Volta may refer to:

Persons

Alessandro Volta Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (, ; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist and lay Catholic who was a pioneer of electricity and power who is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the ...

(1745–1827), Italian physicist and inventor of the electric battery, count and eponym of the volt *

Giovanni Volta Giovanni Volta (March 14, 1928 – February 4, 2012) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pavia, in Italy. Ordained to the priesthood on 29 June 1952 by Bishop Domenico Menna, he was a student at ...

(1928–2012), Italian Roman Catholic bishop *

Giovanni Serafino Volta Giovanni Serafino Volta (1764–1842) was an Italian priest, naturalist, and palaeontologist, best known for his studies of fossil fish from Monte Bolca. Volta was an ''Abate'' (or abbot) and theologian. He was a Canon of the Imperial Basilica ...

(1764–1842) Italian priest, naturalist and paleontologist *

Massimo Volta Massimo Volta (born 14 May 1987) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Eccellenza amateurs Carpenedolo. Club career Volta started his career with minor league club Carpenedolo. Sampdoria In January 2007 Volta was s ...

(born 1987), Italian footballer *

Leopoldo Camillo Volta Leopoldo Camillo Volta (1751-1823) was an Italian historian, mainly of the stories of his native Mantua. He studied initially under the Jesuits , image = Ihs-logo.svg , image_size = 175px , caption = Chris ...

(1751–1823) Italian librarian and historian of Mantua

Places

Volta, California Volta is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Merced County, California, United States. It is located west-northwest of Los Banos at an elevation of . The population was 366 at the 2020 census, up from 246 at the 2010 ...

, a census-designated place in Merced County, California, US *

Volta Mantovana Volta Mantovana ( Upper Mantovano: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Mantua in the Italian region Lombardy, located about east of Milan and about northwest of Mantua. Volta Mantovana borders the following municipalities: Cav ...

, an Italian municipality in the Lombardy region * Porta Volta, a former city gate of Milan, Italy *

Volta Grande Volta Grande is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais. As of 2020 its population was estimated to be 5,261. Geography Volta Grande is located in the Zona da Mata mesoregion of Minas Gerais near the border with the state of Rio de ...

, a Brazilian municipality in the Minas Gerais state *

Volta Redonda Volta Redonda () is the name of a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro state of Brazil with an area of 182.81 km2, located from 350m to 707m above the sea level (22°31'23" S, 44°06'15" W) an ...

, a Brazilian municipality in the Rio de Janeiro state *

Upper Volta (disambiguation) Upper Volta (now named Burkina Faso) may refer to: *French Upper Volta (1919–1932, 1947–1958) **a territory in French West Africa (1919–1932) **a territory of the French Union (1947–1958) *Republic of Upper Volta (1958&ndas ...

Lake Volta Lake Volta, the largest artificial reservoir in the world based on surface area, is contained behind the Akosombo Dam which generates a substantial amount of Ghana's electricity. It is completely within the country of Ghana and has a surface area ...

, in Ghana * Volta Region, in Ghana * Volta River, primarily flowing in Ghana, with its headstreams: ** White Volta **

Red Volta The Red Volta or Nazinon is a waterway flowing located in West Africa. It emerges near Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and has a length of about 320 km which it joins the White Volta in Ghana. The river is primarily located in Burkina Faso and ...

Black Volta The Black Volta or Mouhoun is a river that flows through Burkina Faso for approximately 1,352 km (840 mi) to the White Volta in Dagbon, Ghana, the upper end of Lake Volta. The source of the Black Volta is in the Cascades Region of Burki ...

* Volta (crater), a crater on the moon *

8208 Volta 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

, a main belt asteroid

Technology and products

* Volta (microarchitecture), the initial codename for the microarchitecture to succeed the Pascal (microarchitecture) developed by Nvidia * Volta Charging, American electric vehicle infrastructure company * Microsoft Live Labs Volta, a web development toolset by Microsoft * Toyota Alessandro Volta, a hybrid concept vehicle * Volta, a brand of vacuum cleaners by Electrolux

Organisations

* Volta Laboratory and Bureau, research and philanthropic institutions created by Alexander Graham Bell in the US * Volta Aluminum Company, a company based in Ghana * Volta River Authority, the main electricity supplier in Ghana * Volta Regional Museum, an ethnographic history museum in Ho, Ghana * Volta Cinematograph, first cinema of Dublin. started by, among others, James Joyce * Volta Trucks, an electric truck manufacturer

Sports

* Volta a Portugal, an annual professional road bicycle race in Portugal *

Volta ao Algarve The Volta ao Algarve (Portuguese; en, Tour of the Algarve) is a road bicycle racing stage race held annually in the Algarve, Portugal. Since 2017, it has been organised as a 2.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race became part of the new UCI P ...

, an annual road bicycle racing stage race in the Algarve, Portugal *

Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; en, Tour of Catalonia, es, Vuelta a Cataluña, link=no) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of th ...

, an annual professional road bicycle race in Catalonia, Spain *

Volta a Lleida The Volta a Lleida was a road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race held in the Lleida (province), Lleida region of Spain. It was a 2.2 category race on the UCI Europe Tour between 2005 and 2008. List of overall winners {, class="wikitable" , ...

, a road cycling stage race held in the Lleida region of Spain *

Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana The Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (; en, Tour of the Valencian Community or Tour of Valencia) is a road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community (''Comunitat Valenciana''), Spain. Its position in the cycling calendar means it is often ...

, a former road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community, Spain *

Volta Feminina da República The Volta Feminina da República is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin Americ ...

, a Brazil women's staged cycle race * Volta ao Distrito de Santarém, an annual Portuguese road bicycle racing stage race in the Santárem district

Other uses

* ''Volta'' (album), a 2007 album by Björk *

Volta (dance) The volta (plural: voltas) (Italian: "the turn" or "turning") is an anglicised name for a dance for couples that was popular during the later Renaissance period. This dance was associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music. Its ...

, a Renaissance dance for couples * Volta (literature), a point of dramatic change in a poem * '' Una Volta'', the 3rd album from the band DeVotchKa * ''Volta'' (film), a 2004 Philippine movie * ''Volta'' (TV series), a 2008 Philippine TV series based on its namesake 2004 movie * Volta (Brescia Metro), a railway station in Brescia, Italy * ''Volta Review'', the journal of the

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, also known as AG Bell, is an organization that aims to promote listening and spoken language among people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It is headquartered in Washington, ...

* Volta bracket, a musical repeat sign * Volta Prize, an award by the French government for scientific achievement in electricity *

Edison Volta Prize The Edison Volta Prize is awarded biennially by the European Physical Society (EPS) to individuals or groups of up to three people in recognition of outstanding achievements in physics. The award consists of a diploma, a medal, and 10,000 euros in ...

, a biannual award by the European Physical Society (EPS) * Volta Conference, an interwar cycle of cultural meetings * Villa Volta, an attraction in the amusement park ''Efteling'' in the Netherlands *

VOLTA (Cirque du Soleil) ''Volta'' was a touring circus show by the Cirque du Soleil and was based on extreme sports; the principal character is a game-show host named Waz. It is the company's 41st production since 1984, and its 18th show presented under the Big Top. Th ...