Aurora (given name)

The variant used in the Russian language is "Авро́ра" (Avrora).[1] While in use before the 20th century, it became more common after the Russian Revolution of 1917, due to the role cruiser Aurora played in the events.[1] In 1924–1930, the name was included into various Soviet calendars,[2] which included the new and often artificially created names promoting the new Soviet realities and encouraging the break with the tradition of using the names in the Synodal Menologia.[3] Diminutives of this name include "Авро́рка" (Avrorka), "А́ва" (Ava), "А́ра" (Ara), and "Ро́ра" (Rora).[1]

• Aurora Aksnes (born 1996), Norwegian singer-songwriter
• Aurora Arias (born 1962), Dominican Republican writer, journalist and astrologer
• Aurora Bautista (1925–2012), a Spanish film actress
• Aurora Browne, Canadian actress and comedian
• Aurora Cáceres (1877–1958), a Peruvian-European writer of the "modernismo" literary movement
• Aurora Carlson (born 1987), a television presenter and China scholar
• Aurora Castillo (1914–1998), a Mexican-American who co-founded the Mothers of East Los Angeles (MELA) organization
• Aurora Chamorro (1954–2020), Catalan swimmer
• Aurora Clavel (born 1936), a Mexican film and television actress
• Aurora Cornu (born 1931), a Romanian-born French writer, actress, film director, and translator
• Aurora Cunha (born 1959), a Portuguese long-distance runner
• Aurora Reyes Flores (1908–1985), a Mexican painter and member of the Mexican muralism movement
• Aurora Galli (born 1996), an Italian soccer player
• Aurora Karamzina née Stjernvall (1808–1902), a Finnish Swede philanthropist and noblewoman
• Aurora Königsmarck (1662–1728), mistress of Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland
• Aurora Liljenroth (1772–1836), Swedish scholar
• Aurora Ljungstedt (1821–1908), Swedish horror writer
• Aurora Martinez, director of over 70 Spanish-language action movies
• Aurora Mira (1863–1939), Chilean painter
• Aurora Miranda (1915–2005), a Brazilian entertainer
• Aurora Levins Morales (born 1954), a Puerto Rican writer and poet
• Aurora Nilsson (1894–1972), Swedish writer
• Aurora Estrada Orozco (1918–2011), Mexican American community leader
• Aurora Pijuan (born 1949), the 1970 titleholder of the Miss International beauty pageant
• Aurora Quezon (1888–1949), first spouse of a Philippine president to be called First Lady
• Aurora Robles (born 1980), Mexican supermodel
• Aurora Robson (born 1972), Canadian-American artist
• Aurora Snow (born 1981), American pornographic actress
• Aurore Storckenfeldt (1816–1900), Swedish educator
• Aurora Straus, American racecar driver
• Aurora Venturini (1922–2015) an Argentine writer and translator
• Aurora Wilhelmina Koskull (1778–1852), Swedish lady-in-waiting and salonist
• Aurora Ximenes (born 1955), East Timorese politician

• Aurora, a character in Marvel Comics' Alpha Flight
• Aurora, the title character in Anne-Cath. Vestly's Aurora series for children (1966–1972)
• Aurora (Disney), a princess from the Disney film Sleeping Beauty
• Aurora Espinosa, a character from José Zorrilla's play Traidor, inconfeso y mártir
• Aurora Floyd, a character from Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novel of the same name
• Aurora Greenway, a character from Terms of Endearment portrayed by Shirley MacLaine
• Aurora Hawthorne, the title character of Aurora the Magnificent, a novel by Gertrude Hall (wife of William Crary Brownell)
• Aurora Lane (1917), a character in The Broken Gate, a novel by Emerson Hough (adapted into films in 1920 and 1927)
• Aurora Lane (2016), a character from the film Passengers
• Aurora Leigh, a character in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem of the same name
• Aurora Sinistra, the astronomy professor in the Harry Potter book series
• Aurora Teagarden, a character created by author Charlaine Harris
• Aurora Thorpe, the title character of Helen Barnes's novel Killing Aurora
• Aurora, the main character of Ubisoft game Child of Light