Tara

Tara may refer to:

Film and television

 * Tara (1992 film), an Indian film directed by Bijaya Jena
 * Tara (2001 film), an American film, also known as Hood Rat, directed by Leslie Small
 * Tara (2010 film), a Bengali film directed by Bratyo Basu
 * Tara (2013 film), an Indian film directed by Kumar Raj
 * Tara (TV series), soap opera that aired on Zee TV
 * TARA, acronym for The Amazing Race Asia, a reality game show on the AXN network
 * Acronym for The Amazing Race Australia, a reality game show on Network Ten

Music

 * T-ara, a South Korean girl music group
 * Tara Music, a label featuring traditional Irish music
 * Tara (Absu album)
 * "Tara" (song), a song on Moya Brennan's 2003 album Two Horizons
 * Tara (Yano album)
 * "Tara", a song by Roxy Music on the 1982 album Avalon (Roxy Music album)

Fictional settings

 * Tara (plantation), fictional home of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
 * Tara, a planet, setting of the Doctor Who serial The Androids of Tara
 * Tara, a fictional town, the setting for the 1970 film The Spider's Stratagem

Biology

 * Tara (plant), a genus of legumes
 * Tara (spider), a genus of jumping spiders
 * Tara tree (Caesalpitarania spinosa), native to Peru
 * Tara, a Malagasy name for the shrub Lemuropisum edule
 * Tara, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup T
 * A Vitis rotundifolia grape variety
 * Tara, Māori for the White-fronted tern (Sterna striata)
 * Tara, a Chinese name for Calamus erectus

Companies and media

 * Țara, a newspaper from the Republic of Moldova
 * Tara Air, a Nepalese airline
 * Tara International, Indian marketer for Tara Green Auto
 * Tara Labs, a manufacturer of high-end audio products
 * Tara Muzik, a defunct Indian Bengali music channel
 * Tara Newz, a defunct Indian Bengali news channel
 * Tara Television (or Tara TV), an Irish cable and satellite channel

People

 * Şarık Tara (1930–2018), Turkish billionaire and former captain of industry
 * Tara (Assamese actress), former Indian film actress
 * Tara (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
 * Tara (Kannada actress), stage name of Indian actress and politician Anuradha
 * Tara (wrestler), ring name of professional wrestler Lisa Marie Varon
 * Tara the Southern Belle, a member of the Southern Belles tag-team from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling

Natural features

 * Tara (Drina), a river in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, a tributary of the Drina
 * Tara (Irtysh), a river in Russia (in Novosibirsk and Omsk Oblasts), a tributary of the Irtysh
 * Tara, an older name for the river Tragus, in Greece (in Arcadia)
 * Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Japan (in Saga Prefecture)
 * Tara Mountain, Serbia
 * Tara National Park, Serbia
 * Tara Island, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines
 * Tara Hill, County Wexford, Ireland, a hill and a village
 * Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland, a ritual site of ancient high kings of Ireland
 * Salar de Tara, a salt pan in Chile
 * 5863 Tara, an asteroid

Africa

 * "Tara", Cairo, a squatted villa on Gezira Island, Cairo, Egypt, made notorious by its SOE occupants during World War II
 * Tara, Zambia, a village in the Southern Province of Zambia
 * Tara Subcounty, a region in Maracha District, Uganda

Asia

 * Tara, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province
 * Tara, Nepal, a village in Baglung District in the Dhawalagiri Zone of central Nepal
 * Tara, Russia, several inhabited localities
 * Tara, Saga, a town, mountain, and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan

Australia

 * Tara, Northern Territory, a locality in the Barkly Region
 * Tara, Queensland, a town
 * Tara County, New South Wales
 * Shire of Tara, Queensland

Europe

 * Hill of Tara, an ancient site in County Meath, Republic of Ireland
 * Tara, County Down, a townland in the civil parish of Witter, County Down, Northern Ireland
 * Tara, County Offaly, a townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Republic of Ireland

North America

 * Tara, Florida, United States, an unincorporated area
 * Tara, Ontario, village in Canada
 * Tara Township, Minnesota (disambiguation), several places in the United States

Religion

 * In Hinduism:
 * Tara (Mahavidya), a Tantric goddess
 * Tara (Ramayana), the wife of the monkey king Vali
 * Tara (Hindu goddess), the wife of Brihaspati
 * Tara (Buddhism), a tantric meditation deity in Tibetan Buddhism
 * Tara, a sea goddess in Polynesian mythology
 * Tara (Greek mythology), a name of one of the Hesperides attested on a vase

Schools

 * Tara Anglican School for Girls, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
 * Tara High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
 * Tara Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist center in Melbourne, Australia

Titles

 * Baron Brabazon of Tara, a UK title
 * Baron Tara, an Irish title
 * Kingship of Tara, a title in ancient Ireland
 * Viscount Tara, an Irish title

Transportation

 * Tara Air, a Nepalese airline
 * Tara, an oceanic research vessel used for the Tara expedition
 * Tara Field, an airport in Georgia, United States
 * Tara Station, a railway station in Saga Prefecture, Japan
 * Tara Street, a major traffic route in Dublin, Ireland
 * Tara Street railway station in Dublin, Ireland
 * IKCO Tara, a car

Other uses

 * Đurđevića Tara Bridge, a bridge over the Tara River in northern Montenegro
 * Tārā, Tahitian slang for 5 CFP francs
 * Tara (cat), a family cat who saved a four-year-old boy from a dog attack
 * Tara (Northern Ireland), a loyalist group
 * Tara, Chertsey, a house in Surrey, UK, previously the home of drummer Keith Moon
 * Tara Brooch, an artifact from Ireland
 * Tara Foundation, a charity for transgender people
 * Tara Hurdle, a horse race in Ireland
 * Tara Mine, a zinc and lead mine near Navan, County Meath, Ireland
 * Tara Theatre, an art house movie theater in Atlanta named after the plantation in Gone With the Wind
 * Timed antagonistic response alethiometer, a type of lie detection technique
 * Tāra, Māori language name for New Zealand dollar
 * Yugoslav submarine Nebojša, or Tara, a submarine of the Yugoslav Navy