Alma or ALMA may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Alma'' (film), a 2009 Spanish short animated film * ''Alma'' (Oswald de Andrade novel), 1922 * ''Alma'' (Le Clézio novel), 2017 * ''Alma'' (play), a 1996 drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma Mahler-Werfel * ''Alma'' (album), by Carminho, 2012 * "Alma" (song), by Fonseca, 2008 * "Alma", a song by Tom Lehrer from the 1965 album ''

That Was the Year That Was ''That Was the Year That Was'' (1965) is a live album recorded at the hungry i in San Francisco, containing performances by Tom Lehrer of satiric topical songs he originally wrote for the NBC television series ''That Was The Week That Was'', know ...

'' *

ALMA Award The American Latino Media Arts Award or ALMA Award, formerly known as Latin Oscars Award, is an award highlighting the best Hispanic and Latino Americans, American Latino contributions to music, television, and film. The awards promote fair and ...

, or American Latino Media Arts Award *

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award ( sv, Litteraturpriset till Astrid Lindgrens minne) is an international children's literary award established by the Swedish government in 2002 to honour the Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren (1907–200 ...

, an international children's literary award established by the Swedish government

Businesses

* Alma Books, a British publishing house * Alma Media, a Finnish digital service business *

ALMA de México Aerolíneas Mesoamericanas, S.A. de C.V., operating as ALMA de Mexico, was a low-cost airline based in Guadalajara, Mexico. It suspended all service on November 7, 2008. The airline once operated flights to more than 18 domestic destinations, wit ...

, a low-cost airline

Military

* Battle of the Alma, an 1854 Crimean War battle * ''Alma''-class ironclad, French Navy corvettes built in the 1860s ** French ironclad ''Alma''

People and fictional characters

Alma (given name) Alma ( )Norman, p. 119. or (according to Jones 1997) /'ælmə/) is an English feminine given name, but has historically been used in the masculine form as well, sometimes in the form ''Almo''.Lang, p. 132. The origin of the name is debated; it ...

, including a list of people, fictional characters and Mormon religious figures with the name *

Alma (Finnish singer) Alma-Sofia Miettinen (born 17 January 1996), known professionally as Alma (stylised in all caps), is a Finnish singer and songwriter. Beginning her career in 2013, she placed fifth in the seventh season of the Idols (Finnish TV series), Finnis ...

(Alma-Sofia Miettinen, born 1996) * Alma (French singer) (Alexandra Maquet, born 1988)

Places

Australia

Alma, South Australia Alma is a small town in South Australia halfway between the Wakefield River, to the north, and Light River (South Australia), River Light to the south. Alma, Alma South and Alma Plains were named for the cadastral Hundred of Alma in which they li ...

Alma, Victoria Alma is a town in Victoria, Australia, along the Maryborough – St Arnaud Road, west of Maryborough. In the , Alma and the surrounding area had a population of 692. Alma began as a gold-mining settlement and was named after the Battle of A ...

Alma, Western Australia Alma is a small town in the Mid West region of Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded ...

* South Broken Hill, New South Wales, formerly known as Alma ** Electoral district of Alma

Canada

* Alma Parish, New Brunswick **

Alma, New Brunswick Alma ( 2011 Population 232, 2016 population 213) is a village in the parish of Alma, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. This village is centered on the small delta of the Upper Salmon River and Cleveland Brook, where they empty into Salisb ...

, a fishing village * Alma, Nova Scotia * Alma, Ontario * Alma, Prince Edward Island * Alma, Quebec

United States

* Alma, Alabama * Alma, Arkansas *

Alma, California Alma is a ghost town and drowned town in Santa Clara County in California, United States. It lies beneath the waters of the Lexington Reservoir above Los Gatos. The location is latitude 37.18N and longitude 121.98W. It was 551 feet (168 meter ...

Alma, Colorado Alma is a Statutory Town in Park County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 296 at the 2020 United States Census. Alma is located West and South of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range ...

* Alma, Georgia *

Alma, Illinois Alma is a village in Marion County, Illinois, United States. The population was 318 at the 2020 census. History Alma was originally called "Rantoul", and under the latter name was laid out in 1854. The present name, adopted in 1855, commemorate ...

Alma Township, Marion County, Illinois Alma Township is located in Marion County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East ...

Alma, Kansas Alma is a city in and the county seat of Wabaunsee County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 802. History 19th century For millennia, the land now known as Kansas was inhabited by Native American ...

Alma, Louisiana Alma was the name of a community located in southeastern Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community was located east of Lakeland. The area is currently home to Pointe Coupee Parish's only operating sugar mill, Alma Plantation. ...

* Alma, Michigan *

Alma Township, Marshall County, Minnesota Alma Township is a township in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 94 at the 2000 census. Alma Township was organized in 1882, and named for Alma Dahlgren, the first white child born there. Geography According to the U ...

Alma, Missouri Alma is a city in Lafayette County, Missouri, and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area within the United States. The population was 402 at the 2010 census. History Alma was laid out in 1879 when the railroad was extended to that point. ...

Alma, Nebraska Alma is a city in Harlan County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,133 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Harlan County. History Alma was founded in the spring of 1871 by a group of Union Pacific railroad laborers original ...

Alma Township, Harlan County, Nebraska Alma Township is one of sixteen townships in Harlan County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 213 at the 2000 census. A 2006 estimate placed the township's population at 195. See also *County government in Nebraska County government i ...

Alma, New Mexico Alma is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Catron County, New Mexico, United States, north of Glenwood and south of Reserve. Demographics History Sergeant James C. Cooney laid out a town on site of Alma in the early 187 ...

Alma, New York Alma is a town in Allegany County, New York, United States. The population was 785 at the 2020 census. The source of the town name is uncertain. One source credits it to Charles Wyvell's interest in the Battle of the Alma, while another attribut ...

* Alma, Ohio *

Alma, Oklahoma Alma is a rural community located in southwestern Stephens County, Oklahoma, United States. The Alma Post Office, said to be named for Alma Peeples (an early-day resident), was opened February 14, 1906. At the time of its founding, Alma was lo ...

Alma, Oregon Alma is a former unincorporated community and now a restricted site, the location of a work camp for the county Department of Corrections in Lane County, Oregon, United States. Alma is located on Siuslaw River Road near the Siuslaw River The S ...

Alma, Texas Alma is a town in Ellis County, Texas, United States. The population was 331 at the 2010 census. Geography Alma is located on Interstate 45 about southeast of Ennis and north of Corsicana. According to the United States Census Bureau, the tow ...

Alma, Virginia Alma is an unincorporated community in Page County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. The community is said to have been named, in the mid-1850s, by local doctor James Lee Gillespie. The doctor, who relocated to Page County around 1851 is said to ...

* Alma, Wisconsin, a city *

Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin Alma is a town in Buffalo County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 297 at the 2010 census. The city of Alma is located along the western town line. The unincorporated community of Tell is located in the town. Geography Alma is ...

, a town *

Alma, Jackson County, Wisconsin Alma is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin in the United States. The population was 983 at the 2000 census. The Village of Alma Center is located within the town. The ghost town of Wrightsville was also located in the town. Geography Accordi ...

, a town

Elsewhere

* Alma (Algeria), former name of Boudouaou *

Alma, Greece Alma ( el, Άλμα, bg, Егнила, Egnila) is a settlement in the Xanthi regional unit of Greece. It is part of the community of Myki Myki ( ), stylised as myki, is a reloadable credit card-sized contactless smart card ticketing sys ...

Alma, Iran Alma-ye Sofla ( fa, الماسفلي, also Romanized as Almā-ye Soflá; also known as Almā) is a village in Shalal and Dasht-e Gol Rural District, in the Central District of Andika County, Khuzestan Province, Iran Iran, officially ...

* Alma, Israel *

Alma, Kyrgyzstan Alma is a village in Jalal-Abad Region of Kyrgyzstan. It is part of Nooken District Nooken District ( ky, Ноокен району, before 1992: ''Lenin District'') is a district of Jalal-Abad Region in western Kyrgyzstan. The administrative seat ...

Alma, Lebanon Alma ( ar, علما) is a village in Zgharta District, in the Northern Governorate of Lebanon. Its population is Maronite Christians and Sunni Sunni Islam () is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims. I ...

Alma, Bukit Mertajam Alma ( Jawi: ألما) ( zh, 阿儿玛) is a suburb in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, ...

, Penang, Malaysia *

Alma, Safad Alma ( ar, علما, ) is a former village in Upper Galilee, 10 km north of Safed. In medieval times, Alma was a Jewish settlement. It became an Arab village during the 19th century. Under British rule, Alma was a part of the Safad Subdistrict. I ...

, Mandatory Palestine, a depopulated Palestinian village *

Alma, Sibiu Alma ( hu, Küküllőalmás; german: Almaschken) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Alma, Giacăș (''Gyákos''; ''Jakobsdorf'') and Șmig (''Somogyom''; ''Schmiegen''). At the 2011 census ...

, Romania *

Alma, Limpopo Alma is a small town situated south of Vaalwater in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The area is surrounded by green-gray bushveld vegetation and a few private game reserves are located in the malaria free area. The Mokolo River originates ...

, South Africa * Alma River (disambiguation) *

390 Alma Alma ( minor planet designation: 390 Alma) is an asteroid from the intermediate asteroid belt, approximately 24 kilometers in diameter. It was Guillaume Bigourdan's only asteroid discovery. He discovered it on 24 March 1894 in Paris. References ...

, an asteroid

Schools

UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe, also known as Louvain-en-Woluwe or Alma, is a campus of the University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium. The campus, built in the 1970s following the Leuven crisis, houses the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry, Pharmac ...

, in Brussels, Belgium, known as Alma, a campus of the University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium * Alma College (St. Thomas, Ontario), Canada, a ladies liberal arts college 1877–1994 * Alma College, in Alma, Michigan, U.S., a liberal arts college *

Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University The Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University is a Jesuit seminary within Santa Clara University and one of the member colleges of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California. Prior to its merger with Santa Clara Univers ...

, in Berkeley, California, U.S., founded as Alma College *

Collège d'Alma Collège d'Alma is a CEGEP in Alma, Quebec, Alma, Quebec, Canada. History The college traces its origins to the merger of several institutions which became public ones in 1967, when the Quebec system of CEGEPs was created. In 1970, l'Externat c ...

, Alma, Quebec, Canada *

Alma High School (disambiguation) Alma High School may refer to: *Alma High School (Arkansas), in Alma, Arkansas, U.S. *Alma High School (Michigan), in Alma, Michigan, U.S. * Alma High School (Nebraska), in Alma, Nebraska, U.S. See also * Alma (disambiguation)#Education *Alma Brya ...

Transportation

* ''Alma'' (1891), a scow schooner * , a passenger ship *

Alma (French automobile) The Alma was a French automobile manufactured by Établissements Alma in Courbevoie, Seine, between 1926 and 1929. Only a few cars of this marque were produced. The most significant model (maybe the only one) was a two-seater coupé called ''Alm ...

, manufactured 1926–1929 *

Alma metro station Alma is a Brussels Metro station on line 1.https://www.metrolinemap.com/station/brussels/alma/ It is located in the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert/Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, in the eastern part of Brussels, Belgium, serving the Brussels-W ...

in Brussels, Belgium *

Alma Airport Alma Airport is located south of Alma, Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's offic ...

, Alma, Quebec, Canada *

Alma (Rivière La Grande Décharge) Water Aerodrome Alma (Rivière La Grande Décharge) Water Aerodrome is located northeast of Alma, Quebec, Canada and is open from the middle of April to the middle of November. See also * Alma Airport * CFB Bagotville Canadian Forces Base Bagotville , comm ...

, Alma, Quebec *

Pont de l'Alma The Pont de l'Alma ( en, Alma Bridge) is a road bridge in Paris, France, across the Seine. It was named to commemorate the Battle of Alma during the Crimean War, in which the Ottoman-Franco-British alliance achieved victory over the Russian army ...

('Alma Bridge'), Paris, France

Acronyms

Armenian Library and Museum of America Armenian Museum of America (AMA), located in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States, is an institution that has the largest collection of Armenian artifacts in North America. History In 1971, alarmed by the growing loss and destruction of Armen ...

, Watertown, Massachusetts, United States * Asian land mammal age, a geologic timescale for prehistoric Asian fauna * Atacama Large Millimeter Array, a telescope in Chile

Other uses

* Book of Alma, one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon * Alma Generating Station, a power station in Wisconsin, United States *

Hurricane Alma The name Alma has been used to name 11 tropical cyclones worldwide: 5 in the North Atlantic Ocean, 5 in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, and 1 in the Western Pacific Ocean. In the Atlantic: * Tropical Storm Alma (1958), made landfall in northeastern Mexi ...

, the name of several storms * ''

ALMA Magazine ''ALMA'' is a Spanish-language lifestyle magazine published in the United States for the Hispanic community. The magazine was founded in 2005. It focuses mainly on culture, fashion and politics. At the beginning It was published in Argentina ten t ...

'', an American Spanish-language lifestyle magazine * Almah or alma, a Hebrew word for a young woman of childbearing age *

AlmaLinux AlmaLinux is a free and open source Linux distribution, created originally by CloudLinux to provide a community-supported, Deployment environment, production-grade enterprise operating system that is Binary-code compatibility, binary-compatible w ...

, a Linux distribution