Kara

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Kara Given Name
Gender	Female
Meaning	Joy, (root word "Charis" (Gk.). Joy out of the gift received) also means love/ dear one in celtic and latin culture
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Kara

Kara is a female given name. It may refer to

Real people

• Kara Lynn Joyce, US Olympic Swimmer
• Kara Crane
• Kara Dennison
• Kara Edwards
• Kara Lawson
• Kara Maria
• Kara Tointon, British actress

Fictional characters

• Kara Milovy, a Bond girl in The Living Daylights
• Kara Thrace, a female lieutenant by the callsign "Starbuck" in the Battlestar Galactica series
• Kara Zor-El, the Kryptonian name of the DC Comics character Supergirl
• Kara Ben Nemsi, a fictional character in the works of Karl May

Other uses

• Kara Mustafa Paşa, a Turkish grand vezir in the Ottoman era
• Kara crater, a meteorite crater in northern Russia
• Kara language
• Kara (Kaushambi), a town in Kaushambi near Allahabad
• Kara (Togo), a city in northern Togo
• Kara class cruiser, a Soviet Cold War warship design
• Kara (Sikhism), a type of bracelet worn by followers of the Sikh faith
• Kara Sea, a sea in the Arctic Ocean
• Kara (ethnic group), a group living on Ukerewe island in Tanzania
• Kara's Flowers- the original name for the group Maroon 5.
• Kara (band), a Korean girl group.