Lara

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Lara may refer to:

Places:

• Lara State, a Venezuelan state.
• Lara, Victoria, a township near Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
• Lara, Antalya, a district in the city of Antalya, Turkey.

People:

• Lara is a common Portuguese surname.
• Lara is a common Spanish surname.
• Lara is a common given female name of Russian origin, a diminutive of the name Larisa (also spelt Larissa).
• Lara in Greek means Cheerful.

Notable people with the surname Lara:

• Agustín Lara, Mexican composer
• Brian Lara, West Indian cricketer
• Martha Lara, Mexican diplomat and politician
• Osvaldo Lara, Cuban track and field sprinter
• Juan Núñez de Lara, Lord of Biscay (1334-1349)

Notable people with the given name Lara:

• Lara Logan, a television journalist for CBS News in the United States.
• Lara Flynn Boyle, the actress.
• Lara Fabian, the French and English-language singer whose works include Final Fantasy soundtrack theme The Dream Within.
• Lara Bingle, Australian model.
• Lara Sacher, Australian actress.
• Lara Veronin, lead female vocalist of the Taiwanese band Nan Quan Ma Ma.
• Lara, a Turkish Arabesque-pop music singer
• Lara Lor-Van, a fictional character in Superman comics, who is the biological mother of Superman.
• Lara Croft, the fictional heroine of the Tomb Raider lineage.
• Lara, daughter of the river Almon (Roman mythology).
• Lara Antipova, a character in Doctor Zhivago played by the actress Julie Christie. Lara's Theme is the name given to an internationally known tune written for this film.

Other

• Lara is a poem by Lord Byron
• The Lara language is spoken by about 12,000 people in Indonesia (Global recordings)
• Lara, a brand of products of Grupo Bimbo