Soraya
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| Soraya | |
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| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/Name | Persian |
| Meaning | star(s), the Pleiades |
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Soraya (Persian: ثريا ) is a female name of Persian origin. It is derived from the Arabic term for 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 Saga, Japanese illustrator and video-game story-writer
- Soraya, a small lunar crater within Alphonsus
- Soraya Serajeddini (1960–2006), Kurdish-Iranian human rights activist
- Soraya Telles (born 1958), Brazilian former middle distance runner
- Soraya M. is the subject of the 2008 film The Stoning of Soraya M..
- Sooraya Qadir (Dust), a Marvel comic book character from the X-Men series
- Soraya is the title given to a person speaking the Soreth language, Soreth is a form of moderate day Aramaic, it also refers to people who are of Assyrian or Chaldean origin
- Soraya, a song on the album Animals as Leaders (album) by the band of the same name
- a sunflower variety
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