Chitra

Chitra may refer to:

Art

• Chitra (art), a historic art that includes paintings, sketching with or without multiple colors

People

• Chithra, Indian playback singer
• Chitra (actress), Indian film actress
• V. J. Chitra, Indian television actress
• Chitra Bahadur K.C., Nepalese politician
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956), Indian-American author, poet, and professor of English
• Chitra Bharucha (born 1945), former Consultant Haematologist and Vice Chair of the BBC Trust
• Chitra Dewi (1934–2008), Indonesian actress
• Chitra Ganesh (born 1975), artist based in Brooklyn, New York
• Chitra Lekha Yadav, Nepalese politician
• Chitra Mudgal (born 1944), literary figure in modern Hindi literature
• Chitra Ramanathan, contemporary Indian American visual artist, abstract painter
• Chitra Sarwara (born 1975), Indian politician from Haryana
• Chitra Singh (born 1945), female ghazal singer
• Chitra Soman (born 1983), Indian sprinter
• Chitra Subramaniam (born 1958), Indian journalist
• Chitra Visweswaran, classical dancer

Zoology

• Chitra (genus), a turtle genus from Asia
• Sandfly, a biting fly found in sandy areas

Institutions

• Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India
• Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, India

Other uses

• Chitra (1946 film), a 1946 Tamil-language film
• Chitra (2001 film), a 2001 Kannada-language film
• Chitra (play), a 1914 play by Rabindranath Tagore
• Chitra nakshatra, in Hindu astrology, a nakshatra (lunar mansion) corresponding to the constellation Spica
• Chitra River, a river in the Narail District of southwestern Bangladesh
• Chitrakar, painters and mask makers
• Chitra, a 1960 ballet by Niyazi
• Chitra, Deoghar, a village in Jharkhand, India