Rosa (given name)

Rosa is a given name, especially in the Portuguese, Italian and Spanish languages.

It may refer to:

Rosa de Lima, or Rose of Lima, nun and saint
Rosa Benozzi Balletti, Italian-French actor
Rosa Blasi, American actress
Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840 - 1909), English children's writer and popular novelist
Rosa Leal de Pérez (born 1953), Guatemalan psychologist
Rosa Díez, Spanish politician
Rosa Fuentes, Mexican swimmer
María Rosa Gallo, Argentinian actress
Rosa Koian, human rights and environmentalism activist from Papua New Guinea
Rosa López, also known as "Rosa", Spanish singer and dancer
Rosa Luxemburg, German communist leader
Rosa Mota, Portuguese marathoner
Rosa Mendes, half Costa Rican and half Czech professional wrestler
Rosa O'Neill, Irish wife of Owen Roe O'Neill
Rosa Parks, American civil rights icon
Rosa Russo Iervolino, Italian politician
Rosa Quintana (born 1959), Spanish civil servant and politician
Rosa Scarlatti, Italian opera singer
Rosa Vercellana known as Rosina or La Bela Rosin, mistress and later wife of Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy
Rosa Ponselle, American operatic soprano
Rosa von Praunheim, German filmmaker and gay rights activist

Fictional people

Rosa (Castlevania), character in the video game Castlevania
Rosa Farrell, character in the game Final Fantasy IV
Rosa (Kizuna Encounter), the wild woman from the game Kizuna Encounter
Rosa Ushiromiya, character of Sound Novel Umineko no Naku Koro ni.
Rosa the protagonist of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2
Colonel Rosa Klebb, the main antagonist of Ian Fleming's Bond novel, and subsequent film, From Russia, With Love
Rosa del Valle, aka Rosa the Beautiful, character in the novel The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende.
Rosa Diaz, character in the TV series Brooklyn Nine-Nine