ARA

ARA may refer to:

Media and the arts

 * American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences
 * Artistička Radna Akcija, compilation album released in former Yugoslavia
 * Associate of the Royal Academy, denoting membership in the British Royal Academy of Arts
 * ARA News, an online Arabic and English language news service focussed on Syrian and Kurdish events

Organisations

 * Academic Research Alliance, an organization created to involve students in scientific activities
 * Alliance for Retired Americans, a senior citizen organization
 * American Relief Administration, a relief mission after World War I
 * Amateur Rowing Association, the governing body of rowing in the United Kingdom, now renamed British Rowing
 * Amateurs Radio Algeriens, the national amateur radio organization of Algeria
 * American Radio Association, a national AFL-CIO affiliated labor union representing U.S. Flag Merchant Marine Licensed Communications and Electronics Officers
 * American Railway Association, precursor to the Association of American Railroads
 * American Rally Association, governing body of rallying and championship in the United States
 * Anti-Racist Action, a network of anti-racist activists
 * Anti-Racist Alliance, a defunct anti-racist organisation in the United Kingdom
 * Applied Research Associates, a research and engineering company
 * Arab Rescue Army, a volunteer army during the 1948 Palestine war
 * Arcade and Attica Railroad, from its reporting mark
 * Archives and Records Association, professional body for UK and Irish archivists, archive conservators and records managers
 * Assets Recovery Agency, a British agency for the recovery of the proceeds of crime
 * Athénée Royal d'Auderghem, a school in Brussels, Belgium
 * Australasian Raptor Association, a special interest group of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Military

 * Aerial Rocket Artillery, helicopter artillery units used by the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War mainly to engage ground targets
 * Armada de la República Argentina, the Argentine Navy (Argentine Navy ships use ARA as a name prefix, just as the US Navy uses USS)
 * Armenian Revolutionary Army, an armed militant group
 * Aryan Republican Army, white nationalist criminal group
 * Australian Regular Army

Government

 * Auckland Regional Authority, a former local government council in New Zealand

Sciences

 * Angiotensin II receptor antagonist, more often called angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB)
 * Aldosterone receptor antagonist (mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, that is, antimineralocorticoid)
 * Ant-based Routing Algorithm, a wireless mesh network routing protocol; see Swarm intelligence
 * AppleTalk Remote Access, a communications protocol
 * Audio Random Access, an extension to audio plug-in interfaces
 * Arachidonic acid (also AA), as found in breast milk and infant formula
 * The Arrow-Pratt measure of absolute risk aversion
 * Askaryan Radio Array (ARA), a GZK neutrino detector based on the Askaryan effect and will be positioned in the Antarctic ice sheet

Computer science

 * Application release automation

People

 * Amedeo Rocco Armentano (1886–1966), Italian esotericist and musician