Lara may refer to:

Places

* Lara (state), a state in Venezuela * Electoral district of Lara, an electoral district in Victoria, Australia * Lara, Antalya, 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 ''Fast ...

, 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), 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, 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 ...