• Kuru (kingdom), a powerful Indian kingdom during the Vedic period and later a republic during the Mahajanapada period
• Kuru Kingdom, a kingdom based on the historic Kuru kingdom in Indian epic literature
• Kuru (disease), a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy associated with the cannibalistic funeral practices of the Fore people.
• Kuru (archaeology), Indian ethnic group and their kingdom
• Kuru (mythology) is part of African mythology
• Kuru (Hinduism), imputed ancestral king
• Kuru, Finland, municipality
• Kuruş, Turkish currency
• Kuru, Turkish dried-bean dish kurufasulye
• Kuru, Nigeria
• Kuru (band), British punk band during the late 1990s
• S/S Kuru, a Finnish lake steamer
• kuru, Finnish word for a type of canyon

See also

• Kourou, a town in French Guiana