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'' * ALMA Award, or American Latino Media Arts Award * Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, 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), including a list of people, fictional characters and Mormon religious figures with the name * Alma (Finnish singer) (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, Western Australia * 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 Ran ...

* Alma, Georgia * Alma, Illinois * Alma Township, Marion County, Illinois * Alma, Kansas * Alma, Louisiana * 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, Ohio Alma is an unincorporated community in Ross County, in the U.S. state of Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 m ...

* Alma, Oklahoma *

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, in Berkeley, California, U.S., founded as Alma College * Collège d'Alma, 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), 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 ('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 of several storms * '' ALMA Magazine'', an American Spanish-language lifestyle magazine * Almah or alma, a Hebrew word for a young woman of childbearing age * AlmaLinux, a Linux distribution