# Laura

Laura may refer to:

## People and fictional characters

* Laura (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters with the name
* Laura, muse of Petrarch's poetry
* Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert

## Places
### Australia

* Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula
* Laura, South Australia, a town
* Laura Bay, a bay on Eyre Peninsula
* Laura River (Queensland)
* Laura River (Western Australia)

### Italy

* Laura (Capaccio), a village of the municipality of Capaccio, Campania
* Laura, Crespina Lorenzana, a village in Tuscany

### United States

* Laura, Illinois, an unincorporated community
* Laura, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
* Laura, Missouri, an unincorporated community
* Laura, Ohio, a village

### Elsewhere

* Laura, Saskatchewan, Canada, a hamlet
* Laura, Marshall Islands, a town
* Laura, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, a village
* Laura River (Romania)
* 467 Laura, an asteroid

## Arts and entertainment
### Art

* Laura (Giorgione), a 1506 painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione

### Films

* Laura (1944 film), an American film noir directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney
* Laura (1955 film), an American television film for The 20th Century-Fox Hour
* Laura (1968 film), an American television film
* Laura (1979 film), a French romantic drama film

### Literature

* Laura (novel), a detective novel by Vera Caspary
* Laura: A Novel You Will Never Forget, a novel by Irish Minister for Justice Alan Shatter
* Laura, Voyage dans le cristal, an 1864 George Sand novel

### Music
#### Bands

* Laura (band), an Australian post-rock band
* Oh Laura, a Swedish indie band formerly known as Laura

#### Albums

* Laura (Laura Pausini album), 1994
* Laura (Menudo album), 1978
* Laura, a 2004 album by Troy Gregory

#### Songs

* "Laura" (1945 song), a song by David Raksin and Johnny Mercer adapted from the 1944 film's theme
* "Laura" (Bat for Lashes song)
* "Laura" (Billy Joel song), a song by Billy Joel from the 1982 album The Nylon Curtain
* "Laura" (Scissor Sisters song), 2003
* "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)", a 1976 song by Kenny Rogers
* "Laura", a 1977 song by the Catalan singer-songwriter Lluís Llach
* "Laura", a 1987 song by Fields of the Nephilim
* "Laura", a song by the Celtic-Punk band Flogging Molly
* "Laura", a song by indie rock group Girls
* "Laura", a 1986 song composed by Jean-Jacques Goldman
* "Laura", a song by Nick Heyward from Haircut 100 in 1985
* "Laura", a song performed by Billy Joel on his album The Nylon Curtain
* "Laura", a song by the British shoegazing band Lush
* "Laura", a song by the tejano band Mazz
* "Laura", a song by Jimmy Nail in 1992
* "Laura", a song by Ween from the 1991 album The Pod
* "Laura," a parody of the 1945 song performed by Spike Jones and His Other Orchestra

### Television

* "Laura" (Fear the Walking Dead), an episode of the American television series Fear the Walking Dead
* Laura (TV series), a TV program hosted by Laura Bozzo (also known as Laura en América, Laura sin censura, Laura en acción, and Laura de todos)
* "Laura", an episode of the television show Magnum, P.I., guest starring Frank Sinatra

## Ships

* SS Laura, a number of steamships with this name
* HMS Laura (1806), a Royal Navy schooner
* Laura (1835 steamboat), an American steamboat

## Other

* List of storms named Laura, various tropical cyclones
* Aichi E11A, World War II Japanese Navy flying boat codenamed "Laura" by the Allies
* Škoda Laura, a small family car
* Laura Airport, Laura, Queensland, Australia
* Laura (clothing retailer), a chain of Canadian women's fashions
* Laura (crustacean), a genus of maxillopoda
* Laura potato, a cultivar of potato
* Laura or lavra (Greek: Λαύρα, Cyrillic: Лавра), a cluster of cells or caves used by hermits, loosely connected into a community
* Laura (magazine), a German women's weekly magazine