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'',
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popular in Russia and South Asia (as a feminine form of Rais)
People
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Raissa (singer, born 1971), full name Raissa Khan-Panni, English singer-songwriter
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Raissa (Malaysian-British singer), known for her debut single "Bullying Boys"
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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
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Raissa Kelly (b. 1976) French singer in Tachelhit
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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
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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
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Raissa Feudjio (b. 1995), Cameroonian footballer
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Raïssa Koublitskaïa (1928–2021), Soviet Belarusian agricultural worker and politician
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Raissa Venables (b. 1977), American photographer
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Raissa Ruus (1942–1986), Estonian middle-distance runner at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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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
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Raissa Nitabuch (1859-unknown), Russian pathologist
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Raissa Martin (1991), an Australian goalball player selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics
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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
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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
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Raïssa Dapina (b. 1995), Senegalese handball player
Other
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1137 Raïssa, an asteroid
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