Lara may refer to:

Places

Lara (state) Lara State ( es, Estado Lara, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Barquisimeto. Lara State covers a total surface area of and, in 2015, had a census population of 2,019,211. Toponymy The state is named after a nota ...

, a state in Venezuela * Electoral district of Lara, an electoral district in Victoria, Australia * Lara, Antalya, an urban district in Turkey * Lara, Victoria, a township in Australia * Lara de los Infantes, a place in Spain * LARA, the airport code for Jacinto Lara International Airport, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela

Personal name

Lara (mythology) Larunda (also Larunde, Laranda, Lara) was a naiad nymph, daughter of the river Almo in Ovid's '' Fasti''.Ovid, '' Fasti 2''V. 599 Mythology The only known mythography attached to Lara is little, late and poetic, coming to us from Ovid's ''Fast ...

, a naiad nymph, daughter of the river Almo in Ovid's ''Fasti'' *

Lara (name) Lara can be a given name or a surname in several languages. It can be used as a short form of the name Larissa or derived from the Latin word ''lūcēre'', meaning "to shine". Given name * Lara Abdallat (born 1982), Jordanian hacker * Lara Ah ...

, can be a given name or a surname in several languages

Art, entertainment, and media

* ''Lara'' (film), 2019 film * Lara (character), the biological mother of the comic book character Superman * Lara (novel), 1997 novel-in-verse by Bernardine Evaristo * Lara & Reyes, an instrumental band * '' Lara's Theme'', the generic name given to a leitmotif written for the film ''Doctor Zhivago'' (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre * '' Lara, A Tale'' (1814), a poem by Lord Byron

Computing and technology

* LaRa, a spacecraft instrument on board the ExoMars 2020 platform

Natural science

* ''Lara'' (genus), a genus of beetles * Lara, a cultivar of

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