Laura

Laura may refer to:

People

• Laura (name), a female given name
• Laura, the subject of love poetry by Petrarch
• Laura Schlessinger, radio talk show host known as Dr. Laura
• Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House on the Prairie
• L'Aura (born 1984), Italian singer
• Laura Branigan, singer (d. 2004)
• Laura Linney, American actress

Fictional characters

• Laura Palmer, from the television series Twin Peaks
• Laura of Luke and Laura Spencer, characters on the soap opera General Hospital
• Laura, the protagonist of Japanese developer WARP's video games, see D (series)
• Laura Winslow, a fictional from the American sitcom Family Matters
• Laura Hardy (Hardy Boys), mother from the Hardy Boys series
• Laura, a young girl in the Silent Hill video game franchise
• Laura, the subject of several sonnets by William Shakespeare

Places

Australia

• Laura, Queensland, a town
• Laura River (Queensland), its river
• Laura, South Australia

Canada

• Laura, Saskatchewan

Marshall Islands

• Laura, Marshall Islands, an island town in the Majuro Atoll of the Marshall Islands

Poland

• Laura, Silesian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Toszek, within Gliwice County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland

Ukraine; Romania

• Laura River

United States

• Laura, Illinois
• Laura, Kentucky, a city
• Laura, Ohio, a small village

Movies

• Laura (1944 film), an American film noir directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney
• Laura (1979 film)

Music

Songs

• "Laura" (1945 song), a song by David Raksin and Johnny Mercer adapted from the 1944 film's theme
• "Laura," a parody of the 1945 song performed by Spike Jones and His Other Orchestra
• "Laura" (Scissor Sisters song), the first charting single by American alternative band Scissor Sisters in 2003
• "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)", a 1976 song by Kenny Rogers
• "Laura Non C'è", a song by the Italian singer Nek in 1997
• "Laura", a song performed by Billy Joel on his album The Nylon Curtain
• "Laura", a song by the Celtic-Punk band Flogging Molly
• "Laura", a song by the British shoegazing band Lush
• "Laura", a song by the tejano band Mazz
• "Laura's Theme", a musical cue written for the film Dr. Zhivago (1956) by composer Maurice Jarre
• "Laura", a 1986 song composed by Jean-Jacques Goldman
• "Laura's Dream", a song by Astor Piazzolla from the album The New Tango
• "Think of Laura", a song by the American singer/songwriter Christopher Cross in 1983

Albums

• Laura (Laura Pausini album), 1994 studio album by Italian singer–songwriter Laura Pausini
• Laura (Menudo album)
• Laura, a 2004 album by Troy Gregory

Bands

• Laura (band), an Australian post-rock band
• Oh Laura, a Swedish indie band formerly known as Laura

Other

• Laura or Lavra (Greek: Λαύρα, Cyrillic: Лавра), a cluster of cells or caves used by hermits
• Laura (clothing retailer), a chain of Canadian women's fashions
• Laura (novel), detective novel by Vera Caspary
• 467 Laura, an asteroid
• Škoda Laura, a small family car
• Aichi E11A Imperial Japanese Navy flying boat code-named "Laura" by the allies
• Laura (Giorgione), a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione

See also

• Lauren
• Laureano

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