Mara

Mara or MARA may refer to:

Fictional characters

 * Mara (Doctor Who), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials
 * Mara, a fictional planet of Procyon in the Childe Cycle of Gordon R. Dickson
 * Mara (She-Ra), fictional characters from the She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and The New Adventures of He-Man animated series
 * Mara, leader of the Acoma Clan and heroine of the "Empire Trilogy" by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts
 * Mara Jade, in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
 * Mara Sewell, a fictional character in The Shield, portrayed by Michele Hicks
 * Mara Sov, a fictional character in the video game Destiny
 * Mara Wade, title character of Mara of the Wilderness, a 1965 adventure film
 * Mara Dyer, title character in the Mara Dyer trilogy by Michelle Hodkin
 * Mara, a deity featured in the Disneyland attraction Indiana Jones Adventure

Other uses in arts and entertainment

 * Mara the Lioness, an animal actor
 * Mara (album), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig
 * Mara (film), a 2018 American supernatural horror film starring Olga Kurylenko
 * Maara, a 2021 Indian film by Dhilip Kumar
 * Mara, an 1894 novel by Ioan Slavici
 * Dance Club Mara, a formation dance team, Minsk, Belarus

Cultural and language groupings

 * Mara (Tagin), a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh
 * Mara language, a language spoken by the Mara people of India and Burma
 * Mara people
 * Maric languages, a group of Aboriginal Australian languages also known as Mara or Maran
 * Marra language, an Aboriginal Australian language (also known as Mara)
 * Marra people, an Aboriginal Australian people

Folklore, mythology, and religion

 * Mara (demon), in Buddhism
 * Mara (folklore), a wraith-like creature in Germanic and Scandinavian folklore
 * Mara (Hindu goddess) of death
 * Mara, anagram of Rama, for Valmiki to chant in Hindu mythology
 * Marzanna or Mara, Slavic goddess
 * Māra, Latvian goddess

Military and transport

 * MARA (anti-tank weapon), Argentine antitank missile
 * Mirage 5P Mara, upgraded Dassault Mirage 5 aircraft for Argentine Air Force
 * Shell Mara, a Lake tanker operated in Lake Maracaibo by Shell Oil
 * SS Mara, a Lake tanker operated in Lake Maracaibo by Lago Oil and Transport Company

Organisations

 * Mara (gang), a form of gang in the United States, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala
 * Mara (supermarket), a Romanian supermarket chain
 * Mara Group, a multinational and multisectoral corporation with roots in East Africa
 * Marathon Digital, an American digital asset technology firm which trades on the Nasdaq as MARA
 * Majlis Amanah Rakyat (People's Trust Council), MARA, a Malaysian government agency
 * Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, a Chinese central government ministry
 * Migration Agents Registration Authority, the Australian regulator of migration agents
 * Universiti Teknologi MARA, a public university in Malaysia

People with the name

 * Mara (name), list of people with this name
 * Māra (given name), a Latvian given name
 * Mára, the stage name for American musician Faith Coloccia during solo performances
 * Mahinda Rajapaksa, 6th president of Sri Lanka
 * Mara (singer), Russian rock singer

Places

 * Including geographical features


 * Mara (torrent), a stream of Switzerland and Italy
 * Mara, Aragon, a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
 * Mara, Iran, a village in Tehran province
 * Mara, Isfahan, a village in Iran
 * Mara, Kerman, a village in Iran
 * Mara, Sardinia, a commune on the Italian island of Sardinia
 * Mara, a small town in the Bushveld of South Africa
 * Mara, a village in Desești Commune, Maramureș County, Romania
 * Mara, a village in Tararua District, part of Wellington Region, New Zealand
 * Mara District, a district in the province of Cotabambas, Apurimac, Peru
 * Mara (Iza), a river in northern Romania
 * Mara Lake, a lake in British Columbia, Canada
 * Mara Mountain, a mountain in Greenland, and the closest mountain to the North Pole
 * Mara Provincial Park (Ontario), a provincial park located near Orillia, Ontario, Canada
 * Mara Provincial Park, a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada
 * Mara Region, an administrative division in Tanzania
 * Mara River (Nunavut), a river in Canada
 * Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
 * Măra River, a river in Romania
 * Marado or Mara Island, South Korea
 * Masai Mara, known locally as "The Mara", a reserve in Kenya near the Mara River

Other uses

 * Mara (mammal), a subfamily of the cavy family
 * MaraDNS, DNS software
 * Mandibular Anterior Repositioning Appliance, an orthodontic functional appliance