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Clare, Clair/ Claire, Clarissa, Klara |
Clara 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.
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.
Ancient times
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
Modern times
Clara Barton (1821–1912), pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian
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 Butt (1872-1936), English contralto
Clara Germana Cele, South African woman said in 1906 to have suffered demonic possession
Clara Chung (born 1987), a Korean-American singer/guitarist also known by her stage name, Clara C
Clara Haskil (1895–1960), a Romanian classical pianist, renowned as an interpreter of the classical and early romantic repertoire.
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 Lee (born 1985; real name Lee Sung-min), South Korean actress
Clara Luper (1923–2011), American civil rights leader
Clara Maniu (1842–1929), Romanian feminist
Clara Morgane (born 1981), a French porn star and singer
Clara Rockmore (1911–1998), Lithuanian virtuosa of the theremin
Clara Schønfeld (1856–1938), Danish actress
Clara Schumann (1819–1896), German pianist
Clara Kimball Young (1890–1960), American actress
Clara Zetkin (1857–1933), German Marxist theorist, activist, and feminist
Clara Bogle
Clara the Cow, live mascot in Greek Mega Channel's entertainment show Poly tin Kyriaki (Too Much on Sunday)
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 Der Sandmann
Aunt Clara in the TV series Bewitched
Princess Clara in the US animated TV series Drawn Together
Clara Belle in the video game MySims
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.
Clara Durrant in Virginia Woolf's novel Jacob's Room
Clara Oswald in the TV series Doctor Who
María Clara de los Santos, heroine of the novel Noli Me Tangere
Clara, the main antagonist in the 1972 movie Snoopy Come Home
Clara Sesemann, the invalid friend in Johanna Spyri's Heidi
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