Raisa (given name)

Raisa or Raissa is a common 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.

For the 2015 film, see Raisa (film).

Notable people named Raisa include:

  • Raisa Akhmatova, internationally recognized Chechen poet
  • Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer
  • Raisa Blokh, Russian poet
  • Raisa Bogatyrova, Ukrainian politician
  • Raisa Gorbachova, 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
  • Raisa Modorova, singer from the Altai Republic of Russia
  • Raisa Nedashkovskaya, 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

References
  1. Russian-Jewish Given Names, Boris Feldblyum (1998), page 39
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