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
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
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
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