Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva (Kyrgyz: Роза Исаковна (Исак кызы) Отунбаева, Roza Isakovna (Isak kyzy) Otunbayeva) is a Kyrgyz diplomat and politician who served as the President of Kyrgyzstan from 7 April 2010 until 1 December 2011, becoming the first female Central Asian head of state. She was sworn in on July 3, 2010, after acting as interim leader following the 2010 April Revolution, which led to the ousting of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. She previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as head of the parliamentary caucus for the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan.Since 2022, Otunbayeva has been serving as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’ Special Representative for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
Roza Baglanova (Kazakh: Roza Bağlanova; 1922 – 2011) was a Soviet and Kazakh soprano opera and pop music singer. She was honoured with many awards throughout her career, including the People's Artist of the USSR (1967) and the Order of Lenin. She was also deemed a Hero of Kazakhstan.
Roza Kostandyan (Armenian: Ռոզա Կոստանդյան; born 2000), known professionally as Rosa Linn (Armenian: Ռոզա Լին), is an Armenian singer, songwriter and record producer. She will represent her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy with the song "Snap".
This is my name and although I used to think that it's weird, I now consider myself lucky to have such an unusual name. It is a name that is different without being embarrassing to have.
Roza is a Kurdish girl name meaning "the sun is born" or "sun child", "ro" means sun or day and "-za" means born or child in Kurmanji.
― Anonymous User 11/4/2008
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In Bulgarian "roza" means "rose" as a noun. That is why "Roza" has a nameday on Palm Sunday (the Sunday before Easter) - the day of flowers and willows (the names of the other trees also have a nameday).
Since 2022, Otunbayeva has been serving as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’ Special Representative for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).