Lora
Lora as a family name in the Spanish language of French origin meaning from Lorraine, a region in Northeastern France that was named in honor of Lothair I. It's Latin origin that means "crowned with laurel" or "laurel".
As a female given name Lora may also be a variant of Laura or derived from an Italian hypocoristic of either Eleonora or Loredana.
People with the given name Lora
- Lora (singer) (born 1982), Romanian singer
 - Lora Aborn (1907–2005), American composer
 - Lora Aroyo, Dutch computer scientist
 - Lora Beldon, American artist-curator
 - Lora Haines Cook (1866–1946), American civic leader
 - Lora L. Corum (1899-1949), American co-winner
 - Lora Dimitrova (born 1962), Bulgarian Pianist
 - Lora Fachie (born 1988), English racing cyclist
 - Lora Fairclough (born 1970), English professional golfer
 - Lora Lee Gayer (born 1988), American actress
 - Lora Grosu (born 1959), Moldovan politician
 - Lora Hirschberg (born 1963), American sound engineer
 - Lora Hooper, American biologist
 - Lora Hubbel, American politician
 - Lora Johnson, American author
 - Lora Lazar, Bulgarian crime writer
 - Lora Leigh (born 1965), American author
 - Lora Logic (born 1960), British saxophonist
 - Lora La Mance (1857–1939), American writer
 - Lora Marx (1900-1989), American sculptor
 - Lora Lee Michel (born 1940), American actress
 - Lora Ottenad (born 1964), American professional bodybuilder
 - Lora Petrova (born 1998), Bulgarian footballer
 - Lora Reinbold (born 1964), American politician
 - Lora Romero (1960-1997), American assistant professor
 - Lora Storey (born 1989), Australian middle-distance runner
 - Lora Webster (born 1986), American Paralympic volleyballist
 - Lora Yakovleva (1932–2022), Russian chess grandmaster
 
People with the surname Lora
- Alberto Lora Ramos (born 1987), Spanish football player
 - Alan Loras, Bolivian footballer
 - Alex Lora (born 1952), Mexican musician and composer
 - Carmen Josefina Lora Iglesias (1940 – 1999), Dominican revolutionary and lawyer
 - Enrique Lora (born 1945), Spanish footballer
 - Fabiano Bolla Lora (born 1977), Brazilian footballer
 - Filippo Lora (born 1993), Italian footballer
 - Francisco Augusto Lora, Dominican politician
 - Guillermo Lora (1922-2009), Bolivian Trotskyist
 - Johan Lora (born 1982), Dominican footballer
 - Luis Eduardo Lora (born 1986), Colombian footballer
 - Mathias Loras (1792-1858), French priest
 - Manny Lora (born 1991), American baseball player and coach
 - Marie Lora-Mungai, French producer, writer and show runner
 - Miguel "Happy" Lora (born 1961), Colombian boxer
 - Ñico Lora (1880-1971), Dominican, father of Merengue music
 - Saturnino and Mariano Lora, Cuban brothers, war heroes
 - Yelitza Lora, Dominican television and radio host and actress
 
Places
- Lora (Lydia), a town of ancient Lydia, now in Turkey
 - Lora, Norway, a village in Lesja municipality in Oppland
 - Lora, Chile a town on the Mataquito River, Chile
 - Lora, a frazioni in the municipality of Campegine, Italy
 - Lora (Split), a neighborhood and naval base in Split, Croatia
 - Lora, Abbottabad, a village and union council in Pakistan
 - Lora River, Pakistan
 - Lora de Estepa, a municipality in the province of Seville, Spain
 - Lora del Río, a municipality in the province of Seville, Spain
 - Loras College, a four-year Catholic university located in Dubuque, Iowa
 - Falls of Lora, a tidal race which forms at the mouth of Loch Etive, Scotland
 - Sargentes de la Lora, a municipality located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain.
 
Animals
- Lora or Leptophis ahaetulla, a Parrot Snake found in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago
 - Grey Lora or Leptophis stimsoni, a small snake which is endemic to Trinidad and Tobago
 - Lora (genus), a gastropod genus of the Turridae family
 
Technology
- LORA (missile), a theatre quasiballistic missile produced in Israel
 - LORA, an acronym for level of repair analysis
 - LoRa, a long-range low-power wireless communication technology over radio frequencies
 - LORA, an acronym for "logic of rational agents", see BDI software agents
 - LoRA, an acronym for "low-rank adaptation". A technique for efficiently fine-tuning machine learning models.
 
Other
- Lora, an Ancient Roman term for a wine substitute later known as piquette
 - Lora (film), a 2007 Hungarian film
 
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Lora
 - All pages with titles containing Lora
 - Laura (disambiguation)
 - Lota (name)