title: Leonora
text: # 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
  