Soraya

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Soraya
Gender Female
Meaning rich, princess
Origin Persian
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Soraya (Persian: ثريا )is a female name of Persian origin meaning "rich"[1] and "Princess"[2], and is a reference to the Pleiades. It may refer to:

  • Soraya Tarzi (1899–1968), wife of King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan; as Queen she was an outspoken feminist leader
  • Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari (1932–2001), second wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, known during her marriage as Queen Soraya
  • Soraya (musician) (1969–2006), Colombian-American singer/songwriter, guitarist, arranger and record producer, Grammy winner Singer-songwriter and breast cancer advocate.
  • Soraya Arnelas, a Spanish singer
  • Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, Spanish politician in People's Party
  • Soraya Saga, Japanese illustrator and video-game story-writer
  • Soraya, a small lunar crater within Alphonsus
  • Soraya Sepahpour, Iranian-American political analyst and researcher
  • Soraya Serajeddini (1960–2006), Kurdish-Iranian human rights activist
  • Soraya Telles (born 1958), Brazilian former middle distance runner
  • Sooraya Qadir (Dust), a Marvel comic book character from the X-Men series