Kara

Kara or KARA may refer to:

Contents 1 Given name 2 Surname 3 Places 4 Religion and mythology 5 Fictional characters 6 Music 7 Other uses 8 See also

Given name

• Cara (given name), an alternative spelling for Kara
• Kara Kennedy Allen, professional board member and a television producer
• Kara Mahmud Bushati, a noble of the Bushati family
• Kara Edwards, an American voice actress
• Kara DioGuardi, American singer-songwriter
• Kara Karaev, Azerbaijani composer
• Kara Mbodj, a Senegalese footballer
• Kara Yülük Osman, Turkish ruler
• Kara Mustafa Pasha, an Ottoman military leader
• Deborah Kara Unger, Canadian actress
• Kara Tointon (born 1983), an English actress
• Kara Walker, contemporary African-American artist
• Kara Lord, Miss Guyana Universe 2011

Surname

• Ayoob Kara, Druze Israeli politician
• Rasim Kara, former Turkish goalkeeper
• El Kara, from Italian origin

Places

• Kara Ahmet Pasha Mosque, Ottoman mosque along the city walls in Istanbul, Turkey
• Gaya confederacy, also called Kara by the inhabitants of Japan at the time
• Kara Strait, a river in Russia
• Kara, Bougainville, a town on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea
• Kara crater, a meteorite crater in northern Russia
• Kara (Kaushambi), a town in Kaushambi bwaenear Allahabad
• Kara Sea, a sea in the Arctic Ocean
• Kara Region, Togo region
  • Kara, Togo, a city in northern Togo
• Kára, Hungary, a village in Hungary
• Kara, Uttar Pradesh
• Kara-Manikpur, a subah in medieval India.

Religion and mythology

• Kára, a valkyrie in Norse mythology
• Kara (Sikhism), a type of bracelet worn by followers of the Sikh faith

Fictional characters

• Kara Ben Nemsi, Alter ego of Karl May
• Kara Thrace
• Kara Zor-El, Alter ego of Supergirl

Music

• Kara (band), Korean girl group
• Kara (rock band), Japanese indie-rock group (Tamaki Nanase, Katsuhiko Masuhara, Ryosuke Nagano, Kiyomi Watanabe)
• Kara, self-titled album and artist pseudonym for Kara Williamson-Tualatai
• Kara Pain, DJ for Liquid Metal (Sirius XM) 27/42

Other uses

• The ICAO airport identifier for Acadiana Regional Airport
• Kara class cruiser, a Soviet Cold War warship design
• Kara Film Festival or Karachi International Film Festival, held at Karachi, Pakistan
• KARA (FM), a radio station (99.1 FM) licensed to Williams, California, United States
• Kara (ethnic group), ethnic group in Tanzania
• Kara, a type of a steel bracelet
• KARA, Korea Automobile Racing Association
• KARA, Korea Animal Rights Advocates
• Nader Kara

See also

• Cara (disambiguation)
• Khara (disambiguation)
• Karasu (disambiguation)
• Kara language (disambiguation)

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