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Magna may refer to:

Companies, products and institutions

Place names

  • Magna, Utah, a census-designated place and township in Salt Lake County, Utah
  • Magna Science Adventure Centre, an educational visitor attraction in Rotherham, England
  • Leptis Magna
  • Villa Magna, the ancient name of a large imperial Roman villa near the modern town of Anagni
  • Magna Graecia, the name of the coastal areas of Southern Italy on the Tarentine Gulf that were extensively colonized by Greek settlers
  • Magna Curia, a palace located in Deva, Romania

Place names in England

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People

  • Plancia Magna, a prominent woman from Anatolia during the Roman Empire
  • Marcus Magna (born 1988), French professional footballer

Characters

  • Magna Defender, a fictional character from the Power Rangers Lost Galaxy TV series

Documents

Biology

  • Magna (moth), a genus of moths of the Micronoctuidae family
  • Cisterna magna, one of three principal openings in the subarachnoid space between the arachnoid and pia mater layers of the meninges surrounding the brain
  • Lacuna magna, the largest of several recesses in the roof of the navicular fossa of the urethra

Other

See also