# Tara

Tara may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment
### Film and television

* Tara (1992 film), an Indian film directed by Bijaya Jena
* Tara (2001 film), an American film, also known as Hood Rat, directed by Leslie Small
* Tara (2010 film), a Bengali film directed by Bratyo Basu
* Tara (2013 film), an Indian film directed by Kumar Raj
* Tara (TV series), soap opera that aired on Zee TV
* TARA, acronym for The Amazing Race Asia, a reality game show on the AXN network
** Acronym for The Amazing Race Australia, a reality game show on Network Ten

### Music

* T-ara, a South Korean girl group
* Tara Music, a label featuring traditional Irish music
* Tara (Absu album)
* "Tara" (song), a song on Moya Brennan's 2003 album Two Horizons
* Tara (Yano album)
* "Tara", a song by Roxy Music on the 1982 album Avalon (Roxy Music album)

### Fictional settings

* Tara (plantation), fictional home of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
* Tara, a planet, setting of the Doctor Who serial The Androids of Tara
* Tara, a fictional town, the setting for the 1970 film The Spider's Stratagem

## Biology

* Tara (plant), a genus of legumes
* Tara (spider), a genus of jumping spiders
* Tara tree (Caesalpitarania spinosa), native to Peru
* Tara, a Malagasy name for the shrub Lemuropisum edule
* Tara, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup T
* A Vitis rotundifolia grape variety
* Tara, Māori for the White-fronted tern (Sterna striata)
* Tara, a Chinese name for Calamus erectus

## Companies and media

* Țara, a newspaper from the Republic of Moldova
* Tara Air, a Nepalese airline
* Tara International, Indian marketer for Tara Green Auto
* Tara Labs, a manufacturer of high-end audio products
* Tara Muzik, a defunct Indian Bengali music channel
* Tara Newz, a defunct Indian Bengali news channel
* Tara Television (or Tara TV), an Irish cable and satellite channel

## People

* Şarık Tara (1930–2018), Turkish billionaire and former captain of industry
* Tara (Assamese actress), former Indian film actress
* Tara (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
* Tara (Kannada actress), stage name of Indian actress and politician Anuradha
* Tara (wrestler), ring name of professional wrestler Lisa Marie Varon
* Tara the Southern Belle, a member of the Southern Belles tag-team from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling

## Places
### Natural features

* Tara (Drina), a river in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, a tributary of the Drina
* Tara (Irtysh), a river in Russia (in Novosibirsk and Omsk Oblasts), a tributary of the Irtysh
* Tara, an older name for the river Tragus, in Greece (in Arcadia)
* Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Japan (in Saga Prefecture)
* Tara Mountain, Serbia
* Tara National Park, Serbia
* Tara Island, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines
* Tara Hill, County Wexford, Ireland, a hill and a village
* Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland, a ritual site of ancient high kings of Ireland
* Salar de Tara, a salt pan in Chile
* 5863 Tara, an asteroid

### Populated places
#### Africa

* "Tara", Cairo, a squatted villa on Gezira Island, Cairo, Egypt, made notorious by its SOE occupants during World War II
* Tara, Zambia, a village in the Southern Province of Zambia
* Tara Subcounty, a region in Maracha District, Uganda

#### Asia

* Tara, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province
* Tara, Nepal, a village in Baglung District in the Dhawalagiri Zone of central Nepal
* Tara, Russia, several inhabited localities
* Tara, Saga, a town, mountain, and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan

#### Australia

* Tara, Northern Territory, a locality in the Barkly Region
* Tara, Queensland, a town
* Tara County, New South Wales
* Shire of Tara, Queensland

#### Europe

* Hill of Tara, an ancient site in County Meath, Republic of Ireland
* Tara, County Down, a townland in the civil parish of Witter, County Down, Northern Ireland
* Tara, County Offaly, a townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Republic of Ireland

#### North America

* Tara, Florida, United States, an unincorporated area
* Tara, Ontario, village in Canada
* Tara Hills, California, a CDP
* Tara Township, Minnesota (disambiguation), several places in the United States

## Religion

* In Hinduism:
** Tara (Mahavidya), a Tantric goddess
** Tara (Ramayana), the wife of the monkey king Vali
** Tara (Hindu goddess), the wife of Brihaspati
* Tara (Buddhism), a tantric meditation deity in Tibetan Buddhism
* Tara, a sea goddess in Polynesian mythology
* Tara (mythology), a name of one of the Hesperides attested on a vase

## Schools

* Tara Anglican School for Girls, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
* Tara High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
* Tara Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist center in Melbourne, Australia

## Titles

* Baron Brabazon of Tara, a UK title
* Baron Tara, an Irish title
* Kingship of Tara, a title in ancient Ireland
* Viscount Tara, an Irish title

## Transportation

* Tara Air, a Nepalese airline
* Tara, an oceanic research vessel used for the Tara expedition
* Tara Field, an airport in Georgia, United States
* Tara Station, a railway station in Saga Prefecture, Japan
* Tara Street, a major traffic route in Dublin, Ireland
* Tara Street railway station in Dublin, Ireland
* IKCO Tara, a car

## Other uses

* Đurđevića Tara Bridge, a bridge over the Tara River in northern Montenegro
* Tārā, Tahitian slang for 5 CFP francs
* Tara (cat), a family cat who saved a four-year-old boy from a dog attack
* Tara (Northern Ireland), a loyalist group
* Tara, Chertsey, a house in Surrey, UK, previously the home of drummer Keith Moon
* Tara Brooch, an artifact from Ireland
* Tara Foundation, a charity for transgender people
* Tara Hurdle, a horse race in Ireland
* Tara Mine, a zinc and lead mine near Navan, County Meath, Ireland
* Tara Theatre, an art house movie theater in Atlanta named after the plantation in Gone With the Wind
* Timed antagonistic response alethiometer, a type of lie detection technique
* Tāra, Māori language name for New Zealand dollar
* Yugoslav submarine Nebojša, or Tara, a submarine of the Yugoslav Navy