Rosa (given name)

Rosa is a female given name, especially in the Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian languages.

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
• Rosa Asmundsen (1846–1911), Norwegian actress and singer
• Archduchess Rosa of Austria, Austrian princess
• Rosa Balistreri, Sicilian musician
• Rosa Benozzi Balletti, Italian-French actor
• Rosa Blasi, American actress
• Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), French artist
• Rosa Bouton (1860–1951), American chemist and professor
• Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840–1909), English children's writer and popular novelist
• Rosa de Carvalho Alvarenga (fl. 1857), African slave trader
• Rosa Cedrón (born 1972), Spanish Galician singer and cellist
• Rosa Cobo Bedía (born 1956), Spanish feminist, writer, and professor
• Rosa (cow) (2001–2020), Spanish-born French cow and television personality
• Rosa DeLauro (born 1943), American politician
• Rosa Leal de Pérez (born 1953), Guatemalan psychologist
• Rosa Díez, Spanish politician
• Rosa Eriksen (born 1990), Danish politician
• Rosa Faccaro (1931–2019), Argentine art critic, painter and university teacher
• Rosa Fuentes, Mexican swimmer
• Rosa Maria Gilart Jiménez (1810–1880), Spanish embroiderer
• Rosa Guerra (1834–1864), Argentine educator, journalist, writer
• Rosa Gumataotao Rios (born 1965), American government official
• Rosa Howlett (1863–1961), British artist and suffragette
• Rosa Janku (1882–1944) Austrian resistance fighter during World War II
• 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 Kerschbaumer-Putjata (1851–1923), Russian-Austrian ophthalmologist who was the first female doctor in Austria
• Rosa Kershaw Walker (1840s–1909), American author, journalist, newspaper editor
• Roza Kostandyan, aka Rosa Linn, Armenian singer-songwriter
• Rosa Lemberg (1875–1959), a Namibian-born Finnish American teacher, singer and choral conductor
• Rosa López, also known as "Rosa", a Spanish singer and dancer
• Rosa Loy (born 1958), German illustrator and painter
• Rosa Lund (born 1986), Danish politician
• Rosa Luxemburg, Polish communist leader
• Rosa Mayreder, Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist
• Rosa Mota, Portuguese marathoner
• Rosa Miller Avery (1830–1894), American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer
• Rosa Mendes, half Costa Rican and half Czech professional wrestler
• Rosa Menga (born 1992), Italian politician
• Rosa Nissán (born 1939), Mexican writer
• Rosa Ohliger (died 1929), German murder victim of Peter Kürten
• Rosa O'Neill, Irish wife of Owen Roe O'Neill
• Rosa Orellana, American mathematician
• Rosa Palomino, Aymara Indigenous leader in Peru
• Rosa Parks, American civil rights icon
• Rosa Petit, Venezuelan politician
• Rosa Ponselle, American operatic soprano
• Rosa von Praunheim, German filmmaker and gay rights activist
• Rosa Regàs, Spanish writer
• Rosa Robson (born 1992), English actress and comedian
• Rosa Rosà, Austrian writer
• Rosa Russo Iervolino, Italian politician
• Rosa Quintana (born 1959), Spanish civil servant and politician
• Rosa (sea otter) (born 1999), the oldest known living sea otter at the time of her death
• Rosa Scarlatti, Italian opera singer
• Rosa Schupbach, Iranian-Swiss-American economist
• Rosa Stallbaumer, member of the Austrian Resistance during World War II
• Rosa Valetti, German actress, cabaret performer and singer
• Rosa Vecht (1881–1915), Dutch nurse
• Rosa Vercellana, known as "Rosina" or "La Bela Rosin", mistress and later wife of Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy
• Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio (born 1962), Colombian economist and politician
• Rosa Warrens (1821–1878), Swedish poet and translator
• Rosa Louise Woodberry (1869–1932), American journalist, educator
• Rosa Young (1890-1971), American educator

Middle name

• María Rosa Gallo, Argentinian actress

Fictional characters

• Rosa, a character in the 1990 American action comedy movie Kindergarten Cop.
• Rosa the protagonist of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2
• Rosa (Castlevania), reluctant vampire in the video game Castlevania
• Rosa Farrell, 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
• 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 by Isabel Allende
• Rosa Cruz, a character in the British comic book series MPH
• Rosa Diaz, character in the television series Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Princess Rosa Cossette D'Elise, character in the video game Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
• Rosa Hubermann, Hans Hubermann's wife and Liesel Meminger's foster mother in The Book Thief.
• Rosariki, a character in the Russian animated children's television series GoGoRiki
• Rosa Ushiromiya, character of Sound Novel Umineko no Naku Koro ni
• Rosa, A teal crane chugger from Sanlocomota, who is also a recolor of Skylar.

See also

• Rosa (surname)
• Rosalind (disambiguation)
• Rosamund