Raisa or Raissa is a female personal name. It is popular in Russia and South Asia (as a feminine form of Rais). It was also a historically typical female name amongst Jews of the Russian Empire, as a Hebrew and Yiddish origin variant. In Yiddish, Raisa is derived from the word "roiz", meaning “rose”.
Notable people named Raisa include:
Raisa Akhmatova, internationally recognized Chechen poet
Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer
Raisa Belskikh, Russian agronomist
Raisa Blokh, Russian poet
Raisa Bogatyrova, Ukrainian politician
Raisa Sergiyevna Dankovskaya, Ukrainian and Russian ethnographer, museologist, folklorist and archivist
Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and a fundraiser for preservation of Russian heritage
Raissa Khan-Panni, English singer
Raisa Khylko, Ukrainian ballet dancer
Raisa Kyrychenko, Ukrainian mezzo-soprano singer and music teacher
Raissa Maritain, Russian-French philosopher and poet
Rayisa Nedashkivska, Ukrainian and Soviet-era theater and cinema actress
Raisa Orlova, Soviet/Russian writer and Americanist
Raisa Smekhnova, former Soviet/Belarusian long-distance runner
Raisa Smetanina, former Soviet/Russian Nordic skiing champion
Raisa Surnachevskaya, Soviet World War II fighter pilot
Raisa Treñas, Filipino businesswoman and politician
Fictional
Raisa Pöttgen, a character from the second season of the anime Strike Witches