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Tara may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Biology

• Tara (plant), a genus of legumes
• Tara (spider), a genus of jumping spiders
• Tara tree (Caesalpitarania spinosa), native to Peru
• Tara, a Malagasy name for the shrub Lemuropisum edule
• Tara, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup T
• A Vitis rotundifolia grape variety
• Tara, Māori for the White-fronted tern (Sterna striata)
• Tara, a Chinese name for Calamus erectus

Companies and media

• Țara, a newspaper from the Republic of Moldova
• Tara Air, a Nepalese airline
• Tara International, Indian marketer for Tara Green Auto
• Tara Labs, a manufacturer of high-end audio products
• Tara Muzik, a defunct Indian Bengali music channel
• Tara Newz, a defunct Indian Bengali news channel
• Tara Television (or Tara TV), an Irish cable and satellite channel

People

• Şarık Tara (1930–2018), Turkish billionaire and former captain of industry
• Tara (Assamese actress), former Indian film actress
• Tara (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
• Tara (Kannada actress), stage name of Indian actress and politician Anuradha
• Tara (wrestler), ring name of professional wrestler Lisa Marie Varon
• Tara the Southern Belle, a member of the Southern Belles tag-team from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
• Tara Sutaria Indian film actress
• Tara Subkoff American actress, conceptual artist, director, and fashion designer
• Tara Summers American actress
• Tara Sundari (1878-1948) is an bengali theater actress, singer, and a dancer

Places

Religion

• In Hinduism:
  • Tara (Mahavidya), a Tantric goddess
  • Tara (Ramayana), the wife of the monkey king Vali
  • Tara (Hindu goddess), the wife of Brihaspati
• Tara (Buddhism), a tantric meditation deity in Tibetan Buddhism
• Tara, a sea goddess in Polynesian mythology
• Tara (Greek mythology), a name of one of the Hesperides attested on a vase

Schools

• Tara Anglican School for Girls, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
• Tara High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
• Tara Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist center in Melbourne, Australia

Titles

• Baron Brabazon of Tara, a UK title
• Baron Tara, an Irish title
• Kingship of Tara, a title in ancient Ireland
• Viscount Tara, an Irish title

Transportation

• Tara Air, a Nepalese airline
• Tara, an oceanic research vessel used for the Tara expedition
• Tara Field, an airport in Georgia, United States
• Tara Station, a railway station in Saga Prefecture, Japan
• Tara Street, a major traffic route in Dublin, Ireland
• Tara Street railway station in Dublin, Ireland
• IKCO Tara, a car

Other uses

• Đurđevića Tara Bridge, a bridge over the Tara River in northern Montenegro
• Tārā, Tahitian slang for 5 CFP francs
• Tara (cat), a family cat who saved a four-year-old boy from a dog attack
• Tara (Northern Ireland), a loyalist group
• Tara, Chertsey, a house in Surrey, UK, previously the home of drummer Keith Moon
• Tara Brooch, an artifact from Ireland
• Tara Foundation, a charity for transgender people
• Tara Hurdle, a horse race in Ireland
• Tara Mine, a zinc and lead mine near Navan, County Meath, Ireland
• Tara Theatre, an art house movie theater in Atlanta named after the plantation in Gone With the Wind
• Timed antagonistic response alethiometer, a type of lie detection technique
• Tāra, Māori language name for New Zealand dollar
• Yugoslav submarine Nebojša, or Tara, a submarine of the Yugoslav Navy

See also

• Battle of Tara (disambiguation), a number of battles
• Golden Tara, a Majapahit period (Indonesia) gold image of a Hindu goddess
• Hurricane Tara (disambiguation), three tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
• All pages with titles containing Tara
• Taras (disambiguation)
• Taara or Tharapita, a god in Estonian mythology
• Terah, a biblical figure
• Tera (disambiguation)
• Terra (disambiguation)