List of Famous people named Zoya

Similar names: Zoe, S, Seo, Sei, Sy, Zoey, Ze, Sai, So, Si, Zooey, Saya, Soa, Zay, Soyo, Zaha, Zahi, Saye, Soe, Zia, Seyi, Soo, Zoi, Sze, Sae, Zahia, Sa, Sah, Seiya, Zoia, Siah, Zai, Zaya, Zaa, Sia, Za, Siya, Z. Here are some famous Zoyas:

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

Зоя Анатольевна Космодемьянская
First Name Zoya
Born on September 13, 1923
Died on November 29, 1941 (aged 18)

Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya was a Soviet partisan. She was executed after acts of sabotage against the invading armies of Nazi Germany; after stories emerged of her defiance towards her captors, she was posthumously declared a Hero of the Soviet Union. She became one of the most revered heroines of the Soviet Union.

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Zoya Boguslavskaya

First Name Zoya
Born in Russia

Zoya Borisovna Boguslavskaya is a Soviet and Russian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, author of major cultural projects in Russia and abroad.

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Zoya Akhtar

First Name Zoya
Born in India

Zoya Akhtar is an Indian film director and screenwriter. After completing a diploma in filmmaking from NYU, she assisted directors such as Mira Nair, Tony Gerber and Dev Benegal, before turning writer-director in her own right. Akhtar is the recipient of several accolades, including 6 Filmfare Awards.

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Zoya Fyodorova

First Name Zoya
Born on December 21, 1909
Died on December 10, 1981 (aged 71)
Born in Russia

Zoya Alekseyevna Fyodorova was a Russian film star who had an affair with American Navy captain Jackson Tate in 1945 and bore a child, Victoria Fyodorova in January 1946. Having rejected the advances of NKVD police head Lavrentiy Beria, the affair was exposed resulting, initially, in a death sentence later reprieved to work camp imprisonment in Siberia; she was released after eight years. She was murdered in her Moscow apartment in 1981.

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Zoya Buryak

First Name Zoya
Born on November 6, 1966 (age 57)

Zoya Yurievna Buryak is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress.

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Zoya Agarwal

First Name Zoya

Zoya Agarwal is an Air India pilot in India.

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Zoya Bulgakova

First Name Zoya
Born on December 11, 1914
Died on February 3, 2017 (aged 102)

Zoya Fyodorovna Bulgakova was a Russian Soviet stage actress and an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1945). At the time of her death she was the oldest actress in Russia.

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Zoya Svetova

First Name Zoya
Born on March 17, 1959 (age 65)
Born in Russia

Zoya Feliksovna Svetova is a Russian journalist and human rights defender, producer, author of the documentary novel Innocent Found Guilty.

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Zoya Voskresenskaya

First Name Zoya
Died on January 8, 1992 (aged 22)

Zoya Ivanovna Voskresenskaya was a Soviet diplomat, NKVD foreign office secret agent and, in the 1960s and 70s, a popular author of books for children. A USSR State Prize laureate (1968), Voskresenskaya was best known for her novels Skvoz Ledyanuyu Mglu and Serdtse Materi. In 1962–1980 more than 21 million of her books were sold in the USSR.

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Zoya Parfenova

First Name Zoya
Born on June 21, 1920
Died on April 7, 1993 (aged 72)

Zoya Ivanovna Akimova née Parfyonova was a senior lieutenant and deputy squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment World War II. After completing 815 sorties during the war, she was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 18 August 1945, making her the only woman from Chuvashia to receive the title.

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