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Eudora is a city in Douglas County, Kansas, along the Kansas and Wakarusa rivers, with a population of 6,408 in the 2020 census.

Eudora is one of the few American towns named for a Native American girl: in 1857 a German immigrant settlement company from Chicago bought about 800 acres of the townsite from Shawnee Chief Paschal Fish, and named the new town Eudora in honor of the chief's daughter.

The first post office in Eudora was established in September 1857, and Eudora was incorporated in 1859.

A statue of Chief Paschal Fish standing with his daughter Eudora, sculpted by Jim Brothers and unveiled in 2007, stands in town at Main Street commemorating the town's naming.

Before American settlement, the Eudora area was home to Native American tribes for thousands of years — the Kansa tribe lived there from the 1600s into the early 1800s, followed by the Shawnee reservation era.

Eudora's German settlers gave it a brewing heritage early on: Charles Bartusch, a native of Prussia who arrived in 1862, opened a brewery in Eudora in 1874.

In the 2010 census Eudora had 6,136 people living in 2,210 households, and the city covers about 2.94 square miles, of which about 2.89 square miles is land.

Eudora is part of the Lawrence, Kansas metropolitan statistical area, sitting between Lawrence and Kansas City along the Kansas River.

By 1910 Eudora had grown into a complete small town with public schools, two banks, general stores, hardware and implement houses, a drug store, and wagon and blacksmith shops, with a population of 640.

Chief Paschal Fish himself ran a ferry and the Fish Hotel on the townsite before selling the land, serving travelers on the trails connecting the Oregon, Santa Fe and California routes.