Zoya
Zoya (Russian: Зоя) is a feminine Russian and Ukrainian first name, a variant of Zoe, meaning "life", from Greek ζωή (zoē), "life".
People
- Zoya Buryak (born 1966), Russian actress
- Zoya Zakarian (born 1950), Persian-Armenian playwright, lyricist, and poet; see Iranian rock
- Zoya Douchine (born 1983), German figure skater
- Zoya Fyodorova (1909–1981), Russian film star
- Zoya Ivanova (born 1952), retired long-distance runner
- Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), Soviet partisan, Hero of the Soviet Union
- Zoya Krakhmalnikova (1929–2008), Russian Christian writer, activist and Soviet dissident
- 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 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 Akhtar (born 1972), Indian film director and screenwriter
Fiction
- Zoya (film), a 1944 Soviet film
- Zoya (novel), a 1988 novel by Danielle Steel
- Zoya (1995 film), a 1995 TV film based on the novel
- Zoya, a nurse and doctor in training in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward
- Zoya Farooqui, a character on Qubool Hai, an Indian soap opera
- Zoya Qureshi, a character in Ishaqzaade, an Indian movie
- Zoya the Destroya, alter ego of Ruth Wilder, a fictional wrestler in GLOW
- Zoya Siddiqui, the female protagonist of Bepannah, a soap opera airing on Colours tv
- Zoya Nazyalensky, a character in Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse novels; see King of Scars
- Stevie and Zoya, a series of animated shorts seen on MTV
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