Eva or EVA may refer to: *

Eva (name) Eva is a female given name, the Latinate counterpart of English Eve (name), Eve, derived from a Hebrew (language), Hebrew name meaning "life" or "living one". It can also mean full of life or mother of life. It is the standard biblical form of Ev ...

, a feminine given name

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Eva (Dynamite Entertainment) Eva ("The Daughter of Dracula" or "Daughter of The Dragon") is a fictional comic book character created and published by Dynamite Entertainment. She is a vampire hunter who is the daughter of Count Dracula. She first appeared in Dynamite's ''Army ...

, a comic book character by Dynamite Entertainment * Eva (''Devil May Cry''), Dante's mother in the ''Devil May Cry'' video game series * Eva (''Metal Gear''), a fictional character in the ''Metal Gear'' video games series *

Evangelion (mecha) The , also referred to as Evas, are fictional biomechanical humanoid mechas introduced in the anime television series ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'', produced by Gainax studio and directed by Hideaki Anno, and in the manga of the same name written ...

, commonly referred to as "Eva" or "EVA", a fictional cyborg in the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' franchise

Films

* ''Eva'' (1948 film), a Swedish film * ''Eva'' (1953 film), a Greek drama film * ''Eva'' (1958 film), an Austrian film * ''Eva'' (1962 film), a French-Italian film in English * ''Eva'' (2010 film), an English-language Romanian film * ''Eva'' (2011 film), a Spanish film * ''Eva'' (2018 film), a French film

Music

Artists

Eva (singer) Eva or EVA may refer to: * Eva (name), a feminine given name Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Eva (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book character by Dynamite Entertainment * Eva (''Devil May Cry''), Dante's mother in ...

, French singer *

E.V.A. (band) E.V.A. (Eve Versus Adam) is an Italian pop band formed in Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a ...

(Eve Versus Adam), an Italian female pop band *

Banda Eva ''Banda Eva'' is a Brazilian music group from Salvador da Bahia. Their current lead singer is Felipe Pezzoni. The group is notable for being home to superstar singer Ivete Sangalo Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo (; born 27 May 1972) is a Brazil ...

, a Brazilian axé band formerly fronted by Ivete Sangalo

Works

* ''Eva'' (opera), an 1899 opera by Josef Bohuslav Foerster * "Eva" (Nightwish song), 2007 * "Eva" (Umberto Tozzi song), 1982 * "Eva", a song by

Lisandro Cuxi Lisandro Monteiro Furt (born 17 July 1999), better known by his stage name Lisandro Cuxi, is a Portuguese-French singer-songwriter and dancer. In 2017, Cuxi won the sixth season of '' The Voice: la plus belle voix'' as part of Team M. Pokora. ...

* "Eva", a song by Orgy on their album ''

Vapor Transmission ''Vapor Transmission'' is the second album by American Industrial rock band Orgy. It was released on October 10, 2000. The first 1000 pressings (as well as the Japanese release) of the album included a bonus track known as "The Spectrum", which ...

'' (2000) * "E.V.A.", a song by Jean-Jacques Perrey from the album ''

Moog Indigo ''Moog Indigo'' is the ninth studio album by the French electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey, released in 1970 on the Vanguard Records label. The name album is a reference to Jazz song "Mood Indigo" by Duke Ellington. Composition and rec ...

'' (1970) * "E.V.A.", a song by Public Service Broadcasting from the album '' The Race for Space'' (2015) * "EVA-00", "EVA-01", or "EVA-02", 1995 instrumentals from the TV show ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' (see

Music of Neon Genesis Evangelion The franchise has had various soundtracks, remix albums and compilations released around it. The franchise has sold more than 9million albums and singles. Shirō Sagisu composed most of the music for ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' and for the or ...

) * "Eva", an album by

Kadril Kadril is a Belgian folk group formed in 1976 from the then youth and nature movement Wielewaaljongeren. The group name refers to the salon dance Quadrille, transliterated into Flemish as Kwadril or Kadril. History Kadril started with Erwin, ...

(1999)

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Eva'' (Italian magazine), a women's magazine published between 1933 and 1968 * ''Eva'' (Norwegian magazine), published from 2004 to 2009 * ''Eva'' (novel), a 1988 book by Peter Dickinson * ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' (franchise), an anime and manga series referred to as "Eva" ** ''

Neon Genesis Evangelion , also known simply as ''Evangelion'' or ''Eva'', is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax and animated by Tatsunoko, directed by Hideaki Anno and broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 1995 to March 1996. ''Evangelion' ...

'', a 1995-1996 Japanese animated TV show ** ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' (manga), a 1994-2014 Japanese comic book based on the TV show ** ''

Rebuild of Evangelion ''Rebuild of Evangelion'', known in Japan and on Amazon Prime Video as , is a Japanese animated film series and a retelling of the original ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' anime television series, produced by Studio Khara. Hideaki Anno served as ...

'', theatrical continuation series beginning serialized as ''Eva 1.0'', ''Eva 2.0'', ''Eva 3.0'', and ''Eva 4.0''

Businesses and organizations

EVA Air EVA Airways Corporation (pronounced as three letters: ; ) (), of which "EVA" stands for Evergreen Airways, is a Taiwanese international airline based at Taoyuan International Airport near Taipei, Taiwan, operating passenger and dedicated carg ...

, a Taiwan-based airline and its designator *

Electric Vehicle Association of Great Britain The Electric Vehicle Association of Great Britain (EVA) was an organisation of the manufacturers of electric vehicles and associated equipment, batteries etc. founded in 1938. References Trade associations based in the United Kingdom Electric ...

, founded 1938 *

English Volleyball Association Volleyball England is the national governing body for indoor volleyball, sitting volleyball and beach volleyball in England. It selects the national teams and coordinates several national competitions, including the National Volleyball League, Nat ...

, the former name of the controlling body for volleyball in England

Places

Greece

Eva (Cynuria) Eva ( grc, Εὔα) or Eua (Εὖα) was a village of Cynuria, located inland not far from Neris. Pausanias, who visited the region in the 2nd century, on leaving Thyrea, came first to Anthene, next to Neris, and lastly to Eva, which he describes a ...

, a town of ancient Cynuria, Greece *

Eva, Arcadia Eva or Eua ( el, Εύα) is an archaeological location in the regional unit of Arcadia in the Peloponnese, Greece. It is mentioned as a village by Pausanias and its name is also attested by archaeological findings. It is located in the valley of t ...

, Greece

United States

Eva, Alabama Eva is a town in Morgan County, Alabama, and is included in the Decatur Metropolitan Area and the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the town was 589, up from 519 in 2010. The mayor currently is ...

, a U.S. town *

Eva, Louisiana Eva is an unincorporated community in Concordia Parish, Louisiana Concordia Parish (french: Paroisse de Concordia) borders the Mississippi River in eastern central Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 20,822. The parish seat ...

, a U.S. community *

Eva, Oklahoma Eva is an unincorporated community in Texas County, Oklahoma, United States. It is located along State Highway 95, approximately two miles north of U.S. Route 412. The Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad built through Eva by the end of 1930. ...

, a U.S. community *

Eva, Tennessee Eva is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Benton County, Tennessee, United States, on the western shore of the Kentucky Lake impoundment of the Tennessee River. It is the site of Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park. ...

, a U.S. community ** Eva (archaeological site), an archaeological site near Eva, Tennessee * Eva, West Virginia, an unincorporated community

Science and technology

Biology and healthcare

Eva (apple) Eva is an apple variety developed in Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil ...

, an apple variety developed in Brazil *

EVA (benchmark) EVA was a continuously running Benchmark (computing), benchmark project for assessing the quality and value of protein structure prediction and Protein structure prediction#Secondary structure, secondary structure prediction methods. Methods for pre ...

, an evaluation of automated protein structure prediction * ''Eva'' (moth), a moth genus * Electric

vacuum aspiration Vacuum or suction aspiration is a procedure that uses a vacuum source to remove an embryo or fetus through the cervix. The procedure is performed to induce abortion, as a treatment for incomplete spontaneous abortion (otherwise commonly known as ...

, or EVA, a form of suction-aspiration abortion using an electric pump that creates suction

Computing

Electronic voice alert Electronic voice alert (EVA) was an option available on many Chrysler K-car-based vehicles in the mid-1980s. Chrysler and Dodge used technology of the Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips, that were also used in the Speak & Spell toy. The EVA would ...

, or EVA, a voice synthesizer made by the Chrysler Corporation for automobiles in the mid-1980s * Enterprise Virtual Array, or EVA,

HP StorageWorks The HPE Storage (formerly HP StorageWorks) is a portfolio of HPE storage products, includes online storage, nearline storage, storage networking, archiving, de-duplication, and storage software. HP and their predecessor, the Compaq Corporation, ...

storage products, including online storage, nearline storage, storage networking, archiving, and storage software *

Extended Vector Animation Extended Vector Animation (EVA) is a web-based vector graphic file format developed by Sharp Corporation in 1996. The EVA format differs from other vector formats because only the changes in vectors over time is recorded, instead of information p ...

, or EVA, a web-based vector graphic file format, similar to the Macromedia Flash format

Economics

Earned Value Analysis Earned value management (EVM), earned value project management, or earned value performance management (EVPM) is a project management technique for measuring project performance and progress in an objective manner. Overview Earned value manag ...

, or EVA, a measurement of project progress * Economic value added, or EVA, an estimate of a firm's economic profit

Other uses in science and technology

EVA (howitzer) EVA is a Slovak-made self-propelled howitzer, developed by Konstrukta Defence and publicly revealed in 2015. The EVA is based on a Tatra 815 6x6 truck, but the system can be also mounted on a 8x8 truck chassis. It is armed with a 155 mm / L52 ho ...

, a Slovak self-propelled howitzer *

164 Eva 164 Eva is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by the French brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on July 12, 1876, in Paris. The reason the name Eva was chosen remains unknown. The orbital elements for 164 Eva were published in 1877 by Ame ...

, an asteroid *

Ethylene-vinyl acetate Ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA), also known as poly (ethylene-vinyl acetate) (PEVA), is the copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate. The weight percent of vinyl acetate usually varies from 10 to 40%, with the remainder being ethylene. There are th ...

, or EVA, a polymer used to absorb physical shock, used in shoes and other athletic materials *

Extravehicular activity Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut in outer space outside a spacecraft. In the absence of a breathable Earthlike atmosphere, the astronaut is completely reliant on a space suit for environmental support. EVA in ...

, or EVA, work done by an astronaut outside of a spacecraft * Extreme Value Analysis, or EVA, a branch of statistics concerned with

extreme value theory Extreme value theory or extreme value analysis (EVA) is a branch of statistics dealing with the extreme deviations from the median of probability distributions. It seeks to assess, from a given ordered sample of a given random variable, the pr ...

, addressing extreme deviations from median of probability distributions

Transport

* ''Eva'' (sternwheeler), an 1894 sternwheel steamboat *

Eva (transport) Avlo (, short for Alta Velocidad Low ''Cost'' literally ''"No Frills High Speed"'' ) is the name of the Spain, Spanish No frills, low-cost high-speed rail service, at the start between of the cities of Madrid, Zaragoza and Barcelona, by the nation ...

, a proposed Spanish rail service

Other uses

, a feminine given name *

Eva (social network) eva is a video social network that allows users to record and post short, spontaneous videos from their mobile phones. Overview eva is a mobile app and social networking service that was launched by Forbidden Technologies plc - creator of cloud ...

, a video social network *

EVA Conferences The Electronic Visualisation and the Arts conferences (EVA Conferences for short, aka Electronic Information, the Visual Arts and Beyond) are a series of international Interdisciplinary arts, interdisciplinary conferences mainly in Europe, but a ...

, a series of conferences in the application of information technology to cultural fields *

Storm Eva Storm Eva (also called Chuck, Staffan and other names) was the fifth named storm of the Met Office and Met Éireann's ''2015–16 UK and Ireland windstorm season, Name our Storms'' project. Heavy rainfall from Eva occurred around three weeks afte ...

, a 2015 windstorm in northwestern Europe