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), 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 (1894-1979) Ukrainian dancer who became a prominent classical archaeologist *Raissa Myshetskaya, better known as

Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher and conductor. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist. From a ...

, 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 (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 (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 (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, an asteroid {{dab, hndis, given name