Aurora (name)

Aurora
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/Name	Latin
Meaning	Dawn
Other names
Related names	Aurore, Rory

Aurora is a given name for women, originating from the Latin word for dawn. Aurora was the ancient Roman equivalent of Eos, the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn.

Notable people bearing the name include

• Aurora Bautista (born 1925), a Spanish film actress
• Aurora Browne, Canadian actress and comedian
• Aurora Cáceres (1877–1958), a Peruvian-European writer of the "modernismo" literary movement
• Aurora Carlson (born 1987), a television presenter and China scholar
• Aurora Castillo (1914–1998), a Mexican-American who co-founded the Mothers of East Los Angeles (MELA) organization
• Aurora Clavel (born 1936), a Mexican film and television actress
• Aurora Cunha (born 1959), a Portuguese long-distance runner
• Aurora Reyes Flores (1908–1985), a Mexican painter and member of the Mexican muralism movement
• Aurora Karamzina née Stjernvall (1808–1902), a Finnish Swede philanthropist and noblewoman
• Aurora Königsmarck (1662–1728), mistress of Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland
• Aurora Martinez, director of over 70 Spanish-language action movies
• Aurora Miranda (1915–2005), a Brazilian entertainer
• Aurora Levins Morales (born 1954), a Puerto Rican writer and poet
• Aurora Nilsson (1894–1972), Swedish writer
• Aurora Pijuan, the 1970 titleholder of the Miss International beauty pageant
• Aurora Quezon (1888–1949), first spouse of a Philippine president to be called First Lady
• Aurora Robles (born 1980), supermodel
• Aurora Snow (born 1981), American pornographic actress
• Aurora Venturini (born 1922) an Argentine writer and translator
• Aurora Wilhelmina Koskull (1778–1852), Swedish lady-in-waiting and salonist

Fictional characters named Aurora include

• Aurora, a princess from the Disney film Sleeping Beauty
• Aurora Floyd, a character from Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novel of the same name
• Aurora Leigh, a character in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem of the same name
• Aurora Teagarden, a character created by author Charlaine Harris
• Aurora Thorpe, the title character of Helen Barnes's novel Killing Aurora
• Aurora Bay, a character from Outragous Fortune, a New Zealand television series.

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