Tara may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

* ''Tara'' (1992 film), an Indian film directed by Bijaya Jena * ''Tara'' (2001 film), an American film, also known as ''Hood Rat'', directed by Leslie Small * ''Tara'' (2010 film), a Bengali film directed by Bratyo Basu * ''Tara'' (2013 film), an Indian film directed by Kumar Raj * ''Tara'' (TV series), soap opera that aired on Zee TV *TARA, acronym for '' The Amazing Race Asia'', a reality game show on the AXN network

Music

* T-ara, a South Korean girl music group * Tara Music, a label featuring traditional Irish music * ''Tara'' (Absu album) * "Tara" (song), a song on Moya Brennan's 2003 album ''Two Horizons'' * ''Tara'' (Yano album) * "Tara", a song by Roxy Music on the 1982 album ''Avalon'' (Roxy Music album)

Fictional settings

* Tara (plantation), fictional home of Scarlett O'Hara in ''Gone with the Wind'' *Tara, a planet, setting of the ''Doctor Who'' serial '' The Androids of Tara'' *Tara, a fictional town, the setting for the 1970 film '' The Spider's Stratagem''

Biology

* ''Tara'' (plant), a genus of legumes * ''Tara'' (spider), a genus of jumping spiders * Tara tree (''Caesalpitarania spinosa''), native to Peru *Tara, a Malagasy name for the shrub ''

Lemuropisum edule ''Lemuropisum edule'' ( Malagasy:''Tara'') is an edible wild plant native to south west Madagascar. Family Fabaceae subfamily Caesalpinioideae The scientific name ''Lemuropisum edule'' means ''edible lemur's pea''. The plant grow at altitudes ...

'' *Tara, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup T *A ''Vitis rotundifolia'' grape variety *Tara, Māori for the White-fronted tern ''(Sterna striata)'' *Tara, a Chinese name for ''

Calamus erectus ''Calamus erectus'', also known as viagra palm and locally as tynriew, tara, and zhi li sheng teng, is a flowering shrub in the family Arecaceae. The specific epithet (''erectus'') refers to the plant's habit of growing straight rather than creepi ...

Companies and media

*'' Țara'', a newspaper from the Republic of Moldova * Tara Air, a Nepalese airline * Tara International, Indian marketer for Tara Green Auto * Tara Labs, a manufacturer of high-end audio products * Tara Muzik, a defunct Indian Bengali music channel * Tara Newz, a defunct Indian Bengali news channel * Tara Television (or Tara TV), an Irish cable and satellite channel

People

* Şarık Tara (born 1930), Turkish billionaire and former captain of industry * Tara (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Tara (Kannada actress), stage name of Indian actress and politician Anuradha *

Tara (wrestler) Lisa Marie Varon (née Sole; born February 10, 1971) is an American retired fitness competitor, bodybuilder and professional wrestler best known for her tenure with WWE under the ring name Victoria and her time spent as an Impact Wrestling Knoc ...

, ring name of professional wrestler Lisa Marie Varon *Tara the Southern Belle, a member of the Southern Belles tag-team from the

Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (also known by its initials as GLOW or G.L.O.W.) is a women's professional wrestling promotion that began in 1986 (the pilot was filmed in December 1985) and has continued in various forms after it left television. C ...

Places

Natural features

* Tara (river), in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina (in Republic Srpska) *

Tara (Irtysh) The Tara (russian: Тара) is a river in the Novosibirsk and the Omsk Oblasts in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Irtysh The Irtysh ( otk, 𐰼𐱅𐰾:𐰇𐰏𐰕𐰏, Ertis ügüzüg, mn, Эрчис мөрөн, ''Erchis mörön' ...

, river in Russia (in Novosibirsk and Omsk Oblasts), a tributary of the Irtysh *Tara, an older name for the river Tragus, in Greece (in Arcadia) * Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Japan (in Saga Prefecture) * Tara Mountain, Serbia *

Tara National Park Tara ( sr-Cyrl, Тара, ) is a mountain in western Serbia. It is part of the Dinaric Alps and stands at above sea level. The mountain's slopes are clad in dense forests with numerous high-elevation clearings and meadows, steep cliffs, deep rav ...

, Serbia *Tara Island, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines * Tara Hill, County Wexford, Ireland, a hill and a village * Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland, a ritual site of ancient high kings of Ireland * Salar de Tara, a salt pan in Chile * 5863 Tara, an asteroid

Populated places

Africa

* "Tara", Cairo, a squatted villa on Gezira Island, Cairo, Egypt, made notorious by its SOE occupants during World War II *

Tara, Zambia Tara is a small village, about 25 km south west of Choma, in the Southern Province of Zambia. It is situated along the main road from Livingstone to Lusaka Lusaka (; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zambia. It is one ...

, a village in the Southern Province of Zambia *

Tara Subcounty Tara is a subcounty at the north-eastern end of Maracha District of Uganda. It is an area endowed with rocks and is neighboured in the Northwest by Koboko; to the Northeast by Yumbe; to the East by Omugo subcounty plus to the South by Nyadri (Marach ...

, a region in Maracha District, Uganda

Asia

Tara, Iran Tara ( fa, ترا, also Romanized as Tarā; also known as Tarādīnān) is a village in Bala Larijan Rural District, Larijan District, Amol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 31, in 12 families. References < ...

, a village in Mazandaran Province *

Tara, Nepal Tara is a Village development committee (Nepal), village development committee in Baglung District in the Dhawalagiri Zone, Dhaulagiri Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,705 and had 698 houses in t ...

, a village in Baglung District in the Dhawalagiri Zone of central Nepal * Tara, Russia, several inhabited localities * Tara, Saga, a town, mountain, and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan

Australia

*Tara, Northern Territory, a locality in the Barkly Region * Tara, Queensland, a town *

Tara County, New South Wales Tara County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It is located in the south-western corner of the state, to the north of the Murray River, and to the east of the border with South Australia. The Darling Anabranch River is t ...

Shire of Tara The Shire of Tara was a local government area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The shire, administered from the town of Tara, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1912 until 2008, when it amal ...

, Queensland

Europe

* Hill of Tara, an ancient site in County Meath, Republic of Ireland *Tara, County Down, a townland in the civil parish of Witter, County Down, Northern Ireland *Tara, County Offaly, a townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Republic of Ireland

North America

Tara, Florida Tara is an unincorporated area in Manatee County, Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georg ...

, United States, an unincorporated area * Tara, Ontario, village in Canada * Tara Township, Minnesota (disambiguation), several places in the United States

Religion

*In Hinduism: ** Tara (Mahavidya), a Tantric goddess ** Tara (Ramayana), the wife of the monkey king Vali ** Tara (Hindu goddess), the wife of Brihaspati * Tara (Buddhism), a tantric meditation deity in Tibetan Buddhism *Tara, a sea goddess in Polynesian mythology

Schools

Tara Anglican School for Girls Tara Anglican School for Girls (commonly referred to as Tara) is an independent Anglican single-sex early learning, primary, and secondary day and boarding school for girls, located in North Parramatta, a western suburb of Sydney, New South ...

, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia * Tara High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States *

Tara Institute Tara Institute is a Tibetan Buddhist center located in the suburb of East Brighton in Melbourne which provides Buddhist teachings throughout the year. As of March 2020 the lama, Venerable Geshe Doga has been the resident teacher at the centre sin ...

, a Tibetan Buddhist center in Melbourne, Australia

Titles

Baron Brabazon of Tara Baron Brabazon of Hill of Tara, Tara, of Sandwich, Kent, Sandwich in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 27 April 1942 for the aviation pioneer and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politic ...

, a UK title * Baron Tara, an Irish title * Kingship of Tara, a title in ancient Ireland * Viscount Tara, an Irish title

Transportation

* Tara Air, a Nepalese airline *

Tara Field Atlanta Speedway Airport (formerly 4A7), is a public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) west of the central business district of Hampton, a city in Henry County, Georgia, United States. It was known as Clayton County Airpor ...

, an airport in Georgia, United States *

Tara Station is a railway station in Tara, Fujitsu District, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Nagasaki Main Line. Lines The station is served by the Nagasaki Main Line and is located 67.7 km from the starting point o ...

, a railway station in Saga Prefecture, Japan * Tara Street, a major traffic route in Dublin, Ireland * Tara Street railway station in Dublin, Ireland

Other uses

* Đurđevića Tara Bridge, a bridge over the Tara River in northern Montenegro * Tārā, Tahitian slang for 5 CFP francs *

Tara (cat) Zatara (Tara for short), is a female tabby cat living in California, United States, who rescued her human family's child from being attacked by a neighbor dog named Scrappy. The moment was recorded on household surveillance. The footage uploaded ...

, a family cat who saved a four-year-old boy from a dog attack *

Tara (Northern Ireland) Tara was an Ulster loyalist movement in Northern Ireland that espoused a brand of evangelical Protestantism. Preaching a hard-line and somewhat esoteric brand of loyalism, Tara enjoyed some influence in the late 1960s before declining amid a hig ...

, a loyalist group *

Tara, Chertsey Tara was a house on St Anns Hill, Chertsey, Surrey owned by The Who's drummer Keith Moon in the 1970s, but was demolished and replaced by a new home in 1990. The press party for the release of the ''Who's Next'' album was held at Tara. Descripti ...

, a house in Surrey, UK, previously the home of drummer Keith Moon * Tara Brooch, an artifact from Ireland *

Tara Foundation The ''Tara Foundation'' was a charity organization dedicated to the support of low-income and disabled transsexual people. Origins The foundation was started in 2001 with the assistance of a $10,000 grant from the Marin Community Foundation ...

, a charity for transgender people * Tara Hurdle, a horse race in Ireland * Tara Mine, a zinc and lead mine near Navan, County Meath, Ireland * Tara Theatre, an art house movie theater in Atlanta named after the plantation in ''Gone With the Wind'' *

Timed antagonistic response alethiometer The timed antagonistic response alethiometer, or TARA, is a type of lie detection technique that relies upon cognitive chronometry. The TARA is a computer-based technique. It requires respondents to classify a succession of mixed statements as ...

, a type of lie detection technique *Tāra, Māori language name for

New Zealand dollar The New Zealand dollar ( mi, tāra o Aotearoa; sign: $, NZ$; code: NZD) is the official currency and legal tender of New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue, the Ross Dependency, Tokelau, and a British territory, the Pitcairn Islands. Within New ...

* Yugoslav submarine ''Nebojša'', or ''Tara'', a submarine of the Yugoslav Navy