Religions and deities

• Tara (Buddhism)
  Tara (Buddhism)
  Tara or Ārya Tārā, also known as Jetsun Dolma in Tibetan Buddhism, is a female Bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism who appears as a female Buddha in Vajrayana Buddhism. She is known as the "mother of liberation", and represents the virtues of success in work and achievements...
  
  , is a tantric meditation deity in Tibetan Buddhism, actually the generic name for a set of similar bodhisattvas

• In Hinduism:
• Tara (Devi)
  Tara (Devi)
  In Hinduism, the goddess Tara meaning "star" is the second of the Dasa Mahavidyas or "Great Wisdom [goddesses]", Tantric manifestations of Mahadevi, Kali, or Parvati...
  
  , a Mahavidya of Mahadevi, Kali or Parvati
• In Indian Hinduism, the star goddess Tara is a manifestation of the queen of time, Kali
• Another name for Taraka
  Taraka
  ' was the second wife of Hindu God Brihaspati, God of planet Jupiter. According to the Puranas, Tara sired or mothered child named Budha through Chandra ....
  
  , the second wife of Brihaspati
• Tara (Ramayana)
  Tara (ramayana)
  In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Tara is the Queen of Kishkindha and wife of the monkey King Vali. After being widowed, she becomes the Queen of Sugriva, Vali's brother. Tara's intelligence, presence of mind, courage, and devotion to her husband is praised...
  
  , the wife of the monkey king Vali, who married Vali's brother and successor, Sugriva, after Vali's death

• Tara, the mother goddess in the Druid
  Druid
  A druid was a member of the priestly class in Britain, Ireland, and Gaul, and possibly other parts of Celtic western Europe, during the Iron Age....
  
  ic religion
• Tara, a sea goddess in Polynesian mythology
  Polynesian mythology
  Polynesian mythology is the oral traditions of the people of Polynesia, a grouping of Central and South Pacific Ocean island archipelagos in the Polynesian triangle together with the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers...
  
  

People

• Tara (name)
  Tara (name)
  Tara is a given name with multiple meanings in different cultures.It is also sometimes a nickname for Tamara, as an alternative to Tammy. In the Royal Engineers it is a common for a Sergeant Major to be referred to as Tara, after the wrestler who was a Sergeant Major and served in Burma during...
  
  , a list of people with the name

• Tara (actress)
  Tara (actress)
  Tara is an Assamese film actress, who has worked in Assamese, Manipuri, Punjabi and Hindi films in a career extending more than 50 years...
  
   (born 1944), from the Assamese film industry
• Tara (Kannada actress)
  Tara (Kannada actress)
  Tara is a Kannada film actress. She won the Best Actress award in the 2005 National Film Awards for her role in the film Hasina , which also received the Best Film on Family Welfare award...
  
   (born 1967)
• Tara (wrestler), Lisa Marie Varon, an American professional wrestler

Titles

• Baron Tara
  Baron Tara
  Baron Tara was a title that was created twice in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created for the first time in 1691 in favour of the soldier Lord Meinhardt Schomberg, younger son of Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg. He was made Earl of Bangor and Duke of Leinster at the same time...
  
  , Irish title
• Viscount Tara
  Viscount Tara
  Viscount Tara was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1650 for the soldier Thomas Preston. He was the second son of Christopher Preston, 4th Viscount Gormanston. The title became extinct on the death of his grandson, the third Viscount, in 1674.Another member of the Preston family...
  
  , Irish title
• Kingship of Tara, a title of authority in ancient Ireland
• Baron Brabazon of Tara
  Baron Brabazon of Tara
  Baron Brabazon of Tara, of Sandwich in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1942 for the aviation pioneer and Conservative politician John Moore-Brabazon. Moore-Brabazon was a descendant through a female line of Edward Brabazon, 7th Earl of Meath...
  
  , UK title

Buildings

• Tara, Cairo
  Tara, Cairo
  Tara was the name given to a villa in Gezira Island, Cairo made famous by its inhabitants during World War II. The group of Special Operations Executive agents who lived there, together with Countess Zofia Tarnowska, turned the villa into a centre of high spirited living.First found, in 1943, by...
  
  , villa in Gezira Island, Cairo made famous by its inhabitants during World War II
• Tara Theatre
  Tara Theatre
  The Tara Theatre is an art house movie theater located in Atlanta. The theater specializes in the showing of independent films, the only theater in Atlanta to do so.-History:...
  
  , an art house movie theater in Atlanta named after the plantation in Gone With the Wind

Natural features

• Hill of Tara
  Hill of Tara
  The Hill of Tara , located near the River Boyne, is an archaeological complex that runs between Navan and Dunshaughlin in County Meath, Leinster, Ireland...
  
  , Co. Meath, Ireland, ritual site of ancient High Kings of Ireland
• Salar de Tara, salt pan in Chile
• Tara, County Down, a townland in County Down
  County Down
  -Cities:*Belfast *Newry -Large towns:*Dundonald*Newtownards*Bangor-Medium towns:...
  
  , Northern Ireland
• Tara Hill, County Wexford
  Tara Hill, County Wexford
  Tara Hill is an isolated hill near the Irish Sea coast in north County Wexford, Ireland. Though only 253 metres high , it dominates the landscape of northeast Wexford...
  
  , Ireland
• Tara Mountain
  Tara Mountain
  Tara , is a mountain located in western Serbia. It is part of Dinaric Alps and stands at 1,000-1,500 metres above sea level. The mountain's slopes are clad in dense forests with numerous high-altitude clearings and meadows, steep cliffs, deep ravines carved by the nearby Drina River and many karst,...
  
   and Tara National Park in Serbia
• Tara, Saga
  Tara, Saga
  is a town and peninsula located in Fujitsu District, Saga, Japan.-Geography:Tara is bordered by Isahaya, Ōmura, Kashima and the Ariake Sea. On a clear day, it is possible to see the mountains across the sea. Tara includes Mount Tara and Mount Kyoga, which are two of the highest mountains in...
  
  , town, mountain and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan

Rivers

• • Tara (Drina), in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Tara (Greece), in Arcadia, Greece
  • Tara River (Russia)
    Tara River (Russia)
    Tara River is a river in the Novosibirsk and Omsk Oblasts in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Irtysh River of the Ob basin. The length of the river is 806 km. The area of its basin 18,300 km². The Tara River freezes up in late October - November and stays under the ice until late April -...
    
    , in Siberia, Russia
  • Tara (Italy), a small river near Taranto
    Taranto
    Taranto is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Taranto and is an important commercial port as well as the main Italian naval base....
    
    

Settlements

• Tara, Afghanistan, in Wardak Province
  Wardak Province
  Maidan Wardak Province is one of thirty four provinces of Afghanistan located in the central east region of Afghanistan. It has a population of approximately 540,100. The capital of the province is Maidan Shar...
  
  
• Tara, Nepal
  Tara, Nepal
  Tara is a village development committee in Baglung District in the Dhawalagiri Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,705 and had 698 houses in the village....
  
  
• Tara, Queensland
  Tara, Queensland
  Tara is a town in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia, located 300 kilometres south west of the state capital, Brisbane. At the 2006 census, Tara had a population of 819...
  
  , town in Australia
• Tara, Ontario
  Tara, Ontario
  Tara is an unincorporated community in southwestern Ontario, Canada. At the 2006 census, it had 989 residents and 435 dwellings. Within the municipality of Arran-Elderslie, it is a designated place located on the Sauble River, with an area of 2.39 km², and an urban area that covers...
  
  , village in Canada
• Tara, Ethiopia, a village in the Oromia Region
  Oromia Region
  Oromia is one of the nine ethnic divisions of Ethiopia...
  
   of Ethiopia
• Tara, Russia
  Tara, Russia
  Tara is a town in Omsk Oblast, Russia, located about north of Omsk, at the confluence of the Tara and Irtysh Rivers at a point where the forested country merges into the steppe. It serves as the administrative center of Tarsky District, although it is not administratively a part of it...
  
  , town in Omsk Oblast, Russia
• Tara, Saga
  Tara, Saga
  is a town and peninsula located in Fujitsu District, Saga, Japan.-Geography:Tara is bordered by Isahaya, Ōmura, Kashima and the Ariake Sea. On a clear day, it is possible to see the mountains across the sea. Tara includes Mount Tara and Mount Kyoga, which are two of the highest mountains in...
  
  , town, mountain and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan
• Tara Township, Minnesota (disambiguation), USA; several places
• Tara Hills, California
  Tara Hills, California
  Tara Hills is a census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California, United States. The population was 5,126 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  , USA
• Tara, Zambia
  Tara, Zambia
  Tara is a small village, about 25 km south west of Choma, in the Southern Province of Zambia. It is stuated along the main road from Livingstone to Lusaka. The main economic activity is farming with tobacco being the main cash crop....
  
  , a village in Zambia
• Tara, Ireland, a village in Ireland

Other

• Shire of Tara
  Shire of Tara
  The Shire of Tara was a Local Government Area located in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The shire, administered from the town of Tara, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1912 until 2008, when it amalgamated with the Town of Dalby and the Shires of...
  
  , Queensland, Australia
• Tara County, New South Wales
  Tara County, New South Wales
  Tara County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It is located in the south-western corner of the state, to the north of the Murray River, and to the east of the border with South Australia. The Darling Anabranch River is the eastern boundary...
  
  , Australia
• Tara Station
  Tara Station
  is a train station in Tara, Fujitsu District, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Nagasaki Main Line. The limited express Kamome makes occasional special stops here during the Gatalympics. According to a 2005 estimate, the daily usage average is 297 people per...
  
   in Saga Prefecture, Japan
• Tara Street railway station
  Tara Street railway station
  Tara Street is the 3rd busiest railway station in Ireland , with over 25,000 passengers using it daily. The station is arguably the closest station to the Dublin city centre and certainly is the closest to O'Connell Bridge....
  
   in Dublin, Ireland
• Tara Boulevard, modern name of U.S. Route 19
  U.S. Route 19
  U.S. Route 19 is a north–south U.S. Highway. Despite encroaching Interstate Highways, the route has remained a long-haul route, connecting the Gulf of Mexico with Lake Erie....
  
   and U.S. Route 41
  U.S. Route 41
  U.S. Route 41 is a north–south United States Highway that runs from Miami, Florida to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Until 1949, the part in southern Florida, from Naples to Miami, was U.S...
  
   through Jonesboro, where the Tara Plantation was said to be located.
• Tara, home of Keith Moon
  Keith Moon
  Keith John Moon was an English musician, best known for being the drummer of the English rock group The Who. He gained acclaim for his exuberant and innovative drumming style, and notoriety for his eccentric and often self-destructive behaviour, earning him the nickname "Moon the Loon". Moon...
  
  
• Tara Anglican School for Girls
  Tara Anglican School for Girls
  Tara Anglican School for Girls is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in North Parramatta, a western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
  
  , North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
• Tara High School (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
  Tara High School (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
  Tara High School is one of several high schools in the East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is located in the of Baton Rouge. Tara High School is located at 9002 Whitehall Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70806...
  
  , Baton Rouge, LA, USA
• Tara Field, airport in Clayton County, Georgia, USA

Companies and organizations

• Tara expedition
  Tara expedition
  The Tara Expedition is a research expedition through the ice of the Arctic. The polar schooner Tara was to drift in the ice for approximately two years from its departure, late in August 2006. In the community of oceanography it is met with great interest especially in the context of the...
  
  , Arctic voyage 2006-08
• Tara Foundation
  Tara Foundation
  The Tara Foundation was a charity organization dedicated to the support of low-income and disabled transsexual people.- Origins :The foundation was started in 2001 with the assistance of a $10,000 grant from the Marin Community Foundation...
  
  , charity for transgendered people
• Tara (Israel)
  Tara (Israel)
  Tara is an agricultural cooperative in Israel specializing in milk and dairy products. It is the leading private dairy producer in Israel and the second largest dairy processor after Tnuva....
  
  , dairy co-operative
• Tara Labs
  Tara Labs
  TARA Labs is a manufacturer of a high-end audio cables from Ashland, Oregon. It's led by president Merrill Bergs...
  
  , manufacturer of high-end audio products
• Tara Newz
  Tara Newz
  Tara Newz , is a 24 hour Bengali language news channel, covers local news of West Bengal, India and Bangladesh as well as national and international news, operated by Broadcast Worldwide Limited, a Public Limited Company, with other channels under its umbrella, viz. TARA Muzik, and TV Southasia...
  
  , Bengali news channel
• Tara (Northern Ireland)
  Tara (Northern Ireland)
  Tara was a loyalist movement in Northern Ireland that espoused a brand of evangelical Protestantism.The group was first formed in 1966 by William McGrath from an independent Orange lodge that he controlled. It was intended as an outlet for virulent anti-Catholicism...
  
  , loyalist group
• Tara Arts, cross-cultural theatre production group in London, U.K.

Novels

• Tara Road
  Tara Road
  Tara Road is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in September 1999.-Plot introduction:It is the story of two women, one from Ireland and one from America, who trade houses without ever having met...
  
  , a 1998 novel by Irish writer Maeve Binchy
  • Tara Road (film)
    Tara Road (film)
    Tara Road is a film based on the novel of the same name by Maeve Binchy.-Plot:Two women trade houses without ever having met. They're both looking for an escape from their problems, but by running away, both come to discover a great deal about themselves.Ria Lynch is to married Danny Lynch and they...
    
    , a 2005 film based on the novel

Film and television

• Tara (1992 film), an Indian film directed by Bijaya Jena
• Tara (2001 film)
  Tara (2001 film)
  Tara is a 2001 film, known in the United States as Hood Rat. Directed by Leslie Small, it was released direct-to-video, and was poorly received.-Cast:...
  
  , an American film, also known as Hood Rat, directed by Leslie Small, starring Isaiah Washington and Ice T
• TARA, acronym for The Amazing Race Asia, a reality game show on the AXN network
• United States of Tara, a 2009 US comedy-drama TV series
• Tara Sasankam
  Tara Sasankam
  Tara Sasankam was filmed in 1969 directed by Manapuram Appa Rao and produced by K. Satyanarayana of Ramakrishna Pictures. It was starring Devika as Tara and Sobhan Babu as Sashank. Gummadi Venkateswara Rao played the role of Brihaspati. The other key roles are played by T. L. Kanta Rao, Haranath...
  
  , a popular Indian play and 1941 and 1969 films

Settings

• Tara, a planet setting of the Doctor Who serial The Androids of Tara
  The Androids of Tara
  The Androids of Tara is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 25 November to 16 December 1978...
  
  
• Tara Plantation
  Tara Plantation
  Tara, the fictional plantation found in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, was located near Jonesborough , Georgia...
  
  , fictional home of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
• Tara (Artemis Fowl), a location in the Artemis Fowl series
• Tara, the home of protagonist Scarlet O'Hara in the Margaret Mitchell novel "Gone With the Wind"

Other

• Queen Tara, play by Darrell Figgis. Opened at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, February 25, 1913. Produced by Henry Herbert.

Science

• Tara (genus), a genus of jumping spiders
• Tara tree in Peru
• Tara (shrub), a Malagasy name for Lemuropisum edule
  Lemuropisum edule
  Lemuropisum edule is an edible wild plant native to south west Madagascar. Family Fabaceae subfamily CaesalpinioideaeThe scientific name Lemuropisum edule means edible lemur's pea...
  
  
• TARA, the acronym for the Timed Antagonistic Response Alethiometer
  Timed Antagonistic Response Alethiometer
  The Timed Antagonistic Response Alethiometer, or TARA, is a type of lie detection technique that relies upon cognitive chronometry.The TARA is a computer-based technique. It requires respondents to classify a succession of mixed statements as true or false, as quickly and accurately as they can, by...
  
  , a type of lie detection technique
• Tara, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup T
  Haplogroup T (mtDNA)
  In human mitochondrial genetics, Haplogroup T is a human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup.-Known Origins:Mitochondrial Haplogroup T derives from the haplogroup JT, which also gave rise to haplogroup J...
  
  
• a Vitis rotundifolia grape variety

Music

• T-ara
  T-ara
  T-ara is a South Korean girl group formed by Core Contents Media in 2009. Before their debut, there was a high level of interest in the group as they were called "Super Rookies" and had been training for three years prior to debut....
  
  , a 7-member South Korean girl music group
• Tara (Absu album), fourth album by black metal band Absu
• Tara (Yano album)
  Tara (Yano album)
  Tara , is the third and last studio album of the now defunct Filipino rock band, Yano. It has 11 tracks and also its first album for major label BMG Records Philippines, having moved from local independent, Alpha Records.-Track listing:...
  
  
• "Tara" (song), a song on Moya Brennan's 2003 album Two Horizons

Other

• Tara Brooch
  Tara Brooch
  The Tara Brooch is a Celtic brooch of about 700 AD generally considered to be the most impressive of over 50 elaborate Irish brooches to have been discovered...
  
  , an artifact from Ireland
• tārā
  Tara
  -Religions and deities:*Tara , is a tantric meditation deity in Tibetan Buddhism, actually the generic name for a set of similar bodhisattvas*In Hinduism:*Tara , a Mahavidya of Mahadevi, Kali or Parvati...
  
  , Tahitian slang for 5 CFP francs
• Hurricane Tara (disambiguation), name of three tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
• Battle of Tara (Ireland), in Ireland in 980