Kara (name)

Kara is both a given name and a surname.^[1] In Turkic languages it means “black”. (See for example, the Karakoram mountains!)

Notable people with the name include:

Given name[]

Entertainment[]

• Kara Kennedy Allen (1960–2011), professional board member and a television producer
• Kara DioGuardi (born 1970), American singer-songwriter
• Kara Edwards (born 1977), American voice actress
• Kara Karaev (1918–1982), Azerbaijani composer
• Kara Lindsay (born 1985), American theatre actress
• Kara Lord (born 1988), Miss Guyana Universe 2011
• Kara Monaco (born 1983), Playboy model
• Kara Nova (active since 2011), American pole acrobat
• Kara Tointon (born 1983), English actress
• Kara Walker (born 1969), contemporary African-American artist
• Kara Wilson (born 1944), Scottish actress

Sports[]

• Kara Drew (born 1975), American professional wrestler, manager, and former WWE Diva
• Kara Eaker (born 2002), American artistic gymnast
• Kara Mbodj (born 1989), Senegalese footballer

Other fields[]

• Kara Mahmud Bushati (1749–1796), noble of the Bushati family
• Kara David (born 1973), Filipina broadcast journalist and television host
• Kara Mustafa Pasha (1634/5–1683), Ottoman military leader
• Kara Neumann case, in which parents of a sick child treated her with only prayer, resulting in the child's death in 2008
• Qara Osman (in Turkish: Kara Yülük Osman) (before 1400–1435), Turkish ruler

Surname[]

• Abir Kara (born 1983), Israeli businessman and politician
• Ayoob Kara (born 1955), Druze Israeli politician
• Aytaç Kara (born 1993), Turkish footballer
• Fatma Kara (born 1991), Turkish female footballer
• Miriam Kara (born 1938), Israeli Olympic gymnast
• Nader Kara (born 1980), Libyan footballer
• Princess Kara (born 2000), Nigerian discus thrower
• Rasim Kara (born 1950), Turkish footballer

Mythical or fictional characters[]

• Kára, a valkyrie in Norse mythology
• Supergirl's original Kryptonian name in the comics is Kara Zor-El, and in some of the more recent adaptations of the character she uses "Kara" in her civilian life as well:
  • On the Smallville TV series she was Kara Kent.
  • On Superman: The Animated Series she's not Kryptonian but is still named Kara (In-Ze).
  • Her comic-book alternate-universe counterpart from Earth-2, Power Girl, is Kara Zor-L.
  • On the CW Supergirl series her civilian name is Kara Danvers.
• Kara Ben Nemsi, in the works of German writer Karl May
• Kara Thrace, in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica franchise
• Kara, the Jungle Princess, an Exciting Comics character
• Kara Cupper, a fictional child character in Shining Time Station
• Kara, one of the three android protagonists of the videogame Detroit: Become Human

See also[]

Look up Kara in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• All pages with titles beginning with Kara
• All pages with titles containing Kara
• Kara (disambiguation)
• Cara (given name)
• Cara (disambiguation) § People, includes a list of people with the surname Cara
• Kaja (name)

References[]

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