Mahsa or Mahsā (, ) is a feminine given name of Persian origin. The name has the meaning "like the moon". ''Mah'' () is the
Old Persian
Old Persian is one of the two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan language, Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of Sasanian Empire). Like other Old Iranian languages, it was known to its native ...
word for "moon", and ''-sā'' (), as a suffix, means "representing, alike, as". Notable people with the name include:
*
Mahsa Abdolzadeh
Mahsa Abdolzadeh ( ar, مهسا عبدل زاده) (born 22 September 1985) is an Austrian politician for the Green Party in Vienna and a political scientist. She is a feminist and an activist for women, LGBTQ, and minority rights.
Early life ...
(born 1985), Austrian politician, political scientist and women's rights and LGBT activist
* Mahsa Amini (1999–2022), Iranian-Kurdish woman whose death in the Islamic Republic of Iran's police custody sparked protests in Iran and in the world
* Mahsa Amrabadi (born 1984), Iranian journalist
*
Mahsa Javar
Mahsa Javar ( fa, مهسا جاور, born 12 June 1994) is an Iranian competitive rower.
At the Olympic qualifying events in April 2016 she came second to Huang Yi-ting.Mahsa Kadkhoda (born 1993), Iranian volleyball player
*
Mahsa Mohaghegh
Mahsa Mohaghegh (McCauley) is an Iranian-born New Zealand computer engineer specialising in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. She is a professor of information technology and software engineering at Auckland University of ...
, Iranian-born New Zealand computer engineer
*
Mahsa Saberi
Mahsa Saberi ( fa, مهسا صابری; born February 14, 1993, in Gorgan); She is a player of the Iran women's national volleyball team. In 2018, she joined to the Turkish club Balıkesir DSİ with Mona Ashofteh and she is currently a player o ...
(born 1993), Iranian volleyball player
*
Mahsa Shahbazian
Mahsa Shahbazian (born 1984 in Tehran) is an Iranian musician, composer and Qanun player.
She played in many albums and worked with some musicians like Alireza Mashayekhi, Rastak Ensemble and Mojtaba Asgari. Shahbazian was one of those Iranian ...
(born 1984), Iranian musician, composer and Qanun player
* Mahsa Vahdat (born 1973), Persian classical and world music vocalist
See also
*
Mahsa (disambiguation) Mahsa or Mahsā (, ) is a feminine given name of Persian origin. It is also a name commonly used for the following:
Name
* Mahsa (name)
Mahsa Amini-related
* Deaths during the Mahsa Amini protests
* Death sentences during the Mahsa Amini pro ...