Lora

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title: "Lora" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["spanish-language-surnames", "surnames-of-french-origin"] topic_path: "geography/spain" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lora" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

Lora as a family name in the Spanish language of French origin meaning from Lorraine, a region in Northeastern France that was named in honor of Lothair I. It's Latin origin that means "crowned with laurel" or "laurel".

As a female given name Lora may also be a variant of Laura or derived from an Italian hypocoristic of either Eleonora or Loredana.

People with the given name Lora

• Lora (singer) (born 1982), Romanian singer
• Lora Aborn (1907–2005), American composer
• Lora Aroyo, Dutch computer scientist
• Lora Beldon, American artist-curator
• Lora Haines Cook (1866–1946), American civic leader
• Lora L. Corum (1899-1949), American co-winner
• Lora Dimitrova (born 1962), Bulgarian Pianist
• Lora Fachie (born 1988), English racing cyclist
• Lora Fairclough (born 1970), English professional golfer
• Lora Lee Gayer (born 1988), American actress
• Lora Grosu (born 1959), Moldovan politician
• Lora Hirschberg (born 1963), American sound engineer
• Lora Hooper, American biologist
• Lora Hubbel, American politician
• Lora Johnson, American author
• Lora Lazar, Bulgarian crime writer
• Lora Leigh (born 1965), American author
• Lora Logic (born 1960), British saxophonist
• Lora La Mance (1857–1939), American writer
• Lora Marx (1900-1989), American sculptor
• Lora Lee Michel (born 1940), American actress
• Lora Ottenad (born 1964), American professional bodybuilder
• Lora Petrova (born 1998), Bulgarian footballer
• Lora Reinbold (born 1964), American politician
• Lora Romero (1960-1997), American assistant professor
• Lora Storey (born 1989), Australian middle-distance runner
• Lora Webster (born 1986), American Paralympic volleyballist
• Lora Yakovleva (1932–2022), Russian chess grandmaster

People with the surname Lora

• Alberto Lora Ramos (born 1987), Spanish football player
• Alan Loras, Bolivian footballer
• Alex Lora (born 1952), Mexican musician and composer
• Carmen Josefina Lora Iglesias (1940 – 1999), Dominican revolutionary and lawyer
• Enrique Lora (born 1945), Spanish footballer
• Fabiano Bolla Lora (born 1977), Brazilian footballer
• Filippo Lora (born 1993), Italian footballer
• Francisco Augusto Lora, Dominican politician
• Guillermo Lora (1922-2009), Bolivian Trotskyist
• Johan Lora (born 1982), Dominican footballer
• Luis Eduardo Lora (born 1986), Colombian footballer
• Mathias Loras (1792-1858), French priest
• Manny Lora (born 1991), American baseball player and coach
• Marie Lora-Mungai, French producer, writer and show runner
• Miguel "Happy" Lora (born 1961), Colombian boxer
• Ñico Lora (1880-1971), Dominican, father of Merengue music
• Saturnino and Mariano Lora, Cuban brothers, war heroes
• Yelitza Lora, Dominican television and radio host and actress

Places

• Lora (Lydia), a town of ancient Lydia, now in Turkey
• Lora, Norway, a village in Lesja municipality in Oppland
• Lora, Chile a town on the Mataquito River, Chile
• Lora, a frazioni in the municipality of Campegine, Italy
• Lora (Split), a neighborhood and naval base in Split, Croatia
• Lora, Abbottabad, a village and union council in Pakistan
• Lora River, Pakistan
• Lora de Estepa, a municipality in the province of Seville, Spain
• Lora del Río, a municipality in the province of Seville, Spain
• Loras College, a four-year Catholic university located in Dubuque, Iowa
• Falls of Lora, a tidal race which forms at the mouth of Loch Etive, Scotland
• Sargentes de la Lora, a municipality located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain.

Animals

• Lora or Leptophis ahaetulla, a Parrot Snake found in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago
• Grey Lora or Leptophis stimsoni, a small snake which is endemic to Trinidad and Tobago
• Lora (genus), a gastropod genus of the Turridae family

Technology

• LORA (missile), a theatre quasiballistic missile produced in Israel
• LORA, an acronym for level of repair analysis
• LoRa, a long-range low-power wireless communication technology over radio frequencies
• LORA, an acronym for "logic of rational agents", see BDI software agents
• LoRA (machine learning), an acronym for "low-rank adaptation". A technique for efficiently fine-tuning machine learning models.

Other

• Lora, an Ancient Roman term for a wine substitute later known as piquette
• Lora (film), a 2007 Hungarian film

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