Viola (disambiguation)

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Viola can refer to:

Instruments

• Viola, a musical instrument
• A type of acoustic guitar from Brazil Viola (Brazil)

Persons

• The name of a character in William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night
• Viola name of a character in Free Radical's video games TimeSplitters 2 and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
• Viola is the name of the antagonist in Konami's game Zone of the Enders and is present in its sequel Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner.
• Viola in the 2002 TV show Kiddy Grade
• Viola, a female given name
• Viola, a surname of Italian or Spanish descent. Roberto Viola, for instance, was briefly President of Argentina.
• Viola, full name Paulo Sérgio Rosa, a football player from Brazil present in the World Cup 1994

Places

• The name of several places in the United States of America:
  • Viola, Arkansas
  • Viola, Delaware
  • Viola, Illinois
  • Viola, Kansas
  • Viola, New York
  • Viola, Tennessee
  • Viola, Wisconsin

• The name of a comune in Italy
  • Viola, in the province of Cuneo

Other

• The systematic name of a group of flowering plants. The Viola genus includes violets, pansies and violas.
• ViolaWWW, an early web browser developed by Pei-Yuan Wei
• Viola, the word for purple in Italian
• 1076 Viola, an asteroid

It is also a fairly common mis-spelling of the French "voila!" (there it is!); "viola" actually means "raped" in French.