Zoya () is a feminine Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Bulgarian first name, a form 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 Boguslavskaya (1924–2026), Soviet and Russian poet and writer Zoya Buryak (born 1966), Russian actress Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi (born 1976), Israeli artist Zoya Fyodorova (1909–1981), Russian actress Zoya Hussain (born 1990), Indian actress, writer and director Zoya Ivanova (born 1952), long-distance runner from Kazakhstan Zoya Klyuchko (1933–2016), Ukrainian entomologist Zoya Kornilova (1939–2025), Russian politician Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), Soviet partisan, Hero of the Soviet Union Zoya Krakhmalnikova (1929–2008), Russian Christian writer, activist and Soviet dissident Zoya Krasnova (1938–2014), Russian plant operator Zoya Krylova (1944–2017), Russian journalist and politician 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 (1897–??), 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
Surname Shaalin Zoya (born 1997), Indian actress, dancer and anchor
Fiction Zoya (1944 film), a Soviet film Zoya (2020 film), a Russian film Zoya (novel), a 1988 novel by Danielle Steel , 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
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