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 (1923–2004), Argentine actress * Pola Brändle (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 (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 French film, and of the latter after emigrating to the United Sta ...

(born 1908), Romanian actress * Pola Kinski (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 femm ...

(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 made by 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 to forget her painful past. Summary “This ...

'', 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 (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), a railway station in Villa Lugano, Buenos Aires, Argentina * Pola (Italian province), in the Kingdom of Italy, 1923–1947 * Pola, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, 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 princ ...

, 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 Gojawiczyńsk ...

, Italian name for Pula, 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, more often referred to as PLA * Port of Los Angeles *''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 scene ...

Other uses

* Italian cruiser ''Pola'', World War II Italian warship * Pola Flotilla, 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 initi ...

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

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