Kara (name)
Kara is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Kara Kennedy Allen, professional board member and a television producer
- Kara Mahmud Bushati (died 1796), noble of the Bushati family
- Kara DioGuardi (born 1970), American singer-songwriter
- Kara Drew (born 1975), American professional wrestler, manager, and former WWE Diva
- Kara Edwards (born 1977), American voice actress
- Kara Karaev, Azerbaijani composer
- Kara Lindsay, American theatre actress
- Kara Lord (born 1988), Miss Guyana Universe 2011
- Kara Mbodj (born 1989), Senegalese footballer
- Kara Mustafa Pasha (c. 1630–1683), Ottoman military leader
- Kara Neumann case, in which parents of a sick child treated her with only prayer, resulting in the child's death
- Kara Nova, a pole acrobat in the San Francisco Bay area, California
- Qara Osman (in Turkish: Kara Yülük Osman) (before 1400–1435), Turkish ruler
- Kara Tointon (born 1983), English actress
- Kara Walker (born 1969), contemporary African-American artist
- Kara Kopetsky (born 1990), missing person
Surname
- Ayoob Kara (born 1955), Druze Israeli politician
- Aytaç Kara (born 1993), Turkish footballer
- Fatma Kara (born 1991), Turkish female footballer
- Nader Kara (born 1980), Libyan footballer
- Rasim Kara (born 1950), Turkish footballer
Mythical or fictional characters
- Kára, a valkyrie in Norse mythology
- Kara Zor-El, Kryptonian name of Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)
- Kara (Smallville), Superman's cousin in the TV series Smallville
- Kara In-Ze, a recurring character in Superman: The Animated Series, from Krypton's sister planet Argos and unrelated to Superman
- Power Girl (real name Kara Zor-L), a DC Comics superheroine
- Kara Ben Nemsi, in the works of German writer Karl May
- Kara Thrace, in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica franchise
- Kara, the Jungle Princess, an Exciting Comics character