Risa (given name)

Risa (りさ, リサ) is a female given name, which exists most commonly in Japanese, but may be found elsewhere.

Possible writings
Risa can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
 * 梨彩, "pear, coloring"
 * 梨沙, "pear, sand"
 * 梨紗, "pear, silk gauze"
 * 里沙, "village, sand"
 * 里紗, "village, silk gauze"
 * 理沙, "reason, sand"
 * 理佐, "reason, aid"
 * 理紗, "reason, silk gauze"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

 * Risa Goto (理沙), Japanese actress and gravure idol
 * Risa Hayamizu (リサ), Japanese voice actress
 * Risa Hayashida (理沙), Japanese announcer
 * Risa Hirako (理沙), Japanese fashion model
 * Risa Honda (理沙), Japanese idol and tarento
 * Risa Honma (理紗), Japanese idol
 * Risa Hontiveros (born 1966), Filipino socialist activist, politician, and journalist
 * Risa Horowitz (born 1970), Canadian visual and media artist
 * Risa Ishii (里沙), Japanese volleyball player
 * Risa Itō (理佐), Japanese manga artist
 * Risa Junna (りさ), Japanese actress
 * Risa Kawano, Japanese drummer
 * Risa Kudō (里紗), Japanese model and actress
 * Risa L. Goluboff, American lawyer and legal historian
 * Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (born 1954), American doctor
 * Risa Miyashita (梨沙), Japanese javelin thrower
 * Risa Mizuno (水野 理紗), Japanese voice actress
 * Risa Niigaki (里沙), Japanese singer and actress
 * Risa Nishioka (西岡 里紗), Japanese women's basketball player
 * Risa Shimizu (理沙), Japanese actress and voice actress
 * Risa Oribe (里沙), Japanese singer
 * Risa Ohki (理紗), Japanese vocalist
 * Risa Ozaki (里紗), Japanese tennis player
 * Risa Rosales (born 1998) American Mentor for Verizon Wireless
 * Risa Sato (理沙), Filipino-Japanese volleyball player
 * Risa Sera (理紗), Japanese professional wrestler and actress
 * Risa Shigetomo (梨佐), Japanese long-distance runner
 * Risa Shimamoto (里沙), Japanese gravure idol
 * Risa Shimizu (actress) (清水 理沙), Japanese actress and voice actress
 * Risa Shimizu (footballer) (清水 梨紗), Japanese football player
 * Risa Shinnabe (理沙), Japanese volleyball player
 * Risa Shiragaki (里紗), Japanese volleyball player
 * Risa Shōji (理紗), Japanese figure skater
 * Risa Sugimoto (杉本 梨沙), Japanese squash player
 * Risa Tachibana (理佐), Japanese idol
 * Risa Takenaka (理沙), Japanese long-distance runner
 * Risa Taneda (梨沙), Japanese voice actress
 * Risa Tsubaki (理沙), Japanese voice actress
 * Risa Watanabe (理佐), Japanese idol and model
 * Risa Wataya (りさ), Japanese novelist
 * Risa Wechsler, American physicist
 * Risa Yoshiki (りさ), Japanese gravure idol and singer

Fictional characters

 * Risa Harada (梨紗), character from the anime and manga series, D.N.Angel
 * Risa Koizumi, character from the anime and manga series, Lovely Complex
 * Risa Kanzaki, character from the anime and manga series, Neighborhood Story and Paradise Kiss
 * Risa Shindo, a character from the film Battle Royale II: Requiem
 * Risa Ward, character from the young adult science fiction novel Unwind (novel) by Neal Shusterman
 * Risa Onda, a character in the horror video game, Forbidden Siren
 * Risa, a character from the animated film, Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us