Roma

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Roma may refer to:

• People
  • the Romani people (also known as Gypsies)
  • Roma, a subgroup of the Romani people

• Sports
  • A.S. Roma, an Italian football team
  • Virtus Roma, Basketball team
  • Roma Esporte Apucarana, a Brazilian football team

• Uses in languages other than English
  • the Latin and Italian for Rome
  • Ancient Rome
  • Roma (mythology), Roman deity

• Other toponymy
  • Roma, Queensland, a town in Australia
  • Puerto Roma, Ecuador, a town in Ecuador
  • Roma, Botoşani, a town in Romania
  • Roma, Sweden, a town in Sweden
  • Roma, Texas, a town in the United States
  • Roma, Lesotho, a town where the National University of Lesotho is situated
  • Colonia Roma, a neighbourhood in Mexico City
  • Roma Island, an island in Maluku, Indonesia

• As a surname
  • Antonio Roma (born 1932), Argentine footballer
  • Nani Roma (born 1972), Spanish rally car driver
  • Pedro Roma (born 1970), Portuguese footballer
  • Paul Roma (Paul Centopani) (born 1959), professional wrestler
  • Juliano Laurentino dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
• Roma (name), a female given name
  • Roma (actress), a South Indian film actress
  • Roma Maffia, American actress
  • Sister Roma
• in Slavic languages Roma is short for Roman (name), a male given name

• Titles, brand names, eponymy
  • Roma (2004 film), Argentinian film directed by Adolfo Aristarain
  • Roma (1972 film), Italian film directed by Federico Fellini
  • Roma (album), 1991 album by Terry Ronald
  • Roma (opera), an opera by Jules Massenet
  • "Roma" Symphony (Bizet), a symphony by Georges Bizet, named in reference to the city of Rome.
  • Roma (comics), a Marvel comics character
  • Italian battleship Roma, three ships of that name
  • Roma (airship), a US army airship (Italian ex-T34) which crashed on February 21, 1922
  • 472 Roma, an asteroid

• Acronym ROMA
  • ROMA, Representational Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis, a genomics technology
  • ROMA, (ancient Rome) Latin for: Radix Omnia Malorum Avaritia. (English, The root of all evil is avarice.) A secret criticism of Rome by Christians toward the end of the fourth century C.E.

[edit] See also

• Roma rice, an Italian cultivated variety of rice particularly suitable for risotto
• Roma tomato, a plum tomato commonly found in supermarkets
• Tony Roma's, chain restaurant

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