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Zoya (Russian: Зоя ) is a feminine Russian 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), retired long-distance runner from Kazakhstan
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), Soviet partisan, Hero of the Soviet Union
Zoya Krakhmalnikova (1929–2008), Russian Christian writer, activist and Soviet dissident
Zoya Klyuchko (1933–2016), Ukrainian entomologist
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
Fiction
Zoya (1944 film) , a Soviet film
Zoya (2020 film) , a Russian film
Zoya (novel) , a 1988 novel by Danielle Steel
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
See also
Topics referred to by the same term