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, Peruvian nun and saint
- Archduchess Rosa of Austria, Austrian princess
- Rosa Silvana Abate, Italian politician
- Rosa Albach-Retty, Austrian film and stage actress
- Rosa Asmundsen, Norwegian actress and singer
- Rosa Balistreri, Sicilian musician
- Rosa Benozzi Balletti, Italian-French actress
- Rosa Blasi, American actress
- Rosa Bonheur, French artist
- Rosa Bouton, American chemist and professor
- Rosa Nouchette Carey, English children's writer and popular novelist
- Rosa de Carvalho Alvarenga, African slave trader
- Rosa Cedrón, Spanish Galician singer and cellist
- Rosa Cobo Bedía, Spanish feminist, writer, and professor
- Rosa (cow), Spanish-born French cow and television personality
- Rosa DeLauro, American politician
- Rosa Leal de Pérez, Guatemalan psychologist
- Rosa Díez, Spanish politician
- Rosa Eriksen, Danish politician
- Rosa Estebanez, Cuban-born American sculptor
- Rosa Faccaro, Argentine art critic, painter and university teacher
- Rosa Fuentes, Mexican swimmer
- Rosa Maria Gilart Jiménez, Spanish embroiderer
- Rosa Guerra, Argentine educator, journalist, writer
- Rosa Gumataotao Rios, American government official
- Rosa Howlett, British artist and suffragette
- Rosa Janku Austrian resistance fighter during World War II
- Rosa Jochmann, Austrian resistance activist and Ravensbrück survivor who became a politician
- Rosa Junck, Czech Esperantist, educator, translator and opera singer
- Rosa Kerschbaumer-Putjata, Russian-Austrian ophthalmologist who was the first female doctor in Austria
- Rosa Kershaw Walker, American author, journalist, newspaper editor
- Rosa Koian, human rights and environmentalism activist from Papua New Guinea
- Roza Kostandyan, know professionally as Rosa Linn, Armenian singer-songwriter
- Rosa Lemberg, a Namibian-born Finnish American teacher, singer and choral conductor
- Rosa López, also known as Rosa, a Spanish singer and dancer
- Rosa Loy, German illustrator and painter
- Rosa Lund, Danish politician
- Rosa Luxemburg, Polish communist leader
- Rosa Mayreder, Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist
- Rosa Mendes, half Costa Rican and half Czech professional wrestler
- Rosa Menga, Italian politician
- Rosa Miller Avery, American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer
- Rosa Mota, Portuguese marathoner
- Rosa Nissán, Mexican writer
- Rosa Ohliger, 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 Ponselle, American operatic soprano
- Rosa von Praunheim, German filmmaker and gay rights activist
- Rosa Quintana, Spanish civil servant and politician
- Rosa Regàs, Spanish writer
- Rosa Robson, English actress and comedian
- Rosa Rosà, Austrian writer
- Rosa Diletta Rossi, Italian actress
- Rosa Maria Rössler Austrian-born Turkish medical doctor and translator
- Rosa Russo Iervolino, Italian politician
- Rosa (sea otter), 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, Dutch nurse
- Rosa Vercellana, known as "Rosina" or "La Bela Rosin", mistress and later wife of Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy
- Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio, Colombian economist and politician
- Rosa Warrens, Swedish poet and translator
- Rosa Louise Woodberry, American journalist, educator
- Rosa Young, 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.