Zoya (russian: Зоя, links=no) is a feminine Russian and Ukrainian first name, a variant of Zoe, meaning "life", from Greek ζωή (zoē), "life".

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* Zoya (born 1993), American singer *

Zoya Afroz Zoya Afroz, (born 10 January 1994) is an Indian actress, model and a beauty pageant titleholder. Afroz won the title of Miss India International 2021 competing at the Glamanand Supermodel India contest and will represent India at the Miss In ...

(born 1994), Indian actress and model * Zoya Akhtar (born 1972), Indian film director and screenwriter *

Zoya Barantsevich Zoya Barantsevich (russian: Зоя Баранцевич) was a film actress in the Russian Empire. Selected filmography * 1914 — ''Anna Karenina'' * 1916 — '' Tale of the Blue Sea'' * 1916 — '' Nelli Raintseva'' * 1917 — ''Revolutiona ...

(1896–1952), Russian actress * (born 1987), Russian actress on the TV series '' Fartsa'' *

Zoya Buryak Zoya Yurievna Buryak (russian: Зо́я Ю́рьевна Буря́к; 6 November 1966, Krasnoyarsk) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress. Biography Zoya Buriak was born in Krasnoyarsk on 6 November 1966. In 1971 her family moved to ...

(born 1966), Russian actress * Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi (born 1976), Israeli artist *

Zoya Douchine Zoya Alexeevna Douchine, sometimes written Zoja Duschin, married surname Barkenstein (born 24 October 1983) is a German former competitive figure skater. The 2000 national silver medalist, she represented Germany at the 2000 European Champions ...

(born 1983), German figure skater *

Zoya Fyodorova Zoya Alekseyevna Fyodorova (russian: Зоя Алексеевна Федорова; 11 December 1981) was a Russian film star who had an affair with American Navy captain Jackson Tate in 1945 and bore a child, Victoria Fyodorova in January 1946. ...

(1909–1981), Russian actress *

Zoya Hussain Zoya Hussain is an Indian actress, writer and director who predominantly appears in Hindi films. She got recognition for her role in ''Mukkabaaz'', directed by Anurag Kashyap. Career Zoya Hussain was born and brought up in Delhi. She started ...

(born 1990), Indian actress, writer and director * Zoya Ivanova (born 1952), retired long-distance runner from Kazakhstan *

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya ( rus, Зо́я Анато́льевна Космодемья́нская, p=ˈzojə kəsmədʲɪˈmʲjanskəjə; September 13, 1923 – November 29, 1941) was a Soviet partisan. She was executed after acts of s ...

(1923–1941), Soviet partisan, Hero of the Soviet Union *

Zoya Krakhmalnikova Zoya Alexandrovna Krakhmalnikova (russian: Зоя Александровна Крахмальникова; January 14, 1929 – April 17, 2008) was a Russian Christian writer, of Ukrainian origin. She was an activist and former Soviet dissident ...

(1929–2008), Russian Christian writer, activist and Soviet dissident *

Zoya Klyuchko Zoya Fedorivna Klyuchko ( uk, Зоя Федорівна Ключко; 20 May 1933 – 4 June 2016) was a Ukrainian entomologist, lepidopterist, zoologist, professor and doctor of biological sciences. She focused on the research of faunistics; mor ...

(1933–2016), Ukrainian entomologist *

Zoya Mironova Zoya Sergeyevna Mironova (née ''Noskova'', russian: Зоя Сергеевна Миронова, 10 May 1913 – 4 May 2008) was a Russian speed skater and sports surgeon, one of the founders of the sports traumatology in the Soviet Union. She was ...

(1913–2008), Russian speed skater and surgeon * Zoya Nasir (born 1990), Pakistani television actress and beautician * Zoya Phan (born 1980), political activist for the Karen people of Burma currently living in the UK *

Zoya Pirzad Zoya Zana Pirzad (also spelled as Zoyā Pirzād; fa, زویا زانا پیرزاد; hy, Զոյա Փիրզադ; born 1952 in Abadan, Iran, Abadan) is an Iranian-Armenians, Armenian writer and novelist. Her mother is Iranian Armenian and her father ...

(born 1952), renowned Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist * Zoya Schleining (born 1961), German chess player *

Zoya Semenduyeva Zoya Yunoevna Semenduyeva (russian: Зоя Юноевна Семендуева, translit=; he, זויה סמנדואב; born 20 October 1929 – 9 April 2020) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Israeli poet. She wrote in a language of the Mountain J ...

(1929–2020), Soviet and Israeli poet * Zoya Smirnow, survivor of a corp of twelve Russian girls who disguised themselves as boys to join the army * Zoya Spasovkhodskaya (born 1949), Soviet heptathlete * Zoya Svetova (born 1959), Russian journalist and author * Zoya Voskresenskaya (1907–1992), Soviet diplomat and author * (born 1950), Persian-Armenian playwright, lyricist, and poet; see Iranian rock

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* Shaalin Zoya (born 1997), Indian actress, dancer and anchor * (born 1998), Canadian rapper and performer at the 2021 Osheaga Get Together

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* ''Zoya'' (film), a 1944 Soviet film * ''Zoya'' (novel), a 1988 novel by Danielle Steel ** , a 1995 TV film based on the novel with Melissa Gilbert * Zoya, a nurse and doctor in training in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel ''

Cancer Ward ''Cancer Ward'' (russian: links=no, italics=yes, Раковый корпус, Rakovy korpus) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Completed in 1966, the novel was distributed in Russia t ...

'' * Zoya Farooqui, a character on ''

Qubool Hai ''Qubool Hai'' () is an Indian soap opera that was produced by 4 Lions Films and broadcast on Zee TV. The series focused on the Muslim community and initially aimed to dispel stereotypes regarding Islam,Times News Network. and had been credi ...

'', an Indian soap opera * Zoya Lott, a character in '' Gossip Girl'' * Zoya Nazyalensky, a character in Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse novels; see '' King of Scars'' * Zoya Qureshi, a character in ''

Ishaqzaade ''Ishaqzaade'' () is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language romantic action film written and directed by Habib Faisal, and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films. The film stars debutant Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra in the lead roles, wit ...

'', an Indian movie * Zoya Siddiqui, the female protagonist of '' Bepannah'', a soap opera airing on Colours TV * Zoya Singh Solanki, the titular character of ''The Zoya Factor'', an Indian movie * Zoya the Destroya, alter ego of Ruth Wilder, a fictional wrestler in ''GLOW'' * Zoya the Thief, a main character in ''Trine'', a video game

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Zöyä Sviyazhsk (russian: Свия́жск; tt-Cyrl, Зөя, ''Zöya'') is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a ''village#Russia, selo'') in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located at the confluence of the Volga River, Volga a ...

, the Tatar name of the village of Sviyazhsk *

1793 Zoya 1793 Zoya, provisional designation , is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 9 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 28 February 1968, by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astro ...

, an asteroid named after Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

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