Para

Para, or PARA, may refer to:

Businesses, professions, and organizations

 * Paramount Global, traded as PARA on the Nasdaq stock exchange
 * Para Group, the former name of CT Corp
 * Para Rubber, now Skellerup, a New Zealand manufacturer
 * Para USA, formerly Para-Ordnance, a firearms manufacturer
 * Pan American Rugby Association
 * Philippine Amateur Radio Association
 * Paraprofessional
 * Paralegal
 * Paramilitary, organisations not part of the armed forces but operate as such
 * Paramedic
 * Parapsychology, the study of alleged psychic phenomena

People

 * Pará (footballer, born 1986), Marcos Rogério Ricci Lopes
 * Pará (footballer, born 1987), Erinaldo Rabelo Santos
 * Pará (footballer, born 1995), Anderson Ferreira da Silva
 * Pará (footballer, born 2002), Luis Felipe Rabelo Costa
 * André Cordeiro (water polo) (born 1967), nicknamed Pará, Brazilian water polo player
 * Para Draine (born 1972), American female boxer
 * Begum Para (1926–2008), Indian film actress

Places

 * Para (Bengali), a Bengali word meaning neighborhood or locality
 * Pará, a state of Brazil
 * Para (community development block), Purulia district, West Bengal, India
 * Para, Purulia
 * Para (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
 * Para, Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, India
 * Para, Rajasthan, India
 * Para, Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, India
 * Para, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India
 * Para, Ivory Coast
 * Para District, Suriname
 * Para River (disambiguation)
 * La Para, a summit in the Swiss Alps

Science and technology

 * Parity (biology), the number of times a woman has given birth, e.g. para 1 etc.
 * Para, common name of fern Ptisana salicina
 * para, symbol for the fruit fly gene paralytic (gene)
 * Para- (chemistry), a position of a substituent on a cyclic hydrocarbon
 * Para red, a dye

Special forces

 * Para Commando Brigade (Bangladesh), special forces of the Bangladeshi Army
 * Para (Special Forces), special forces of the Indian Army
 * Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom), elite infantry of the British Army, known as The Paras
 * Paratrooper, a military parachutist
 * Paracommando, a paratrooper and commando

Other uses

 * Para (currency), a former currency of the Ottoman Empire
 * Para language, an unclassified Naga language of India and Burma
 * Para Handy, a fictional character in the Glasgow Evening News
 * Para Loga, one among the seven Logas (upper worlds) in Ayyavazhi mythology
 * Para Shakti, a Hindu goddess of the Shakti type sometimes concatenated Parashakti
 * Brazilian ship Pará, a list of ships
 * Juz', or para, a division of the Quran