Cora
| Cora | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Greek |
Cora is a given name, derived from the Greek Koré, the maiden name of the Greek-roman goddess Persephone. Common forms of this name include Kora and Korra.[1]
People
- Cora Coralina Brazilian poet
- Cora Cané, (1923 – 2016), Argentine journalist
- Cora Cohen (born 1943), American artist
- Cora Linn Daniels (1852-?), American author
- Cora Evans (1904 – 1957), American Mormon leader
- Cora Pearl (1835–1886), nineteenth-century French courtesan
- Cora L.V. Scott (1840 – 1923), American medium
- Cora Skinner (born 1985), American glamour model and actress
- Cora Staunton, Irish footballer
- Cora Waddell (born 1989), Filipino actress, fashion model, and video blogger.
- Cora Walton, birth name of Blues singer Koko Taylor
- Kora Karvouni, Greek actress
- Belle Cora (1827? –1862), Madam of the Barbary Coast
- Cat Cora, Chef on Food Network's Iron Chef America
- Tayfun Cora, Turkish footballer
- Tom Cora, American cellist
Characters
- Cora, an alternate name for the Greek goddess Persephone
- Cora Crawley, fictional character from the series Downton Abbey
- Cora Cross, fictional character from the United Kingdom soap EastEnders
- Cora Dithers, fictional character from the comic strip Blondie
- Cora Mills (also known as the Queen of Hearts), a fictional character from the fantasy-drama series Once Upon a Time
- Cora Munro, fictional heroine of The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper
- Cora Tannetti, fictional character from the Netflix original series The Sinner
- Cora Cartmell, a character from Titanic
- Cora, fictional protagonist of The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
- Cora, a shopkeeper in television commercials for Maxwell House coffee portrayed by Margaret Hamilton
- Cora Tull, a narrator and fictional character from Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
- Korra, the main character of the animated television series The Legend of Korra
Places
- In the United States
- Cora, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Cora, Washington, an unincorporated community
- Cora, Wyoming, a census-designated place
- Elsewhere
- Cora (Ancient Latin town), an ancient town in Latium
Other uses
- CORA dataset, free global oceanographic temperature and salinity dataset
- Cora (hypermarket)
- Cora (instrument), an alternative spelling of the West African musical instrument Kora
- Cora (restaurant), a Quebec-based restaurant that serve only breakfast and lunch meals
- Cora (rocket), a French rocket
- CORA, a typesetting language from Mergenthaler Linotype Company
- Cora, formerly a separate genus of lichen, now synonymous with Dictyonema
- Cora (genus), a genus of damselflies
- Tropical Storm Cora (disambiguation)
- Cora people, an indigenous ethnic group of Western Central Mexico
- The Cora branch of the Huchiti people in Baja California
See also
References
- ↑ Campbell, Mike. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Cora". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
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