# Lyra (disambiguation)

Lyra is a constellation.
Lyra may also refer to:

## Music
### Instruments

* Lyre, a stringed musical instrument used in ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece and elsewhere
** Lyres of Ur, a stringed musical instrument used in ancient Mesopotamia
** Byzantine lyra, a bowed string musical instrument used in the Byzantine Empire
** Lyra (Cretan), a bowed instrument used in folk music in Crete, Greece
** Lira Calabrese, a bowed instrument used in folk music in Calabria, Italy
** Lira da braccio, a European bowed string instrument of the Renaissance
** Kemenche, a bowed instrument used in folk music in Turkey, Greece and Iran
* RCA Lyra, a line of digital audio players

### Songs / Compositions

* "Lyra" (song), a 2007 song by Kate Bush
* "Lyra", a song by Breaking Benjamin from the 2018 album Ember
* "Lyra", a song by Big Red Machine from their self-titled album
* Lyra, a composition for trumpet and piano by Hale A. VanderCook

## People
### As a given name

* Lyra McKee (1990–2019), Northern Irish journalist and author
* Lyra Taylor (1894–1979), social worker and lawyer from New Zealand
* Lyrae van Clief-Stefanon (born 1971), American poet

### As a surname

* Nicholas of Lyra (1270–1349), influential Biblical exegete
* Carlos Lyra (1933–2023), Brazilian musician
* Carmen Lyra (1887–1949), pseudonym of female Costa Rican writer, born Maria Isabel Carvajal Quesada
* Cristina Lyra (born 1976), Brazilian sports and newscaster
* Raquel Lyra (born 1978) Brazilian lawyer and politician
* Débora Lyra (born 1989), Brazilian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder
* Fernando Lyra (1938–2013), Brazilian politician who served as Minister of Justice
* João Lyra (1931–2021), Brazilian businessman and politician
* Markus Lyra (born 1945), Finnish retired diplomat

### Stage name

* Lyra (singer), Irish singer-songwriter and musician, Laura Brophy

### Characters

* Lyra Belacqua, one of the two protagonists in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
* She-Hulk (Lyra), a Marvel Comics superhero
* Lyra, a character in the game and anime Mega Man Star Force
* Lyra (Pokémon), the female player character in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver
* Lyra Heartstrings, a background character in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* Lyra (Silver Key), a Celestial Spirit character in Fairy Tail
* Lyra Erso, a character in the Star Wars universe
* Lyra Dawnbringer, an angel in Magic: The Gathering
* Lyra, a hero in the Vainglory (video game) MOBA game

## Places

* The Latin name of Lier, Belgium
** K. Lyra, a Lier football club
** K. Lyra-Lierse Berlaar, a Lier football club
* Lyra, Queensland, a locality in Australia
** Lyra railway station
* Lyra, Ohio, a community in the United States
* Lyra Reef, a coral atoll in Oceania

## Vessels

* HMS Lyra, the name of four ships of the Royal Navy
* Alfa-class submarine (Russian: Лира, Lyra), a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarines with a NATO reporting name of Alfa class

## Other uses

* Lyra, aerial hoop used in circus performance
* Lyra (neuroanatomy) or psalterium, part of the commissure of fornix or hippocampal commissure
* Lyra (virtual assistant), an intelligent personal assistant developed by Artificial Solutions
* Lyra, a novel series by Patricia Wrede
* Lyra (TV series), a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network
* Lyra (codec), a lossy audio codec developed by Google
* Lyra, a genus of gastropod
* "Lyra" sherkana, a species of extinct giraffid