 ...
(b.1984), Russian tennis player
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Raïssa Dapina (b. 1995), Senegalese handball player
Other
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1137 Raïssa, an asteroid
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