Alma

Alma may refer to:

History

• Battle of Alma, 1854, battle of the Crimean War

People

• Alma (given name)
• Alma Cogan (1932-1966), British pop singer of the 1950s and 1960s
• Alma Guillermoprieto (b. 1949), Mexican journalist
• Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879-1964), wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, Franz Werfel
• Alma Martinéz (b. 1981), Mexican female footballer
• Alma Moodie (1898-1943), Australian violinist
• Alma Reville (1899-1982), wife of Alfred Hitchcock, assistant director, screenwriter and editor

Places

Australia

• Alma, Victoria, a gold mining town in Victoria, Australia
• Port Alma, Queensland, a port in Queensland, Australia

Canada

• Alma, New Brunswick, a fishing village on the Bay of Fundy
• Alma, Nova Scotia, a small village
• Alma, Ontario, a small village
• Alma, Quebec, a town
• Lake Alma, Saskatchewan, a village

New Zealand

• Alma River, New Zealand
• Alma, New Zealand, a small locality in the North Otago district of New Zealand

United States

• Alma, Alabama
• Alma, Arkansas
• Alma, California, a ghost town in Santa Clara county, California
• Alma, Colorado
• Alma, Georgia
• Alma, Illinois
• Alma, Kansas
• Alma, Louisiana
• Alma, Michigan
• Alma, Missouri
• Alma, Nebraska
• Alma, New Mexico
• Alma, New York
• Alma, Oklahoma
• Alma, Oregon
• Alma, Texas
• Alma, Virginia
• Alma, Wisconsin, a city
• Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, a town
• Alma, Jackson County, Wisconsin, a town
• Alma Township (disambiguation)

Elsewhere

• Alma Square, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England
• Alma Bridge, a remembrance bridge dedicated to the Battle of Alma in Paris, France
• Alma, Israel, a moshav in the Galilee
• Alma, Lebanon
• Alma, Martinique
• Alma, Palestine, a village depopulated in 1948
• Alma, Sibiu, a commune in Romania
• Alma, Limpopo, a village in the Limpopo Province of South Africa
• Alma River (Ukraine), site of the 1854 Battle of Alma in the Crimean War

Arts and entertainment

• Alma (novel), a 1922 novel by Oswald de Andrade
• Alma (play), a drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma Mahler-Werfel
• Alma (film), a 2009 short film
• ALMA Magazine, Spanish language magazine for the Hispanic community in the U.S.
• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an international children's literature award
• ALMA Award, U.S. award for Latino performers who promote positive portrayals of Latinos

Fictional characters

• Alma Halliwell, a character on the soap opera Coronation Street
• Alma Hodge, character on the soap opera Desperate Housewives
• Alma, a Greater Fiend from the video game Ninja Gaiden
• Alma Wade, an antagonist from the game F.E.A.R.

Sciences

• Almas (cryptozoology), a Mongolian name for wild man (singular), a cryptozoological species
• Alma-0, a programming language
• Atacama Large Millimeter Array, an array of radio telescopes in Chile
• Arnaud Legoux Moving Average, a moving average inspired by the Gaussian filter

Schools

• Alma College, a private, liberal arts college in Alma, Michigan
• Alma College (St. Thomas), a now defunct ladies liberal arts college (1877-1994) in Canada

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

Transportation

• French ironclad Alma, a 19th-century warship
• Alma (1891), a scow schooner built in 1891
• Alma (French automobile), an inter-war French automobile
• ALMA de Mexico (ALMA Aerolíneas Mesoamericanas), a Mexican airline based in Guadalajara, Mexico
• Alma – Marceau (Paris Métro), a station of the Paris Metro
• Alma metro station in Brussels

Other uses

• Tropical Storm Alma, any of several tropical cyclones
• Association of Loudspeaker Manufacturing & Acoustics International, an organization for the global loudspeaker industry
• Alma Generating Station, a power station in Wisconsin, USA