Lara may refer to:

Places

Lara (state) Lara State ( es, Estado Lara, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Barquisimeto. Lara State covers a total surface area of and, in 2015, had a census population of 2,019,211. Toponymy The state is named after a notable ...

, a state in Venezuela *

Electoral district of Lara Lara is a seat in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers much of the area between the western suburbs of Melbourne and the regional city of Geelong. Most of the voters come from the very northern suburbs of Geelong, including Lara, Bell ...

, an electoral district in Victoria, Australia *

Lara, Antalya Lara is a district of Antalya city, Turkey. Lara is a balneoclimatic and balneoclimateric location bordering the Mediterranean Sea. It is home to many luxury-themed hotels, mainly at the popular Lara Beach area which includes the Lara, Kundu, Aksu ...

, an urban district in Turkey *

Lara, Victoria Lara is a town in Victoria, 18 km north-east of the Geelong CBD, inland from the Princes Freeway to Melbourne. Its population at the 2016 census was 16,355. History The explorers Hume and Hovell arrived at Lara on December 16, 1824, beli ...

, a township in Australia *

Lara de los Infantes Lara de los Infantes is a town with 26 inhabitants in the province of Burgos in the autonomous region of Castille y León in Spain. It is the seat of the municipality of Jurisdicción de Lara, which includes a few more inhabitants as it include ...

, a place in Spain * LARA, the airport code for

Jacinto Lara International Airport Jacinto Lara International Airport is an airport in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, named after Venezuelan independence hero Jacinto Lara. It serves the city of Barquisimeto and others such as Acarigua, Yaritagua, and Carora, the main cities in the west ...

, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela

Personal name

Lara (mythology) Larunda (also Larunde, Laranda, Lara) was a naiad nymph, daughter of the river Almo in Ovid's ''Fasti''.Ovid, '' Fasti 2''V. 599 Mythology The only known mythography attached to Lara is little, late and poetic, coming to us from Ovid's ''Fasti ...

, a naiad nymph, daughter of the river Almo in Ovid's ''Fasti'' *

Lara (name) Lara can be a given name or a surname in several languages. It can be used as a short form of the name Larissa or derived from the Latin word ''lūcēre'', meaning "to shine". Given name * Lara Abdallat (born 1982), Jordanian hacker * Lara Ah ...

, can be a given name or a surname in several languages

Art, entertainment, and media

* ''Lara'' (film), 2019 film *

Lara (character) Lara (née Lara Lor-Van) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She first appeared in the ''Superman'' comic strip and was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Lara is the biological mother of Superm ...

, the biological mother of the comic book character Superman *

Lara (novel) ''Lara'' is a semi-autobiographical Verse novel, novel-in-verse written by Bernardine Evaristo. It was originally published in 1997 by Angela Royal Publishing and won the Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy, EMMA Best Book Award in 1999. Drawing o ...

, 1997 novel-in-verse by Bernardine Evaristo *

Lara & Reyes Lara & Reyes is an instrumental group founded by Sergio Lara and Joe Reyes in 1989. It performed flamenco-influenced Latin guitar instrumental pieces. Their first album '' Two Guitars - One Passion'' released in 1992 under Talking Taco Records R ...

, an instrumental band * '' Lara's Theme'', the generic name given to a leitmotif written for the film ''Doctor Zhivago'' (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre * '' Lara, A Tale'' (1814), a poem by Lord Byron

Computing and technology

* LaRa, a spacecraft instrument on board the ExoMars 2020 platform

Natural science

* ''Lara'' (genus), a genus of beetles * Lara, a cultivar of walnut

Sport

Brian Lara Brian Charles Lara, (born 2 May 1969) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing reco ...