Nora

Nora, or Norah, is a feminine personal name of Latin origin, meaning "the bright one" or "honor", and may refer to:

People

• Nora Aunor, a multi-awarded Filipino actress-singer-producer.
• Norah Baring, a British movie actress.
• Nora Barlow, the granddaughter of the British naturalist Charles Darwin.
• Nora Barnacle, the wife of author James Joyce.
• Norah Beare, a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
• Norah Borges, an artist and is the sister of the writer Jorge Luis Borges.
• Nora Chesson, an English poet
• Nora David, Baroness David, a British Labour Party politician and life peer.
• Nora Denney, an American actress.
• Nora Edocseny, an athlete from Hungary.
• Nora Jane Noone, an Irish actress
• Norah Jones, an American pianist and singer-songwriter
• Nora Kaye, an American ballerina.
• Norah Lange, an Argentinian author.
• Norah Lofts, a 20th century best-selling British author.
• Norah McGuinness, an Irish painter and illustrator.
• Nora Muchanic, a New Jersey News Correspondent.
• Norah O'Donnell, a correspondent for NBC News.
• Nora Owen, a senior Irish politician.
• Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips, a British Labour politician.
• Nora Radcliffe, a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician.
• Nora Simpson, an Australian modernist painter.
• Norah Stoner, a former politician in Ontario, Canada.
• Norah Vincent, an American journalist and author.
• Keith Nora , a junior baseball player

Places

• Nora and Hjulsjö Mountain District, a district of Västmanland in Sweden
• Nora, Illinois, a village in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States.
• Nora, Indianapolis, a neighborhood in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• Nora, Italy, archaeological site in Sardinia (Italy)
• Norah Head, New South Wales, a headland on the Central Coast, New South Wales.
• Nora Municipality, a municipality in Sweden
• Nora, Nebraska, a village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska, United States.
• Glen Norah, a high-density suburb in Harare.
• Nora Township, Clearwater County, Minnesota, a township in Minnesota
• Nora Township, Pope County, Minnesota, a township in Minnesota
• Pula, Italy, was known in Roman times as Nora
• Torre Forcadizo, Sardinia, Italy, was known in Roman times as Nora

Fiction

• Nora (movie), a movie
• Nora Batty, a character in the long-running British sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine.
• Nora Huntington, a character from Desperate Housewives
• Norah Satie, a character from the Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• Another name for Robita, a character created by Osamu Tezuka
• the protagonist of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House

Music

• Nora (band), a hardcore band
• "Nora," a song by The Long Winters from the 2003 album When I Pretend to Fall

Technology

• Nora (technology), Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness

Other

• 783 Nora, a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
• Tropical Storm Nora, there have been many tropical storms named Nora.
• Nora (wine), a Spanish white wine.
• M84 NORA - 152mm Field Gun-Howitzer, a Serbian made gun-Howitzer.