Para, or PARA, may refer to:

Businesses, professions, and organizations

Paramount Global Paramount Global (Trade name, d/b/a Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment Conglomerate (company), conglomerate controlled by National Amusements and Headquarters, headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Times Square, ...

, traded as PARA on the Nasdaq stock exchange * Para Group, the former name of CT Corp * Para Rubber, now Skellerup, a New Zealand manufacturer * Para USA, formerly Para-Ordnance, a firearms manufacturer * Pan American Rugby Association * Philippine Amateur Radio Association * Paraprofessional *

Paralegal A paralegal, also known as a legal assistant or paralegal specialist, is a legal professional who performs tasks that require knowledge of legal concepts but not the full expertise of a lawyer with an admission to practice law. The market for p ...

Paramilitary A paramilitary is a military that is not a part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the term "paramilitary" as far back as 1934. Overview Though a paramilitary is, by definiti ...

, organisations not part of the armed forces but operate as such *

Paramedic A paramedic is a healthcare professional trained in the medical model, whose main role has historically been to respond to emergency calls for medical help outside of a hospital. Paramedics work as part of the emergency medical services (EMS), ...

Parapsychology Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, teleportation, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry (paranormal), psychometry) and other paranormal cla ...

, the study of alleged psychic phenomena

People

* Pará (footballer, born 1986), Marcos Rogério Ricci Lopes * Pará (footballer, born 1987), Erinaldo Rabelo Santos * Pará (footballer, born 1995), Anderson Ferreira da Silva * Pará (footballer, born 2002), Luis Felipe Rabelo Costa * André Cordeiro (water polo) (born 1967), nicknamed Pará, Brazilian water polo player * Para Draine (born 1972), American female boxer * Begum Para (1926–2008), Indian film actress

Places

* Para (Bengali), a Bengali word meaning neighborhood or locality *

Pará Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian st ...

, a state of Brazil * Para (community development block), Purulia district, West Bengal, India ** Para, Purulia ** Para (Vidhan Sabha constituency) * Para, Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, India * Para, Rajasthan, India * Para, Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, India * Para, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India * Para, Ivory Coast *

Para District Para is a district of northern Suriname. Para's capital city is Onverwacht, with other towns including Paranam, and Zanderij. Para has a population of 24,700 and an area of 5,393 km2. The district is the mining and forestry centre of Sur ...

, Suriname * Para River (disambiguation) * La Para, a summit in the Swiss Alps

Science and technology

Parity (biology) In biology and medicine, gravidity and parity are the number of times a female has been pregnant (gravidity) and carried the pregnancies to a viable gestational age (parity). These two terms are usually coupled, sometimes with additional terms, t ...

, the number of times a woman has given birth, e.g. para 1 etc. * Para, common name of fern '' Ptisana salicina'' * para, symbol for the fruit fly gene '' paralytic (gene)'' * Para- (chemistry), a position of a substituent on a cyclic hydrocarbon * Para red, a dye

Special forces

Para Commando Brigade (Bangladesh) The Para Commando Brigade () is a special forces, special operations force of the Bangladesh Army. This special forces brigade is headquartered at Jalalabad Cantonment, Sylhet. It is composed of two paratrooper, para commando battalions. The in ...

, special forces of the Bangladeshi Army * Para (Special Forces), special forces of the

Indian Army The Indian Army (IA) (ISO 15919, ISO: ) is the Land warfare, land-based branch and largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Commander-in-Chief, Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head ...

* Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom), elite infantry of the

British Army The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve perso ...

, known as The Paras *

Paratrooper A paratrooper or military parachutist is a soldier trained to conduct military operations by parachuting directly into an area of operations, usually as part of a large airborne forces unit. Traditionally paratroopers fight only as light infa ...

, a military parachutist ** Para Commandos (disambiguation), a paratrooper and commando

Other uses

Para (currency) The ''para'' (; from , meaning 'piece') was a term given to former currencies of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Egypt, Montenegro, Albania and Yugoslavia and is the current subunit, although rarely used, of the Serbian Serbian dinar, dinar. In 1524 ...