Rosa (surname)

Rosa is an Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish languages surname. Sometimes the variants Da Rosa or da Rosa, De Rosa or de Rosa, and DeRosa or DaRosa may occur. The last name "Rosa" rooted in the Azores, is of Flemish origin / Dutch, he descended from the Flemish settler "Pieter Roose" when arriving on the island of the Azores was aportuguesado to "Pedro da Rosa", thus resulting in a large family "da Rosa" in the Azores later settled on the southern region of Brazil.

It may refer to:

Aaron Rosa, mixed martial arts fighter
Alberto Fernández de Rosa, Argentine actor
Aldo da Rosa, Brazilian Electrical Engineer
Anthony DeRosa, United States animator
Charles D. Rosa, United States politician and judge
Don Rosa, United States comic book writer and illustrator
De Rosa, Scottish rock band
Eugene De Rosa, Italian-American architect
Francesco Rosa, Italian painter
Gabriela Rosa, American politician
Gonzalo de los Santos da Rosa, Uruguayan footballer
Hermann Rosa, German sculptor and architect
Jair da Rosa Pinto, Brazilian footballer
João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer
Jon DeRosa, United States singer
Márcio Rosa, Cape Verdean footballer
Marco Rosa, Canadian ice hockey player
Marek Rosa, Slovak video game producer and designer
Mark DeRosa, United States baseball player
Paulo Sérgio Rosa, Brazilian footballer known as "Viola"
Pedro (Martínez) de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver
Sam Rosa (1866 – 1940), Australian socialist and journalist
Salvator Rosa, Italian painter
Sellappuliyage Lucian Benedict Rosa, Sri Lankan Sinhala Olympic long-distance runner, best known for running barefooted and winning a 5000 metres and the 10,000 metres double at the 1970 Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand
Stephen DeRosa, United States actor
Thiago da Rosa Correa, Brazilian footballer
Tina DeRosa (1944-2007), American writer
Vincent DeRosa, United States musician

See also