Zoya

Zoya (Template:Lang-ru) is a feminine Russian and Ukrainian first name, a variant of Zoe, meaning "life". In Greek, it means "life". It may refer to:

People

• Zoya (singer) (born 1993), Indian singer
• Zoya Akhtar (born 1974), contemporary Indian film director
• Zoya Buryak (born 1966), Russian actress
• Zoya Douchine (born 1983), German figure skater
• Zoya Fyodorova (1909–1981), Russian film star
• Zoya Hasan, Indian academic and political scientist
• Zoya Ivanova (born 1952), retired long-distance runner
• Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), Soviet partisan, Hero of the Soviet Union
  • 1793 Zoya, an asteroid named after her
• Zoya Krakhmalnikova (1929–2008), Russian Christian writer, activist and soviet dissident
• Zoya Phan (born 1980), political activist for the Karen people of Burma currently living in the UK
• Zoya Pirzad (born 1952), renowned Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist
• Zoya Smirnow, survivor of a corp of twelve Russian girls who disguised themselves as boys to join the army
• Zoya Spasovkhodskaya (born 1949), Soviet heptathlete

In fiction

• Zoya, a nurse and doctor in training in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward
• Zoya, wife of the narrator in John Boyne's novel The House of Special Purpose
• Zoya (novel), a 1988 novel by Danielle Steele
• Zoya (1995 film), a 1995 TV film based on the novel
• Zoya (film), a 1944 Soviet film
• Stevie and Zoya, a series of animated shorts seen on MTV
• Zoya Farooqui, a character on Qubool Hai, an Indian soap opera
• Zoya Qureshi, a character in Ishaqzaade, an Indian movie
• Zoya the Destroya, alter ego of Ruth Wilder, a fictional wrestler in GLOW
• Zoya Siddiqui, the female protagonist of Bepannah, a soap opera airing on Colours tv

Related names

Zoe, Zoey, Zoyaylia

Places

• Zöyä, Tatar name of the village of Sviyazhsk