title: Raissa
text: # 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
  