Chitra

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Chitra may refer to:

People

• Chithra or K. S. Chithra, Indian playback singer known often as simply Chithra, the "Nightingale of Kerala"
• Chitra Bahadur K.C., Nepalese politician
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956), Indian-American author, poet, and professor of English
• Chitra Bharucha (born 1945), former Consultant Haematologist and Vice Chair of the BBC Trust
• Chitra Dewi (1934–2008), Indonesian actress
• Chitra Ganesh (born 1975), artist based in Brooklyn, New York
• Chitra Lekha Yadav, Nepalese politician
• Chitra Mudgal (born 1944), literary figure in modern Hindi literature
• Chitra Singh (born 1945), female ghazal singer
• Chitra Soman (born 1983), Indian sprinter
• Chitra Subramaniam (born 1958), Indian journalist
• Chitra Visweswaran, classical dancer
• Chitra (actress), Indian film actress

Literature

• Chitra (play), a 1914 play by Rabindranath Tagore and also the title of a book of poems
• Amar Chitra Katha, one of India's largest selling comic book series
• Chitra Bharti Kathamala, a popular Indian comic publication during the early 1980s

Zoology

• Chitra (genus), a turtle genus
  • Chitra indica, a narrow-headed soft-shelled turtle
  • Chitra chitra, a striped narrow-headed softshell turtle
• Sandfly, a biting fly found in sandy areas

Institutions

• Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India
• Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, India

Others

• Chitra (film), an Indian film released in 2001
• Chitra, in Hindu astrology, a nakshatra (lunar mansion) corresponding to the constellation Spica
• Chitra River, a river in the Narail District of southwestern Bangladesh
• Chitrakar, painters and mask makers
• Chitra, a 1960 ballet by Niyazi