Kara (name)
Kara is both a given name and a surname.[1] Notable people with the name include:
Given name
Entertainment
- Kara Monaco, Playboy model
- Kara Kennedy Allen (1960–2011), professional board member and a television producer
- Kara DioGuardi (born 1970), American singer-songwriter
- Kara Edwards (born 1977), American voice actress
- Kara Karaev (1918–1982), Azerbaijani composer
- Kara Lindsay (born 1985), American theatre actress
- Kara Lord (born 1988), Miss Guyana Universe 2011
- Kara Tointon (born 1983), English actress
- Kara Walker (born 1969), contemporary African-American artist
- Kara Wilson (born 1944), Scottish actress
- Kara Nova (active since 2011), American pole acrobat
Sports
- Kara Drew (born 1975), American professional wrestler, manager, and former WWE Diva
- Kara Eaker (born 2002), American artistic gymnast
- Kara Mbodj (born 1989), Senegalese footballer
Other fields
- Kara Mahmud Bushati (1749–1796), noble of the Bushati family
- Kara David (born 1973), Filipina broadcast journalist and television host
- Kara Mustafa Pasha (1634/5–1683), Ottoman military leader
- Kara Neumann case, in which parents of a sick child treated her with only prayer, resulting in the child's death in 2008
- Qara Osman (in Turkish: Kara Yülük Osman) (before 1400–1435), Turkish ruler
Surname
- Ayoob Kara (born 1955), Druze Israeli politician
- Aytaç Kara (born 1993), Turkish footballer
- Fatma Kara (born 1991), Turkish female footballer
- Miriam Kara (born 1938), Israeli Olympic gymnast
- Naciye Kara (born 1993), Turkish female footballer
- Nader Kara (born 1980), Libyan footballer
- Princess Kara (born 2000), Nigerian discus thrower
- Rasim Kara (born 1950), Turkish footballer
Mythical or fictional characters
- Kára, a valkyrie in Norse mythology
- Kara Zor-El, Kryptonian name of Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)
- Kara Kent (Smallville), Superman's cousin in the TV series Smallville
- Kara In-Ze, a recurring character in Superman: The Animated Series, from Krypton's sister planet Argos and unrelated to Superman
- Power Girl (real name Kara Zor-L), a DC Comics superheroine
- Kara Ben Nemsi, in the works of German writer Karl May
- Kara Thrace, in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica franchise
- Kara, the Jungle Princess, an Exciting Comics character
- Kara Cupper, a fictional child character in Shining Time Station
- Kara, one of the three android protagonists of the videogame Detroit: Become Human
See also
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- All pages with titles beginning with Kara
- All pages with titles containing Kara
- Kara (disambiguation)
- Cara (given name)
- Cara (disambiguation) § People, includes a list of people with the surname Cara
- Kaja (name)
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