Rada (surname)

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Rada (Czech feminine: Radová) and de Rada (the latter of possibly Spanish originArcelus Ulibarrena J. M., L'origine spagnola del cognome De Rada e la spedizione della "Compagnia Navarra" in Albania nel 1376, Atti del convegno "I Centenario della morte di Girolamo De Rada", Rende, Macchia Albanese, San Demetrio Corona [Cosenza], 2–5 October 2003, A cura di Altimari F., Centro Editoriale e Librario dell'Università della Calabria:Rende, 2008, pp. 437–457.) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alfredo Rada (born 1965), Bolivian former government minister
• Antonio Rada (1937–2014), Colombian footballer
• Dino Rađa (born 1967), Croatian basketball player
• Edmundo Rada (disappeared 2019), Venezuelan politician
• Ester Rada (born 1985), Israeli actress and singer
• Filip Rada (born 1984), Czech footballer
• Ionuț Rada (footballer, born 1982), Romanian footballer
• Ionuț Rada (footballer, born 1990), Romanian footballer
• Irena Radová (born 1975), Czech classical philologist
• Jakub Rada (born 1987), Czech footballer
• Julieta Rada (born 1990), Uruguayan-Argentine singer and songwriter
• Karel Rada (born 1971), Czech footballer
• Lenka Radová (born 1979), Czech triathlete
• Lucila Rada (born 1981), Argentine-Uruguayan singer and songwriter
• Marian Rada (born 1960), Romanian footballer
• Miroslav Rada, Czech footballer
• Petr Rada (born 1958), Czech football coach and player
• Roy Rada (born 1951), American computer scientist
• Rubén Rada (born 1943), Uruguayan candombe singer
• Sergio Rada (born 1984), Colombian weightlifter
• Tereza Radová (born 2001), Czech ice hockey player
• Tomáš Rada (born 1983), Czech footballer
• Yara Bou Rada (born 2000), Lebanese footballer
• Jeronim de Rada (1814–1903), Albanian-Italian poet and writer
• Martín de Rada (1533–1578), Spanish Augustinian friar, missionary and traveler
• Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada (1170–1247), Spanish Roman Catholic bishop and historian