Lyra (disambiguation)

Lyra is a constellation.

Lyra may also refer to:

Music

• Lyre, a stringed musical instrument known for its use in Classical Antiquity
• Byzantine lyra, a bowed string musical instrument used in the Byzantine Empire
• Lyra (Cretan), a bowed instrument used in folk music in Crete, Greece
• Lira Calabrese, a bowed instrument used in folk music in Calabria, Italy
• Lira da braccio, a European bowed string instrument of the Renaissance
• Kemenche, a bowed instrument used in folk music in Turkey, Greece and Iran
• RCA Lyra, a line of digital audio players
• "Lyra" (song), a song by Kate Bush
• Lyra, a composition for trumpet and piano by Hale A. VanderCook

People

• Nicholas of Lyra, an influential Biblical exegete
• Carlos Lyra, a Brazilian musician

Fictional characters

• Lyra Belacqua, one of the two protagonists in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
• She-Hulk (Lyra), a Marvel Comics superhero
• Lyra, a character in the game and anime Mega Man Star Force
• Lyra (Pokémon), the female player character in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver
• Lyra Heartstrings, a background character in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
• Lyra(Sliver Key), a Celestial Spirit character in Fairy Tail

Other uses

• The lyra or psalterium (neuroscience), part of the commissure of fornix or hippocampal commissure
• The Latin name of Lier, Belgium
  • K. Lyra, a Lier football club
  • K. Lyra T.S.V., a Lier football club
• HMS Lyra, the name of four ships of the Royal Navy
• Alfa-class submarine (Russian: Лира, Lyra), a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarines with a NATO reporting name of Alfa class
• Lyra, aerial hoop used in circus performance
• LYRA, a solar ultraviolet radiometer, to be first flown on board the ESA PROBA2 space mission
• Lyra, Queensland, a locality in Australia
• Lyra, Ohio, a community in the United States

See also

• Lira (disambiguation)
• Lyran (disambiguation)
• Lyria (disambiguation)