Vara or VARA may refer to:

Geography

Vara (river) The Vara is a river of the Province of La Spezia in Liguria, north-west Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsul ...

, in Liguria, Italy * Vara Parish, former municipality in Tartu County, Estonia *

Vara, Estonia Vara is a village in Peipsiääre Parish, Tartu County in Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic ...

, village in Peipsiääre Parish, Tartu County, Estonia *

Vara Municipality Vara Municipality () is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Vara. The present municipality consists of 25 original local government entities (as of 1863). Between 1974 and 1982 the ter ...

, municipality in western Sweden **

Vara, Sweden Vara is a locality and the seat of Vara Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 4,235 inhabitants in 2019. Notable landmarks include the concert hall, the artwork on the train station called ''Blue Orange'', Bengtssonska granary, and a ...

, town in Sweden * Batterie Vara, former German coastal fortress near Kristiansand, Norway, now Kristiansand Cannon Museum * Las Varas (disambiguation), several places

People with the surname

Armando Vara Armando António Martins Vara (born 27 March 1954, Vinhais) is a Portuguese politician and banking administrator. He enrolled in philosophy, at the New University of Lisbon, leaving the institution without being awarded a degree. Throughout his l ...

(born 1954), Portuguese politician *

Julián Vara Julián Vara López (born 17 November 1983) is a Spanish former footballer who played mainly as a right midfielder. Club career Vara was born in Las Rozas de Madrid, Community of Madrid. A product of Atlético Madrid's youth academy, he spe ...

(born 1983), Spanish footballer * Kathy Vara, American television anchor *

Shailesh Vara Shailesh Lakhman Vara (, born 4 September 1960) is a Ugandan-British Conservative former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Cambridgeshire from 2005 until 2024. He also served as Secretary of State for Northern Ir ...

, British Conservative Party politician

Films

* ''Vara'' (film), a 2013 Kannada film starring

Nidhi Subbaiah Nidhi Subbaiah (born 16 February 1985) is an Indian actress and model, who has appeared in various television advertisements and films, she is known for her performance in successful Kannada movies such as ''Pancharangi'' (2010) and ''Krishnan ...

* '' Vara: A Blessing'', a 2013 Bhutanese film by Khyentse Norbu

Other uses

*Vara, a seldom used Spanish and Portuguese unit of length **

Portuguese customary units Portuguese units were used in Portugal, Brazil, and other parts of the Portuguese Empire until the adoption of the metric system in the 19th century and have continued in use in certain contexts since. The various systems of weights and measures ...

Spanish customary units There are a number of Spanish units of measurement of length or area that are virtually obsolete due to metrication. They include the vara, the cordel, the league and the labor. The units of area used to express the area of land are still encount ...

*Vara, a variety of the Central Banda language of the Central African Republic * Vara, a variety of the

Upper Morehead language Upper Morehead, also known as Wára, is a Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. ...

of Papua New Guinea *Vara,

list of Greyhawk deities This is a list of deities from the Greyhawk campaign setting (Dungeons & Dragons), campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. A Al'Akbar Al'Akbar is the Baklunish demigod of dignity, duty, faithfulness, and gu ...

, a fictional deity in the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' roleplaying game * A.S.D. Fo.Ce. Vara, former football club in Italy *VARA HF, a proprietary

WinLink Winlink, or formally, Winlink Global Radio Email (registered US Service Mark), also known as the Winlink 2000 Network, is a worldwide radio messaging system that uses amateur-band radio frequencies and government frequencies to provide radio int ...

protocol for e-mail communications over amateur radio *

Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA; title VI, ), is a United States law granting certain rights to artists. VARA was the first federal copyright legislation to grant protection to ''moral rights''. Under VARA, works of art that meet cer ...

(VARA), is a US federal law protecting limited moral rights of visual artists.

Acronyms

Omroepvereniging VARA The Omroepvereniging VARA (), the VARA Broadcasting Association, was a Dutch public broadcasting association primarily operating in the fields of television, radio, publishing and interactive media. It was a member of Netherlands Public Broadc ...

, a public broadcasting organization in the Netherlands *

Visual Artists Rights Act The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA; title VI, ), is a United States law granting certain rights to artists. VARA was the first federal copyright legislation to grant protection to ''moral rights''. Under VARA, works of art that meet cer ...

, a law in the United States that protects artists' moral rights to attribution and the integrity of their work *

Virgin Australia Regional Airlines Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (VARA) is an Australian regional airline based in Perth, servicing key towns in the state of Western Australia. The airline also flies interstate to destinations such as Adelaide, Darwin, Northern Territory, ...

, is an Australian regional airline based in Perth Australia

Geography

People with the surname

Films

Other uses

Acronyms

See also