Zoya () is a feminine Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian first name, a variant of Zoe, meaning "life", from Greek ζωή (zoē), "life". It is also a feminine name of Persian origin.
Zoya () is a feminine Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian first name, a variant of Zoe, meaning "life", from Greek ζωή (zoē), "life". It is also a feminine name of Persian origin.
==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 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 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
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).