Chitra

Chitra may refer to:

People

• Chithra, Indian playback singer known often as simply Chithra, the "Nightingale of Kerala"
• Chitra Bahadur K.C., Nepalese politician
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Indian-American author, poet, and professor of English
• Chitra Bharucha, former Consultant Haematologist and Vice Chair of the BBC Trust
• Chitra Ganesh, artist based in Brooklyn, New York
• Chitra Lekha Yadav, Nepalese politician
• Chitra Mudgal, literary figure in modern Hindi literature
• Chitra Singh, female ghazal singer
• Chitra Soman, Indian sprinter
• Chitra Subramaniam, Indian journalist
• Chitra Visweswaran, classical dancer
• Chitra (actress), Indian film actress

Literature

• Chitra (play), a 1914 play by Rabindranath Tagore and the title of a book of poems of the same name
• Amar Chitra Katha, one of India's largest selling comic book series
• Chitra Bharti Kathamala, a popular Indian Comic publication during the early 1980s

Zoology

• Chitra (genus), a turtle genus
  • Chitra indica, a narrow-headed soft-shelled turtle
  • Chitra chitra, a striped narrow-headed softshell turtle
• Sandfly, a biting fly found in sandy areas

Institutions

• Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India
• Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, India

Others

• Chitra (film), an Indian film released in 2001
• Chitra, in Hindu astrology, a nakshatra (lunar mansion)
• Chitra River, a river in the Narail District of southwestern Bangladesh
• Chitrakar, painters and mask makers
• Chitra, a 1960 ballet by Niyazi