Vera may refer to:

Names

Vera (surname) Vera is a Spanish surname. Notable persons with that surname include: * Alejo Vera (1834–1923), Spanish painter * Alfredo Vera Vera (1910–1999), Ecuadorian politician * Alfonso Vera (born 1974), Mexican radio and television host * America Ve ...

, a surname (including a list of people with the name) * Vera (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) **Vera (), archbishop of the

archdiocese of Tarragona The Archdiocese of Tarragona (Latin, ''Tarraconensis'') is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory located in north-eastern Spain, in the province of Tarragona, part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. The archdiocese heads the ecclesias ...

Places

Spain

Vera, Almería Vera is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Today Vera is one of the most important commercial centres in the region, with a thriving traditional core and a number of supermarkets and commerc ...

, a municipality in the province of Almería, Andalusia * Vera de Bidasoa, a municipality in the autonomous community of Navarra *

La Vera La Vera is a comarca (county, but with no administrative role) in Extremadura, western Spain. The largest town is Jaraíz de la Vera. Located at the feet of the Sierra de Gredos mountain range, in the Tiétar river valley, the comarca is econom ...

, a comarca in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura

United States

* Vera, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Vera, Kansas, a ghost town *

Vera, Missouri Vera is an unincorporated community in Pike County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is located 5.5 miles northeast of Bowling Green along US Route 54 U.S. Route 54 (US 54) is an east–west United States Highway that runs northeast ...

, an unincorporated community * Vera, Oklahoma, a town * Vera, Texas, an unincorporated community * Vera, Virginia, an unincorporated community *

Veradale, Washington Veradale—originally known as Vera—is a locale and former census-designated place (CDP) in Spokane County, Washington, United States. The population was 9,387 at the 2000 census. Veradale retains its own post office. History Veradale was named ...

, originally known as Vera, CDP

Elsewhere

Vera, Santa Fe Vera is a city in the north of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is the head town of the Vera Department and lies 256 km from the provincial capital ( Santa Fe). It has a population of about 20,000 inhabitants (). The town was founded ...

, a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina *

Vera Department The Vera Department (in Spanish, ''Departamento Vera'') is an administrative subdivision (''departamento'') of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the center-north of the province. It limits Chaco Province to the north, and the d ...

, an administrative subdivision (departamento) of the province of Santa Fe * Vera, Mato Grosso, Brazil, a municipality * Cape Vera, Nunavut, Canada, an uninhabited headland on Devon Island *

Vera, Croatia Vera ( sr-Cyrl, Вера) is a village in Trpinja Municipality in eastern Croatia. The village is the northernmost settlement of the Vukovar-Syrmia County. Name The villages of Trpinja, Bobota and Vera share a common legend about the origin of t ...

, a village * * Vera, Italy, a ''frazione'' in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Veneto * Vera, Norway, a village in the municipality of Verdal in Trøndelag county, Norway

Entertainment

*'' Vera; or, The Nihilists'', an 1882 play by Oscar Wilde * ''Vera'' (album), by Crooked Colours, 2017 * "Vera" (song), a 1979 song by Pink Floyd from ''The Wall'' * ''Vera'' (novel), a 1921 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim * ''Vera'' (film), a 1987 film about Sandra Mara Herzer *'' Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)'', Pulitzer-Prize winning biography on Véra Nabokov * ''Vera'' (TV series), a British detective television series

Other uses

Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus (VERA) was an early analog recording videotape format developed from 1952 by the BBC under project manager Dr Peter Axon. History In order to record high frequencies, a tape must move rapidly with respect ...

, an early videotape recording system *

VERA passive sensor The VERA passive radar (known as ''Věra'' in Czech) is an electronic support measures (ESM) system that uses measurements of time difference of arrival (TDOA) of pulses at three or four sites to accurately detect and track airborne emitters. It ...

, a Czech passive sensor system *

245 Vera Vera ( minor planet designation: 245 Vera) is a large Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by N. R. Pogson on February 6, 1885, in Madras, and was named at the suggestion of his wife. The asteroid is orbiting the Sun at a distance of with a ...

, an asteroid * Bitstream Vera, a family of typefaces *

Typhoon Vera Typhoon Vera, also known as the , was an exceptionally intense tropical cyclone that struck Japan in September 1959, becoming the strongest and deadliest typhoon on record to make landfall on the country as a Category 5 equivalent storm. Th ...

, a 1959 tropical cyclone *

The Vera Project The Vera Project, or VERA, is an all-ages, non-profit youth arts organization in Seattle, Washington. Overview Based on the Vera club in Groningen, Netherlands. The name Vera comes from the phrase Veri Et Recti Amici, which is Latin meaning "t ...

, a music-based, non-profit organization in Seattle, Washington *

Vera Institute of Justice The Vera Institute of Justice, founded in 1961, is an independent nonprofit national research and policy organization in the United States. Based primarily in New York City, Vera also has offices in Washington, DC, and describes its goal as "to t ...

, a non-profit organization advocating for criminal justice reform * Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator, a particle accelerator *Vera or Verawood, the wood of ''Bulnesia'' trees * Vera (horse), winner of the 1883

Kentucky Oaks The Kentucky Oaks is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies staged annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The race currently covers at Churchill Downs; the horses carry . The Kentucky Oaks is held on the Friday ...

* Vera (Groningen), a pop center in the city of Groningen, see

music venues in the Netherlands Music venues in the Netherlands are a vivid part of the social cultural environment of the country. In every big city there are concert halls for popular music, classical music and jazz. The ten biggest dedicated music venues are Ziggo Dome, AFA ...

*The VERA Project (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astronomy), of the

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan The (NAOJ) is an astronomy, astronomical research organisation comprising several facilities in Japan, as well as an observatory in Hawaii and Chile. It was established in 1988 as an amalgamation of three existing research organizations - the To ...

*"Veras" or "Vera Lynns", cockney rhyming slang for "skins" (cigarette

rolling paper Rolling paper is a specialty paper used for making cigarettes (commercially manufactured filter cigarettes and individually made roll-your-own cigarettes). Rolling papers are packs of several cigarette-size sheets, often folded inside a cardboa ...