Mahsa or Mahsā (, ) is a feminine given name of

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

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 Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

's police custody sparked protests in Iran and in the world *

Mahsa Amrabadi Mahsa Amrabadi ( fa, مهسا امرآبادی; born July 3, 1984 in Rasht, Gilan) is an Iranian journalist. Amrabadi, along with her husband and reformist journalist Masoud Bastani, were arrested after the disputed presidential election of Jun ...

(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 Mahsa Kadkhoda ( fa, مهسا کدخدا; born 22 June 1993 in Birjand) is an Iranian volleyball player who plays for the Iran women's national volleyball team. She has played for Bank Sarmayeh and Peykan Tehran and is also a runner-up in the ...

(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

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