Laura

Laura may refer to:

People and fictional characters

 * Laura (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters with the name
 * Laura, muse of Petrarch's poetry
 * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert

Australia

 * Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula
 * Laura, South Australia, a town
 * Laura Bay, a bay on Eyre Peninsula
 * Laura River (Queensland)
 * Laura River (Western Australia)

Italy

 * Laura (Capaccio), a village of the municipality of Capaccio, Campania
 * Laura, Crespina Lorenzana, a village in Tuscany

United States

 * Laura, Illinois, an unincorporated community
 * Laura, Indiana, an unincorporated community
 * Laura, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
 * Laura, Missouri, an unincorporated community
 * Laura, Ohio, a village

Elsewhere

 * Laura, Saskatchewan, Canada, a hamlet
 * Laura, Marshall Islands, a town
 * Laura, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, a village
 * Laura River (Romania)
 * 467 Laura, an asteroid

Art

 * Laura (Giorgione), a 1506 painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione

Films

 * Laura (1944 film), an American film noir directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney
 * Laura (1955 film), an American television film for The 20th Century-Fox Hour
 * Laura (1968 film), an American television film
 * Laura (1979 film), a French romantic drama film

Literature

 * Laura (novel), a detective novel by Vera Caspary
 * Laura: A Novel You Will Never Forget, a novel by Irish Minister for Justice Alan Shatter
 * Laura, Voyage dans le cristal, an 1864 George Sand novel

Bands

 * Laura (band), an Australian post-rock band
 * Oh Laura, a Swedish indie band formerly known as Laura

Albums

 * Laura (Laura Pausini album), 1994
 * Laura (Menudo album), 1978
 * Laura, a 2004 album by Troy Gregory

Songs

 * "Laura" (1945 song), a song by David Raksin and Johnny Mercer adapted from the 1944 film's theme
 * "Laura" (Bat for Lashes song)
 * "Laura" (Billy Joel song), a song by Billy Joel from the 1982 album The Nylon Curtain
 * "Laura" (Scissor Sisters song), 2003
 * "Laura" (What's He Got That I Ain't Got), a 1976 song by Kenny Rogers
 * "Laura", a 1977 song by the Catalan singer-songwriter Lluís Llach
 * "Laura", a 1987 song by Fields of the Nephilim
 * "Laura", a song by the Celtic-Punk band Flogging Molly
 * "Laura", a song by indie rock group Girls
 * "Laura", a 1986 song composed by Jean-Jacques Goldman
 * "Laura", a song by Nick Heyward from Haircut 100 in 1985
 * "Laura", a song performed by Billy Joel on his album The Nylon Curtain
 * "Laura", a song by the British shoegazing band Lush
 * "Laura", a song by the tejano band Mazz
 * "Laura", a song by Jimmy Nail in 1992
 * "Laura," a parody of the 1945 song performed by Spike Jones and His Other Orchestra

Television

 * "Laura" (Fear the Walking Dead), an episode of the American television series Fear the Walking Dead
 * Laura (TV series), a TV program hosted by Laura Bozzo (also known as Laura en América, Laura sin censura, Laura en acción, and Laura de todos)
 * "Laura", an episode of the television show Magnum, P.I., guest starring Frank Sinatra

Ships

 * SS Laura, a number of steamships with this name
 * HMS Laura (1806), a Royal Navy schooner
 * Laura (1835 steamboat), an American steamboat

Other

 * List of storms named Laura, various tropical cyclones
 * Aichi E11A, World War II Japanese Navy flying boat codenamed "Laura" by the Allies
 * Škoda Laura, a small family car
 * Laura Airport, Laura, Queensland, Australia
 * Laura (clothing retailer), a chain of Canadian women's fashions
 * Laura (crustacean), a genus of maxillopoda
 * Laura potato, a cultivar of potato
 * Laura or lavra (Greek: Λαύρα, Cyrillic: Лавра), a cluster of cells or caves used by hermits, loosely connected into a community
 * Laura (magazine), a German magazine published by Bauer Group