Lora facts for kids

Lora is a female given name and family name in the Spanish language of French origin.

As a given name, Lora may also be a variant of Laura or derived from an Italian hypocoristic of either Eleonora or Loredana.

People with the given name Lora

• Lora (singer) (born 1982), Romanian singer
• Lora Aborn (1907-2005), American composer
• Lora Aroyo, Dutch computer scientist
• Lora Beldon, American artist-curator
• Lora L. Corum (1899-1949), American co-winner
• Lora Fachie (born 1988), English racing cyclist
• Lora Fairclough (born 1970), English professional golfer
• Lora Lee Gayer (born 1988), American actress
• Lora Grosu (born 1959), Moldovan politician
• Lora Hirschberg (born 1963), American sound engineer
• Lora Hooper, American biologist
• Lora Hubbel, American politician
• Lora Johnson, American author
• Lora Lazar, Bulgarian crime writer
• Lora Leigh (born 1965), American author
• Lora Logic (born 1960), British saxophonist
• Lora La Mance (born 1857), American writer
• Lora Marx (1900-1989), American sculptor
• Lora Lee Michel (born 1940), American actress
• Lora Ottenad (born 1964), American professional bodybuilder
• Lora Petrova (born 1998), Bulgarian footballer
• Lora Reinbold (born 1964), American politician
• Lora Romero (1960-1997), American assistant professor
• Lora Storey (born 1989), Australian middle-distance runner
• Lora Webster (born 1986), American Paralympic volleyballist
• Lora Yakovleva (born 1932), Russian chess grandmaster

People with the surname Lora

• Alan Loras, is a Bolivian footballer.
• Alberto Lora Ramos (born 1987), Spanish football player
• Alex Lora (born 1952), Mexican musician and composer
• Carmen Josefina Lora Iglesias (1940 – 1999), was a Dominican revolutionary and lawyer.
• Enrique Lora (born 1945), Star Spanish Football player for Sevilla FC in the 1970s
• Fabiano Bolla Lora (born 1977), a Brazilian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
• Filippo Lora (born 1993), Italian Football player of Spanish descent playing for Ravenna F.C.
• Francisco Augusto Lora, former vice president of the Dominican Republic and presidential candidate
• Guillermo Lora (1922-2009), Trotskyist leader in Bolivia
• Johan Lora (Born 1982), Dominican international footballer
• Luis Eduardo Lora (born 1986), Colombian football player.
• Mathias Loras (1792-1858), French priest, first Bishop of the Dubuque Diocese
• Manny Lora (born 1991), American baseball coach and former pitcher.
• Marie Lora-Mungai, French producer, writer and show runner.
• Miguel "Happy" Lora (born 1961), Colombian boxer
• Ñico Lora (1880-1971), Dominican, father of Merengue music
• Saturnino and Mariano Lora, Cuban brothers, war heroes
• Yelitza Lora, Dominican TV & Radio host and actress

Places

• Lora (Lydia), a town of ancient Lydia, now in Turkey
• Lora, Norway, a village in Lesja municipality in Oppland
• Lora, Chile a town on the Mataquito River, Chile
• Lora, a frazioni in the municipality of Campegine, Italy
• Lora (Split), a neighborhood and naval base in Split, Croatia
• Lora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a village and union council in Pakistan
• Lora River, Pakistan
• Lora de Estepa, a municipality in the province of Seville, Spain
• Lora del Río, a municipality in the province of Seville, Spain
• Loras College, a four-year Catholic university located in Dubuque, Iowa
• Falls of Lora, a tidal race which forms at the mouth of Loch Etive, Scotland
• Sargentes de la Lora, a municipality located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain.

Animals

• Lora or Leptophis ahaetulla, a Parrot Snake found in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago
• Grey Lora or Leptophis stimsoni, a small snake which is endemic to Trinidad and Tobago
• Lora (genus), a gastropod genus of the Turridae family

Technology

• LORA (missile), a theatre quasiballistic missile produced in Israel
• LORA, an acronym for Level of Repair Analysis
• LoRa, a low power wireless communication technology
• LORA, an acronym for "Logic Of Rational Agents", see BDI Software Agents

Other

• Lora, an Ancient Roman term for a wine substitute later known as piquette
• Lora (film), a 2007 Hungarian film

See also

In Spanish: Lora para niños

• All pages with titles beginning with Lora
• All pages with titles containing Lora
• Laura (disambiguation)
• Lota (name)