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* nickname for [[Maria (given name)]] in the [[Croatian language]] and [[Bulgarian language]] |
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* nickname for [[Tamara]] |
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*[[Mara Wheatley]],about the coolest perosn to set foot and Annapolis! |
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==Geography== |
==Geography== |
Revision as of 03:52, 8 February 2008
Mara may mean:
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Social groups
- Mara people, in northeastern India and western Myanmar
- Mara people (Australia), a tribe of indigenous Australians or Aborigines
- Mara Salvatrucha, a violent street gang in Mexico, Central America, and the United States
- Maravar a dominant caste in Tamil Nadu state in India
People
- John Andrew Mara, a 19th century Canadian politician, rancher and merchant
- Mara Wilson, child actress
- Tim Mara, former owner of the New York Giants football team
- Wellington Mara, former owner of the New York Giants, son of Tim
- John Mara, current co-owner of the New York Giants, son of Wellington
- nickname of Martti Ahtisaari, a career diplomat and former President of Finland
- nickname for Maria (given name) in the Croatian language and Bulgarian language
- nickname for Tamara
- Mara Wheatley,about the coolest perosn to set foot and Annapolis!
Geography
- Mara, Tanzania, an administrative region of Tanzania
- Mara (SS), a commune on the Italian island of Sardinia
- Mara, South Africa, a small town in South Africa
- Mara River (Iza), a river in Romania
- Mara (torrent), a stream of Italy and Switzerland
- Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
- Masai Mara, a reserve near the Mara River
- Mara, Spain, a municipality
Culture
- Mara (goddess), from Latvian mythology
- Mara (folklore), a creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore, thought to cause nightmares.
- Mara, also Marena and Morana, in Slavic peoples mythology, the goddess of darkness, death, winter, the Moon and horror
- Naomi (Bible), self-named Mara, meaning "bitterness", after she suffered the deaths of her husband and her two sons
- Mara, a Sanskrit and Pali word meaning death-bringing or the destroying
- Mara (Hindu goddess), the goddess of death according to Hindu mythology
- Mara (demon), a "demon" of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation
- Sri Mara or Mara Varma, an honorific title of the Pandya kings of south India
- In Hindu mythology, a mantra told to Valmiki to chant
- Mara, an abbreviation of Mayura
Fiction
- the Mara (Doctor Who), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials
- a Celtic shamaness known for moving barefoot on any surface
- Marller ("Mara"), a demon in the manga and anime series Oh My Goddess!
- Mara Jade, a character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
- lead character in the Raymond E. Feist / Janny Wurts "Empire" Trilogy
- in the Childe Cycle of Gordon R. Dickson, one of the two homeworlds of the Exotics
- a goddess in the video game series The Elder Scrolls
- Mara, Lord of Illusion, a powerful character in Roger Zelazny's novel Lord of Light
- in the animated series BlackStar, a sorceress from the planet Sagar
- one of the Deities in The Belgariad, by David Eddings
- Mara (comics), a character in the Micronauts comic book series
- Mara, the main character in the Eloise Jarvis McGraw book Mara: Daughter of the Nile
- the SF Mara, a fast and agile Shivan fighter in the game FreeSpace 2
- Mara, a character in Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann's "A Step Towards Gomorrah"
- Mara is the antagonist of Disneyland's Indiana Jones Adventure attraction
- Mara, a magic seller in the game Diablo II Lord of Destruction
- Mara, a character inn the Redwall series by Brian Jacques
- Mara, a character in the animated series The New Adventures of He-Man
- Mara Aramov, the antagonist of the Syphon Filter series
- Mara, in the game The Matrix Online, the main location for commerce and combat on non-hostile servers
Organisations
- Majlis Amanah Rakyat, literally People's Trust Council, a government-linked company in Malaysia
- Migration Agents Registration Authority an Australian organisation that registers and monitors Migration Agents
Other
- Mara (mammal), a species of the cavy family
- Mara the Lioness, animal actor in the movie Born Free
- Mara (album), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig
- MARA, a dental appliance used to correct an over or underbite
- MARA (Law), the Michigan Antitrust Reform Act, passed in 1984