Chiara (name)
Chiara is both a feminine Italian given name and a surname meaning bright. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Saint Clare of Assisi, in Italian Chiara d'Assisi
- Saint Clare of Montefalco, in Italian Chiara da Montefalco
- Chiara Appendino, Italian politician
- Blessed Chiara Badano
- Chiara Berti, contestant on US TV show Big Brother 3
- Chiara Aurelia, American actress
- Chiara Boggiatto, Italian Olympic swimmer
- Chiara Boni, Italian fashion designer
- Princess Maria Chiara of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Italian socialite
- Chiara Brancati,, Italian water polo player
- Chiara Caselli, Italian actress
- Chiara Civello, Italian singer-songwriter
- Chiara Dal Santo, Italian sprint canoer
- Chiara Ferragni, Italian blogger and fashion designer
- , Argentine actress and singer
- Chiara Galiazzo, Italian singer
- Chiara Gensini, Italian actress
- Chiara Iezzi, Italian singer
- Chiara Lauvergnac, Italian activist
- Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare movement
- Chiara Mastalli, Italian actress, appears in the HBO series Rome
- Chiara Mastroianni, Italian-French actress
- Chiara Mazzel, Italian para-alpine skier
- Chiara Nappi, Italian physicist
- Chiara Neto, Italian chemist
- Chiara Poggi, Italian murder victim
- Chiara Porro, Australian diplomat
- Chiara Sacchi, Argentine climate activist
- Chiara Siracusa, Maltese pop singer, best known by the mononym Chiara
- Chiara Simionato, Italian speed skater
- Chiara Singarella, Argentine footballer
- Chiara Zanni, Canadian voice actress
- Chiara Zorzi, regent for her son the Duke of Athens
- Paola e Chiara, Italian sisters and pop singers
- Edelfa Chiara Masciotta, Miss Italia for 2005
Surname
- Francesca Chiara, Italian singer with the band Lovecrave
- Giuseppe Chiara, Italian Jesuit missionary
- Margaret Chiara, U.S. attorney fired by the George W. Bush administration
- Maria Chiara, Italian lyric soprano
- , Italian journalist and writer
- Piero Chiara, Italian writer
- , Argentine journalist, archivist, and filmmaker