Clara (given name) instance of female given name
Clara or Klara is a female given name. It is the feminine form of the Late Latin name Clarus which meant "clear, bright, famous". Various early male Christian saints were named Clarus; the feminine form became popular after the 13th-century Saint Clare of Assisi (called Chiara in Italian), one of the followers of Saint Francis, who renounced her privileged background and founded the order of Poor Clares.
Clare was the main English form of the name used in the Middle Ages, but the Latin spelling Clara became more popular in the 19th century.Glara is a related Kurdish name with a common origin, meaning "vision or brightness".People with this name
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Clara Alm (born 1996), Swedish footballer
Clara Amfo (born 1984), British broadcaster and presenter
Clara Arthur (1858–1929), American suffragist
Clara Ayres (1880–1917), American nurse during the First World War
Clara Barton (1821–1912), pioneer American teacher, nurse and humanitarian
Clara Doty Bates (1838–1895), American author
Clara Nettie Bates (1876-1966), American editor, writer, clubwoman
Clara Bancroft Beatley (1858-1923), American educator, lecturer, author
Clara Beyers (1880–1950), American actress
Clara Bindi (born 1927), Italian actress
Clara Blandick (1876–1962), American actress
Clara Bonde (1806–1899), Swedish courtier and royal favourite
Clara Bow (1905–1965), American actress
Clara Louise Burnham (1854–1927), American novelist
Clara Butt (1872–1936), English contralto
Clara Germana Cele, South African woman stated in 1906 to have suffered demonic possession
Clara Marguerite Christian (1895–1964), first black woman to study at the University of Edinburgh
Clara Chung (born 1987), Korean-American singer/guitarist also known by her stage name, Clara C
Clara Rankin Coblentz (1863-1933), American social reformer
Clara Eliot (1896–1976), economist
Clara Shortridge Foltz (1849-1934), first female attorney on the Pacific Coast, suffrage leader, founder of the public defender movement
Clara Grima (born 1971), Spanish mathematician
Clara Haskil (1895–1960), Romanian classical pianist, renowned as an interpreter of the classical and early romantic repertoire
Clara H. Hazelrigg (1861–1937), American author, educator and social reformer
Clara Horton (1904–1976), American actress
Clara Hughes (born 1972), Canadian athlete who has won medals in both the summer and winter Olympics
Clara Immerwahr (1870–1915), German chemist, first wife of Fritz Haber
Clara Landsberg (1873–1966), American educator
Clara Lee (born 1985; real name Lee Sung-min), South Korean actress
Clara Lemlich (1886–1982), union organizer, consumer activist, member of the Communist Party
Clara Luper (1923–2011), American civil rights leader
Clara Maniu (1842–1929), Romanian feminist
Clara Morgane (born 1981), French porn star and singer
Clara Mulholland (1849–1934), Irish writer
Clara Ng (born 1973), Indonesian writer
Klara Izabella Pacowa (1631–1685), politically active Polish court official
Clara Paget (born 1988), British model and actress
Clara Petacci (1912–1945), mistress of Benito Mussolini
Clara Rockmore (1911–1998), Lithuanian virtuosa of the theremin
Clara Schønfeld (1856–1938), Danish actress
Clara Schumann (1819–1896), German pianist, composer
Clara Sosa (born 1993), Paraguayan model, television personality and beauty queen
Clara Harrison Stranahan (1831–1905), American author, college founder
Clara Tott (1440–1520), German singer
Clara Augusta Jones Trask (1839–1805), American writer
Clara Ursin (1828–1890), Norwegian (originally Danish) stage actress and opera singer
Clara Belle Williams (1885–1994), first African-American graduate of New Mexico State University
Clara Weekes (1852-1937), Australian educator, suffragist, labor leader and pacifist
Clara Kimball Young (1890–1960), American actress
Clara Zetkin (1857–1933), German Marxist theorist and women's rights activist
Clara Tang (born 1998), English teacher and poet, author of the bestselling novel, "Seasons of Life"Surname
Aemilia Clara, Roman woman who lived in the 2nd century
Didia Clara (born about 153), only child of the Roman Emperor Didius Julianus and Empress Manlia Scantilla
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