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Arts, media and entertainment


Film and television

* ''Sara'' (1992 film), 1992 Iranian film by Dariush Merhjui * ''Sara'' (1997 film), 1997 Polish film starring Bogusław Linda * ''Sara'' (2010 film), 2010 Sri Lankan Sinhala thriller directed by Nishantha Pradeep * ''Sara'' (2015 film), 2015 Hong Kong psychological thriller * ''Sara'' (1976 TV series), 1976 American western series * ''Sara'' (1985 TV series), 1985 American situation comedy * ''Sara'' (Belgian TV series), 2007–08 Flemish telenovella on Belgian television * "Sara" (''Arrow'' episode), an episode of Arrow


Music

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Sara (band) Sara is a Finnish alternative rock/metal band from Kaskinen Kaskinen (; sv, Kaskö) is a town, municipality and island of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Ostrobothnia region. The population of Kas ...
, a Finnish band * "Sara" (Bob Dylan song), a song by Bob Dylan for the 1976 album ''Desire'' * "Sara" (Fleetwood Mac song), a song by Fleetwood Mac from the 1979 LP ''Tusk'' * "Sara" (Starship song), a song by Starship from the 1985 album ''Knee Deep in the Hoopla'' *"Sara", a song by Bill Champlin from the 1981 LP '' Runaway'' * "Sarah" (disambiguation)#Music, songs


Other entertainment

* Sara (play), or Miss Sara Sampson, 1755 play by the Enlightenment philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


Ethnic groups and languages

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Sara people The Sara people are a Central Sudanic ethnic group native to southern Chad, the northwestern areas of the Central African Republic, and the southern border of North Sudan. They speak the Sara languages which are a part of the Central Sudanic lan ...
, an ethnic group in central Africa *
Sara languages The Sara languages comprise over a dozen Bongo–Bagirmi languages spoken mainly in Chad; a few are also spoken in the north of the Central African Republic. They are members of the Central Sudanic language family. Greenberg (1966) treats all vari ...
, a language group spoken mostly in southern Chad * Sara language (Indonesia), a language spoken in Kalimantan in Indonesia


Legislation

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Species At Risk Act The ''Species at Risk Act'' (SARA) (the ''Act'') is a piece of Canadian federal legislation which became law in Canada on December 12, 2002. It is designed to meet one of Canada's key commitments under the International Convention on Biological D ...
, Canadian legislation to protect endangered or threatened organisms and their habitats * Superfund Amendments & Reauthorization Act (SARA), U.S. federal program to fund the cleanup of sites contaminated with hazardous substances and pollutants


Names

* Sara (given name), a variant of the given name Sarah


People with this given name

* Sara of St. Gilles, fourteenth century physician * Sara Duterte, 15th Vice President of the Philippines *
Sara bint Faisal Al Saud Sara bint Faisal Al Saud ( ar, سارة بنت فيصل آل سعود ''Sara bint Fayṣal Āl Su'ūd''; born 1935) is a member of the House of Saud, the Saudi royal family. She was among the first female members of the Consultative Assembly of ...
, Saudi royal *
Sara bint Mashour Al Saud Sara bint Mashour Al Saud ( ar, سارة بنت مشهور آل سعود) is a member of the Saudi royal family. She is the granddaughter of King Abdulaziz. She is married to her cousin, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, son and heir of King S ...
, Saudi royal *
Sara bint Talal Al Saud Sara bint Talal Al Saud ( ar, سارة بنت طلال بن عبد العزيز آل سعود) is a Saudi princess and the daughter of Prince Talal. Early years Sara bint Talal was raised in Riyadh in the liberal, more progressive branch of Sau ...
, Saudi royal *
Sara bint Ahmed Al Sudairi Sara bint Ahmed Al Sudairi ( ar, سارة بنت أحمد السديري ''Sara bint Aḥmed Al Sudairī''; died 1910) was a Saudi royal. She was a member of the Al Sudairi family and the wife of Abdul Rahman bin Faisal who was the last ruler of ...
, Saudi royal * Sara Bareilles, American singer-songwriter


Fictional characters

* Sara in the
Tooniverse Tooniverse (; portmanteau short for ''Cartoon Universe'') is a cartoon and anime channel broadcast by CJ ENM E&M Division (formerly On-Media), in South Korea. Tooniverse commenced airing in December 1995 and is currently one of the leading anim ...
animated television series ' * Sara (Battle Angel Alita) in the manga ''Battle Angel Alita'' * Sara (Chaotic) in the animated science fantasy television series ''Chaotic'' * Sara Lance, American superhero Arrowverse franchise *
Sara (mermaid) is a ''shōjo'' manga and anime series created by Michiko Yokote, with artwork by Pink Hanamori. The manga was originally published in the monthly shōjo manga anthology ''Nakayoshi''. There are 32 chapters published (including two speci ...
in the manga and anime series ''Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch'' * Sara (Over the Garden Wall) in the animated television miniseries ''Over the Garden Wall'' * Sara in the
Wee Sing Wee or WEE may refer to: * Wee, a slang term for urine (see also wee-wee) * Wee, short stature, or otherwise small Anthroponym * Wee (surname), Chinese surname and name * Wee Willie Harris, singer * Wee Willie Webber, Philadelphia TV and ...
1988 film ''Grandpa's Magical Toys'' * Sara Kujou (), a playable characeter from
Genshin Impact ''Genshin Impact'' is an action role-playing game developed and published by miHoYo. It was released for Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, and Windows in 2020, on PlayStation 5 in 2021, and is set for release on Nintendo Switch. The game feature ...
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People with this surname

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Mia Sara Mia Sarapochiello (born June 19, 1967), known professionally as Mia Sara, is a retired American actress. She made her film debut as Princess Lili in the fantasy film ''Legend'' (1985), and had her breakthrough starring as Sloane Peterson in the ...
(born 1967), American actress * Máret Ánne Sara (born 1983), Norwegian Sami artist and author


Organizations

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San Antonio River Authority In 1917, the voters of Texas, recognizing the necessity of developing and conserving the State's water resources and inspired by devastating floods of 1913 and 1914, passed a Constitutional amendment allowing the Legislature to create special pur ...
, a regional authority in the state of Texas, U.S. *
Scottish Amateur Rowing Association Scottish Rowing (SR), formerly the Scottish Amateur Rowing Association, is the governing body for the sport of rowing in Scotland. It is responsible for promoting the sport in Scotland and also for selecting crews to send to the Home Internatio ...
, the governing body for the sport of rowing in Scotland *
Severn Area Rescue Association Severn Area Rescue Association (SARA) or Severn Rescue is an independent, marine and land based, search and rescue organisation covering the Severn Estuary and upper reaches of the River Severn. SARA is the largest independent lifeboat service ...
, a search and rescue organisation covering parts of the River Severn, U.K. *
South African African Rugby Board The South African African Rugby Board (later renamed the South African Rugby Association) was the body that governed black African South African rugby union players during the apartheid era, and one of three segregated rugby unions operating during ...
, a former governing body for black rugby union players *
Southern African Railway Association The Southern African Railways Association (SARA) is the association of railway companies in the SADC region, especially those using gauge. Besides railway operating companies, it welcomes also other stakeholders of the railway industry, like sup ...
, an association of railway companies *
State Administration for Religious Affairs The State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) was an executive agency directly under the State Council of the People's Republic of China which oversaw religious affairs in the country. Originally created in 1951 as the Religious Affairs ...
, a department of the Chinese Government * Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam, a Dutch university and research computing cooperative


Places

* Sara/Sare, a village in Labourd, France * Sara, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran *
Sara, Kerman Sohrab ( fa, سهراب, also Romanized as Sohrāb; also known as Sārā, Sārāb, Sārāb Sohrāb, Zadeh, and Zara‘) is a village in Estabraq Rural District, in the Central District of Shahr-e Babak County, Kerman Province, Iran I ...
, a village in Kerman Province, Iran * Sara Rural District, an administrative subdivision of Kurdistan Province, Iran * Sara, Iloilo, a municipality in the Philippines * Sara Province, a province of Bolivia *
Sar'a Sar'a ( ar, صرعة), was a Palestinian Arab village located 25 km west of Jerusalem, depopulated in the 1948 war. The site lies on a hill, at an elevation of about above sea-level. History Bronze Age to Roman period Sar'a might have bee ...
, a former village near Jerusalem *
Nərimanabad, Lankaran Nərimanabad (also, Narimanov, Sara, and Sara-Ostrov) is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbai ...
or Sara, a village and municipality in Azerbaijan * Sara, Washington, a town in Clark County *
Lake Sara Lake Sara is an 800-acre reservoir A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created ...
, a reservoir in Effingham County, Illinois, United States


Science and technology

* Saab AB RäkneAutomat (SARA) computer, a calculating machine * "Sara" or
Apple III The Apple III (styled as apple ///) is a business-oriented personal computer produced by Apple Computer and released in 1980. Running the Apple SOS operating system, it was intended as the successor to the Apple II series, but was largely consi ...
, a business-oriented personal computer *
Saturate, aromatic, resin and asphaltene Saturate, Aromatic, Resin and Asphaltene (SARA) is an analysis method that divides crude oil components according to their polarizability and polarity. The saturate fraction consists of nonpolar material including linear, branched, and cyclic sat ...
, fractions in crude oil *
Smad Anchor for Receptor Activation Zinc finger FYVE domain-containing protein 9 or SARA (SMAD anchor for receptor activation) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''ZFYVE9'' gene. SARA contains a double zinc finger (FYVE domain). SARA is an anchoring protein involved in ...
, a protein * South African Regional Aircraft (SARA) developed by
Denel Denel SOC Ltd is a South African state-owned aerospace and military technology conglomerate established in 1992. It was created when the manufacturing subsidiaries of Armscor were split off in order for Armscor to become the procurement agency ...
* Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) Aware Retrieval Application (SARA), a text-searching system that led to the Xaira architecture


Other uses

* 533 Sara, a minor planet * Sara (horse), a breed of small horse from the Logone River area in Chad and Cameroon *
Scanning, Analysis, Response, and Assessment Scanning, Analysis, Response, and Assessment (SARA) is a problem-solving process used in problem-oriented policing. It is one of the most popular methods in problem-oriented policing. History SARA was first proposed in 1987 by John E. Eck and Will ...
(SARA), a problem-solving model used in policing


See also

* Saraa (disambiguation) *
Sarah (disambiguation) Sarah is a biblical matriarch and the wife of Abraham. Sarah may also refer to: Books * ''Sarah'' (Card novel), a 2000 novel by Orson Scott Card * ''Sarah'' (Johnson book), a 2008 biography of Sarah Palin * ''Sarah'' (LeRoy novel), a 2001 no ...
* Sareh, several people with this name * Saria (disambiguation) * Sarra (disambiguation) * Sera (disambiguation) * Sura (disambiguation) *
Šara (disambiguation) Šara may refer to: * Šara (mountain), or Shar, a mountain range on the Balkan peninsula *Shara (god) Shara ( Sumerian: 𒀭𒁈, '' dšara2'') was a Mesopotamian god associated with the city of Umma and other nearby settlements. He was chiefly ...
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