Astra is a unisex given name. People with the name include:

Given name

* Astra Biltauere (born 1944), Latvian volleyball player *

Astra Blair Astra Blair (born 2 September 1932) is a British former opera singer, agent, and charity fundraiser. Life and career Blair was born Margaret Jean Waugh in India and educated in England and West Africa. After finishing school Blair took up a scho ...

(born 1932), British opera singer *

Astra Clément-Bayard Astra Clément-Bayard was a French manufacturer of dirigibles. In 1908 the French industrialist Adolphe Clément-Bayard, who had already made a fortune manufacturing cars, motorcycles and bicycles, diversified into the aviation industry. His fir ...

, French manufacturer of dirigibles *

Astra Desmond Astra Desmond (10 April 1893 – 16 August 1973) was a British contralto of the early and middle twentieth century. Biography Early years Astra Desmond was born Gwendoline Mary Thomson (she would later modify the spelling of her first nam ...

(1893–1973), British contralto *

Astra Edwards Astra Rosetta Edwards-Bennett () is a Trinidadian table tennis player. Born in Port of Spain Port of Spain ( Spanish: ''Puerto España''), officially the City of Port of Spain (also stylized Port-of-Spain), is the capital of Trinidad and ...

(born 1981), Trinidadian table tennis player *

Astra Goldmane Astra Goldmane ( Ozola, born June 24, 1956), also known as Astra Goldman, is a former Latvian chess player. Goldmane was born in Riga, Latvia. In the 1970s and 1980s she was one of the best women's chess player in Latvia. In 1974, she took 4th p ...

(born 1956), Latvian chess player *

Astra Klovāne Astra Klovāne ( Ērgle, born 13 October 1944 in Baldone) is a former Latvian chess player. Astra Klovāne won the Latvian Chess Championship for women seven times - 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1977, and 1978. She won also the Latvian women s ...

(born 1944), Latvian chess player *

Astra Rībena Astra Rībena (born 21 June 1959) is a Latvian luger. She competed in the women's singles event at the 1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an intern ...

(born 1959), Latvian luger *

Astra Sharma Astra Sharma (born 11 September 1995) is a Singaporean-born Australian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 84 in singles and world No. 91 in doubles. Sharma has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the W ...

(born 1995), Australian tennis player * Astra Taylor (born 1979), American-Canadian filmmaker *

Astra Zarina Astra Zarina (August 25, 1929 – August 31, 2008) was an architect and professor in the University of Washington Department of Architecture. She is best known for her creation of the University of Washington Italian Studies programs and her fou ...

(1929–2008), Latvian architect

Surname

Gunārs Astra Gunārs Astra (22 October 1931 – 6 April 1988) was a Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident arrested by the Soviet Union in 1961 and sentenced to prison for 15 years. He was released in 1976. In 1983, he was arrested again but ...

(1931–1988), Latvian human rights activist {{given name, type=both Latvian feminine given names Surnames from given names Surnames of Latvian origin Unisex given names