Rama (disambiguation)

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Rama may refer to:

Within the scriptures of India

• Rama, the legendary Indian king regarded as an incarnation of Vishnu
• Paraśurāma, 'Rama with the axe', a partial incarnation of Vishnu
• Balarāma, 'the strong Rama', brother of Krishna
• Ramā, another name of Lakshmi

People

Kings of Thailand

• Rama (Kings of Thailand)
• Rama I, the Great (1782–1809), Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke
• Rama II (1809–1824), Buddha Loetla Nabhalai
• Rama III (1824–1851), Nangklao
• Rama IV (1851–1868), Mongkut
• Rama V, the Great (1868–1910), Chulalongkorn
• Rama VI (1910–1925), Vajiravudh
• Rama VII (1925–1935), Prajadhipok
• Rama VIII (1935–1946), Ananda Mahidol
• Rama IX, the Great (installed 1946), Bhumibol Adulyadej

Living people

• Edi Rama (born 1964), Albanian politician and artist
  • Rama Government, the cabinet formed by Rama after he was elected prime minister
• Rama Ravi (born 1943), Carnatic vocalist
• N. T. Rama Rao (1923–1996), Indian film actor, director, producer, and politician
• N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (b. 1983), Indian Telugu film actor
• Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, neurologist

Historical personalities

• Nityananda Rama, the Vaishnava saint
• "The Rama" (1530–1572), Jewish religious teacher Moses Isserles
• Frederick Lenz, a spiritual teacher who used Rama as his teaching name

Places

• Rəmə, Azerbaijan.
• Rama, Bosnia and Herzegovina, historical region of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Rama Lake (Bosnia and Herzegovina), near Prozor
• Rama, Ethiopia, a town in northern Ethiopia
• Rama (Gaul), a town in ancient Gaul
• Rama, Ontario, a community in Ontario, Canada
• Rama Lake (Pakistan), a lake near Astore, Pakistan
• Rama, Saskatchewan, a village in Canada.
• Rama River (disambiguation), several rivers
• El Rama, a municipality in Nicaragua
• Ramah in Benjamin, a city in ancient Israel
• Ramatha, Rama or Ramlet in Palestine (present-day Israel)

Entertainment

• Rama (comics), a DC Comics Indian superhero based on the Hindu god
• Ramachandra (film), a 2003 film
• Rendezvous with Rama, the first in a series of books by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Rama (spacecraft), fictional spacecraft in the books
  • Rama (video game), a 1997 video game based on the books

Other uses

• Rama people, Nicaragua
  • Rama language, spoken by the Rama people of Nicaragua
• Rama (genus), a genus of catfish
• Rama Records, a record label
• Rama VII Bridge
• Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction

See also

• Ramah (disambiguation)