# 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
* Rosa Asmundsen (1846–1911), Norwegian actress and singer
* 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
* Rosa Kerschbaumer-Putjata (1851–1923), Russian-Austrian ophthalmologist who was the first female doctor in Austria
* 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
* Rosa, A teal crane chugger from Sanlocomota, who is also a recolor of Skylar.