Alma
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Alma may refer to:
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[edit] Media
[edit] Print media
- Alma (novel), a 1922 novel by Oswald de Andrade
- Alma (play), a drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma Mahler-Werfel
- Alma Cogan (novel), a 1991 novel by Gordon Burn
- ALMA Magazine, Spanish language magazine for the Hispanic community in the U.S.
[edit] Visual media
- ALMA Awards, U.S. awards for Latinos performers
- Alma, a Greater Fiend from the video game Ninja Gaiden
- Alma Halliwell, a character on the soap opera Coronation Street
- Alma Hodge, character on the soap opera Desperate Housewives
- Alma Wade, an antagonist from the game F.E.A.R.
- Alma Beoulve, a character in the PlayStation video game Final Fantasy Tactics
[edit] Sciences
- Almas (cryptozoology), a Mongolian name for wild man (singular), a cryptozoological species
- Alma-0, a programming language
- Tropical Storm Alma, any of several named tropical cyclones
- A name for the wild apple, malus sieversii, in Kazakh and Hungarian
[edit] Academics
- Alma College, a private, liberal arts college in Alma, Michigan
- Alma mater, a term of academia
[edit] Religion
- Book of Alma, a part of The Book of Mormon
- Alma the Elder, in the Books of Mosiah and Alma, part of The Book of Mormon
- Alma the Younger, son of Alma the Elder, namesake of the Book of Alma in The Book of Mormon
[edit] Transportation
- Alma (1891), an 1891-built scow schooner now preserved in San Francisco, California
- Alma (1926 automobile), an inter-war French automobile
- ALMA de Mexico (ALMA Aerolíneas Mesoamericanas), a mexican airline based in Guadalajara, Mexico
[edit] Acronyms
- Atacama Large Millimeter Array, an array of radio telescopes in Chile
- Association of Loudspeaker Manufacturing & Acoustics International, a professional organization for the global loudspeaker industry
[edit] Places
[edit] Australia
- Alma, Victoria, a gold mining town in Victoria, Australia
- Port Alma, Queensland, an Austrlian port in Queensland
[edit] Canada
- Alma, New Brunswick, a fishing village on the Bay of Fundy
- Alma, Ontario, a small village in Ontario, Canada
- Alma, Quebec, a town in Quebec, Canada
- Lake Alma, Saskatchewan, a village in Saskatchewan, Canada
[edit] Europe
- Alma Bridge, a remembrance bridge dedicated to the Battle of Alma in Paris, France
- Alma River (Ukraine), site of the 1854 Battle of Alma in the Crimean War
[edit] New Zealand
- Alma River, New Zealand
- Alma, New Zealand, a small locality in the North Otago district of New Zealand
[edit] South Africa
- Alma, Limpopo, a village in the Limpopo Province of South Africa
[edit] United States
- Alma, Arkansas
- Alma, Colorado
- Alma, Georgia
- Alma, Illinois
- Alma, Kansas
- Alma, Michigan
- Alma, Missouri
- Alma, Nebraska
- Alma, New Mexico
- Alma, New York
- Alma, Texas
- Alma, Wisconsin, a city in Buffalo County
- Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, a town in Buffalo County
- Alma, Jackson County, Wisconsin, a town in Jackson County
- Alma Center, Wisconsin, a village in Jackson County
[edit] People
- Alma Cogan (1932-1966), British pop singer of the 1950s and '60s
- Alma Mahler (1879-1964), wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, Franz Werfel and subject of a song by Tom Lehrer
- Alma Guillermoprieto (b. 1949), Mexican journalist
- Alma Reville (1899-1982), wife of Alfred Hitchcock, assistant director, screenwriter and editor