Aida (disambiguation)

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Aida may be best known for the opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi.

Aida may also refer to:

In names:

• Aida (name), a female given name
• Garo Aida (1949– ), a Japanese photographer
• Sayaka Aida (1975– ), a Japanese voice actor
• Shinichi Aida, a Japanese popular music artist
• Shoko Aida (1970– ), a Japanese popular music artist and actress
• Yu Aida (1977– ), a Japanese manga author and illustrator
• Yua Aida, a Japanese model

In geography:

• Aida, Okayama, a former town in Japan, known for the "Aida" race car circuit
  • Okayama International Circuit, formerly known as TI Circuit Aida, a race car circuit which hosted the Formula One Pacific Grand Prix in 1994 and 1995
  • Aida Junior High School
• Aida District, Okayama, Japan
• Aida (camp), a Palestinian refugee camp

In computer science:

• AIDA32, computer software that provides information on hardware
• AIDA (computing), a set of defined interfaces and formats for representing common data analysis objects, primarily used by researchers in high-energy particle physics.

In fiction:

• Aida, a character from The Cairo Trilogy, by Naquib Mahfouz
• AIDA (.hack), Artificially Intelligent Data Anomalies, fictional AIs in the .hack franchise
• Aida, one of the protagonists in the 2003 computer game Unreal II: The Awakening

In movies and television:

• Aida (1953 film), starring Sophia Loren
• Aida (film), the 1987 Swedish film
• Aída, a Spanish TV series, a spin-off from 7 Vidas

In music:

• Aida (musical), the musical by Elton John and Tim Rice whose story is based on Verdi's opera
• Aida (album), a 1980 album by Derek Bailey

Organisations:

• AIDA International, organizing body for the sport of freediving
• Aida (café), a chain of coffeehouses in Vienna, Austria
• AIDA Cruises, a German cruise company, also the prefix of several ships in their fleet
• The Australasian Intervarsity Debating Association, organizing body of the Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships

Other uses :

• AIDA, Attention-Interest-Desire-Action, an acronym used in marketing
• AIDA interactive educational freeware diabetes simulator, originally developed as an attempt at an Automated Insulin Dosage Advisor
• Aida cloth, used in Cross-stitch
• AiDA (development), a global list of international development projects
• Operation Aida, Rommel's penultimate effort to take Egypt from the British using the Afrikakorps in mid-1942