Ada
Appearance
Ada may refer to:
Personal name
- Ada (name), a feminine given name (and list of people with the name)
- St. Ada, 7th-century French abbess
- Ada, Countess of Atholl (died 1264)
- Ada, Countess of Holland
- Ada de Warenne, Countess of Northumbria and Huntingdon (died 1178)
- Ada of Caria, satrap deposed by her brother Idrieus and restored by Alexander the Great
- Ada Lovelace (Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace) (1815–1852), English mathematician and writer
- Ada, sister of Charlemagne, for whom the Ada Gospels at Trier were produced
Places
Africa
- Ada, Ghana, or Ada Foah
- Ada (Ghana parliament constituency)
- Ada, Delta, an Isoka town in Delta State, Nigeria
- Ada, Osun, a town in Osun State, Nigeria
- Ada Estate, a suburb of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Asia
- Ada, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province
- Ada, Karaman, a village in the central district (Karaman) of Karaman Province, Turkey
Europe
- Ada, Croatia, a village in Croatia, municipality Šodolovci, Vukovar-Syrmia County
- Ada, Serbia, a town and municipality
North America
- Ada, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama
- Ada County, Idaho
- Ada, Minnesota, Norman County, Minnesota
- Ada, Ohio, Hardin County, Ohio
- Ada, Oklahoma, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma
- Ada, Oregon, Lane County, Oregon
- Ada, West Virginia, Mercer County, West Virginia
- Ada, Wisconsin, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
Television and film
- Ada TV, a broadcaster in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
- Ada (film), a 1961 film by Daniel Mann
- Ada... A Way of Life, a 2008 Bollywood musical by Tanvir Ahmed
- Ada (dog actor), a dog that played Colin on the sitcom Spaced
Ships
- Ada (ship), a wooden Ketch, wrecked near Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
- USS Little Ada (1864), a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War
Biology
- Ada (plant), a genus of orchids
- Adenosine deaminase, an enzyme involved in purine metabolism
- Ada (protein), an enzyme induced by treatment of bacterial cells
Scientific and medical organizations
- AdA (physics) or Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (National Institute for Nuclear Physics), Italy
- American Dental Association
- American Diabetes Association
- American Dietetic Association
Computer science
- Ada (programming language), programming language based on Pascal
- Ada (computer virus)
Air travel
- Ada Air, a regional airline based in Tirana, Albania
- Ada International Airport or Saipan International Airport, Saipan Island, Northern Mariana Islands
- Aerolínea de Antioquia, a Colombian Airline
- Airline Deregulation Act, a 1978 US bill removing governmental control from commercial aviation
- Adana Şakirpaşa Airport's IATA code
Other uses
- Ada (Castlevania), character in Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
- Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, 1969 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
- Ada Wong, character in the Resident Evil franchise
- 523 Ada, minor planet orbiting the Sun
- Ada (food), traditional Kerala delicacy, made with rice, coconut powder mix, and sugar
See also
- ADA (disambiguation)
- Ada regulon, an Escherichia coli adaptive response proteins
- Ada River (disambiguation)
- Ada Township (disambiguation)
- Adah (disambiguation)
- Adha (disambiguation)
- List of tropical storms named Ada