title: Raisa (given name)
text: # Raisa (given name)
  
  Raisa or Raissa is a female personal name. It is popular in Russia and South Asia (as a feminine form of Rais). It was also a historically typical female name amongst Jews of the Russian Empire, as a Hebrew and Yiddish origin variant.
  
  Notable people named Raisa include:
  
  * Raisa Akhmatova, internationally recognized Chechen poet
  * Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer
  * Raisa Blokh, Russian poet
  * Raisa Bogatyrova, Ukrainian politician
  * Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and a fundraiser for preservation of Russian heritage
  * Raissa Khan-Panni, English singer
  * Raissa Maritain, Russian-French philosopher and poet
  * Rayisa Nedashkivska, Ukrainian and Soviet-era theater and cimema actress
  * Raisa Orlova, Soviet/Russian writer and Americanist
  * Raisa Smekhnova, former Soviet/Belarusian long-distance runner
  * Raisa Smetanina, former Soviet/Russian Nordic skiing champion
  * Raisa Surnachevskaya, Soviet World War II fighter pilot
  
  ## Fictional
  
  * Raisa Pöttgen, a character from the second season of the anime Strike Witches
  