# 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