Notable people with the name include: •
Nora Abolins (born 1992), Canadian-born Latvian football player •
Nora Aceval (born 1953), Algerian writer •
Nora Achahbar (born 1982), Dutch politician and jurist •
Nora Adamian (1910–1992), Soviet-Armenian writer •
Nora Ahlberg (born 1952), Norwegian psychologist •
Norah Aiton, British architect •
Norah Al Faiz (born 1956), Saudi deputy education minister •
Nora Al Matrooshi (born 1993), Emirati astronaut •
Nora Lilian Alcock (1874–1972), British pioneering plant pathologist •
Norah Amsellem, French opera singer •
Norah Ansell (1906–1990), British artist •
Nora Ariffin, Singaporean fashion model and real estate broker •
Nora Armani (born 1956), Egyptian play director •
Nora Arnezeder (born 1989), French actress and singer •
Nora Ashe (1882–1970), Irish teacher, nationalist and Irish language activist •
Nora Aslan (born 1937), Argentine visual artist and photographer •
Nora Astorga (1944–1988), Nicaraguan guerilla, politician, judge, Vice Minister of Justice and ambassador to the United Nations (1986–1988) •
Nora Attal (born 1999), British fashion model •
Nora Aunor (1953–2025), Filipina actress •
Nora Awolowo (born 1999), Nigerian film director, cinematographer, documentary photographer, producer and creative director •
Nora Azmy (born 2000), Egyptian synchronized swimmer •
Nora Azurmendi (born 1995), Spanish handballer •
Nora Bajčíková (1966–2014), Slovak tennis player •
Nora Baldenweg (born 1981), Swiss/Australian female composer •
Norah Balls (1886–1980), British
suffragette,
women's rights campaigner, magistrate, councillor. •
Norah Baring (1905–1985), English actress •
Nora Barlow (1885–1989), British botanist and geneticist •
Norah Barlow, New Zealand business executive •
Nora Barnacle (1884–1951), wife of author
James Joyce •
Nora Stanton Barney (1883–1971), British civil engineer and suffragist •
Nora Barrientos (born 1960), Chilean politician •
Nóra Barta (born 1984), Hungarian diver •
Nora Raleigh Baskin (born 1961), American author of books for children and young adults •
Nora Bayes (1880–1928), American singer and vaudeville performer •
Nora Bayrakdarian, Lebanese Professor of Armenian descent •
Norah Beare (born 1946), Northern Ireland politician •
Nora Beloff (1919–1997), English journalist and politician •
Nora Bennis (1940–2019), Irish housewife and politician •
Nora Holstad Berge (born 1987), Norwegian footballer •
Nora von Bergen (born 1990), Swiss ice dancer •
Nora Bernard (1935–2007), Mi'kmaq activist •
Nora Berra (born 1963), French politician •
Nora Berrah, Algerian physicist •
Nora J. Besansky, American molecular biologist •
Nora Beust (1888–1973), American writer •
Nora Aída Bicet (born 1977), Spanish-Cuban javelin thrower •
Norah Bigirwa-Nyendwoha (born 1968), Ugandan politician •
Nora Francisca Blackburne (1914–2009), British casting director and civil servant •
Nora Brooks Blakely (born 1951), American literary editor •
Norah Blaney (1893–1983), British music hall performer •
Nora Blom (born 1951), Dutch tennis player •
Norah Borges (1901–1998), Argentine artist, art critic and member of the Florida group •
Nora Bossong (born 1982), German writer •
Nora Boustany, Lebanese journalist and educator •
Norah Braden (1901–2001), British artisan potter •
Lady Norah Bradley-Birt (1875–1946), British aristocrat •
Nora Brambilla (born 1964), Italian and German theoretical physicist •
Nora Vagi Brash (1944–2024), Papua New Guinean author •
Nora Bretón, Mexican physicist •
Nora Brockstedt (1923–2015), Norwegian singer •
Nora Brownell (born 1947), American businessman •
Nora Brugman (born 1992), Spanish sailor •
Nora Jean Bruso (born 1956), American singer •
Nora Burglon (1896–1976), American author •
Norah Burke (1907–1976), British novelist and writer •
Norah Burnard (1902–1979), New Zealand school dental supervisor and journal editor •
Nora Calderwood (1896–1985), Scottish mathematician and professor •
Nora Callebout (1895–1995), British track athlete •
Nora Campos (born 1966), American politician •
Nora Cano (born 1994), Mexican actress and singer •
Nora Cardoza (born 1984), Mexican boxer •
Norah Carter (1881–1966), New Zealand photographer •
Nora Cecil (1878–1951), English-American actress •
Nora K. Chadwick (1891–1972), British philologist •
Norah Chambers (1905–1989), British prison of war chorale conductor •
Nora Chesson (1871–1906), English journalist and poet •
Nora Chipaumire (born 1965), choreographer and performer •
Nora Clench (1867–1938), Canadian musician •
Nora Stewart Coleman (1920–2005), First Lady of American Samoa •
Nora Collyer (1898–1979), Canadian modernist painter •
Nora Connolly, British actress •
Nora Conway (1920–2010), Irish badminton player •
Nora Cornolle (born 1989), French mixed martial artist •
Nora Cortiñas (1930–2024), Argentine social psychologist, activist, human rights defender •
Nora Coton-Pélagie (born 1988), French footballer •
Nora Cuevas (born 1959), Chilean politician •
Nora Cullen (1905–1990), Argentine actress •
Nora Cundell (1889–1948), English painter •
Nora Daduut (born 1953), Nigerian academic and politician •
Nora Danish (born 1982), Malaysian actress, singer, host and model •
Nora Dannehy (born 1961), American attorney •
Nora Marks Dauenhauer (1927–2017), Tlingit poet, short-story writer and Tlingit language scholar •
Nora David, Baroness David (1913–2009), British politician and life peer •
Nora Fontaine Davidson (1836–1929), American schoolteacher •
Nora Daza (1928–2013), Filipina chef, restaurateur, socio-civic leader, television host and best-selling cookbook author •
Nora Dean (1944–2016), Jamaican singer •
Nora Decter, Canadian author and university instructor •
Norah Demierre (born 2007), Swiss rhythmic gymnast •
Nora Demleitner (born 1966), American law professor •
Nora Denney (1927–2005), American actress •
Nora Dillon (1888–1984), English Girl Guide leader •
Nora Dimitrova (born 1996), Bulgarian footballer •
Norah Docker (1906–1983), English socialite •
Nora Domínguez, Argentine literary scholar •
Nora Dumas (1890–1979), Hungarian photographer •
Nora Dunblane (1879–19??), American actress and writer •
Nora Dunfee (1915–1994), American actress •
Nora Dunn (born 1952), American actress and comedian •
Norah Dunphy, UK architect and town planner •
Nora Eddington (1924–2001), American actress and socialite •
Nóra Edöcsény (born 1974), Hungarian triathlete •
Nora Lie Eghdami (born 1997), Norwegian footballer •
Nora Ekberg, known as Little Sis Nora (born 1996), Swedish singer •
Nora El Koussour (born 1994), Dutch actress •
Norah Elam (1878–1961), Irish-born British suffragette •
Nora England (1946–2022), American linguist •
Nora England (artist), British artist •
Nora Ephron (1941–2012), American writer •
Nóra Érfalvy (born 1970), Hungarian rhythmic gymnast •
Nora Espinoza, republican member of the New Mexico House of Representatives •
Nora Ezell (1917–2007), African-American quilter •
Nora Fatehi (born 1992), Canadian-Moroccan dancer and actress •
Nora Federici (1910–2001), Italian statistician •
Nora Fernandes (born 1998), Indian footballer •
Nora Fernández (born 1999), Spanish artistic gymnast •
Nora Fingscheidt (born 1983), German film director and screenwriter •
Nora Fischer, several people •
Nora FitzGibbon (1889–1979), New Zealand nurse •
Norah Flatley (born 2000), American artistic gymnast •
Nora Kathleen Fletcher (1880–1976), Australian nurse •
Nora Forster (1942–2023), German-British music promoter •
Nora May French (1881–1907), American poet •
Nora Fridrichová (born 1977), Czech television presenter •
Norah Fry, advocate and campaigner •
Norah Fulcher, English watercolor portrait artist •
Nora Gal (1912–1991), Russian translator •
Nora Ruvalcaba Gámez (born 1967), Mexican politician •
Norah Gaughan (born 1961), American hand knitting pattern designer •
Nora Trueblood Gause (1851–1955), American humanitarian •
Norah Geddes, Scottish landscape architect •
Norah Gibbons (1952–2020), Irish children's advocate and social worker •
Nora Giménez (born 1957), Argentine politician •
Nora Ginzburg (born 1949), Argentine lawyer and politician •
Nora Gjakova (born 1992), Kosovo-Albanian judoka, Olympic champion •
Nora Neset Gjøen (born 1992), Norwegian footballer •
Nora Gomringer (born 1980), German and Swiss poet and writer •
Nóra Görbe (born 1956), Hungarian pop singer and actress •
Nora Gordon (1893–1970), British actress •
Nora I. Goreau (1921–2016), Panamanian marine biologist and teacher •
Norah Gorsen (1931–2020), British actress •
Nora Gould, Canadian poet •
Norah Neilson Gray (1882–1931), Scottish artist •
Nora Greenberg (born 1950), Israeli politician and LGBT rights activist •
Nora Gregor (1901–1949), Austrian actress •
Nora Griffith (1870–1937), Scottish Egyptologist and illustrator •
Nora Groce, British anthropologist •
Nora Grossman, American film producer •
Nora Gubisch (born 1971), French operatic mezzo-soprano •
Nora Guinn (1920–2005), American judge •
Nora Gulbrandsen (1894–1978), Norwegian porcelain designer •
Norah Gurdon (1882–1974), Australian painter •
Nora Guthrie (born 1950), American record producer •
Norah Hamilton (1873–1945), USA artist and educator •
Nora Spencer Hamner (1895–1971), American nurse •
Nora Hamzawi (born 1983), French humorist, comedian and actor •
Nora Harkin (1910–2012), Irish republican socialist and activist •
Nora Heald (1882–1961), British journalist and editor •
Nora Hendrix (1883–1984), African-Canadian vaudeville performer •
Nora Heroum (born 1994), Finnish footballer •
Nora Herting, American artist •
Nora Heysen (1911–2003), Australian artist •
Nora Hirano (born 1978), Japanese comedian •
Nóra Hoffmann (born 1985), Hungarian ice dancer •
Norah M. Holland (1876–1925), writer •
Nora Holt (1885–1974), American critic, composer, singer and pianist •
Nora Hood (–1871), Aboriginal Australian religious figure •
Nora Houfová (1924–2024), Austrian actress •
Norah Hoult (1898–1984), Irish writer •
Nora Houston (1883–1942), American painter •
Norah Howard (1900–1968), British actress •
Nora Hsiung Chu, Chinese educator •
Nora Ikstena (1969–2026), Latvian writer and cultural manager •
Nora Illi (1984–2020), Swiss Muslim activist •
Norah Isaac (1914–2003), Welsh author and advocate •
Nora Istrefi (born 1986), Kosovo-Albanian singer •
Nora Iuga (born 1931), Romanian poet, writer and translator •
Nora Ivanova (born 1977), Austrian sprinter •
Nora Foss al-Jabri (born 1996), Norwegian singer •
Nora Jacobson, American filmmaker •
Norah C. James (1896–1979), English novelist •
Nora Jenčušová (born 2002), Slovak road cyclist •
N. K. Jemisin (born 1972), American science fiction and fantasy writer •
Norah Jeruto (born 1995), Kenyan steeplechase runner •
Nora Johnson (1933–2017), American novelist •
Nora Johnston, English carillonneur and inventor •
Norah Jones (born 1979), American singer •
Nora Junco, Spanish politician •
Nora Kaye (1920–1987), American ballet dancer and choreographer •
Nora Okja Keller (born 1966), Korean-American author •
Nora Kelly, several people •
Nora Kerin (1881–1970), British theatre actress and stage beauty •
Nora Khan (born 1983), American art critic, curator and writer •
Nora Kirkpatrick (born 1984), American actress •
Nora Köppel (born 1972), Argentine weightlifter •
Nora Kovach (1931–2009), Hungarian ballerina •
Nora Krug, German-American author and illustrator •
Nora Benjamin Kubie (1899–1988), American writer, artist and amateur archaeologist •
Nora Lafi, French historian •
Nora Lam (1932–2004), Chinese minister •
Nora Lane (1905–1948), American actress •
Norah Lange (1905–1972), Argentine author •
Nora de Leeuw, Welsh computational chemist •
Nora Levin (1916–1989), American historian •
Princess Nora of Liechtenstein (born 1950), Liechtenstein princess •
Nora Lindahl (born 2004), Swedish athlete •
Norah Lindsay (1873–1948), British socialite and garden designer •
Nora Listach (1910–1987), American baseball player •
Nora Lofts (1904–1983), British writer •
Nora Bustamante Luciani (1924–2012), Venezuelan physician, historian, writer and intellectual •
Nora Lum, known as Awkwafina (born 1988), American actress •
Norah Lunkuse (born 1998), Ugandan netball player •
Nora Lustig (born 1951), American economist •
Nora Hamou Maamar (born 1983), French-Algerian footballer •
Nora MacMunn (1875–1967), British geography educator •
Norah Magero (born 1988), Kenyan mechanical engineer and renewable energy expert •
Nora Magid, Canadian-American writer •
Norah Mahlangu (born 1973), South African politician •
Nora Mandray, French filmmaker •
Nora Margaret Manella (born 1951), American judge •
Nora Marlowe (1915–1977), American actress •
Norah Martin, Australian religious sister and the superior general of the Little Company of Mary •
Norah McCarthy, Canadian figure skater •
Norah McClintock (1952–2017), Canadian writer •
Nora McDermott (1927–2013), Canadian basketball and volleyball player, coach and physical education teacher •
Norah McGuinness (1901–1980), Irish artist •
Nora McInerny, American author •
Nora Fisher McMillan (1908–2003), Irish chronologist, naturalist, botanist and museum curator •
Norah Meade (1888–1954), Irish journalist and humanitarian •
Nora Mebarek (born 1972), French politician •
Nóra Medvegy (born 1977), Hungarian chess player •
Nora Meister (born 2003), Swiss Paralympic swimmer •
Nora Gúnera de Melgar (1942–2021), Honduran politician •
Nora Méndez (born 1969), Salvadoran poet •
Nora Chapa Mendoza (born 1932), American painter •
Nora Miao (born 1952), Hong Kong actress •
Norah Michener (1902–1987), Canadian politician •
Norah Milanesi (born 2003), Cameroonian swimmer •
Nora Miller (1898–1994), Scottish zoologist •
Nora Milnes (1882–1972), British social worker, educator and author •
Nora Mitrani, Bulgarian writer •
Nora Mohler (1898–1984), American physicist •
Nora Monie (born 1997), Cameroonian athlete •
Norah Montgomerie (1909–1998), British folklorist, illustrator and writer •
Nora Mørk (born 1991), Norwegian handball player •
Nora Naranjo Morse, Native American artist and poet •
Norah Munsu (born 1960), Namibian politician •
Nora Nadjarian, Armenian-Cypriot poet and short story writer •
Nóra Nagy-Bujdosó (born 1985), Hungarian basketball player •
Norah Nelson Napaljarri (born 1956), Australian artist •
Nora Andy Napaltjarri, Australian artist •
Nora Nash, activist •
Nora Navas (born 1975), Spanish actress •
Nora Neve, British nurse and medical missionary •
Nora Newcombe (born 1951), Canadian psychologist •
Nora Ney (actress) (1906–2003), Polish film actress •
Nora Ney (1922–2003), Brazilian singer •
Nora Nicholson (1892–1973), British actress •
Nora Noffke, American geo-biologist •
Nora-Jane Noone (born 1984), Irish actress •
Nora Norrish, English table tennis player •
Nora Nouhaili (born 2003), Tunisian footballer •
Nora Nova (1928–2022), Bulgarian-born singer •
Nora Novotny (born 1939), Austrian swimmer •
Nora Connolly O'Brien (1892–1981), Irish politician, activist and writer •
Nora O'Connor (born 1968), American Chicago-based musician •
Nora O'Daly, Irish nationalist, writer and trade unionist •
Norah O'Donnell (born 1974), American journalist •
Nora O'Keeffe, Irish revolutionary and feminist •
Norah Olembo (1941–2021), Kenyan biochemist and policy developer •
Nora Tynan O'Mahony (1866–1954), Irish poet and novelist •
Norah O'Neill (1949–2017), American aviator •
Nora Orlandi (1933–2025), Italian musician and composer •
Nora Owen (born 1945), Irish politician and television presenter •
Norah Patten, Irish aeronautical engineer •
Nora Payne, American singer songwriter •
Norah Lillian Penston (1903–1974), British botanist and academic administrator •
Nora Pierce, American author and academic •
Nora Perry, several people •
Nora Persson (born 1999), Norwegian handball player •
Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips (1910–1992), British labour politician •
Nora Polley (1894–1988), Indian tennis player •
Nora Poppelwell, former mayoress of Gore •
Nora Pouillon (born 1943), Austrian-American chef and restaurateur •
Nora Pöyhönen (1849–1938), Finnish horticulturist and educator •
Nora En Pure (born 1990), Swiss South African DJ and record producer •
Nora Radcliffe (born 1946), Scottish politician •
Norah Abdul Rahman (born 1958), Malaysian politician •
Nora Reiche (born 1983), German handball player •
Nora Renouf, British pharmaceutical chemist •
Nora Ricci (1924–1976), Italian actress •
Norah Richards (1876–1971), Irish actress and playwright •
Nora Rinne (born 1973), Finnish actress •
Nora Rios (born 1999), Swedish actress •
Nora Roberts (born 1950), American author •
Nora Rocha (born 1967), Mexican long-distance runner •
Nora Rodd (1893–1994), Canadian peace activist •
Nora Tausz Rónai (born 1924), Brazilian holocaust survivor, architect, writer and masters swimmer •
Nora Ross, American trap shooting champion •
Nora Rubashova (1909–1987), Russian Catholic nun •
Norah Runge (1884–1978), British politician •
Nora St. Rose, Trinidadian cricketer •
Nora Salinas (born 1976), Mexican actress •
Nora Samosir, Singaporean actress •
Nora Sanderson (1905–1975), New Zealand romance novelist •
Nora Sayre (1932–2001), American film critic •
Nora Cate Schaeffer, American sociologist and survey statistician •
Nora Schimming-Chase (1940–2018), Namibian politician •
Norah Schuster (1892–1991), British pathologist •
Nora E. Scott (1905–1994), American Egyptologist •
Nora Seitz (born 1984), German politician •
Nora Shanab (born 1987), Israeli footballer •
Nóra Ní Shíndile, Irish singer •
Nóra Simóka (born 1980), Hungarian modern pentathlete •
Nora Simonhjell, Norwegian literary scholar •
Norah Simpson (1895–1974), Australian artist •
Nora Sipos (1900–1988), New Zealand businesswoman, humanitarian and welfare worker •
Nora Slawik (born 1962), American politician •
Norah Smallwood (1909–1984), British publisher •
Nora Smith, several people •
Norah Smyth (1874–1963), British suffragette, photographer and socialist activist •
Nora Somoza (1930–2013), Argentine tennis player •
Nora Sopková, Czech set decorator •
Nora Stapleton (born 1983), Irish rugby union footballer •
Norah Dowell Stearns (1891–1954), American hydrogeologist •
Nora Sterry (1879–1941), American teacher and academic •
Nora Stiasny (1898–1942), Austrian Jewish art collector •
Norah Sharpe Stone (1938–2019), Canadian-born American philanthropist, vintner and collector •
Norah Stoner (born 1945), Canadian politician •
Norah Story (1902–1978), Canadian archivist •
Nora Strømstad (1909–2005), Norwegian alpine skier •
Nora Jane Struthers (born 1983), American singer-songwriter •
Nora Subschinski (born 1988), German diver •
Nora Sumberg, Australian artist •
Nora Sun (1937–2011), American diplomat •
Nora Sundberg (born 2005), Swedish golfer •
Nora Sveaass (born 1949), Norwegian psychologist •
Nora Swinburne (1902–2000), British actress •
Nora Tallus (born 1981), Finnish ice hockey player •
Nora Torulf (1903–1993), Swedish author and politician •
Nora Tschirner (born 1981), German actress •
Nora Turato, Croatian artist •
Nora Twomey (born 1971), Irish animator, director, screenwriter, producer and voice actress •
Nora W. Tyson (born 1956), US Navy admiral •
Nora Valdez (born 1997), Colombian archer •
Nora Valsami (born 1948), Greek actress •
Nora Vargas, American politician •
Nóra Varsányi (born 1991), Hungarian handball player •
Nora Vasconcellos, American skateboarder •
Nora Veryán (1929–1998), Mexican actress •
Norah Vincent (1968–2022), American writer •
Nora Volkow (born 1956), Mexican psychiatrist •
Nora Vynne (1857–1914), British novelist and political activist •
Nora Wagener (born 1989), Luxembourgish writer •
Nora Waldstätten (born 1981), Austrian actress •
Nora Wall, Irish Sisters of Mercy member •
Nora Waln (1895–1964), American writer •
Nora Watkins (1957–2023), New Zealand former footballer •
Nora Wattie (1900–1994), Scottish public health medicine and ante-natal pioneer •
Norah Weinstein, co-CEO of Baby2Baby •
Nora Kate Weston (1880–1965), Australian cabinet-maker •
Nora Wilhelm (born 1993), Swiss activist and social entrepreneur •
Norah Wilson (1901–1971), Australian Aboriginal community worker •
Nora Xu (born 1995), Chinese model •
Nora Young, Canadian broadcaster and writer •
Nora Young (cyclist) (1917–2016), Canadian cyclist •
Nora Yú (born 1954), Mexican politician •
Nora Zaïdi (born 1965), former Member of the European Parliament •
Nora Zehetner (born 1981), American actress •
Nora Zuckerman, American television screenwriter ==Fictional characters==