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