Laura

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Laura may refer to:

People and fictional characters

• Laura (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters with the name
• Laura, muse of Petrarch's poetry
• Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert

Places

Australia

• Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula
• Laura, South Australia, a town
• Laura Bay, a bay on Eyre Peninsula
• Laura River (Queensland)
• Laura River (Western Australia)

Italy

• Laura (Capaccio), a village of the municipality of Capaccio, Campania
• Laura, Crespina Lorenzana, a village in Tuscany

United States

• Laura, Illinois, an unincorporated community
• Laura, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Laura, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Laura, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Laura, Ohio, a village

Elsewhere

• Laura, Saskatchewan, Canada, a hamlet
• Laura, Marshall Islands, a town
• Laura, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, a village
• Laura River (Romania)
• 467 Laura, an asteroid

Arts and entertainment

Art

• Laura (Giorgione), a 1506 painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione

Films

• Laura (1944 film), an American film noir directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney
• Laura (1955 film), an American television film for The 20th Century-Fox Hour
• Laura (1968 film), an American television film
• Laura (1979 film), a French romantic drama film

Literature

• Laura (novel), a detective novel by Vera Caspary
• Laura: A Novel You Will Never Forget, a novel by Irish Minister for Justice Alan Shatter
• Laura, Voyage dans le cristal, an 1864 George Sand novel

Music

Bands

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

Albums

• Laura (Laura Pausini album), 1994
• Laura (Menudo album), 1978
• Laura, a 2004 album by Troy Gregory

Songs

• "Laura" (1945 song), a song by David Raksin and Johnny Mercer adapted from the 1944 film's theme
• "Laura" (Bat for Lashes song)
• "Laura" (Billy Joel song), a song by Billy Joel from the 1982 album The Nylon Curtain
• "Laura" (Scissor Sisters song), 2003
• "Laura" (What's He Got That I Ain't Got), a 1976 song by Kenny Rogers
• "Laura", a 1977 song by the Catalan singer-songwriter Lluís Llach
• "Laura", a 1987 song by Fields of the Nephilim
• "Laura", a song by the Celtic-Punk band Flogging Molly
• "Laura", a song by indie rock group Girls
• "Laura", a 1986 song composed by Jean-Jacques Goldman
• "Laura", a song by Nick Heyward from Haircut 100 in 1985
• "Laura", a song performed by Billy Joel on his album The Nylon Curtain
• "Laura", a song by the British shoegazing band Lush
• "Laura", a song by the tejano band Mazz
• "Laura", a song by Jimmy Nail in 1992
• "Laura," a parody of the 1945 song performed by Spike Jones and His Other Orchestra

Television

• "Laura" (Fear the Walking Dead), an episode of the American television series Fear the Walking Dead
• Laura (TV series), a TV program hosted by Laura Bozzo (also known as Laura en América, Laura sin censura, Laura en acción, and Laura de todos)
• "Laura", an episode of the television show Magnum, P.I., guest starring Frank Sinatra

Ships

• SS Laura, a number of steamships with this name
• HMS Laura (1806), a Royal Navy schooner
• Laura (1835 steamboat), an American steamboat

Other

• List of storms named Laura, various tropical cyclones
• Aichi E11A, World War II Japanese Navy flying boat codenamed "Laura" by the Allies
• Škoda Laura, a small family car
• Laura Airport, Laura, Queensland, Australia
• Laura (clothing retailer), a chain of Canadian women's fashions
• Laura (crustacean), a genus of maxillopoda
• Laura potato, a cultivar of potato
• Laura or lavra (Greek: Λαύρα, Cyrillic: Лавра), a cluster of cells or caves used by hermits, loosely connected into a community
• Laura (magazine), a German magazine published by Bauer Group

See also

• Laure (disambiguation)
• Lauria (disambiguation)
• Laurie (disambiguation)
• Lora (disambiguation)
• Lara (disambiguation)

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