# Zoya

Zoya (Russian: Зоя) is a feminine Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian first name, a variant of Zoe, meaning "life", from Greek ζωή (zoē), "life".

## People

* Zoya (singer) (born 1993), American singer
* Zoya Afroz (born 1994), Indian actress and model
* Zoya Akhtar (born 1972), Indian film director and screenwriter
* Zoya Barantsevich (1896–1952), Russian actress
* Zoya Berber [ru; uk; he] (born 1987), Russian actress on the TV series Fartsa
* Zoya Buryak (born 1966), Russian actress
* Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi (born 1976), Israeli artist
* Zoya Douchine (born 1983), German figure skater
* Zoya Fyodorova (1909–1981), Russian actress
* Zoya Hussain (born 1990), Indian actress, writer and director
* Zoya Ivanova (born 1952), long-distance runner from Kazakhstan
* Zoya Klyuchko (1933–2016), Ukrainian entomologist
* Zoya Kornilova (1939–2025), Russian politician
* Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), Soviet partisan, Hero of the Soviet Union
* Zoya Krakhmalnikova (1929–2008), Russian Christian writer, activist and Soviet dissident
* Zoya Mironova (1913–2008), Russian speed skater and surgeon
* Zoya Nasir (born 1990), Pakistani television actress and beautician
* Zoya Phan (born 1980), political activist for the Karen people of Burma currently living in the UK
* Zoya Pirzad (born 1952), renowned Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist
* Zoya Schleining (born 1961), German chess player
* Zoya Semenduyeva (1929–2020), Soviet and Israeli poet
* Zoya Smirnow, survivor of a corp of twelve Russian girls who disguised themselves as boys to join the army
* Zoya Spasovkhodskaya (born 1949), Soviet heptathlete
* Zoya Svetova (born 1959), Russian journalist and author
* Zoya Voskresenskaya (1907–1992), Soviet diplomat and author
* Zoya Zakarian [fa] (born 1950), Persian-Armenian playwright, lyricist, and poet; see Iranian rock

## Surname

* Shaalin Zoya (born 1997), Indian actress, dancer and anchor
* Zach Zoya [fr] (born 1998), Canadian rapper and performer at the 2021 Osheaga Get Together

## Fiction

* Zoya (1944 film), a Soviet film
* Zoya (2020 film), a Russian film
* Zoya (novel), a 1988 novel by Danielle Steel
** Zoya (1995 film) [fr; nl; ru], a 1995 TV film based on the novel with Melissa Gilbert
* Zoya, a nurse and doctor in training in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 1966 novel Cancer Ward
* Zoya (YRF Spy Universe), a fictional character in Indian films, portrayed by Katrina Kaif
* Zoya Farooqui, a character on the Indian soap opera Qubool Hai
* Zoya Lott, a character in the TV series Gossip Girl
* Zoya Nazyalensky, a character in Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse novels; see King of Scars
* Zoya Qureshi, a character in the Indian movie Ishaqzaade
* Zoya Riaz, a character played by actress Tripti Dimri in the Indian movie Animal
* Zoya Siddiqui, the female protagonist of the Hindi-language TV series Bepannah
* Zoya Singh Solanki, the titular character of the Indian movie The Zoya Factor
* Zoya the Destroya, alter ego of Ruth Wilder, a fictional wrestler in the TV series GLOW
* Zoya the Thief, a main character in the video game Trine
* Zoya Ivanovna, a character in the TV series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan

## Other uses

* Zöyä, the Tatar name of the village of Sviyazhsk
* 1793 Zoya, an asteroid named after Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya