Puma

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Puma may refer to:

Animals

• Puma (genus), the genus containing the cougar and the jaguarundi
  • Cougar, a large cat also known as a puma, mountain lion, panther or catamount

Companies

• Puma SE, a German shoe and sportswear company
• Puma Energy International, a petrol distribution company, subsidiary of Trafigura Beheer B.V.

Vehicles

Sports cars

• Puma (car), a Brazilian brand of sports cars
• Puma (kit-car), an Italian brand of dune buggy and sports kit-car
• Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility, a prototype electric vehicle designed by Segway and General Motors
• Ford Puma, a sports car

Combat vehicles

• Puma (AFV), an Italian family of armoured fighting vehicles
• Puma (IFV), a German infantry fighting vehicle
• Puma (IDF), an Israeli combat engineering vehicle
• PUMA M26-15, a South African armoured personnel carrier
• 'Puma', also known as a 'Warthog', from the Halo series of video games
• SdKfz 234/2, a variant of the Schwerer Panzerspähwagen, a German armored car of World War II

Aerial

• Aérospatiale Puma, a helicopter
• BDC Aero Puma, a Canadian ultralight aircraft
• Eurocopter Super Puma, an enlarged version of the Aérospatiale Puma

Technology

• AMD Puma, a mobile computing platform
• Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly, an industrial robot arm
• Mac OS X v10.1, an operating system codenamed "Puma"
• Protected User Mode Audio, a DRM technology in Microsoft operating systems
• 'Puma', a concurrent web server for Ruby

Sports

• Pumas de la UNAM, a Mexican professional football club
• Pumas (rugby team), a South African rugby team representing Mpumalanga province
• Argentina national rugby union team, nicknamed Los Pumas

People

• Robert Puma, Imran series character and Grade-One Section's agent
• Puma Swede, a Swedish pornographic actress
• T.J. Perkins, American professional wrestler
• José Luis Rodríguez (singer), Venezuelan singer and actor, nicknamed "El Puma"
• José Luis Carranza, Peruvian football player, nicknamed "El Puma"
• Joseph Puma, New York music video director
• Michael Puma, American rapper

Places

• Lake Puma Yumco, a lake in Tibet
• Puma (Tanzanian ward), a ward in Tanzania
• Puma (village), a village on Teanu Island (Vanikoro, Solomon Islands)
• Pumapunku, an archeological site in Tiwanaku, Bolivia

Languages

• Puma language, a language of Nepal
• Puma, a name sometimes used for the language Teanu (Solomon Islands)

Other meanings

• Puma (band), a Norwegian experimental free impro jazz ensamble
• Puma (comics), a comic book character
• The PUMA acronym as originally coined stood for "Party Unity My Ass", later registered as People United Means Action, a political action organization best known for its support of Hillary Clinton after Barack Obama was selected as the Democratic candidate in 2008
• p53 upregulated modulator of apoptosis, a gene
• Public Use Micro Data Sample Area, a census subdivision of US states
• Paediatric-use marketing authorisation by the European Medicines Agency