Arts and Music

• Rosa Bonheur (born 1822, died 1899)

  French painter.

  • Painted The Horse Fair (see list of Artists of the Realism Period)

Leadership

• Rosa L. DeLauro (born 1943)

  American politician.

  • Representative, D-Connecticut, 1991- (see list of Women in the House of Representatives)
• Rosa Luxemburg (born 1870, died 1919)

  Polish-German socialist and pacifist. Frequently imprisoned, she was eventually beaten and killed by the German police.

  • An important figure in the European socialist movement (see list of Miscellaneous Political Leaders)
• Rosa L. Parks (born 1913)

  American civil-rights leader.

  • The Torchbearer of America''s civil rights revolution (see list of Twenty people who articulate the longings of the last 100 years, exemplifying courage, selflessness, exuberance, superhuman ability and amazing grace)
  • Her refusal to sit at the back of a bus sparked the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott (see list of Noted Social Reformers and Educators)

Miscellaneous

• Rosa L. Parks (born 1913)

  American civil-rights leader.

  • 1979 Spingarn Medal winner (see list of Spingarn Medal Winners)
  • 1996 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (see list of Presidential Medal of Freedom Winners)
  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame (see list of National Women's Hall of Fame Members)

Science and Philosophy

• Rósa Péter (born 1905, died 1977)

  Hungarian mathematician.

  • Wrote Recursive Functions in Computer Theory (see list of Mathematicians, Physicists & Astronomers)

Sports

• Rosa Mota

  Portuguese runner.

  • 1988 Olympic track and field gold medal winner for Marathon (see list of Olympic Gold Medalists in Miscellaneous Track Events)
  • 1987-88, 1990 Boston Marathon champion (see list of Boston Marathon Winners)

Stage and Screen

• Rosa Grauman

  Actress.

  • On Hollywood''s Footprints of Fame (see list of Celebrities Honored by Mann's Chinese Theater)
• Rosa Nevin
  • Actress on the soap opera ''''All My Children'''' (see list of Performers on ''All My Children'')
• Rosa

  Fictional character.

  • Played by Rossy de Palma (see list of Character from Almodovar's The Flower of My Secret)

The Literary World

• Rosa Coldfield

  Fictional character.

  • Character in Abalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (see list of Characters in Literature of the American South)