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 (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 (born 1950), Persian-Armenian playwright, lyricist, and poet; see Iranian rock

Surname

• Shaalin Zoya (born 1997), Indian actress, dancer and anchor
• Zach Zoya (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), 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

See also

• Zoe (name)
• Zoia