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People

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Tyra Banks Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973), also known as BanX, is an American television personality, model, producer, writer, and actress. Born in Inglewood, California, she began her career as a model at the age of 15, and was the first Africa ...
(born 1973), American television personality * Tyra Bolling (born 1985), American singer * Tyra Calderwood (born 1990), Australian tennis player * Tyra of Denmark (died 1000 AD), 10th-century Danish princess * Tyra Ferrell (born 1962), American actress * Tyra Gittens (born 1998), Olympic athlete from Trinidad and Tobago * Tyra Grant (born 1988), American basketball player * Tyra Hunter (1970-1995), African-American transgender woman * Tyra Kleen (1874-1951), Swedish artist *
Tyra Naha Tyra Naha (or Tyra Naha-Black, or Tyra Naha Tawawina) represents the 4th generation in a family of well-known Hopi potters. She is a Native Americans in the United States, Native American Native American pottery, potter from the Hopi Nation, Arizo ...
, Hopi American potter * Tyra Perry, American softball coach *
Tyra Sanchez James William Ross IV (born 1988) is an American drag queen and reality television personality who performed under the stage name Tyra Sanchez. A frequent drag impersonator of pop star Beyoncé, Ross is best known as the winner of the second sea ...
(born 1988), American drag queen * Tyra Shackleford, Chickasaw textile artist *
Tyra Turner Tyra Turner (née Harper, born July 21, 1976) is a professional beach volleyball player from the United States who plays on the AVP Tour. Turner is a graduate of the University of Central Florida, where she played volleyball all four years. In ...
(born 1976), American beach volleyball player * Tyra Vaughn (1923-2015), American actress * Tyra White (born 1989), American basketball player *
Tyra Wolfsberg Tyra Gwendolen Wolfsberg is an American bioinformatician. She is the associate director of the bioinformatics and scientific programming core at the National Human Genome Research Institute. Life Wolfsberg received a A.B. in molecular biolog ...
, American bioinformatician *Tyra of Sweden, daughter of the Norse noble Styrbjörn the Strong


Fictional characters

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Tyra Collette Tyra Collette is a character in the NBC/DirecTV drama '' Friday Night Lights'', portrayed by actress Adrianne Palicki. Character biography Tyra is a resident of the fictional Dillon, Texas. She works at Applebee's and lives with her mother and ...
, a fictional character on the television series ''Friday Night Lights'' *
Tyra Hamilton A list of notable characters from the CBS soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'' that significantly impacted storylines and debuted between January 2000 and December 2009. Alex Perez Alex Perez first appeared on November 29, 2000, later b ...
, a fictional character on the CBS soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'' *Tyra Nordbo, a character from the ''
Man-Kzin Wars ''The Man-Kzin Wars'' is a series of military science fiction anthologies and is the name of the first. The short stories detail the eponymous conflicts between mankind and the Kzinti, set in Larry Niven's ''Known Space'' universe. However, Nive ...
'' book series * Tyra Ragnarsdottir, a character from ''
The Saxon Stories ''The Saxon Stories'' (also known as ''Saxon Tales''/''Saxon Chronicles'' in the US and ''The Warrior Chronicles'' and most recently as ''The Last Kingdom'' series) is a historical novel series written by Bernard Cornwell about the birth of E ...
'' book series and ''
The Last Kingdom ''The Last Kingdom'' is the first historical novel in The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell, published in 2004. This story introduces Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a Saxon noble who is kidnapped by Danish Vikings as a young child and is assimilated ...
'' TV series


See also

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