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Raisa or Raissa is a common female name in Russia and South Asia (as a feminine form of Rais)
Notable people named Raisa include:
- Raisa Akhmatova, internationally recognized Chechen poet
- Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer
- Raisa Blokh, Russian poet
- Raisa Bogatyrova, Ukrainian politician
- Raisa Etush, Russian actress
- Raisa Gorbachova, 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
- Raisa Modorova, singer from the Altai Republic of Russia
- Raisa Nedashkovskaya, 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
- Raisa Pöttgen, a character from the second season of the anime Strike Witches
See also
- Francia Raisa, American actress
- Rosa Raisa, soprano
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