Aurora is a female given name, originating from the name of the ancient Roman goddess of dawn Aurora.
The variant used in the Russian language is "Авро́ра" (Avrora). While in use before the 20th century, it became more common after the Russian Revolution of 1917, due to the role cruiser Aurora played in the events. In 1924–1930, the name was included into various Soviet calendars, which included the new and often artificially created names promoting the new Soviet realities and encouraging the break with the tradition of using the names in the Synodal Menologia. Diminutives of this name include "Авро́рка" (Avrorka), "А́ва" (Ava), "А́ра" (Ara), and "Ро́ра" (Rora).
The name Aurora or Arora is also used by the Khatri community of West Pakistan as a surname, the name has an Indo-Greek origin of the name aurora. It can be written the same as Aurora or Arora in family surnames or given girlnames.
Aurora Aksnes (born 1996), Norwegian singer
Aurora Bautista (born 1925), a Spanish film actress
Aurora Browne, Canadian actress and comedian
Aurora Cáceres (1877–1958), a Peruvian-European writer of the "modernismo" literary movement
Aurora Carlson (born 1987), a television presenter and China scholar
Aurora Castillo (1914–1998), a Mexican-American who co-founded the Mothers of East Los Angeles (MELA) organization
Aurora Clavel (born 1936), a Mexican film and television actress
Aurora Cunha (born 1959), a Portuguese long-distance runner
Aurora Reyes Flores (1908–1985), a Mexican painter and member of the Mexican muralism movement
Aurora Karamzina née Stjernvall (1808–1902), a Finnish Swede philanthropist and noblewoman
Aurora Königsmarck (1662–1728), mistress of Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland
Aurora Liljenroth (1772-1836), Swedish scholar
Aurora Ljungstedt (1821-1908), Swedish horror writer
Aurora Martinez, director of over 70 Spanish-language action movies
Aurora Miranda (1915–2005), a Brazilian entertainer
Aurora Levins Morales (born 1954), a Puerto Rican writer and poet
Aurora Nilsson (1894–1972), Swedish writer
Aurora Estrada Orozco (1918–2011), Mexican American community leader
Aurora Pijuan, the 1970 titleholder of the Miss International beauty pageant
Aurora Quezon (1888–1949), first spouse of a Philippine president to be called First Lady
Aurora Robles (born 1980), Mexican supermodel
Aurora Snow (born 1981), American pornographic actress
Aurore Storckenfeldt (1816-1900), Swedish educator
Aurora Venturini (born 1922) an Argentine writer and translator
Aurora Wilhelmina Koskull (1778–1852), Swedish lady-in-waiting and salonist
Malaika Arora Khan, (born 1976), Indian actress, dancer, model, VJ, and television presenter
Amrita Arora, (born 1981), Bollywood actress
Aurora (Disney), a princess from the Disney film Sleeping Beauty
Aurora Floyd, a character from Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novel of the same name
Aurora Leigh, a character in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem of the same name
Aurora Teagarden, a character created by author Charlaine Harris
Aurora Thorpe, the title character of Helen Barnes's novel Killing Aurora
Aurora Greenway a character from Terms of Endearment portrayed by Shirley McLaine
Aurora Sinistra, the astronomy professor in the Harry Potter book series
