Lara is a common Spanish surname.

Lara is a poem by Lord Byron

Lara is a common Arabic surname.

Brian Lara, West Indian cricketer

Richard Lara, philosophy professor at Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California

Lara Flynn Boyle, the actress.

Lara Bingle, Australian model.

Lara, a brand of products of Grupo Bimbo

Agustín Lara, Mexican composer

Martha Lara, Mexican diplomat and politician

Osvaldo Lara, Cuban track and field sprinter

Lara State, a Venezuelan state.

Lara, Victoria, a township near Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

Lara, Antalya, is a district of Antalya city in Turkey.

Lara is a common given female name of Russian origin, a diminutive of the name Larisa (also spelt Larissa).

Lara Logan, a television journalist for CBS News in the United States.

Lara Fabian, the French and English-language singer whose works include Final Fantasy soundtrack theme The Dream Within.

Lara Sacher, Australian actress.

Lara Veronin, lead female vocalist of the Taiwanese band Nan Quan Ma Ma.

Lara Lor-Van, a fictional character in Superman comics, who is the biological mother of Superman.

Lara Croft, the fictional heroine of the Tomb Raider lineage.

Lara, daughter of the river Almon (Roman mythology).

Lara Antipova, a character in Doctor Zhivago played by the actress Julie Christie. Lara's Theme is the name given to an internationally known tune written for this film.

The Lara language is spoken by about 12,000 people in Indonesia (Global recordings)