FA

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FA, Fa or fa may refer to:

People

• Fa of Xia (Emperor Fa, 發), King of China 1747–1728 BC
• F. A. Davis (1850–1917), publishing executive who founded the city of Pinellas Park
• F. A. Dry (born 1931), former American football coach
• F. A. Forbes (1869–1936), nom de plume of Mother Frances Alice Monica Forbes, religious author
• F. A. Harper (1905–1973), American academic, economist and writer, founder of the Institute for Humane Studies
• F. A. Hayek (1899–1992), Nobel Prize-winning economist
• F. A. Henninger (1865–1944), leading architect of Omaha, Nebraska
• F. A. Heydtmann (died 1858), captain of the steamer Austria
• F. A. Mitchell-Hedges (1882–1959), English adventurer, traveller and writer
• F. A. Nettelbeck (1950–2011), American poet
• F. A. Turner (1858–1923), American actor of the silent era, sometimes billed as Fred Turner

Places

• Fa, Aude, a commune of the Aude département in France
• Falmouth Academy, a private college-preparatory school in Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
• Foxcroft Academy, a private high school in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, USA
• Friends Academy, a Quaker college preparatory school in Locust Valley, New York, USA
• Fryeburg Academy, a private school in Fryeburg, Maine, USA

Arts and entertainment

• Fa (musical note), the name for F in fixed-do solfège
• Fa Yuiry, a fictional character in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
• Fantasy Advertiser, later shortened to FA, a British comics fanzine
• Firearms (video game), a 1998 Half-Life modification commonly abbreviated as FA

Government, law and politics

• Fa (concept), a Chinese philosophical concept covering law, ethics, and logic
• Fisheries Agency, a government agency in Taiwan

Maths, science and technology

• Factor analysis, a statistical method
• Fanconi anemia, a rare genetic disease
• Femtoampere (fA), an SI unit of electric current equal to 10⁻¹⁵ A
• Fluorescein angiography, a technique for examining the circulation of the retina and choroid of the eye
• Fractional anisotropy, a value that describes the anisotropy of a diffusion process
• Friedreich's ataxia, an inherited disease that causes progressive damage to the nervous system
• Nikon FA, a 35 mm SLR camera

Military

• Focke-Achgelis, a defunct German helicopter manufacturer
• Forschungsamt (Research Office of the Reich Air Ministry), the signals intelligence and cryptanalytic agency of the German Nazi Party
• Frankford Arsenal, a former US Army ammunition plant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Frontal Aviation (Frontovaya Aviatsiya or "FA"), a branch of the Soviet Air Forces focused on battlefield air defence
• General Aviation XFA, an experimental aircraft of the U.S. Army

Sport

• The Football Association, the body that regulates football in England
• First ascent, in climbing

Transport

• ALCO FA, an American locomotive made by ALCO
• Area forecast, in aviation
• Ferrocarriles Argentinos, Argentine railways
• Safair (IATA airline designator FA), an South African aviation company

Other uses

• Fa (brand), a brand for personal care products
• Fa (letter), the seventeenth letter of the Arabic abjad
• Fa or Fall (unit), an obsolete Scottish measurement of length
• Farsi (Persian language; ISO 639-1 code FA)
• Fat admirer, a person attracted to overweight women
• Financial adviser, a professional who renders financial services to clients
• Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), a program of recovery based on the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
• Sweet F.A., a British slang phrase meaning 'nothing at all'