Risa (given name)
Risa 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"
People
- Risa Goto, Japanese actress and singer
- Risa Hayamizu, Japanese voice actress
- Risa Hayashida, Japanese announcer
- Risa Hirako, Japanese fashion model
- Risa Honda, Japanese singer
- Risa Hontiveros, Filipino socialist activist, politician, and journalist
- Risa Horowitz, Canadian visual and media artist
- Risa Ishii, Japanese volleyball player
- Risa Itō, Japanese manga artist
- Risa Junna, Japanese actress
- Risa Kawano, Japanese drummer
- Risa Kudō, Japanese model and actress
- Risa L. Goluboff, American lawyer and legal historian
- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, American doctor
- Risa Miyashita, Japanese javelin thrower
- Risa Mizuno, Japanese voice actress
- Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer and actress
- Risa Nishioka, Japanese women's basketball player
- Risa Shimizu, Japanese actress and voice actress
- Risa Oribe, Japanese singer
- Risa Ohki, Japanese vocalist
- Risa Ozaki, Japanese tennis player
- Risa Sato, Filipino-Japanese volleyball player
- Risa Sera, Japanese professional wrestler and actress
- Risa Shigetomo, Japanese long-distance runner
- Risa Shimamoto, Japanese gravure idol
- Risa Shimizu (actress), Japanese actress and voice actress
- Risa Shimizu (footballer), Japanese football player
- Risa Shinnabe, Japanese volleyball player
- Risa Shiragaki, Japanese volleyball player
- Risa Shōji, Japanese figure skater
- Risa Sugimoto, Japanese squash player
- Risa Tachibana, Japanese idol
- Risa Takenaka, Japanese long-distance runner
- Risa Taneda, Japanese voice actress
- Risa Tsubaki, Japanese voice actress
- Risa Watanabe, Japanese idol and model
- Risa Wataya, Japanese novelist
- Risa Wechsler, American physicist
- Risa Yoshiki, Japanese gravure idol and singer
Fictional characters
- Risa Harada, 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''