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
- 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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