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 Alma Books is a publishing house based in Richmond, London, founded in 2005 by Alessandro Gallenzi and Elisabetta Minervini, the founders of Hesperus Press. It publishes mainly fiction, both by authors from the English-speaking world and in tran ...

, a British publishing house *

Alma Media Alma Media Oyj is a Finland, Finnish media and digital service business company. Its best known products are ''Iltalehti'', ''Kauppalehti'', ''Talouselämä'', and . In addition to news services, the company's products provide information rela ...

, 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 The Battle of the Alma (short for Battle of the Alma River) was a battle in the Crimean War between an allied expeditionary force (made up of French, British, and Ottoman forces) and Russian forces defending the Crimean Peninsula on 20Septemb ...

, 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 Finnish version of ''Idol''. Her ...

(Alma-Sofia Miettinen, born 1996) *

Alma (French singer) Alexandra Maquet (, born 27 September 1988), known professionally as Alma, is a French singer and songwriter. She represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Requiem", finishing twelfth. Early life Alexandra Maquet (Al ...

(Alexandra Maquet, born 1988)

Places

Australia

* Alma, South Australia *

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 ...

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 South Broken Hill is a suburb of the western New South Wales city of Broken Hill in outback Australia. The suburb is located in the City of Broken Hill local government area, separated by the "Line of Lode" from the rest of the city. The Silver ...

, formerly known as Alma **

Electoral district of Alma Alma was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1894 to 1904, named after Alma, a locality in southern Broken Hill, now known as South Broken Hill. Members for Alma Josiah Thomas eas ...

Canada

Alma Parish, New Brunswick Alma is a civil parish on the Bay of Fundy in the southwestern corner of Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. It comprises one village and one local service district (LSD), both of which are members of the Southeast Regional Service Commissi ...

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 is an unincorporated rural community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Pictou County. It is named after the Battle of Alma which occurred in 1854 during the Crimean War. It is on Nova Scotia Trunk 4 which was formerly p ...

Alma, Ontario Alma is an unincorporated rural community in Mapleton Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. History Pioneers began settling along the Elora Saugeen Road, which forms the main street of Alma, during the 1840s. Alexander MacCrea and his w ...

Alma, Prince Edward Island Alma is a settlement in Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, but the most densely populated. The islan ...

Alma, Quebec Alma (2021 Town population: 30,331; CA Population 33,018; UA Population 26,016) is a town in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the Canadian province of Quebec. Geography Alma is located on the southeast coast of Lac Saint-Jean where it flows into ...

United States

Alma, Alabama Alma is an unincorporated community in Clarke County, Alabama (We dare defend our rights) , anthem = " Alabama" , image_map = Alabama in United States.svg , seat = Montgomery , LargestCity = Huntsville , LargestCounty = Baldwin Count ...

Alma, Arkansas Alma is a city in Crawford County, Arkansas, United States. It is located within the Arkansas River Valley at the edge of the Ozark Mountains; the city is the sixth largest in the Fort Smith metropolitan area. The population was 5,419 at the 201 ...

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 Bacon County Courthouse Alma is a city in Bacon County, Georgia, United States, and the county seat. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 3,433. Alma is known as Georgia's blueberry capital, and hosts a Blueberry Festival each ...

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 state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Othe ...

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 is the largest city in Gratiot County, Michigan, Gratiot County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,383 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It was incorporated as the Village of Alma in 1872 and became a city in 1905 ...

* Alma Township, Marshall County, Minnesota *

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 Township, Harlan County, Nebraska * Alma, New Mexico *

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, Texas * Alma, Virginia *

Alma, Wisconsin Alma is a city in and the county seat of Buffalo County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 716 at the 2020 census. The motto for the city of Alma is: "Step into Living History." History Alma was named in commemoration of the Battle ...

, a city * Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, 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) Boudouaou, during French Algeria, French colonialism known as L'Alma (or Alma) is a town in the western part of Boumerdès Province, Boumerdès, Algeria. It is a coastal town on the Mediterranean Sea. Its population in 2008 was 56,398.

, former name of Boudouaou * Alma, Greece * Alma, Iran *

Alma, Israel Alma ( he, עַלְמָה) is a religious Jewish moshav in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Merom HaGalil Regional Council. In , it had a population of . It is built on the basaltic plateau north of Safe ...

* Alma, Kyrgyzstan * Alma, Lebanon *

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, 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) Alma River may refer to: * Alma River (Manouane River), a tributary of Lac Saint-Jean in Quebec, in Canada * Alma (Crimea) * Alma River (New Zealand) * Alma River (Australia), a 32 km tributary of Lyons River The Lyons River is a river in t ...

* 390 Alma, 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) Alma College was a girls' private school in St. Thomas, Ontario in Canada. Built in 1878, the school was in operation between 1881 and 1988. The college closed in 1988 in part due to a teacher's strike. Primary school and music classes were sti ...

, Canada, a ladies liberal arts college 1877–1994 *

Alma College Alma College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Alma, Michigan. It enrolls approximately 1,400 students and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Alma College is affiliat ...

, 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)

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 in Brussels, Belgium * Alma Airport, Alma, Quebec, Canada * Alma (Rivière La Grande Décharge) Water Aerodrome, 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 arm ...

('Alma Bridge'), Paris, France

Acronyms

* Armenian Library and Museum of America, Watertown, Massachusetts, United States *

Asian land mammal age The Asian land mammal ages, acronym ALMA, establish a geologic timescale for prehistoric Asian fauna beginning 58.7 Mya during the Paleogene and continuing through to the Miocene ( Aquitanian) (23.03 Ma). These periods are referred to as ages, sta ...

, a geologic timescale for prehistoric Asian fauna *

Atacama Large Millimeter Array The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which observe electromagnetic radiation at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. The a ...

, a telescope in Chile

Other uses

Book of Alma The Book of Alma: The Son of Alma (), usually referred to as the Book of Alma, is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon. The title refers to Alma the Younger, a prophet and "chief judge" of the Nephites. Alma is the longest book in the ...

, one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon *

Alma Generating Station Alma Station was a base load coal power station in Alma, Wisconsin. The plant was built and operated by Dairyland Power Cooperative. Upon the completion of the plant's construction in 1947, it was the largest cooperatively owned power station in ...

, 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 ...

'', an American Spanish-language lifestyle magazine *

Almah ''Almah'' ( ''‘almā'', plural: ''‘ălāmōṯ''), from a root implying the vigour of puberty, is a Hebrew word meaning a young woman ripe for marriage; despite its importance to the account of the virgin birth of Jesus in the Gospel of Ma ...

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, production-grade enterprise operating system that is binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The first s ...

, a Linux distribution