Lora

Lora is a family name in the Spanish language. The Lora surname is not common, but has spread to several countries around the world. Lora was also a medieval surname, patronymic meaning "Flower of the bay".^{[citation needed]}

Lora is also an unrelated given name, in use either as a variant of Laura or as an Italian hypocoristic of either Eleonora or Loredana.

People with the surname Lora

• Alberto Lora Ramos (born 1987), Spanish football player
• Alex Lora (born 1952), Mexican musician and composer
• Celia Lora, Model and TV star in Mexico, daughter of Mexican musician Alex Lora
• Enrique Lora Millán, One one of the great Spanish football players of all time, played for Sevilla Fútbol Club.
• 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 (1922-2009), Trotskyist leader in Bolivia
• Luis Eduardo Lora (born 1986), Colombian football player
• Mathias Loras (1792-1858), French priest, first Bishop of the Dubuque Diocese
• Miguel "Happy" Lora (born 1961), Colombian boxer
• Ñico Lora (1880-1971), Dominican, father of Merengue music
• Saturnino and Mariano Lora, Cuban brothers, war heroes

People with the given name Lora

• Lora (singer), real Laura Petrescu, Romanian singer in band Wassabi and solo
• Lora L. Corum (1880-1971), co-winner of the 1924 Indianapolis 500
• Lora Fairclough (born 1970), English golfer
• Lora Logic, Brirish saxophonist and singer
• Lora Macfarlane or Laura Macfarlane, Scottish musician, singer and songwriter
• Lora Ottenad (born 1964), American professional bodybuilder
• Lora Yakovleva or Lora Jakovleva (born 1932), Russian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster

Places

• Lora, Norway, a village in Lesja municipality in Oppland
• Lora, Chile a town on the Mataquito River, Chile
• Lora, a frazioni in the municipality of Campegine, Italy
• Lora (Split), a neighborhood and naval base in Split, Croatia
• Lora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a village and union council in Pakistan
• Lora de Estepa, a municipality in the province of Seville, Spain
• Lora del Río, a municipality in the province of Seville, Spain

Animals

• Lora or Leptophis ahaetulla, a Parrot Snake found in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago
• Grey Lora or Leptophis stimsoni, a small snake which is endemic to Trinidad and Tobago
• Lora (genus), a gastropod genus of the turridae family

Other

• Lora River, Pakistan
• Falls of Lora, a tidal race which forms at the mouth of Loch Etive, Scotland
• Loras College, a four-year Catholic university located in Dubuque, Iowa
• Lora, an Ancient Roman term for a wine substitute later known as piquette

a theatre quasiballistic missile produced in Israel

• LORA, an acronym for "Logic Of Rational Agents", see BDI Software Agents
• Lora, a 2007 Hungarian film

See also

• LORA (disambiguation)
• Laura (disambiguation)

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