Samora is a unisex given name and a surname. People with the name include:

Given name

Samora Fihlani Lwazi Samora Fihlani is a South African rugby union player who last played for the . He can play as a lock or flanker. Career Fihlani came through the Border youth system and played for their Under-21 team in 2005 and 2006. In 2008, he gradua ...

(born 1985), South African rugby union player *

Samora Goodson Samora Moses Goodson (born October 7, 1984) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. Early life and college career Goodson was born in San Jose, California, grew up in Hayward, California, and graduated from Haywar ...

(born 1984), American football player *

Samora Khulu Moran Khulu, better known as Samora Khulu, (died 6 August 2008) was a South African football (soccer) striker who played for African Wanderers, Kaizer Chiefs and AmaZulu. Club career Joe Frickleton discovered Khulu when he still played for A ...

(died 2008), South African football player *

Samora Machel Samora Moisés Machel (29 September 1933 – 19 October 1986) was a Mozambican military commander and political leader. A socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism, he served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's ...

(1933–1986), Mozambican military commander and political leader *

Samora Smallwood Samora Smallwood is a Canadian actress and writer. She won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a television film or miniseries at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for her performance in the Lifetime television film ''Death ...

, Canadian actress and writer *

Samora Yunis Samora Muhammad Yunis (Amharic: ሳሞራ መሐመድ ዩንስ) is an Ethiopian military officer. Born in the Tigray Region in the north of the country, Yunis rose to be a four-star general in the Ethiopian National Defence Forces and eventua ...

(born 1949), Ethiopian military officer

Surname

Julian Samora Julian Samora (March 1, 1920 – February 2, 1996) was an American teacher, scholar and community activist who helped to pioneer the field of Latino Studies. Samora was the first Mexican-American to ever receive a doctorate in sociology; and, ...

(1920–1996), American scholar *

Rogério Samora José Rogério dos Anjos Filipe da Conceição Samora (28 October 1958 – 15 December 2021) was a Portuguese film, television and stage actor. Biography He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1980. On 20 July 2021, Rogério Samora ...

(1958–2021), Portuguese actor {{given name, type=both Unisex given names