Soraya

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Soraya
Gender Female
Origin
Word/Name Persian
Meaning star(s), the Pleiades

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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