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s. Notable people with the name include: *''Rosa de Lima'', or Rose of Lima (1586–1617), Peruvian nun and saint * Rosa Silvana Abate (born 1963), Italian politician * Rosa Albach-Retty, Austrian movie and stage actress * Archduchess Rosa of Austria, Austrian princess *

Rosa Balistreri Rosa Balistreri (21 March 1927 – 20 September 1990) was an Italian singer and musician. Her hoarse voice charged with melancholy and strong personality made her a Sicilian icon of the twentieth century, much like the writer Leonardo Sciasci ...

, Sicilian musician * Rosa Benozzi Balletti, Italian-French actor * Rosa Blasi, American actress *

Rosa Bonheur Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals ( animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include ''Ploughing in the Nivernais'', fir ...

(1822–1899), French artist * Rosa Bouton (1860–1951), American chemist and professor *

Rosa Nouchette Carey Rosa Nouchette Carey (27 September 1840 – 9 July 1909) was an English children's writer and popular novelist, whose works reflected the values of her time and were thought of as wholesome for girls. However, they are "not entirely bereft of gr ...

(1840–1909), English children's writer and popular novelist * Rosa de Carvalho Alvarenga (fl. 1857), African slave trader * Rosa Cobo Bedía (born 1956), Spanish feminist, writer, and professor *

Rosa (cow) Rosa (26 May 2001 – 14 July 2020) was a Spanish-born Landes cow known for her participation in the French game show ''Intervilles''. She became a popular part of the programme due to her intelligence and aggressiveness. She died in 2020 after su ...

(2001–2020), Spanish-born French cow and television personality *

Rosa DeLauro Rosa Luisa DeLauro (; born March 2, 1943) is an American politician who has been the U.S. representative for since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in New Haven and includes most of its suburbs. DeLauro is ...

(born 1943), American politician * Rosa Leal de Pérez (born 1953), Guatemalan psychologist *

Rosa Díez Rosa María Díez González (born 27 May 1952) is a Spanish politician from Union, Progress and Democracy, UPyD deputy in the Congress of Deputies from 2008 to 2016. Career She was a former Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish S ...

, Spanish politician * Rosa Faccaro (1931–2019), Argentine art critic, painter and university teacher * Rosa Fuentes, Mexican swimmer *

Rosa Guerra Rosa Guerra (1834August 18, 1864) was an Argentine educator, journalist and writer. She was a pioneering woman in Argentine literature. Biography Rosa Guerra was born in Buenos Aires, 1834. She founded two newspapers, ''La Camelia'', dedicated to ...

(1834–1864), Argentine educator, journalist, writer * Rosa Gumataotao Rios (born 1965), American government official * Rosa Jochmann, Austrian resistance activist and Ravensbrück survivor who became a politician (SPÖ) * Rosa Koian, human rights and environmentalism activist from Papua New Guinea *

Rosa López Rosa María López Cortés (Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, which was the most followed in the country since there are official audience statistics and in which she obtained the seventh position with the song "Europe's living a celeb ...

, also known as "Rosa", Spanish singer and dancer * Rosa Lund (born 1986), Danish politician * Rosa Luxemburg, Polish communist leader *

Rosa Mayreder Rosa Mayreder (née Obermeyer; 30 November 1858, in Vienna – 19 January 1938, in Vienna) was an Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist. She was the daughter of Marie and Franz Arnold Obermayer who was a wealthy restaurant ...

, Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist *

Rosa Mota Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, GCIH, GCM (; born 29 June 1958) is a Portuguese former marathon runner, one of her country's foremost athletes, being the first sportswoman from Portugal to win Olympic gold. Mota was the first woman to win m ...

, Portuguese marathoner * Rosa Miller Avery (1830–1894), American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer *

Rosa Mendes Milena Leticia Roucka (; born October 25, 1979) is a Canadian retired professional wrestler, valet and model. She was known for her time in WWE under the ring name Rosa Mendes. She managed former WWE Tag Team Champions Primo & Epico from 2011 ...

, half Costa Rican and half Czech professional wrestler * Rosa Menga (born 1992), Italian politician * Rosa O'Neill, Irish wife of Owen Roe O'Neill * Rosa Orellana, American mathematician * Rosa Palomino, Aymara Indigenous leader in Peru *

Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "th ...

, American civil rights icon *

Rosa Regàs Rosa Regàs (born 1933, in Barcelona) is a Spanish writer and novelist. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela and the Premio Nadal. Biography Rosa Regàs was born in Barcelona in 1933. During the Spanish Civil War she was exiled to ...

, Spanish writer * Rosa Rosà, Austrian writer * Rosa Russo Iervolino, Italian politician * Rosa Quintana (born 1959), Spanish civil servant and politician *

Rosa (sea otter) Rosa is a female sea otter at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Monterey Bay Aquarium is a nonprofit public aquarium in Monterey, California. Known for its regional focus on the marine habitats of Monterey Bay, it was the first to exhibit a livin ...

(born 1999), oldest known living sea otter *

Rosa Scarlatti Rosa Scarlatti (1727– 15 December 1775) was an Italian opera singer. She was the niece of Alessandro Scarlatti, Alessandro or Domenico Scarlatti and the sister of composer Giuseppe Scarlatti (1723-1777). She married composer Francesco Uttini in ...

, Italian opera singer * Rosa Stallbaumer, member of the Austrian Resistance during World War II * Rosa Valetti, German actress, cabaret performer and singer *

Rosa Vecht Rosa Vecht (18 July 1881 – 23 January 1915) was the only Dutch nurse to die in World War I. Early life Roosje "Rosa" Vecht was born in Elburg, Gelderland, Netherlands, the eldest child of Mozes Vecht and Diena van Hamberg. Her parents were Jew ...

(1881–1915), Dutch nurse *

Rosa Vercellana Rosa Vercellana, 1st Countess of Mirafiori and Fontanafredda (3 June 1833 – 26 December 1885), commonly known as ‘Rosina’ and, in Piedmontese, as La Bela Rosin, was the mistress and later wife of Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy. Despi ...

, known as "Rosina" or "La Bela Rosin", mistress and later wife of Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy *

Rosa Ponselle Rosa Melba Ponzillo, known as Rosa Ponselle (January 22, 1897 – May 25, 1981) was an American operatic soprano. She sang mainly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and is generally considered to have been one of the greatest sopranos of the 20t ...

, American operatic soprano *

Rosa von Praunheim Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky (born Holger Radtke; 25 November 1942), known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, is a German film director, author, painter and one of the most famous gay rights activists in the German-speaking world. In ov ...

, German filmmaker and gay rights activist *

Rosa Kershaw Walker Rosa Kershaw Walker (, Kershaw; after first marriage, Turnbull; after second marriage, Walker; literary initials, R. K. Walker; 1840s – May 7, 1909) was an American author, journalist, and newspaper editor of the long nineteenth century. She was ...

(1840s–1909), American author, journalist, newspaper editor * Rosa Warrens (1821–1878), Swedish poet and translator * Rosa Louise Woodberry (1869–1932), American journalist, educator * Rosa Young (1890-1971), American educator

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* María Rosa Gallo, Argentinian actress

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* Rosa, a character in the 1990 American action comedy movie ''

Kindergarten Cop ''Kindergarten Cop'' is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and distributed by Universal Pictures. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as John Kimble, a tough police detective working undercover as a kindergarten teacher to apprehe ...

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Rosa Rosa or De Rosa may refer to: People *Rosa (given name) * Rosa (surname) * Santa Rosa (female given name from Latin-a latinized variant of Rose) Places * 223 Rosa, an asteroid *Rosa, Alabama, a town, United States * Rosa, Germany, in Thuringia, ...

the protagonist of ''Pokémon Black 2'' and ''White 2'' * Rosa (Castlevania), reluctant vampire in the video game ''Castlevania'' *

Rosa Farrell ''Final Fantasy IV'', a role-playing video game released by Square in 1991, revolves around Cecil Harvey, a knight of Baron who embarks on a quest to defeat Golbez, a man that is controlling the king of Baron. During Cecil's quest, he is joine ...

, character in the game ''Final Fantasy IV'' * Rosa (Kizuna Encounter), the wild woman from the game ''Kizuna Encounter'' *Rosa Casagrande, a character in

The Casagrandes ''The Casagrandes'' is an American animated comedy television series developed by Michael Rubiner and Miguel Puga that aired on Nickelodeon from October 14, 2019 to September 30, 2022. It is a spin-off of ''The Loud House'' and the second tele ...

*Colonel Rosa Klebb, the main antagonist of Ian Fleming's Bond novel, and subsequent film, ''From Russia, With Love'' *Rosa del Valle, aka Rosa the Beautiful, character in the novel ''

The House of the Spirits ''The House of the Spirits'' ( es, La casa de los espíritus, 1982) is the debut novel of Isabel Allende. The novel was rejected by several Spanish-language publishers before being published in Buenos Aires in 1982. It became an instant best-se ...

'' by Isabel Allende *Rosa Diaz, character in the TV series '' Brooklyn Nine-Nine'' *Princess Rosa Cossette D'Elise, character in the video game '' Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown'' *Rosa Hubermann, the wife of Hans Hubermann and foster mother of Liesel Meminger in ''

The Book Thief ''The Book Thief'' is a historical fiction novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, and is his most popular book. Published in 2005, ''The Book Thief'' became an international bestseller and was translated into 63 languages and sold 16 mil ...

'' *Rosariki, a character in American animated children's television series

GoGoRiki ''Kikoriki'', known in the United States as ''GoGoRiki'' or ''BalloonToons'' and in Russia as ''Smeshariki'' (russian: Смешарики), is a Russian animated television series consisting of 307 episodes of 6 minutes and 30 seconds each, aime ...

* Rosa Ushiromiya, character of Sound Novel ''Umineko no Naku Koro ni''

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