# Risa (given name)

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

## Written forms

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, born 1983), Japanese actress and singer
* Risa Hayamizu (リサ, born 1975), Japanese voice actress
* Risa Hayashida (理沙, born 1989), Japanese announcer
* Risa Hirako (理沙, born 1971), Japanese fashion model
* Risa Honda (理沙, born 1971), Japanese singer
* Risa Hontiveros (born 1966), Filipino socialist activist, politician, and journalist
* Risa Horowitz (born 1970), Canadian visual and media artist
* Risa Ishii (里沙, born 1990), Japanese volleyball player
* Risa Itō (理佐, born 1969), Japanese manga artist
* Risa Junna (りさ, born 1971), Japanese actress
* Risa Kawano, Japanese drummer
* Risa Kudō (里紗, born 1983), Japanese model and actress
* Risa L. Goluboff, American lawyer and legal historian
* Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (born 1954), American doctor
* Risa Miyashita (梨沙, born 1984), Japanese javelin thrower
* Risa Mizuno (水野 理紗, born 1978), Japanese voice actress
* Risa Niigaki (里沙, born 1988), Japanese singer and actress
* Risa Nishioka (西岡 里紗, born 1997), Japanese women's basketball player
* Risa Shimizu (理沙, born 1988), Japanese actress and voice actress
* Risa Oribe (里沙, born 1987), Japanese singer
* Risa Ohki (理紗, born 1960), Japanese vocalist
* Risa Ozaki (里紗, born 1994), Japanese tennis player
* Risa Sato (理沙, born 1994), Filipino-Japanese volleyball player
* Risa Sera (理紗, born 1991), Japanese professional wrestler and actress
* Risa Shigetomo (梨佐, born 1987), Japanese long-distance runner
* Risa Shimamoto (里沙, born 1987), Japanese gravure idol
* Risa Shimizu (actress) (清水 理沙, born 1988), Japanese actress and voice actress
* Risa Shimizu (footballer) (清水 梨紗, born 1996), Japanese football player
* Risa Shinnabe (理沙, born 1990), Japanese volleyball player
* Risa Shiragaki (里紗, born 1991), Japanese volleyball player
* Risa Shōji (理紗, born 1996), Japanese figure skater
* Risa Sugimoto (杉本 梨沙, born 1994), Japanese squash player
* Risa Tachibana (理佐, born 1971), Japanese idol
* Risa Takenaka (理沙, born 1990), Japanese long-distance runner
* Risa Taneda (梨沙, born 1988), Japanese voice actress
* Risa Tsubaki (理沙, born 1979), Japanese voice actress
* Risa Watanabe (理佐, born 1998), Japanese idol and model
* Risa Wataya (りさ, born 1984), Japanese novelist
* Risa Wechsler, American physicist
* Risa Yoshiki (りさ, born 1987), 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