# Mara

Mara or MARA may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment
### Fictional characters

* Mara (Doctor Who), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials
* Mara (She-Ra), fictional characters from the She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and The New Adventures of He-Man animated series
* Mara Davis/Mara David/Mara del Valle, a character from Philippine drama series Mara Clara (1992 TV series) and Mara Clara (2010 TV series)
* Mara Jade, in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
* Mara Sewell, a fictional character in The Shield
* Mara Wade, title character of Mara of the Wilderness

### Other uses in arts and entertainment

* Mara the Lioness, an animal actor
* Mara (album), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig
* Mara (film), a 2018 American supernatural horror film starring Olga Kurylenko
* Maara, a 2021 Indian film by Dhilip Kumar
* Mara, an 1894 novel by Ioan Slavici
* Dance Club Mara, a formation dance team, Minsk, Belarus

## Cultural and language groupings

* Mara (Tagin), a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh
* Mara language, a language spoken by the Mara people of India and Burma
** Mara people
* Maric languages, a group of Aboriginal Australian languages also known as Mara or Maran
* Marra language, an Aboriginal Australian language (also known as Mara)
** Marra people, an Aboriginal Australian people

## Folklore, mythology, and religion

* Mara (demon), in Buddhism
* Mara (folklore), a wraith-like creature in Germanic and Scandinavian folklore
* Mara (Hindu goddess) of death
* Mara, anagram of Rama, for Valmiki to chant in Hindu mythology
* Marzanna or Mara, Slavic goddess
* Māra, Latvian goddess

## Military and transport

* MARA (anti-tank weapon), Argentine antitank missile
* Mirage 5P Mara, upgraded Dassault Mirage 5 aircraft for Argentine Air Force
* Shell Mara, a Lake tanker operated in Lake Maracaibo by Shell Oil
* SS Mara, a Lake tanker operated in Lake Maracaibo by Lago Oil and Transport Company

## Organisations

* Mara (gang), a form of gang in the United States, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala
* Mara Group, a multinational and multisectoral corporation with roots in East Africa
* Marathon Digital, an American digital asset technology firm which trades on the Nasdaq as MARA
* Majlis Amanah Rakyat (People's Trust Council), MARA, a Malaysian government agency
* Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, a Chinese central government ministry
* Migration Agents Registration Authority, the Australian regulator of migration agents
* Universiti Teknologi MARA, a public university in Malaysia

## People with the name

* Mara (name), list of people with this name
* Māra (given name), a Latvian given name
* Mára, the stage name for American musician Faith Coloccia during solo performances
* Mara (singer), Russian rock singer
* Mara, nom de guerre of Estreya Haim Ovadya, Yugoslavian partisan

## Places

    Including geographical features
* Mara (torrent), a stream of Switzerland and Italy
* Mara, Aragon, a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
* Mara, Iran, a village in Tehran province
* Mara, Isfahan, a village in Iran
* Mara, Kerman, a village in Iran
* Mara, Sardinia, a commune on the Italian island of Sardinia
* Mara, a small town in the Bushveld of South Africa
* Mara, a village in Desești Commune, Maramureș County, Romania
* Mara, a village in Tararua District, part of Wellington Region, New Zealand
* Mara District, a district in the province of Cotabambas, Apurimac, Peru
* Mara (Iza), a river in northern Romania
* Mara Lake, a lake in British Columbia, Canada
* Mara Mountain, a mountain in Greenland, and the closest mountain to the North Pole
* Mara Provincial Park (Ontario), a provincial park located near Orillia, Ontario, Canada
* Mara Provincial Park, a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada
* Mara Region, an administrative division in Tanzania
* Mara River (Nunavut), a river in Canada
* Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
* Măra River, a river in Romania
* Marado or Mara Island, South Korea
* Masai Mara, known locally as "The Mara", a reserve in Kenya near the Mara River

## Other uses

* Mara (mammal), a subfamily of the cavy family
* MaraDNS, DNS software
* Mandibular Anterior Repositioning Appliance, an orthodontic functional appliance