Lora

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Lora is common family name in the Spanish language, which was also a medieval given name. It was originally a patronymic meaning flower.

[edit] People with the surname Lora

• Alberto Lora Ramos, Spanish football player
• Alex Lora , Mexican musician and composer
• Francisco Augusto Lora, former vice president of the Dominican Republic and presidential candidate
• Gonzalo Lora, Spanish born, Mexican based actor, producer and production manager
• Guillermo Lora, Trotskyist leader in Bolivia
• Luis Eduardo Lora, Colombian football player
• Mathias Loras, a French priest who later became the first Bishop of the Dubuque Diocese
• Miguel "Happy" Lora, Columbian boxer
• Ñico Lora , Dominican, father of Merengue music
• Saturnino and Mariano Lora, Cuban brothers, war heroes

[edit] People with the given name Lora

• Lora, Filipino-born singer and performer based in Australia
• Lora L. Corum, co-winner of the 1924 Indianapolis 500
• Lora Fairclough, English golfer
• Lora Logic, saxophonist
• Laura Macfarlane, formerly known as Lora Macfarlane, a Scottish-born rock and roll musician, singer and songwriter based in Australia
• Lora Ottenad, bodybuilder from Seattle, Washington
• Lora Whiteley, English model
• Lora Yakovleva (Lora Jakovleva), Russian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster

[edit] Other

• Falls of Lora, a tidal race which forms at the mouth of Loch Etive, Scotland
• Lora (Parrot Snake), found in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago
• Grey Lora (Leptophis stimsoni), a small snake which is endemic to Trinidad and Tobago
• Lora (film) a 2007 Hungarian movie, starring Lucia Brawley
• Lora is a gastropod genus
• Lora de Estepa, a municipality in the province of Seville, Spain
• Lora del Río, a municipality in the province of Seville, Spain
• Lora, a union Council in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
• Lora prison camp, in Split, Croatia
• Lora, Norway, a village in Lesja municipality in Oppland
• LORA, a theatre quasiballistic missile produced in Israel
• Loras College, a four-year Catholic university located in Dubuque, Iowa
• Lora, a frazioni in the municipality of Campegine, Italy
• Lora, an Ancient Roman term for a wine substitute later known as piquette
• LORA, an abbreviation meaning "Level Of Repair Analysis", see Integrated Logistics Support
• LORA, an abbreviation meaning "Logic Of Rational Agents", see BDI Software Agents
• Lora, Chile a town on the Mataquito River, in the Licantén commune of the Maule Region, in Chile.
• Lora, a slang word of Urdu language mostly use in Pakistan to insult another person.
• Lora (language), a word of Assamese language means a boy.