Tara Flood (born 1966) is a retired British Paralympic swimmer who competed in three Paralympic Games and winning seven medals.

[1][2] Flood was born in Preston, Lancashire and was discriminated by her grandmother who often insulted her mother by saying "look what Sally's given birth to" which emotionally affected both Tara and her mother.

Her mother had a nervous breakdown when Tara was two days old and was heavily sedated.

[3][4] She attended a residential special school at sixteen months to her sixteenth birthday in East Sussex.

[7] Flood works in London at Hammersmith & Fulham Council as a disability activist and worked in various disability rights charities in the city.