Lora

Lora is a female given name and family name in the Spanish language of French origin meaning from Lorraine, a region in Northeastern France.

As a 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 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 (born 1932), Russian chess grandmaster

People with the surname Lora

 * Alan Loras, is a Bolivian footballer.
 * Alberto Lora Ramos (born 1987), Spanish football player
 * Alex Lora (born 1952), Mexican musician and composer
 * Carmen Josefina Lora Iglesias (1940 – 1999), was a Dominican revolutionary and lawyer.
 * Enrique Lora (born 1945), Star Spanish Football player for Sevilla FC in the 1970s
 * Fabiano Bolla Lora (born 1977), a Brazilian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
 * Filippo Lora (born 1993), Italian Football player of Spanish descent playing for Ravenna F.C.
 * Francisco Augusto Lora, former vice president of the Dominican Republic and presidential candidate
 * Guillermo Lora (1922-2009), Trotskyist leader in Bolivia
 * Johan Lora (Born 1982), Dominican international footballer
 * Luis Eduardo Lora (born 1986), Colombian football player.
 * Mathias Loras (1792-1858), French priest, first Bishop of the Dubuque Diocese
 * Manny Lora (born 1991), American baseball coach and former pitcher.
 * 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 TV & 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, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 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 low power wireless communication technology
 * LORA, an acronym for "Logic Of Rational Agents", see BDI Software Agents
 * LoRA, an acronym for "Low-Rank Adaptation". A technique for efficiently finetuning machine learning models.

Other

 * Lora, an Ancient Roman term for a wine substitute later known as piquette
 * Lora (film), a 2007 Hungarian film