Bara (name)

Bara is a given name and a surname. As a masculine Arabic name, Bara ()براء) means "innocence". As a feminine Old Norse name, Bára means wave.

Given name

• Bara Mamadou Ndiaye (born 1991), Senegalese football player in Turkey
• Bára Nesvadbová (born 1975), Czech writer and journalist

Surname

• Ali Hadi Bara (1906–1971), Turkish sculptor
• Céline Bara (born 1978), French pornographic film actress
• Edgar Bara (1876–1962), French mandolin player, author and composer
• Guy Bara (1923–2003), Belgian comic artist
• Irina Maria Bara (born 1995), Romanian tennis player
• Johan Bara (1581–1634), Dutch painter, designer and engraver
• John Bara (born 1926), American politician
• Joseph Bara (1779–1793), French drummer boy mythologised by the French First Republic
• Jules Bara (1835–1900), Belgian liberal politician
• Margit Bara (1928–2016), Hungarian film actress
• Nina Bara (c. 1920-1990), American film actress
• Theda Bara (1885–1955), American silent film actress
• Tina Bara (born 1962), German photographer

See also

• Al-Bara ibn Azib (died 640), a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
• Al-Bara' ibn `Azib (died 690), a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad