Chitra
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Chitra could refer to
- Chitra (चित्र) is a nakshatra. It is also a common hindu name for the female child in India derived from the sanskrit word for portrait or picture. Girls born under the star Chitra (Chitirai) are sometimes given this name.
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, an Indian-American author, poet, and professor of English
- Chitra Bharucha, a former Consultant Haematologist and Vice Chair of the BBC Trust
- Chitra Ganesh, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York
- Chitra Singh, a female ghazal singer
- Chitra K. Soman, an Indian sprinter
- Chitra Subramaniam, an Indian journalist
- Chitra Bharani, House wife
- Chitra is the title of a play written by the Bengali poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore
- Chitra (genus), a turtle genus
- Chitra indica, a narrow-headed soft-shelled turtle
- Chitra is a river in the Narail District of southwestern Bangladesh
- Chitrakar, "One who paints" (chitra means a painting)
- K. S. Chithra, a popular Indian playback singer
- Chitra Bahadur K.C. is a Nepalese politician
- Chitra Lekha Yadav is a Nepalese politician

