Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Parks became a NAACP activist in 1943, participating in several high-profile civil rights campaigns. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to vacate a row of four seats in the "colored" section in favor of a White passenger, once the "White" section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws, and she helped inspire the Black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year. The case became bogged down in the state courts, but the federal Montgomery bus lawsuit Browder v. Gayle resulted in a November 1956 decision that bus segregation is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Margaret Okayo is a professional Kenyan marathon runner. She has won four World Marathon Majors with victories in the New York City Marathon, the Boston Marathon and the London Marathon, setting three course records. Okayo's 2003 New York course record of 2:22:31 still stands today, despite the challenge of some of the world’s best distance runners having the benefit of improved shoe technology. She has also won the San Diego Marathon on two occasions.
Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, GCIH, GCM is a Portuguese former marathon runner, one of her country's foremost athletes, being the first sportswoman from Portugal to win Olympic gold. Mota was the first woman to win multiple Olympic marathon medals as well as being the only woman to be the reigning European, World, and Olympic champion at the same time. On the 30th Anniversary Gala of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) she was distinguished as the greatest female marathon runner of all time.
Carlos Mejía Godoy is a Nicaraguan musician, composer and singer-songwriter and one of the main representatives of the testimonial song or new song of his country.
The Peru national basketball team is administered by the Peru Basketball Federation (F.D.P.B.).
Jenna Leigh Johnson is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
Chiara Rosa is a female shot putter from Italy.
Rosa Gisella García Rivas is a retired women's volleyball player from Peru who is a four-time Olympian. She was on the Peruvian national team at the Summer Olympics in 1984, and was a silver medalist at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. She was a member of the Peruvian team that won second place in the World Championship in 1982.
Rosa Lindstedt is a Finnish ice hockey coach and retired ice hockey defenseman, currently serving as assistant coach to Brynäs IF Dam in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). As player with the Finnish national ice hockey team, she was a three-time Olympian, two-time Olympic bronze medalist, and four-time IIHF Women's World Championship medalist.
Rosa Galyamovna Salikhova is a former volleyball player for the USSR.
Dayaris Rosa Mestre Alvarez is a Cuban judoka who competes in the women's 48 kg category. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was defeated in the second round. She lost the bronze medal match to Galbadrakhyn Otgontsetseg in the women's 48 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
María del Carmen "Maica" García Godoy is a Spanish water polo player, playing at the centre forward position. She is part of the Spain women's national water polo team. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won a silver medal competing for the Spain women's national water polo team in the women's event. She is 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tall. She plays for the Spanish club CN Sabadell.
Elisa Longo Borghini is an Italian professional road cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek.
Madeline Jane "Maya" DiRado - Andrews is a retired American competitive swimmer who specialized in freestyle, butterfly, backstroke, and individual medley events. She attended and swam for Stanford University, where she won NCAA titles in the 200 and 400 meter individual medley in 2014 and graduated with a degree in management science and engineering. At the 2016 US Olympic Trials, DiRado qualified to swim the 200 meter and 400 meter individual medley events, as well as the 200 meter backstroke, at the 2016 Summer Olympics. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she won a gold medal in the women's 4x200 meter freestyle relay, a silver medal in the 400 meter individual medley, a bronze medal in the women's 200 meter individual medley, and a gold medal in the 200 meter backstroke. Following the Olympics, DiRado retired from the sport.
Anna van der Breggen is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2021 for Team Flexpoint, Sengers Ladies Cycling Team, Rabo–Liv and SD Worx. She won the gold medal in the women's road race at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and has won the Giro d'Italia Femminile on four occasions. In 2018 and 2020, she won the women's road race at the UCI Road World Championships.
Vitória Cristina Silva Rosa is a Brazilian sprinter. South American record holder for the 200m (outdoor) and 60m (indoor).
Adriana Rosa Martín Lázaro is a female Spanish recurve archer from Madrid. She competed in the individual recurve event and the team recurve event at the 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, and represented Spain at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Also in 2016, she came third in the 2016 European Youth Archery Championships and won the European Youth recurve archery event.
Rosa Amaral is a retired Angolan handball player.
Rosa Keleku is a Democratic Republic of the Congo taekwondo athlete.
Anna Godoy Contreras is a Spanish triathlete. She competed in the women's event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She also competed in the mixed relay event.
