Clara (given name)
Clara or Klara is a female given name. It is the feminine form of the Late Latin name Clarus which meant "clear, bright, famous". Various early male Christian saints were named Clarus; the feminine form became popular after the 13th-century Saint Clare of Assisi (called Chiara in Italian), one of the followers of Saint Francis, who renounced her privileged background and founded the order of Poor Clares.
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Latin |
| Meaning | clear, bright, famous |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Clare, Clair/Claire, Clarissa, Klara |
Clare was the main English form of the name used in the Middle Ages, but the Latin spelling Clara became more popular in the 19th century.[1]
People with this name
- Given name
- Clara Alm (born 1996), Swedish footballer
- Clara Arthur (1858–1929), American suffragist
- Clara Ayres (1880–1917), American nurse during the First World War
- Clara Barton (1821–1912), pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian
- Clara Doty Bates (1838–1895), American author
- Clara Beyers (1880–1950), American actress
- Clara Bindi (born 1927) Italian actress
- Clara Blandick (1876–1962), American actress
- Clara Bonde (1806–1899) Swedish courtier and royal favorite
- Clara Bow (1905–1965), American actress
- Clara Louise Burnham (1854–1927), American novelist
- Clara Butt (1872–1936), English contralto
- Clara Germana Cele, South African woman said in 1906 to have suffered demonic possession
- Clara Marguerite Christian (1895–1964), first black woman to study at the University of Edinburgh
- Clara Chung (born 1987), a Korean-American singer/guitarist also known by her stage name, Clara C
- Clara Eliot (1896–1976), economist
- Clara Grima (born 1971), Spanish mathematician
- Clara Haskil (1895–1960), a Romanian classical pianist, renowned as an interpreter of the classical and early romantic repertoire.
- Clara H. Hazelrigg (1861–1937), American author, educator, social reformer
- Clara Horton (1904–1976), American actress
- Clara Hughes (born 1972), Canadian athlete who has won medals in both the summer and winter Olympics.
- Clara Immerwahr (1870–1915), German chemist and first wife of Fritz Haber
- Clara Landsberg (1873–1966), American educator
- Clara Lee (born 1985; real name Lee Sung-min), South Korean actress
- Clara Lemlich (1886–1982), union organizer, consumer activist, and member of the Communist Party
- Clara Luper (1923–2011), American civil rights leader
- Clara Maniu (1842–1929), Romanian feminist
- Clara Morgane (born 1981), a French porn star and singer
- Klara Izabella Pacowa (1631–1685), politically active Polish court official
- Clara Rockmore (1911–1998), Lithuanian virtuosa of the theremin
- Clara Schønfeld (1856–1938), Danish actress
- Clara Schumann (1819–1896), German pianist
- Clara Harrison Stranahan (1831–1905), American author, college founder
- Clara Tott (1440–1520), German singer
- Clara Augusta Jones Trask (1839–1805), American writer
- Clara Ursin (1828–1890) Norwegian (originally Danish) stage actress and opera singer
- Clara Belle Williams (1885–1994), first African-American graduate of New Mexico State University
- Clara Kimball Young (1890–1960), American actress
- Clara Zetkin (1857–1933), German Marxist theorist, activist, and feminist
- Surname
- Aemilia Clara, a Roman woman who lived in the 2nd century
- Didia Clara (born about 153), only child of the Roman Emperor Didius Julianus and Empress Manlia Scantilla
Animals with this name
- Clara the Rhinoceros, a female Indian rhinoceros who became famous during 17 years of touring Europe in the mid-18th century.
- Clara the Cow, live mascot in Greek Mega Channel's entertainment show Poly tin Kyriaki (Too Much on Sunday)
Fictional characters
- Clara, protagonist in Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker
- Clara in Bob Dylan's 1975 surrealist movie Renaldo and Clara
- Clara in E. T. A. Hoffmann's short story "The Sandman"
- Aunt Clara in the TV series Bewitched
- Princess Clara in the US animated TV series Drawn Together
- Clara, protagonist in Elizabeth Spencer’s novella The Light in the Piazza and in the book's film and musical adaptation.
- Clara, the main antagonist in the 1972 movie Snoopy Come Home
- Clara Belle in the video game MySims
- Clara Brereton, impoverished niece of Lady Denham in Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon (1817)
- Clara Clayton, wife of Doc Brown in the Back to the Future film series
- Clara Cluck, recurring character in Mickey Mouse cartoons
- Clara de Clare, a rich woman who becomes a nun in Walter Scott's Marmion
- María Clara de los Santos, heroine of the novel Noli Me Tángere
- Clara Durrant in Virginia Woolf's novel Jacob's Room
- Clara Oswald, a companion of the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctor in the TV series Doctor Who
- Clara Sesemann, the invalid friend in Johanna Spyri's Heidi
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Clara
- All pages with titles containing Clara
- Chara (given name)
- Clara (disambiguation)
- Clare (given name)
- Claire (given name)
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