Raissa is a female given name. It is a variant of Raisa (given name) popular in Russia and South Asia (as a feminine form of Rais)
People
editMononym
edit- 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
edit- Raissa Santana (b. 1995), Miss Brasil 2016
- Raissa Kelly (b. 1976) French singer in Tachelhit
- Raissa Calza (1894-1979) Ukrainian dancer who became a prominent classical archaeologist
- Raissa Myshetskaya, mother of Nadia Boulanger, French musicologist and music teacher
- Raïssa Maritain (1883-1960), Russian poet and philosopher who immigrated to France
- Raissa Feudjio (b. 1995), Cameroonian footballer
- Raïssa Koublitskaïa (1928–2021), Soviet Belarusian agricultural worker and politician
- Raissa Venables (b. 1977), American photographer
- Raissa Ruus (1942–1986), Estonian middle-distance runner at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Raissa L. Berg (1913-2006), Russian geneticist and evolutionary biologist
- Raissa Nitabuch (1859-unknown), Russian pathologist
- Raissa Martin (1991), an Australian goalball player selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics
- Raissa D'Souza Professor of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California
- Raissa Gourevitch (b.1984), Russian tennis player
- Raïssa Dapina (b. 1995), Senegalese handball player
Other
edit- 1137 Raïssa, an asteroid