Leonora or Leonara may refer to:
People
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Leonora (given name), a feminine given name
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Leonora of Castile (disambiguation) Leonora of Castile or Eleanor of Castile may refer to:
* Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (1162–1214), wife of Alfonso VIII, who brought the name into the Castilian Royal Dynasty
* Eleanor of Castile (died 1244), queen consort of Aragon, wife ...
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Leonora of England (1162–1216), Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile
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Leonora (singer) (born 1998), Danish singer representing her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019
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John Leonora
John Leonora (January 30, 1928 – February 17, 2006) was an endocrinologist and faculty member at Loma Linda University. His research focused on the role of hypothalamic "factors" for indirectly controlling the metabolism of such avascular tissue ...
(1928–2006), research scientist, Loma Linda University
Places
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Leonora, Guyana
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Leonora, Western Australia
Leonora is a town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, located northeast of the state capital, Perth, and north of the city of Kalgoorlie.
History
The first European explorer to visit the area was John Forrest in 1869. ...
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Shire of Leonora, a local government area of Western Australia
Arts and entertainment
*''Leonora'' (opera), the original title of Ludwig van Beethoven's opera ''
Fidelio'', in which the heroine is named Leonora (or ''Leonore'' in German)
*''Leonora'' (opera) by
William Henry Fry (the first known performance of an opera by an American composer on March 18, 1845)
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''Leonora'' (opera), the 1804 opera by Ferdinando Paer based on the same source as the work by Beethoven
*Leonora, heroine of the opera ''
Il trovatore'', the 1853 opera by Giuseppe Verdi based on the 1836 drama ''El trovador'' by Antonio García Gutiérrez
*Leonora, heroine of the opera ''
La forza del destino
' (; ''The Power of Fate'', often translated ''The Force of Destiny'') is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, ' (1835), by Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, wi ...
'', the 1862 opera by Giuseppe Verdi based on the 1835 drama ''Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino'' by Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas
*''Leonora'', another name for
''Lenore'' (ballad), by Gottfried August Bürger
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''Leonora'' (novel), by Maria Edgeworth
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''Leonora'' (film), a 1984 Australian film
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''Leonora'' (Hazel Holt novel), by
Hazel Holt
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''Leonora'' (Arnold Bennett novel), by
Arnold Bennett
*Leonora, the main character of a brief narrative pocket in Henry Fielding's ''
Joseph Andrews''
Other
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696 Leonora
696 Leonora is a Meliboean asteroid orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt. It was discovered 10 January 1910 by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf, at Taunton, Massachusetts. It was named by Arthur Snow of the United States Naval Observa ...
, a minor planet
See also
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Lenora (disambiguation) Lenora may refer to:
*Lenora Garfinkel (1930–2020), American architect
*Lenora, Kansas, a city in the United States
*Lenora, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
*Lenora (Prachatice District), a municipality and village in the Czech Republic
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Leonora (disambiguation)
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