Rosa (given name) explained
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 Jochmann, Austrian resistance activist and Ravensbrück survivor who became a politician (SPÖ)
- Rosa Koian, human rights and environmentalism activist from Papua New Guinea
- Rosa Lemberg (1875–1959), a Namibian-born Finnish American teacher, singer and choral conductor
- Roza Kostandyan, aka Rosa Linn, Armenian singer-songwriter
- Rosa López, also known as "Rosa", a Spanish singer and dancer
- 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 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 Ponselle, American operatic soprano
- Rosa von Praunheim, German filmmaker and gay rights activist
- Rosa Kershaw Walker (1840s–1909), American author, journalist, newspaper editor
- Rosa Warrens (1821–1878), Swedish poet and translator
- Rosa Louise Woodberry (1869–1932), American journalist, educator
- Rosa Young (1890-1971), American educator
Middle name
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
- 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
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