Kara (name)
Kara is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:Given name
Entertainment
- Kara Monaco, Playboy model
- Kara Kennedy Allen, professional board member and a television producer
- Kara DioGuardi, American singer-songwriter
- Kara Edwards, American voice actress
- Kara Karaev, Azerbaijani composer
- Kara Lindsay, American theatre actress
- Kara Lord, Miss Guyana Universe 2011
- Kara Tointon, English actress
- Kara Walker, contemporary African-American artist
- Kara Wilson, Scottish actress
- Kara Nova, American pole acrobat
Sports
- Kara Drew, American professional wrestler, manager, and former WWE Diva
- Kara Eaker, American artistic gymnast
- Kara Mbodj, Senegalese footballer
Other fields
- Kara Mahmud Bushati, noble of the Bushati family
- Kara David, Filipina broadcast journalist and television host
- Kara Mustafa Pasha, 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 , Turkish ruler
Surname
- Ayoob Kara, Druze Israeli politician
- Aytaç Kara, Turkish footballer
- Fatma Kara, Turkish female footballer
- Miriam Kara, Israeli Olympic gymnast
- Naciye Kara, Turkish female footballer
- Nader Kara, Libyan footballer
- Princess Kara, Nigerian discus thrower
- Rasim Kara, Turkish footballer
Mythical or fictional characters
- Kára, a valkyrie in Norse mythology
- Kara Zor-El, Kryptonian name of Supergirl
- Kara Kent, Superman's cousin in the TV series Smallville
- Kara In-Ze, a recurring character in Superman: The Animated Series, from Krypton's sister planet Argos and unrelated to Superman
- Power Girl, a DC Comics superheroine
- 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