Lora

Lora as a family name in the Spanish language of French origin meaning from Lorraine, a region in Northeastern France that was named in honor of Lothair I. It's Latin origin that means "crowned with laurel" or "laurel".

As a female 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 Haines Cook (1866–1946), American civic leader
Lora L. Corum (1899-1949), American co-winner
Lora Dimitrova (born 1962), Bulgarian Pianist
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 (1857–1939), 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

Alberto Lora Ramos (born 1987), Spanish football player
Alan Loras, Bolivian footballer
Alex Lora (born 1952), Mexican musician and composer
Carmen Josefina Lora Iglesias (1940 – 1999), Dominican revolutionary and lawyer
Enrique Lora (born 1945), Spanish footballer
Fabiano Bolla Lora (born 1977), Brazilian footballer
Filippo Lora (born 1993), Italian footballer
Francisco Augusto Lora, Dominican politician
Guillermo Lora (1922-2009), Bolivian Trotskyist
Johan Lora (born 1982), Dominican footballer
Luis Eduardo Lora (born 1986), Colombian footballer
Mathias Loras (1792-1858), French priest
Manny Lora (born 1991), American baseball player and coach
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 television and 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 long-range low-power wireless communication technology over radio frequencies
LORA, an acronym for "Logic Of Rational Agents", see BDI Software Agents
LoRA, an acronym for "Low-Rank Adaptation". A technique for efficiently finetuning machine learning models.

Other

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