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Tara may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film and television
- Tara (1992 film), an Indian film directed by Bijaya Jena
- Tara (2001 film), an American film, also known as Hood Rat, directed by Leslie Small
- Tara (2013 film), an Indian film directed by Kumar Raj
- Tara (TV series), soap opera that aired on Zee TV
- TARA, acronym for The Amazing Race Asia, a reality game show on the AXN network
Music
- T-ara, a South Korean girl music group
- Tara (Absu album)
- Tara (Yano album)
- "Tara" (song), a song on Moya Brennan's 2003 album Two Horizons
- "Tara", a song by Roxy Music on the 1982 album Avalon (Roxy Music album)
- Tara Music, a label featuring traditional Irish music
Fictional settings
- Tara (plantation), fictional home of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
- Tara, a planet, setting of the Doctor Who serial The Androids of Tara
- Tara (Artemis Fowl), a location in the Artemis Fowl series, also a real location in Ireland
- Tara, a fictional town, the setting for the 1970 film The Spider's Stratagem
Companies and media
- Tara International, Indian marketer for Tara Green Auto
- Tara Labs, a manufacturer of high-end audio products
- Țara, a newspaper from the Republic of Moldova
- Tara Newz, a Bengali news channel
- Tara Television (or Tara TV), an Irish cable and satellite channel
People and fictional characters
- Tara (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
- Şarık Tara (born 1930), Turkish billionaire and former captain of industry
- Tara (wrestler), ring name of professional wrestler Lisa Marie Varon
- Tara the Southern Belle, a member of the Southern Belles tag-team from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
- Tara (Kannada actress), stage name of Indian actress and politician, Anuradha
Titles
- Baron Brabazon of Tara, a UK title
- Baron Tara, an Irish title
- Kingship of Tara, a title in ancient Ireland
- Viscount Tara, an Irish title
Places
Natural features
- Tara (river), in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Tara (river in Greece), in Arcadia, Greece
- Tara River (Russia), in Siberia, Russia
- Salar de Tara, a salt pan in Chile
- Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland, a ritual site of ancient high kings of Ireland
- Tara Hill, County Wexford, Ireland, a hill and a village
- Tara Island, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines
- Tara Mountain and Tara National Park in Serbia
- Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan
- 5863 Tara, an asteroid
Populated places
Africa
- Tara, Cairo, a villa in Gezira Island, Cairo, Egypt, made famous by its inhabitants during World War II
- Tara, Ethiopia, a village in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
- Tara, Zambia, a village in the Southern Province of Zambia
- Tara Subcounty, a region in Maracha District, Uganda
Asia
- Tara, Afghanistan, in Maidan Wardak Province
- Tara, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province
- Tara, Saga, a town, mountain, and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan
- Tara, Nepal, a village in Baglung District in the Dhawalagiri Zone of central Nepal
- Tara, Russia, several inhabited localities
Australia
- Tara, Queensland, town in Australia
- Shire of Tara, Queensland, Australia
- Tara County, New South Wales, Australia
Europe
- Tara, County Offaly, a townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Republic of Ireland
- Tara, County Down, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland
- Tara, Ireland, a village in Ireland
North America
- Tara, Florida, United States, an unincorporated area
- Tara Township, Minnesota (disambiguation), several places in the United States
- Tara, Ontario, village in Canada
Religion
- Tara (Buddhism), a tantric meditation deity in Tibetan Buddhism
- In Hinduism:
- Tara (Devi), a Tantric goddess
- Another name for Taraka (goddess), the second wife of Brihaspati
- Tara (Ramayana), the wife of the monkey king Vali
- Tara, a sea goddess in Polynesian mythology
Schools
- Tara Anglican School for Girls, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
- Tara Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist center in Melbourne, Australia
- Tara High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Transportation
- Tara Air, a Nepalese airline
- Tara Field, an airport in Georgia, United States
- Tara Station, a railway station in Saga Prefecture, Japan
- Tara Street, a major traffic route in Dublin, Ireland
- Tara Street railway station in Dublin, Ireland
Biology
- Tara (spider), a genus of jumping spiders
- Tara tree (Caesalpitarania spinosa) in Peru
- Tara, a genus of legumes
- Tara (shrub), a Malagasy name for Lemuropisum edule
- Tara, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup T
- A Vitis rotundifolia grape variety
Other uses
- Battle of Tara (disambiguation), a number of battles
- Hurricane Tara (disambiguation), three tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
- Tara (Northern Ireland), a loyalist group
- Tara Foundation, a charity for transgender people
- tārā, Tahitian slang for 5 CFP francs
- Tara Brooch, an artifact from Ireland
- Tara, Chertsey, a house in Surrey, UK, previously the home of drummer Keith Moon
- Tara Mine, a zinc and lead mine near Navan, County Meath, Ireland
- Tara Theatre, an art house movie theater in Atlanta named after the plantation in Gone With the Wind
- Đurđevića Tara Bridge, a bridge over the Tara River in northern Montenegro
- Yugoslav submarine Nebojša, or Tara, a submarine of the Yugoslav Navy
- Tara expedition, an Arctic voyage 2006-08
- Timed antagonistic response alethiometer, a type of lie detection technique
- Tara Hurdle, a horse race in Ireland
- Tara (cat), a family cat who saved a four-year-old boy from a dog attack
See also
- Taras (disambiguation)
- Taara or Tharapita, a god in Estonian mythology
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