Mira (disambiguation)

Mira can refer to:

People

• Mira, a given name
• Mira Aroyo (born 1977), Bulgarian musician and biochemist
• Mira Awad (born 1975), Israeli actress and musician
• Mira Bartok, bestselling American author, born Myra Herr
• Mira Furlan (born 1955), Croatian actress and singer
• Mira Leung (born 1989), Canadian figure skater
• Mira Nair (born 1957), Indian-American Academy Award-nominated director
• Mira Sorvino (born 1967), Academy Award-winning American actress
• Mirabai, Indian sahajiya poetess and 'devotee'

Astronomy

• Mira, variable star
  • Mira variable, type of star named after Mira
• Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy, observatory
• Mitaka IR Array, Japanese astronomy project

History

• Kingdom of Mira, part of the Kingdom of Arzawa in western Anatolia (2nd half of 2nd millennium BC)

Geography

Populated places:

• Mira, Italy, town near Venice, Italy
• Mira, Portugal, town in the district of Coimbra, Portugal
• Mira Municipality, Portugal
• Mira, Spain, municipality in Cuenca province, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
• Mira, Louisiana, town in the United States
• Mira Ferry, Nova Scotia, community on the Mira River now known as Albert Bridge in Nova Scotia

Rivers:

• Mira River (Nova Scotia), in southeastern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada; it is the subject of a folk song by Allister MacGillivray
• Mira River (Portugal), in southwestern Alentejo

Fiction

• Mira (Encantadia), fictional character in the Philippine television series Encantadia
• Mira (Star Wars), character in the videogame Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
• Mira (film), movie from Fons Rademakers (1971)
• Mira, female warrior and heroine in The Last Legion (2007)

Other

• USS Mira, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
• Daihatsu Mira, Keicar (compact car) manufactured by Daihatsu
• Kohler Mira Ltd, manufacturer of Mira Showers in Cheltenham, England
• Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, Saudi London-based dissident group
• Mira (mirror), semi-transparent mirror used for teaching geometry
• Mira Foundation, foundation dedicated to assisting people with disabilities achieve all that an able-bodied person can do
• Motor Industry Research Association, automotive company based in the United Kingdom
• Mira (band), Tallahassee, FL darkwave band
• Smart Display (development codename: Mira), failed 2002 Microsoft product for a portable touchscreen terminal
• Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm, a machine learning algorithm.

See also

• Meera (disambiguation)
• Myra (disambiguation)
• Mirra
• MIRA (disambiguation)

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