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 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 Names'', Boris Feldblyum ...

popular in Russia and South Asia (as a feminine form of Rais)

People

Mononym

Raissa (singer, born 1971) Raissa Khan-Panni (born 1971) is an English singer-songwriter who records under the name Raissa. She is best known for the 2000 single, "How Long Do I Get", which was playlisted by UK radio stations. The song reached No. 47 in the UK Singles C ...

, full name Raissa Khan-Panni, English singer-songwriter * Raissa (Malaysian-British singer), known for her debut single "Bullying Boys"

Given name

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 stu ...

(b. 1995), Miss Brasil 2016 *

Raissa Kelly Karen or Raissa Kelly (born in Blois in 1976) is a French singer in Tachelhit. Biography Kelly was born in 1976 from a French-Portuguese couple living in Blois in the department of Loir-et-Cher in France. In 1988, Kelly visited Casablanca in ...

(b. 1976) French singer in Tachelhit *

Raissa Calza Raissa Samojlovna Calza (née Gourevitch; 15 December 189424 January 1979) was a Ukrainian dancer who became a prominent classical archaeologist of Roman portraiture. When she was young, she fled to Italy and France following the Russian revoluti ...

(1894-1979) Ukrainian dancer who became a prominent classical archaeologist *Raissa Myshetskaya, better known as Nadia Boulanger, French musicologist and music teacher *

Raïssa Maritain Raïssa Maritain (née Oumansoff) (12 September 1883 in Rostov-on-Don – 4 November 1960 in Paris) was a Russian poet and philosopher. She immigrated to France and studied at the Sorbonne, where she met the young Jacques Maritain, also a ph ...

(1883-1960), Russian poet and philosopher who immigrated to France *

Raissa Feudjio Raissa Feudjio Tchuanyo (born 29 October 1995) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish Liga F club UD Granadilla Tenerife and the Cameroon women's national team. She has previously played for Trabzon İd ...

(b. 1995), Cameroonian footballer *

Raïssa Koublitskaïa Raïssa Vladimirovna Koublitskaïa ( be, Раіса Уладзіміраўна Кубліцкая; 10 April 1928 – June 2021) was a Soviet Belarusian agricultural worker and politician who was the head of the cultivation of flax at the Kalinin ...

(1928–2021), Soviet Belarusian agricultural worker and politician *

Raissa Venables Raїssa Venables (born 1977) is an American photographer. Background and education Venables was born in 1977 in New Paltz, New York, USA. From 1993 to 1997, she attended the Arts Student’s League in New York City, concentrating on the Anat ...

(b. 1977), American photographer *

Raissa Ruus Raissa Ruus (18 September 1942 – 14 January 1986) was an Estonian middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 800 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad ...

(1942–1986), Estonian middle-distance runner at the 1972 Summer Olympics *

Raissa L. Berg Raissa L'vovna Berg (russian: Раиса Львовна Берг; 1913–2006) was a Russian geneticist and evolutionary biologist. Early life Raissa Berg was born in St. Petersburg, the second child of Lev Semyonovitch Berg and Polina Abramovna ...

(1913-2006), Russian geneticist and evolutionary biologist *

Raissa Nitabuch Raissa Nitabuch (born 1859) was a Russian 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 was named t ...

(1859-unknown), Russian pathologist *

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 *

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 *

Raissa Gourevitch Raissa Gourevitch (russian: Раиса Гуревич, 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 ...

(b.1984), Russian tennis player *

Raïssa Dapina Raïssa Dapina (born 27 September 1995) is a French-Senegalese handball player for Fleury Loiret HB and the Senegalese national team. She competed at the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship The 2019 IHF World Women's Handball Championshi ...

(b. 1995), Senegalese handball player

Other

1137 Raïssa 1137 Raïssa ( ''prov. designation'': ) is a stony background asteroid and slow rotator, approximately in diameter, located in the inner regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered by Grigory Neujmin at Simeiz Observatory in 1929, and ...

, an asteroid {{dab, hndis, given name