Rosa (given name)

Rosa is a female given name, especially in the Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian languages.

Notable people with the name include:
 *  Rosa de Lima, or Rose of Lima (1586–1617), Peruvian nun and saint
 * Rosa Silvana Abate (born 1963), Italian politician
 * Rosa Albach-Retty, Austrian movie and stage actress
 * Archduchess Rosa of Austria, Austrian princess
 * Rosa Balistreri, Sicilian musician
 * Rosa Benozzi Balletti, Italian-French actor
 * Rosa Blasi, American actress
 * Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), French artist
 * Rosa Bouton (1860–1951), American chemist and professor
 * Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840–1909), English children's writer and popular novelist
 * Rosa de Carvalho Alvarenga (fl. 1857), African slave trader
 * Rosa Cedrón (born 1972), Spanish Galician singer and cellist
 * Rosa Cobo Bedía (born 1956), Spanish feminist, writer, and professor
 * Rosa (cow) (2001–2020), Spanish-born French cow and television personality
 * Rosa DeLauro (born 1943), American politician
 * Rosa Leal de Pérez (born 1953), Guatemalan psychologist
 * Rosa Díez, Spanish politician
 * Rosa Eriksen (born 1990), Danish politician
 * Rosa Faccaro (1931–2019), Argentine art critic, painter and university teacher
 * Rosa Fuentes, Mexican swimmer
 * Rosa Maria Gilart Jiménez (1810–1880), Spanish embroiderer
 * Rosa Guerra (1834–1864), Argentine educator, journalist, writer
 * Rosa Gumataotao Rios (born 1965), American government official
 * Rosa Jochmann, Austrian resistance activist and Ravensbrück survivor who became a politician (SPÖ)
 * Rosa Koian, human rights and environmentalism activist from Papua New Guinea
 * Rosa Lemberg (1875–1959), a Namibian-born Finnish American teacher, singer and choral conductor
 * Roza Kostandyan, aka Rosa Linn, Armenian singer-songwriter
 * Rosa López, also known as "Rosa", a Spanish singer and dancer
 * Rosa Lund (born 1986), Danish politician
 * Rosa Luxemburg, Polish communist leader
 * Rosa Mayreder, Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist
 * Rosa Mota, Portuguese marathoner
 * Rosa Miller Avery (1830–1894), American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer
 * Rosa Mendes, half Costa Rican and half Czech professional wrestler
 * Rosa Menga (born 1992), Italian politician
 * Rosa Nissán (born 1939), Mexican writer
 * Rosa Ohliger (died 1929), German murder victim of Peter Kürten
 * Rosa O'Neill, Irish wife of Owen Roe O'Neill
 * Rosa Orellana, American mathematician
 * Rosa Palomino, Aymara Indigenous leader in Peru
 * Rosa Parks, American civil rights icon
 * Rosa Petit, Venezuelan politician
 * Rosa Regàs, Spanish writer
 * Rosa Robson (born 1992), English actress and comedian
 * Rosa Rosà, Austrian writer
 * Rosa Russo Iervolino, Italian politician
 * Rosa Quintana (born 1959), Spanish civil servant and politician
 * Rosa (sea otter) (born 1999), the oldest known living sea otter at the time of her death
 * Rosa Scarlatti, Italian opera singer
 * Rosa Schupbach, Iranian-Swiss-American economist
 * Rosa Stallbaumer, member of the Austrian Resistance during World War II
 * Rosa Valetti, German actress, cabaret performer and singer
 * Rosa Vecht (1881–1915), 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 Kershaw Walker (1840s–1909), American author, journalist, newspaper editor
 * Rosa Warrens (1821–1878), Swedish poet and translator
 * Rosa Louise Woodberry (1869–1932), American journalist, educator
 * Rosa Young (1890-1971), American educator

Middle name

 * María Rosa Gallo, Argentinian actress

Fictional characters

 * Rosa, a character in the 1990 American action comedy movie Kindergarten Cop.
 * Rosa the protagonist of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2
 * Rosa (Castlevania), reluctant vampire in the video game Castlevania
 * Rosa Farrell, character in the game Final Fantasy IV
 * Rosa (Kizuna Encounter), the wild woman from the game Kizuna Encounter
 * Rosa Casagrande, a character in The Casagrandes
 * 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 Cruz, a character in the British comic book series MPH
 * Rosa Diaz, character in the television series Brooklyn Nine-Nine
 * Princess Rosa Cossette D'Elise, character in the video game Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
 * Rosa Hubermann, Hans Hubermann's wife and Liesel Meminger's foster mother in The Book Thief.
 * Rosariki, a character in the Russian  animated children's television series GoGoRiki
 * Rosa Ushiromiya, character of Sound Novel Umineko no Naku Koro ni