Lyra (disambiguation)

Lyra can refer to:

Music

• Lyre, a stringed musical instrument known for its use in Classical Antiquity
• Byzantine lyra, a bowed string musical instrument used in the Byzantine Empire
• Lyra (Cretan), a bowed instrument used in folk music in Crete, Greece
• Lira Calabrese, a bowed instrument used in folk music in Calabria, Italy
• Lira da braccio, a European bowed string instrument of the Renaissance
• Kemenche, a bowed instrument used in folk music in Turkey, Greece and Iran
• RCA Lyra, a line of digital audio players
• "Lyra" (song), a song by Kate Bush

People

• Nicholas of Lyra, an influential Biblical exegete
• Carlos Lyra, a Brazilian musician

Fictional characters

• Lyra Belacqua, one of the two protagonists in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
• Lyra, a minor character in the anime/manga series Fullmetal Alchemist
• She-Hulk (Lyra), a Marvel Comics superhero
• Lyra, a character in the game and anime Mega Man Star Force
• Lyra (Pokémon), the female player character in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver. She has an anime counterpart who travels with the main characters for a couple of episodes
• Lyra Heartstrings, a background character in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

Other uses

• Lyra, a constellation
• The lyra or psalterium (neuroscience), part of the commissure of fornix or hippocampal commissure
• K. Lyra, a former Belgian football (soccer) club
• HMS Lyra, the name of four ships of the Royal Navy
• Alfa-class submarine (Russian: Лира, Lyra), a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarines with a NATO reporting name of Alfa class
• Lyra, aerial hoop used in circus performance
• LYRA, a solar ultraviolet radiometer, to be first flown on board the ESA PROBA2 space mission
• Lyra, Normandy, the location of an abbey
• Lyra (company), a defunct Greek toy company which produced original toys as well as licenced Playmobil toys
• Lyra (regatta), The Lake Yacht Racing Association (LYRA) is an association of yacht clubs on Lake Ontario and eastern Lake Erie founded in 1884 to promote yacht racing

See also

• Lira (disambiguation)
• Lyran (disambiguation)
• Lyria (disambiguation)