Zora (name)

Zora is a gender neutral given name from Slavic origin. It is usually named for people that identify as female, but it can be gender neutral.

People with the name

Given name

• Zora Andrich, American model and actress
• Zora Arkus-Duntov (1909–1996), American engineer
• Zora Kramer Brown (1949–2013), American breast cancer awareness advocate
• Zora Brziaková (born 1964), Slovak basketball player
• Zora G. Clevenger (1881–1970), American football, basketball, and baseball player
• Zora Cross (1890–1964), Australian poet and author
• Zora Dirnbach (1929–2019), Croatian writer
• Zora Fair (died 1865), American spy
• Zora Folley (1931–1972), American boxer
• Zora Howard, American actress and writer
• Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker
• Zora Jandová (born 1958), Czech singer and actress
• Zora Jaurová (born 1973), Slovak politician.
• Zora Kerova (born 1950), Czech actress
• Zora Kolínska (1941–2002), Slovak actress and singer
• Zora Kostková (born 1952), Czech actress
• Zora Singh Maan (born 1940), Indian politician
• Zora Martin-Felton (1930–2022), American museum director
• Zora Mintalová-Zubercová (born 1950), Slovak ethnographer, historian and museologist
• Zora J. Murff (born 1987), American photographer
• Zora Palová (born 1947), Slovak glass artist
• Zora Petrović (1894–1962), Serbian painter
• Zora Plešnar (1925–2021), Slovenian photographer
• Zora Rozsypalová (1922–2010), Czech actress
• Zora Šemberová (1913–2012), Czech dancer, educator and choreographer
• Zora Simčáková (born 1963), Slovak cross-country skier
• Zora Singh (1928–2005), Indian athlete
• Zora Tavčar (born 1928), Slovene writer, essayist and translator
• Zora Vesecká (born 1967), Czech actress
• Zora Wolfová (1928–2012), Czech translator
• Zora Young (born 1948), American singer

Fictional characters

• Zora (vampire), an Italian comic book erotic character
• Zora Crane, a character played by Patti LuPone in Frasier
• Zora Ideale, a character in Black Clover voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa and Johnny Yong Bosch
• Zora Lancaster, a character played by Allisyn Ashley Arm in Sonny With a Chance
• Zora Blackwood, a character in the 2019 video game The Outer Worlds

Surname

• Anna Lacková-Zora (1899–1988), Slovak author
• Hanna Zora (1939–2016), Chaldean Catholic archbishop

See also

• Zora (disambiguation)
• Zoran, the masculine form of Zora
• Zorka, a given name
• Zorya, a figure in Slavic folklore
• Zhora Salome, a character in Blade Runner

External links

• Zora on Behind the Name