Rosa (given name)

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

Notable people with the name include:

• Archduchess Rosa of Austria (1906–1983), Austrian princess
• Rosa Silvana Abate (born 1963), Italian politician
• Rosa Albach-Retty (1874–1980), Austrian film and stage actress
• Rosa Asmundsen (1846–1911), Norwegian actress and singer
• Rosa Bailly (1890–1976), French journalist and poet
• Rosa Balistreri (1927–1990), Sicilian musician
• Rosa Benozzi Balletti (1701–1758), Italian-French actress
• Rosa Blasi (born 1972), 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 (1953-2025), Guatemalan psychologist
• Rosa Díez (born 1952), Spanish politician
• Rosa Egipcíaca (1719–1771), Brazilian writer
• Rosa Errera (1864–1946), Italian writer
• Rosa Eriksen (born 1990), Danish politician
• Rosa Estebanez (1927–1991), Cuban-born American sculptor
• Rosa Faccaro (1931–2019), Argentine art critic, painter and university teacher
• Rosa Fuentes (born 1965), 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 Howlett (1863–1961), British artist and suffragette
• Rosa Janku (1882–1944) Austrian resistance fighter during World War II
• Rosa Jochmann (1901–1994), Austrian resistance activist and Ravensbrück survivor who became a politician (SPÖ)
• Rosa Junck (1850–1929), Czech Esperantist, educator, translator and opera singer
• Rosa Kerschbaumer-Putjata (1851–1923), Russian-Austrian ophthalmologist who was the first female doctor in Austria
• Rosa Kershaw Walker (1840s–1909), American author, journalist, newspaper editor
• Rosa Koian, human rights and environmentalism activist from Papua New Guinea
• Roza Kostandyan (born 2000), know professionally as Rosa Linn, Armenian singer-songwriter
• Rosa Lemberg (1875–1959), a Namibian-born Finnish American teacher, singer and choral conductor
• Rosa López (born 1981), also known as Rosa, a Spanish singer and dancer
• Rosa Loy (born 1958), German illustrator and painter
• Rosa Lund (born 1986), Danish politician
• Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), Polish communist leader
• Rosa Mayreder (1958–1938), Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist
• Rosa Mbinge-Tjeundo (born 1972), Namibian politician
• Rosa Mendes (born 1979), half Costa Rican and half Czech professional wrestler
• Rosa Menga (born 1992), Italian politician
• Rosa Miller Avery (1830–1894), American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer
• Rosa Mota (born 1958), Portuguese marathoner
• Rosa Navarro (born 1955), Colombian photographer and artist
• Rosa Nissán (born 1939), Mexican writer
• Rosa Ohliger (died 1929), German murder victim of Peter Kürten
• Rosa O'Neill (1588/90–1660), Irish wife of Owen Roe O'Neill
• Rosa Orellana, American mathematician
• Rosa Palomino (1951–2022), Aymara Indigenous leader in Peru
• Rosa Parks (1913–2005), American civil rights icon
• Rosa Petit, Venezuelan politician
• Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981), American operatic soprano
• Rosa von Praunheim (1942–2025), German filmmaker and gay rights activist
• Rosa Quintana (born 1959), Spanish civil servant and politician
• Rosa Regàs, Spanish writer
• Rosa Robson (born 1992), English actress and comedian
• Rosa Rosà(1884–1978), Austrian writer
• Rosa Diletta Rossi (born 1988), Italian actress
• Rosa Maria Rössler (1901–1954) Austrian-born Turkish medical doctor and translator
• Rosa Russo Iervolino (born 1936), Italian politician
• Rosa (sea otter) (born 1999), the oldest known living sea otter at the time of her death
• Rosa Scarlatti (1727-1775), Italian opera singer
• Rosa Schupbach (1928-2022), Iranian-Swiss-American economist
• Rosa Stallbaumer (1887–1942), member of the Austrian Resistance during World War II
• Rosa Valetti (1876–1937), German actress, cabaret performer and singer
• Rosa Vecht (1881–1915), Dutch nurse
• Rosa Vercellana (1833–1885), known as "Rosina" or "La Bela Rosin", mistress and later wife of Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy
• Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio (born 1962), Colombian economist and politician
• 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 '
• 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
• Rosa, A teal crane chugger from Sanlocomota, who is also a recolor of Skylar.