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 V ...

, a surname (including a list of people with the name) *

Vera (given name) Vera (: ''Véra'', "faith") is a female given name of Slavic origin, and by folk etymology it has also been explained as Latin ''vera'' meaning "true". In Slavic languages, Vera means faith. The name Vera has been used in the English speaking worl ...

, 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 ecclesi ...

Places

Spain

Vera, Almería Vera is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomou ...

, 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 econ ...

, a comarca in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura

United States

Vera, Illinois Vera is an unincorporated community in Sharon Township, Fayette County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East sectio ...

, an unincorporated community * Vera, Kansas, a ghost town * Vera, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Vera, Oklahoma, a town *

Vera, Texas Vera is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Knox County, Texas, United States. It lies on U.S. Highway 82 in the east-central portion of the county near the Baylor County, Texas, Baylor County line, and had an estimated population ...

, 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, 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 ...

, a village * *

Vera, Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo (; lld, Anpezo, ; historical de-AT, Hayden) is a town and ''comune'' in the heart of the southern (Dolomitic) Alps in the Province of Belluno, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. Situated on the Boite river, in an alpin ...

, a ''frazione'' in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Veneto *

Vera, Norway Vera is a village in the municipality of Verdal in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located on the northern shore of the lake Veresvatnet, about west of the border with Sweden, about south of the edge of Blåfjella–Skjækerfjella National Pa ...

, a village in the municipality of Verdal in Trøndelag county, Norway

Entertainment

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Vera; or, The Nihilists ''Vera; or, The Nihilists'' is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed. A draft of the script was completed in 1880 and t ...

'', 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 to ...

, 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 i ...

, 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 perio ...

, an asteroid *

Bitstream Vera Vera is a digital typeface (computer font) superfamily with a liberal license. It was designed by Jim Lyles from the now-defunct Bitstream Inc. type foundry, and it is closely based on Bitstream Prima, for which Lyles was also responsible. It ...

, 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 The Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator, VERA, is a particle accelerator. It is operated by the University of Vienna and is dedicated to Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS). It started operation in 1995. The system is a 3-MV Pelletron type ...

, a particle accelerator *Vera or

Verawood ''Bulnesia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae. The wood of some – particularly '' B. arborea'' and '' B. sarmientoi'' – is traded as verawood (colloquially "vera") or ''" lignum vitae"''. They are ...

, the wood of ''Bulnesia'' trees *

Vera (horse) Vera may refer to: Names *Vera (surname), 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 Tarrag ...

, winner of the 1883

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

* 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, AFAS ...

*The VERA Project (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astronomy), of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan *"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 cardbo ...