Leonora
# Leonora

Leonora or Leonara may refer to:

## People

* Leonora (given name), a feminine given name
* Leonora of Castile (disambiguation)
* Leonora of England (1162–1216), Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile
* Leonora (singer) (born 1998), Danish singer representing her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019
* John Leonora (1928–2006), research scientist, Loma Linda University

## Places

* Leonora, Guyana
* Leonora, Western Australia
* Shire of Leonora, a local government area of Western Australia

## Arts and entertainment

* Leonora (opera), the original title of Ludwig van Beethoven's opera Fidelio, in which the heroine is named Leonora (or Leonore in German)
* Leonora (opera) by William Henry Fry (the first known performance of an opera by an American composer on March 18, 1845)
* Leonora (opera), the 1804 opera by Ferdinando Paer based on the same source as the work by Beethoven
* Leonora, heroine of the opera Il trovatore, the 1853 opera by Giuseppe Verdi based on the 1836 drama El trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez
* Leonora, heroine of the opera La forza del destino, the 1862 opera by Giuseppe Verdi based on the 1835 drama Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino by Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas
* Leonora, another name for Lenore (ballad), by Gottfried August Bürger
* Leonora (novel), by Maria Edgeworth
* Leonora (film), a 1984 Australian film
* Leonora, a novel by Hazel Holt
* Leonora, a novel by Arnold Bennett
* Leonora, the main character of a brief narrative pocket in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews

## Other

* 696 Leonora, a minor planet
