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Lyra is a constellation.

Lyra may also refer to:

Music

Instruments

• Lyre, a stringed musical instrument used in ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece and elsewhere
  • Lyres of Ur, a stringed musical instrument used in ancient Mesopotamia
  • 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

Songs / Compositions

• "Lyra" (song), a 2007 song by Kate Bush
• "Lyra", a song by Breaking Benjamin from the 2018 album Ember
• "Lyra", a song by Big Red Machine from their self-titled album
• Lyra, a composition for trumpet and piano by Hale A. VanderCook

People

As a given name

• Lyra McKee (1990–2019), Northern Irish journalist and author
• Lyra Taylor (1894–1979), social worker and lawyer from New Zealand
• Lyrae van Clief-Stefanon (born 1971), American poet

As a surname

• Nicholas of Lyra (1270–1349), influential Biblical exegete
• Carlos Lyra (1933–2023), Brazilian musician
• Carmen Lyra (1887–1949), pseudonym of female Costa Rican writer, born Maria Isabel Carvajal Quesada
• Cristina Lyra (born 1976), Brazilian sports and newscaster
• Raquel Lyra (born 1978) Brazilian lawyer and politician
• Débora Lyra (born 1989), Brazilian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder
• Fernando Lyra (1938–2013), Brazilian politician who served as Minister of Justice
• João Lyra (1931–2021), Brazilian businessman and politician
• Markus Lyra (born 1945), Finnish retired diplomat

Stage name

• Lyra (singer), Irish singer-songwriter and musician, Laura Brophy

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 (Silver Key), a Celestial Spirit character in Fairy Tail
• Lyra Erso, a character in the Star Wars universe
• Lyra Dawnbringer, an angel in Magic: The Gathering
• Lyra, a hero in the Vainglory (video game) MOBA game

Places

• The Latin name of Lier, Belgium
  • K. Lyra, a Lier football club
  • K. Lyra-Lierse Berlaar, a Lier football club
• Lyra, Queensland, a locality in Australia
  • Lyra railway station
• Lyra, Ohio, a community in the United States
• Lyra Reef, a coral atoll in Oceania

Vessels

• 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

Other uses

• Lyra (given name)
• Lyra, aerial hoop used in circus performance
• Lyra (neuroanatomy) or psalterium, part of the commissure of fornix or hippocampal commissure
• Lyra (virtual assistant), an intelligent personal assistant developed by Artificial Solutions
• Lyra, a novel series by Patricia Wrede
• Lyra (TV series), a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network
• Lyra (codec) A lossy audio codec developed by Google.

See also

• LYRA (Lyman Alpha Radiometer) – a solar ultraviolet radiometer
• Lira (disambiguation)
• Lyran (disambiguation)
• Lyria (disambiguation)
• Lyre (disambiguation)

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