Raissa
# Raissa

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

### Mononym

* 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

* 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, better known as 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

* 1137 Raïssa, an asteroid
