Puma or PUMA may refer to:

Animals

* ''Puma'' (genus), a genus in the family Felidae ** Puma (species) or cougar, a large cat

Businesses and organisations

* Puma (brand), a multinational shoe and sportswear company * Puma Energy, a mid- and downstream oil company *

People United Means Action "People United Means Action" (or PUMA) was a political action committee in the United States that opposed the Democratic Party leadership and the nomination of Senator Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for President in the 2008 preside ...

, originally named "Party Unity My Ass", a political action committee during the 2008 U.S. presidential election

Languages

* Puma language, a language of Nepal * Teanu language or Puma, a language of the Solomon Islands

People

Carlos Landín Martínez Carlos Landín Martínez (born – 9 December 2021), also known as El Puma, was a Mexican former police chief and convicted drug lord. He was a high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in Tamaulipas, Mexico, and worked a ...

, El Puma, Mexican drug lord *

José Luis Rodríguez José Luis Rodríguez may refer to: * José Luis Rodríguez Vélez (1915–1984), Panamanian musician *José Luis Rodríguez (singer) (born 1943), ''El Puma'', Venezuelan singer and actor *José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (born 1960), former Prime Mi ...

(born 1943), El Puma, Venezuelan singer and actor * Puma King (born 1990), Puma, Mexican wrestler *

Puma Swede Johanna Jussinniemi (born 13 September 1976), better known by her stage name Puma Swede, is a Swedish pornographic actress and feature dancer. The first part of her stage name comes from the sports car, the Ford Puma. Since 2005, she has appear ...

(born 1976), Swedish pornographic actress *

Ricochet (wrestler) Trevor Dean Mann (born October 11, 1988) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Ricochet. Before signing with WWE, Mann is best known for his tenure with ...

(born 1988), Puma, American wrestler * T. J. Perkins (born 1984), Puma, American wrestler * Puma Jones member of Black Uhuru

Places

Puma (village) Puma is the only inhabited village of the island of Teanu, in the Vanikoro group located in the Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Pa ...

, Solomon Islands *

Puma (Tanzanian ward) Puma is an administrative ward in the Singida Rural district of the Singida Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 16,198. References External links 1936 photo of Puma railway station
Wards of ...

Sports

* Pumas (Currie Cup), a South African rugby union team representing Mpumalanga province *

Los Pumas The Argentina national rugby union team (Spanish: ''Selección de rugby de Argentina'') represents Argentina in men's international rugby union; it is organised by the Argentine Rugby Union ( es, Unión Argentina de Rugby). Nicknamed the Pumas ...

, the Argentina national rugby union team * Pumas de la UNAM or

Club Universidad Nacional Club Universidad Nacional, A.C., commonly referred to as UNAM, is a professional football club based in Ciudad Universitaria of Mexico City, Mexico. The club competes in the Liga MX, the top division in the Mexican football league system. Fo ...

, a Mexican league football club

Science and technology

* Puma (microarchitecture), a computer microarchitecture by AMD * Puma (web server), an HTTP web server *

Puma (Hewlett-Packard) The HP 200LX Palmtop PC (F1060A, F1061A, F1216A), also known as project ''Felix'', is a personal digital assistant introduced by Hewlett-Packard in August 1994. It was often called a Palmtop PC, and it was notable that it was, with some mi ...

, a codename for the HP 1000CX palmtop PC *

Mac OS X Puma Mac OS X 10.1 ( code named Puma) is the second major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system. It superseded Mac OS X 10.0 and preceded Mac OS X Jaguar. Mac OS X 10.1 was released on September 25, 2001, as a free update ...

or Mac OS X 10.1, an operating system * Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly, an industrial robot arm *

Protected User Mode Audio The Protected Media Path is a set of technologies creating a "Protected Environment," first included in Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, that is used to enforce digital rights management (or DRM) protections on content. Its subsets a ...

(PUMA), a subset of Protected Media Path, a DRM technology *

p53 upregulated modulator of apoptosis The p53 upregulated modulator of apoptosis (PUMA) also known as Bcl-2-binding component 3 (BBC3), is a pro-apoptotic protein, member of the Bcl-2 protein family. In humans, the Bcl-2-binding component 3 protein is encoded by the ''BBC3'' gene. ...

(PUMA), a pro-apoptotic protein *

Paediatric-use marketing authorisation Paediatric-use marketing authorisations (PUMA) are granted by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for medical products that are intended exclusively for paediatric use, that is, for use in patients younger than 18 years. Like ordinary EMA marketing ...

(PUMA), by the European Medicines Agency

Transportation

Aircraft

Aero-Service Puma The Aero-Service Puma is a Polish ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Aero-Service Jacek Skopiński of Warsaw. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation ...

, a Polish ultralight aircraft * Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma, a helicopter *

BDC Aero Puma The BDC Aero Puma is a Canadian ultralight and light-sport aircraft, originally designed by the Italian aircraft designer Antonio Bortolanza and built by Aeroplast of Sale, Piedmont, Italy. It is currently produced by BDC Aero Industrie of Lac ...

, a Canadian ultralight aircraft * AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma, an American unmanned surveillance aircraft

Automobiles

Puma (car manufacturer) Puma Automóveis Ltda., or simply Puma, is a Brazilian manufacturer of sports cars and small trucks that began its activities in 1963 as Lumimari (named after the initials of its founders and partners: Luiz Roberto Alves da Costa, Milton Mastegu ...

, a Brazilian, then South African, brand of sports cars *

Puma (kit car company) Puma was an Italian automobile company which specialized in kit cars and was active from the 1970s to 1990s. Its headquarters were in Via Tiburtina, Rome. The company's models ranging from off-road vehicles such as dune buggies to sports cars an ...

, an Italian brand of dune buggy and sports kit-car * Ford Puma (crossover), an American-German subcompact SUV *

Ford Puma (sport compact) The Ford Puma is a small three-door coupé that was produced by Ford Europe from September 1997 to July 2002. The Puma was built exclusively at Ford's Niehl plant in Cologne, Germany. The Ford Puma follows common design cues with other Ford cars ...

, an American-German compact sports coupe *

Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility The Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility (PUMA) was an experimental electrically powered road vehicle created by Segway and adopted by General Motors as a concept vehicle representing the future of urban transportation. It operates on two w ...

(PUMA), an experimental vehicle by Segway and General Motors

Combat vehicles

* Puma (AFV), an Italian family of armoured fighting vehicles *

Puma (IFV) The Puma is a German infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) ( or short ''SPz'') designed to replace the aging Marder IFVs currently in service with the German Army. Production of the first batch of 350 vehicles began in 2010 and was completed in Aug ...

, a German infantry fighting vehicle * Puma armored engineering vehicle, an Israeli combat engineering vehicle *

PUMA M26-15 The Puma M26-15 4x4 is an armored personnel carrier (APC) with mine and improvised explosive device (IED) protection. The main users are military, police and security companies during peacekeeping operations. The Puma M26 was designed by OTT T ...

, a South African armoured personnel carrier

Other uses

Puma (band) Puma (established 2005 in Trondheim, Norway) is an experimental jazz band. Biography Puma's music is described as energetic and intense, and they have played a variety of concerts internationally and in Norway. They have been held up as one o ...

, a Norwegian experimental jazz ensamble * Puma (comics), a comic book character Thomas Fireheart * Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA), geographic units used by the U.S. Census