Raisa (given name)

For the 2015 film, see Raisa (film).

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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,[1] as a Hebrew and Yiddish origin variant.

Notable people named Raisa include:

* Raisa Akhmatova, internationally recognized Chechen poet
* Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer
* Raisa Blokh, Russian poet
* Raisa Bogatyrova, Ukrainian politician
* Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and a fundraiser for preservation of Russian heritage
* Raissa Khan-Panni, English singer
* Raissa Maritain, Russian-French philosopher and poet
* Rayisa Nedashkivska, Ukrainian and Soviet-era theater and cimema actress
* Raisa Orlova, Soviet/Russian writer and Americanist
* Raisa Smekhnova, former Soviet/Belarusian long-distance runner
* Raisa Smetanina, former Soviet/Russian Nordic skiing champion
* Raisa Surnachevskaya, Soviet World War II fighter pilot

## Fictional[edit]

* Raisa Pöttgen, a character from the second season of the anime Strike Witches

## See also[edit]

* Francia Raisa, American actress
* Miss Raisa, rapper
* Rosa Raisa, soprano

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## References[edit]

1. ^ Russian-Jewish Given Names, Boris Feldblyum (1998), page 39