Pola or POLA may refer to:

People

House of Pola The House of Pola (also Counts of Castropola, Sergi) is an Italian noble family currently living in the Czech Republic. The origins of the House of Pola date back at least until 990. The name of the family refers to the town of Pula (Italian: Pol ...

, an Italian noble family *

Pola Alonso Pola Alonso (16 November 1923 – 6 November 2004 Buenos Aires) was a classic Argentine film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. She appeared in the 1942 film ''Adolescencia'' and in 1955's '' Adiós muchachos''. She was the sister of Argentine a ...

(1923–2004), Argentine actress *

Pola Brändle Pola Brändle (born April 7, 1980, in Aachen, Germany) is a German collage/decollage artist who lives and works in Berlin Kreuzberg, Germany. Life Brändle grew up in Aachen, and, after graduating from high school, she joined the M ...

(born 1980), German artist and photographer *

Pola Gauguin Pola Gauguin (6 December 1883 – 2 July 1961) was a Danish-Norwegian painter, art critic and biographer. Biography Paul Rollon Gauguin was born in Paris, France. He was the youngest of five children born to the famed French artist Paul Gauguin a ...

(1883–1961), Danish painter *

Pola Gojawiczyńska Pola Gojawiczyńska, real name Apolonia Gojawiczyńska, née Koźniewska (1 April 1896 – 29 March 1963) was a Polish writer. Biography Early life She was born in Warsaw as a daughter of a craftsman-carpenter. She studied in a public schoo ...

(1896–1963), Polish writer *

Pola Illéry Paula Iliescu Gibson (18 December 1909 – 19 October 1993) known professionally as Pola Illery, was a Romanian-American actress and singer, best known for her appearances in early Cinema of France, French film, and of the latter after emigrating ...

(born 1908), Romanian actress *

Pola Kinski Pola Kinski (born Pola Nakszynski; 23 March 1952) is a German actress. She is the firstborn daughter of the German actor Klaus Kinski. Early life Under the name Pola Nakszynski, Pola Kinski was born in Berlin as the only daughter of German act ...

(born 1952), German actress *

Pola Negri Pola Negri (; born Apolonia Chalupec ; 3 January 1897 – 1 August 1987) was a Polish stage and film actress and singer. She achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme ...

(1897–1987), Polish actress *

Pola Oloixarac Paola Caracciolo, better known by her pseudonym, Pola Oloixarac, is an Argentine writer, journalist, librettist and translator. Biography She studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. After finishing her post-graduate studies for Ph ...

, Argentine writer *

Pola Raksa Apolonia "Pola" Raksa (born 14 April 1941) is a Polish movie star, singer, and model who was especially popular in Poland and abroad in the 1960s and 1970s. Born to Edward Raksa, Pola was born in Lida. Her parents left German Nazi-occupied terri ...

(born 1941), Polish actress and singer *Pola Susswein, Holocaust survivor and subject of ''

Pola's March ''Pola's March'' is a 1998 Documentary film, documentary made by Jonathan Gruber (filmmaker), Jonathan Gruber about a Holocaust survivor, Pola Susswein's emotional trip back to her childhood home in Poland after fifty years spent in Israel, trying ...

'', a 2001 documentary film *

Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin Manzila Pola Khan Uddin, Baroness Uddin, ( bn, মানযিলা পলা উদ্দিন খান; Romanized: ''Manzila Pôla Uddin''; born 17 July 1959) is a British non-affiliated life peer and community activist of Bangladeshi d ...

(born 1959), British politician *

Spike Pola Jack Stephen "Spike" Pola (born Giovanni Stefano Pola; 16 November 1914 – 6 January 2012) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the West Perth Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL). Born in Fre ...

(1914–2012), Australian rules footballer *

Adrián Alonso Pereira Adrián Alonso Pereira (born 26 June 1988), commonly known as Pola, is a Spanish futsal Sportsperson, player who plays for Inter FS, Inter Movistar as an Ala.

(born 1988), Spanish futsal player commonly known as Pola

Places

Pola (Buenos Aires Premetro) Pola is a station on the Buenos Aires Premetro. After this station, the line branches off into two routes to its two southerly terminals. It was opened on 7 November 2006. The station is located in the Barrio of Villa Lugano Villa Lugano is a ' ...

, a railway station in Villa Lugano, Buenos Aires, Argentina * Pola (Italian province), in the Kingdom of Italy, 1923–1947 *

Pola, Lesser Poland Voivodeship Pola is a human settlement, settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Biecz, within Gorlice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Biecz, north of Gorlice, and east of the regional c ...

, in south Poland *

Pola, Oriental Mindoro Pola, officially the Municipality of Pola ( tgl, Bayan ng Pola), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 35,455 people. Pola is the birthplace of former ...

, a municipality in the Philippines * Pola, Russia, a rural locality in Novgorod Oblast, Russia *

Pola (river) The Pola () is a river in Andreapolsky and Penovsky Districts of Tver Oblast and in Maryovsky, Demyansky, and Parfinsky Districts of Novgorod Oblast of Russia. It is a tributary of Lake Ilmen. It is long, and the area of its basin . The princi ...

, Russia *

Pola Pola or POLA may refer to: People *House of Pola, an Italian noble family *Pola Alonso (1923–2004), Argentine actress *Pola Brändle (born 1980), German artist and photographer *Pola Gauguin (1883–1961), Danish painter *Pola Gojawiczyńska (18 ...

, Italian name for

Pula Pula (; also known as Pola, it, Pola , hu, Pòla, Venetian language, Venetian; ''Pola''; Istriot language, Istriot: ''Puola'', Slovene language, Slovene: ''Pulj'') is the largest city in Istria County, Croatia, and the List of cities and town ...

, the largest city in Istria, Croatia

Acronyms

Principle of least astonishment The principle of least astonishment (POLA), aka principle of least surprise (alternatively a law or rule), applies to user interface and software design. It proposes that a component of a system should behave in a way that most users will expect it ...

, in human–computer interaction *

Principle of least authority In information security, computer science, and other fields, the principle of least privilege (PoLP), also known as the principle of minimal privilege (PoMP) or the principle of least authority (PoLA), requires that in a particular abstraction la ...

, in computer security *

Port of London Authority The Port of London Authority (PLA) is a self-funding public trust established on 31 March 1909 in accordance with the Port of London Act 1908 to govern the Port of London. Its responsibility extends over the Tideway of the River Thames and its ...

, more often referred to as PLA *

Port of Los Angeles The Port of Los Angeles is a seaport managed by the Los Angeles Harbor Department, a unit of the City of Los Angeles. It occupies of land and water with of waterfront and adjoins the separate Port of Long Beach. Promoted as "America's Port", t ...

*''POLA'', a German factory of plastic model kits for model railroad, since 1997 owned by

Faller Faller (styled as FALLER) is a German toy company founded in Stuttgart in 1946 by brothers Edwin and Hermann Faller. The company later relocated to the brothers' home town of Gütenbach in the Black Forest. Faller now specializes in making scener ...

Other uses

* Italian cruiser ''Pola'', World War II Italian warship *

Pola Flotilla The Pola flotilla (''U-Flottille Pola'') was an Imperial German Navy (IGN) formation set up to implement the U-boat campaign against Allied shipping in the Mediterranean during the First World War in support of Germany's ally, the Austro-Hungarian ...

, an Imperial Germany Navy formation of the First World War *''polA'', the bacterial gene encoding

DNA polymerase I DNA polymerase I (or Pol I) is an enzyme that participates in the process of prokaryotic DNA replication. Discovered by Arthur Kornberg in 1956, it was the first known DNA polymerase (and the first known of any kind of polymerase). It was initiall ...

Pola (festival) Pola is a thanksgiving festival celebrated by farmers in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, to acknowledge the importance of bulls and oxen, who are a crucial part of agriculture and farming activities. It falls on the day of the ''Pithori Amavasya'' ...

, a bull-centered festival in India *

Pola (skipper) ''Pola'' is a genus of skipper (butterfly), skippers in the family Hesperiidae. ReferencesNatural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiidae Hesperiidae genera {{Hesperiidae-stub ...

, a genus of skipper butterflies * "Pola" (song), 2019 song by Muniek Staszczyk *

Pola (given name) Pola is a feminine given name of Greek language, Greek origin, a Polish language, Polish and Spanish language, Spanish form of the name Apolonia, a feminine form of the ancient Greek language, Greek name Apollinaris (disambiguation), Apollinaris, a ...

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