| Christina Rau | |
| Office: | Spouse of the President of Germany |
| President: | Johannes Rau |
| Term Label: | In role |
| Term Start: | 1 July 1999 |
| Term End: | 30 June 2004 |
| Predecessor: | Christiane Herzog |
| Successor: | Eva Köhler |
| Birth Name: | Christina Delius |
| Birth Date: | 30 October 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Bielefeld, West Germany |
| Party: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Alma Mater: | University College of Wales King's College London |
| Children: | 3 |
| Relations: | Uta Ranke-Heinemann (aunt) |
Christina Rau (Delius; 30 October 1956) is the widow of Johannes Rau, President of Germany from 1999–2004.
Rau is the maternal granddaughter of former President Gustav Heinemann. Her father was Eduard Delius (1921–2014), part in a long line of entrepreneurs in the textile industry of the Westphalian city of Bielefeld while her mother was Christa Heinemann (1929–2016), a daughter of the former President. Through her mother, Rau is the niece of theologian Uta Ranke-Heinemann. She attended boarding school in Switzerland (Hochalpines Institut Ftan) and the United Kingdom (Gordonstoun in Scotland, where Prince Andrew was a contemporary). Subsequently, she studied political science, economics and history at the University College of Wales and at King's College London.
On 9 August 1982, she married Johannes Rau, 25 years her senior and a long-time friend of the Heinemann family, who was at that time the Prime Minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
She was the patron of :
Austria: Grand Cross of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria[1]
Estonia: First Class of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana[2]
Iceland: Grand Cross of the Order of the Falcon[3]
Latvia: Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Three Stars
Spain: Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic[4]
Sweden: Member Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star[5]