Puma

Puma may refer to:

Places

• Puma (Tanzanian ward), a ward in Tanzania
• Puma (village), a village on Teanu Island (Vanikoro, Solomon Islands)
• Lake Puma Yumco, a lake in Tibet
• Pumapunku, an archeological site in Tiwanaku, Bolivia

People with the name

• Puma (luchador), a Mexican professional wrestler previously known as "Puma King"
• José Luis Carranza, Peruvian football player, nicknamed "El Puma"
• T.J. Perkins, American professional wrestler known as Puma
• José Luis Rodríguez (singer), Venezuelan singer and actor, nicknamed "El Puma"
• Puma Swede, a Swedish pornographic actress

Animals

• Puma (genus), which contains the cougar and its extinct relatives
  • Cougar, a large cat also known as a catamount, mountain lion, panther, or puma

Fictional characters

• Puma (comics), a comic book character
• Puma, also known as a Warthog, from the Halo (series) of video games
• Robert Puma, Imran series character and Grade-One Section's agent

Music

• Puma (band), a Norwegian experimental free impro jazz ensamble

Brands and enterprises

• Puma (brand), a German shoe and sportswear company
• Puma Energy, a petrol distribution company, subsidiary of Trafigura Beheer B.V.

Languages

• Puma language, a language of Nepal
• Teanu language (Solomon Islands), sometimes called Puma language

Sports

• Pumas (rugby team), a South African rugby team representing Mpumalanga province
• Argentina national rugby union team, nicknamed Los Pumas
• Pumas de la UNAM, a Mexican professional football club

Technology

• Puma (Hewlett-Packard), a codename for the HP 1000CX palmtop PC
• AMD Puma, a mobile computing platform
• Puma (web server), a Ruby web server
• Mac OS X 10.1, an operating system codenamed "Puma"
• Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly, an industrial robot arm
• Protected User Mode Audio, a DRM technology in Microsoft operating systems

Vehicles

Aircraft

• Aero-Service Puma, a Polish ultralight aircraft
• Aérospatiale Puma, a helicopter
• BDC Aero Puma, a Canadian ultralight aircraft
• Eurocopter Super Puma, an enlarged version of the Aérospatiale Puma

Cars

• Puma (car manufacturer), a Brazilian, then South African, brand of sports cars
• Puma (kit car company), an Italian brand of dune buggy and sports kit-car
• Ford Puma, a sports car
• Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility, a prototype electric vehicle designed by Segway and General Motors

Combat vehicles

• Puma (AFV), an Italian family of armoured fighting vehicles
• Puma (IFV), a German infantry fighting vehicle
• Puma (IDF), an Israeli combat engineering vehicle
• PUMA M26-15, a South African armoured personnel carrier
• SdKfz 234/2, a variant of the Schwerer Panzerspähwagen, a German armored car of World War II

Other uses

• p53 upregulated modulator of apoptosis, a gene
• Paediatric-use marketing authorisation by the European Medicines Agency
• People United Means Action, a political action committee during the 2008 US presidential election
• Public Use Microdata Area, a census subdivision of US states