Kara (name)
Kara is a first name and family name .
Origin and meaning
Kara is a common Turkish and Greek family name meaning "black, dark", and more rarely a Turkish male given name (with the connotation: "courageous"). However, the name also occurs in other languages as a first name or family name, especially in American English, often as a variant of Cara as a female first name.
Name bearer
Historic time
- Kara-Hardaš , Babylonian king of the 14th century BC Chr.
- Kara-indaš , Babylonian king of the 15th century BC Chr.
- Kara Ahmed Pasha († 1555), Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
- Kara Mustafa Pascha (1634 / 1635–1683), Commander-in-Chief at the Second Siege of Vienna
Female first name
- Kara Braxton (* 1983), American basketball player
- Kara Cooney (* 1972), American Egyptologist
- Kara Denby (* 1986), American freestyle swimmer
- Kara DioGuardi (* 1970), American music producer, songwriter and pop musician
- Kara Fatma (1888–1955), Turkish national heroine
- Kara Goucher (* 1978), American long-distance runner
- Kara Hayward (* 1998), American actress
- Kara Lynn Joyce (* 1985), American freestyle swimmer
- Kara Killmer (* 1988), American actress
- Kara Kohler (* 1991), American rower
- Kara Lang (* 1986), Canadian soccer player
- Kara Lawson (* 1981), American basketball player
- Kara Monaco (* 1983), American model
- Kara Pacitto (* 1989), American actress
- Kara Hermanson Salmela (* 1972), American biathlete
- Kara Scott (* 1975), Canadian presenter and poker player
- Kara Solmundson (* 1974), Canadian badminton player
- Kara Spears Hultgreen (1965–1994), American fighter pilot
- Kara Taitz (* 1981), American actress
- Deborah Kara Unger (born 1966), Canadian actress
- Kara Walker (* 1969), American artist
- Kara Winger (* 1986), American javelin thrower
- Kara Zor-El (* 1962), American comic character
family name
- Alexis Kara , German-Greek actor and comedian
- Anksa Kara (* 1985), French porn actress
- Avigdor Kara († 1439), rabbi and scribe in Prague
- Aytaç Kara (* 1993), Turkish football player
- Emre Kara (* 1989), Turkish soccer player
- Ercan Kara (* 1996), Austrian soccer player
- Erhan Kara (* 1995), Turkish soccer player
- Fatih Kara (* 1987), Turkish soccer player
- Fatma Kara (* 1991), Turkish soccer player
- György Kara (* 1935), Hungarian Mongolist and Turkologist
- Halil İbrahim Kara (* 1972), Turkish football player
- Job Kara (* 1955), Israeli politician
- Juri Kara (* 1954), Ukrainian film director
- Jūrō Kara (* 1940), Japanese writer
- Mehmet Kara (* 1983), Turkish soccer player
- Princess Kara (* 1998), Nigerian discus thrower and shot putter
- Rasim Kara (* 1950), Turkish football goalkeeper and coach
- Recep Kara (* 1982), Turkish wrestler
- Salim Kara (* 1974), Algerian-German filmmaker and screenwriter
- Scholban Valeryevich Kara-ool (* 1966), Russian politician and President of the Russian Republic of Tuva
- Serigne Kara (* 1989), Senegalese football player
- Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Kara-Mursa (* 1981), Russian politician and journalist
- Yadé Kara (* 1965), German-Turkish writer
stage name
- Kara Fatma (1888–1955), Turkish commander and national heroine
- Kara Mynor (* 1987), American porn actress, see Shawna Lenee
Fictional characters
- Kara Ben Nemsi , an alter ego of Karl May
- Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, a character on Battlestar Galactica
- Kara Zor-El, an alter ego from Supergirl
Mythological figure
- Kára, a Valkyrie