Lara Explained

Lara may refer to:

Places

• Lara (state), 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 railway station
• Lara de los Infantes, a place in Spain
• Punta Lara, a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
• LARA, the airport code for Jacinto Lara International Airport, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela

Personal name

• Lara (mythology), a naiad nymph, daughter of the river Almo in Ovid's Fasti
• Lara (name), 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

Natural science

• Lara (genus), a genus of beetles
• Lara, a cultivar of walnut

Sport

• Brian Lara, former West Indian cricket player
• Cardenales de Lara, a professional baseball club in Venezuela
• Unión Lara, a professional soccer club in Venezuela

Other uses

• LaRa, a spacecraft instrument on board the ExoMars 2020 platform
• Lara FS Academy
• Lara language
• Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA), c. 1950
• Ligne Aerienne du Roi Albert (LARA), an early attempt at civil aviation in the then Belgian colony of Congo
• United States v. Lara (2004), a U.S. Supreme Court case

See also

• Lar (disambiguation)

• Laraha
• Lora (disambiguation)