Tyra is a female given name. It may refer to:

People

* Tyra Banks (born 1973), American television personality * Tyra Bolling (born 1985), American singer *

Tyra Calderwood Tyra Calderwood (born 19 September 1990)http://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/players/player/profile.aspx?playerid=100041331 is a former professional Australian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 607, which she reached on 6 Octob ...

(born 1990), Australian tennis player *

Tyra of Denmark Tyra of Denmark (''Tyri Haraldsdatter'', ''Thyri'' and ''Thyra'') was a 10th-century Danish princess. She was the spouse of both King Olav I of Norway and of Styrbjörn Starke, prince of Sweden. Tyra was daughter of the Danish king Harald Bl ...

(died 1000 AD), 10th-century Danish princess *

Tyra Ferrell Tyra Ferrell (born january 28, 1962) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in films ''Boyz n the Hood'' (1991), ''Jungle Fever'' (1991), ''White Men Can't Jump'' (1992), and ''Poetic Justice'' (1993). On television, she had starring ...

(born 1962), American actress *

Tyra Gittens Tyra Gittens (born 6 June 1998) is an Olympic athlete from Trinidad and Tobago. Gittens set 6 national records for Trinidad and Tobago indoor records in Pentathlon 4746 points, high jump 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in), and long jump 6.68 m (21 ft 11 in), Tri ...

(born 1998), Olympic athlete from Trinidad and Tobago *

Tyra Grant Tyra Grant (born August 27, 1988) is a former professional basketball player. She was drafted by the Phoenix Mercury in the 2010 WNBA draft The 2010 WNBA Draft is the league's annual process for determining which teams receive the rights to ...

(born 1988), American basketball player *

Tyra Hunter Tyra Hunter (1970 – August 7, 1995) was an African-American transgender woman who died after being injured as a passenger in a car accident. Hunter transitioned at 14 and lived her adult life as a woman. The District of Columbia was foun ...

(1970-1995), African-American transgender woman * Tyra Kleen (1874-1951), Swedish artist * Tyra Naha, Hopi American potter *

Tyra Perry Tyra Perry is an American, former collegiate softball outfielder and current head coach originally from Zachary, Louisiana. She began playing for the Nicholls State Colonels from 1994-95 and ended with the LSU Tigers from 1997-98. She is currentl ...

, American softball coach * Tyra Sanchez (born 1988), American drag queen * Tyra Shackleford, Chickasaw textile artist * Tyra Turner (born 1976), American beach volleyball player * Tyra Vaughn (1923-2015), American actress * Tyra White (born 1989), American basketball player *

Tyra Wolfsberg Tyra Gwendolen Wolfsberg is an American bioinformatician. She is the associate director of the bioinformatics and scientific programming core at the National Human Genome Research Institute. Life Wolfsberg received a A.B. in molecular biolo ...

, American bioinformatician *Tyra of Sweden, daughter of the Norse noble

Styrbjörn the Strong Styrbjörn the Strong ( non, Styrbjǫrn Sterki ; died about 985) according to late Norse sagas was a son of the Swedish king Olof, and a nephew of Olof's co-ruler and successor Eric the Victorious, who defeated and killed Styrbjörn at the Battle ...

Fictional characters

* Tyra Collette, a fictional character on the television series ''Friday Night Lights'' * Tyra Hamilton, a fictional character on the CBS soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'' *Tyra Nordbo, a character from the '' Man-Kzin Wars'' book series * Tyra Ragnarsdottir, a character from ''

The Saxon Stories ''The Saxon Stories'' (also known as ''Saxon Tales''/''Saxon Chronicles'' in the US and ''The Warrior Chronicles'' and most recently as ''The Last Kingdom'' series) is a historical novel series written by Bernard Cornwell about the birth of En ...

'' book series and '' The Last Kingdom'' TV series

People

Fictional characters

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