Lyra (disambiguation)

Lyra is a constellation.

Lyra may also refer to:

Music

Instruments
  • 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

Songs / Compositions

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
  • Lyra Virna (born 1981), Indonesian actress

As a surname
  • Nicholas of Lyra (1270–1349), influential Biblical exegete
  • Carlos Lyra (born 1939), 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
  • 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 (born 1931), Brazilian businessman and politician
  • Markus Lyra (born 1945), Finnish retired diplomat
  • Beatriz Lyra (born 1930), Brazilian actress

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 (My Little Pony), a My Little Pony unicorn
  • Lyra Dawnbringer, A angel in Magic: The Gathering
  • Lyra, a hero in the Vainglory (video game) MOBA game

Places

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 (neuroanatomy) or psalterium, part of the commissure of fornix or hippocampal commissure
  • Lyra, aerial hoop used in circus performance
  • LYRA, a solar ultraviolet radiometer
  • Lyra (TV series), a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network
  • Lyra (virtual assistant), an intelligent personal assistant developed by Artificial Solutions
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gollark: I like "respect" as "recognizing people as fellow humans who you should maintain some basic standard of niceness with". And "respect" as "admiring people based on achievements". And "respect" as "acknowledge people's opinions on things reasonably" and such. I do *not* like "respect" as "subservience"/"obedience" - the "respect for authority" sense. These are quite hard to define nicely and just get lumped into one overloaded word.
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