Rosa (given name)
Rosa is a given name, especially in the Portuguese, Italian and Spanish languages.
It may refer to:
- Rosa de Lima, or Rose of Lima, nun and saint
- Rosa Albach-Retty, Austrian movie and stage actress
- Archduchess Rosa of Austria, Austrian princess
- Rosa Miller Avery, American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer
- Rosa Balistreri, Sicilian musician
- Rosa Benozzi Balletti, Italian-French actor
- Rosa Blasi, American actress
- Rosa Nouchette Carey, English children's writer and popular novelist
- Rosa de Carvalho Alvarenga, African slave trader
- Rosa Cobo Bedía, Spanish feminist, writer, and professor
- Rosa Leal de Pérez, Guatemalan psychologist
- Rosa Díez, Spanish politician
- Rosa Fuentes, Mexican swimmer
- María Rosa Gallo, Argentinian actress
- Rosa Jochmann, Austrian resistance activist and Ravensbrück survivor who became a politician
- Rosa Koian, human rights and environmentalism activist from Papua New Guinea
- Rosa López, also known as "Rosa", Spanish singer and dancer
- Rosa Luxemburg, German communist leader
- Rosa Mayreder, Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist
- Rosa Mota, Portuguese marathoner
- Rosa Mendes, half Costa Rican and half Czech professional wrestler
- Rosa O'Neill, Irish wife of Owen Roe O'Neill
- Rosa Orellana, American mathematician
- Rosa Parks, American civil rights icon
- Rosa Rosà, Austrian writer
- Rosa Russo Iervolino, Italian politician
- Rosa Quintana, Spanish civil servant and politician
- Rosa Scarlatti, Italian opera singer
- Rosa Stallbaumer, member of the Austrian Resistance during World War II
- Rosa Valetti, German actress, cabaret performer and singer
- Rosa Vecht, 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 Louise Woodberry, American journalist, educator
Fictional people
- Rosa the protagonist of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2
- Rosa, reluctant vampire in the video game Castlevania
- Rosa Farrell, character in the game Final Fantasy IV
- Rosa, the wild woman from the game Kizuna Encounter
- Rosa Ushiromiya, character of Sound Novel Umineko no Naku Koro ni.
- 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 Diaz, character in the TV series Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Princess Rosa Cossette D'Elise, character in the video game
- Rosa Hubermann, the wife of Hans Hubermann and foster mother of Liesel Meminger in The Book Thief.
