Puma or PUMA may refer to:

Animals

* ''Puma'' (genus), a genus in the family Felidae **

Puma (species) The cougar (''Puma concolor'') is a large Felidae, cat native to the Americas. Its Species distribution, range spans from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes in South America and is the most widespread of any large wild terrestrial mamm ...

or cougar, a large cat

Businesses and organisations

Puma (brand) Puma SE, branded as Puma, is a German multinational corporation that designs and manufactures athletic and casual footwear, apparel and accessories, which is headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany. Puma is the third largest sportswe ...

, a multinational shoe and sportswear company *

Puma Energy Puma Energy is a Swiss multinational mid- and downstream oil company, majority-owned by Singapore-based Swiss company Trafigura. Its operations span around 40 countries across five continents and encompass the supply, storage, refining, di ...

, a mid- and downstream oil company * People United Means Action, originally named "Party Unity My Ass", a political action committee during the 2008 U.S. presidential election

Languages

Puma language Puma (Puma: पुमा ''Pumā'') is a Kiranti language spoken by about 4,310 people (Central Bureau of Statistics report 2001) in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal. The actual population may be somewhat higher. The same term ‘Puma’ refers both to th ...

, a language of Nepal *

Teanu language Teanu (or ''Puma'', ''Buma'') is the main language spoken on the island of Vanikoro, in the easternmost province of the Solomon Islands. About the language Name The language receives its name from Teanu, the island located northeast of the Va ...

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 (born 1943), El Puma, Venezuelan singer and actor *

Puma King Puma King (born July 6, 1990) is a Mexican '' Luchador'' '' enmascarado'', or masked professional wrestler currently working with Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), but also as a freelancer in many Mexican promotions such as Lucha Memes, MexaWrestli ...

(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 appea ...

(born 1976), Swedish pornographic actress * Ricochet (wrestler) (born 1988), Puma, American wrestler *

T. J. Perkins Theodore James Perkins (born September 3, 1984) is an American professional wrestler of Filipino descent, better known by the ring name T. J. Perkins (or simply TJP) currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling where he is a member of the Unite ...

(born 1984), Puma, American wrestler *

Puma Jones Sandra "Puma" Jones (October 5, 1953—January 28, 1990) was an American singer, best known as a member of the Grammy Award-winning reggae group Black Uhuru. Career Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Jones graduated from Columbia University ...

member of Black Uhuru

Places

* Puma (village), Solomon Islands * Puma (Tanzanian ward)

Sports

Pumas (Currie Cup) The Pumas (known as the Airlink Pumas for sponsorship reasons) are a South African rugby union team that competes in the Premier Division of the Currie Cup and the Northern Section of the Vodacom Cup. The team draws their players from Mpumalanga ...

, a South African rugby union team representing Mpumalanga province * Los Pumas, the Argentina national rugby union team * Pumas de la UNAM or Club Universidad Nacional, a Mexican league football club

Science and technology

Puma (microarchitecture) The Puma Family 16h is a low-power microarchitecture by AMD for its APUs. It succeeds the Jaguar as a second-generation version, targets the same market, and belongs to the same AMD architecture Family 16h. The ''Beema'' line of processors are ...

, a computer microarchitecture by AMD *

Puma (web server) Puma is an HTTP web server derived from Mongrel and written by Evan Phoenix. It stresses speed and efficient use of memory. Reception and use Puma is the web server shipped with Mastodon and recommended by the Heroku hosting provider as a repla ...

, an HTTP web server * Puma (Hewlett-Packard), 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 The PUMA (''Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly'', or ''Programmable Universal Manipulation Arm'') is an industrial robotic arm developed by Victor Scheinman at pioneering robot company Unimation. Initially developed for General Motors, ...

, 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 The Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma is a four-bladed, twin-engined medium transport/utility helicopter that was designed and originally produced by the French aerospace manufacturer Sud Aviation. It is capable of carrying up to 20 passengers as well as ...

, 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 ...

, a Canadian ultralight aircraft *

AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma The AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma is an American unmanned aircraft system which is small, battery powered, and hand-launched. Its primary mission is surveillance and intelligence gathering using an electro-optical and infrared camera. It is produced ...

, 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 and ...

, an Italian brand of dune buggy and sports kit-car *

Ford Puma (crossover) The Ford Puma is a subcompact crossover SUV (B-segment) marketed by Ford since 2019. It is considered an SUV equivalent of the seventh-generation Fiesta. The vehicle is only available for the European and Australasian markets, with sales starti ...

, 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) The Puma is a family of Italian light wheeled armoured fighting vehicle family, consisting of the Puma 6×6 and the Puma 4×4. The vehicles were developed and are produced by the Consorzio Iveco Fiat – Oto Melara for the Italian Army. First pr ...

, 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 The Puma (Hebrew: פומ"ה פורץ מכשולים הנדסי) is a heavily armored Combat engineering vehicle and armored personnel carrier that the Engineering Corps of the Israeli Defence Forces has used since the early 1990s. The vehicle can ...

, an Israeli combat engineering vehicle * PUMA M26-15, a South African armoured personnel carrier

Other uses

* Puma (band), a Norwegian experimental jazz ensamble *

Puma (comics) Puma is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz, he first appeared in '' The Amazing Spider-Man'' #256 (September 1984), as an adversary of the superhero Spider-M ...

, a comic book character Thomas Fireheart *

Public Use Microdata Area A Public Use Microdata Area, or PUMA, are geographic units used by the US Census for providing statistical and demographic information. Each PUMA contains at least 100,000 people. PUMAs do not overlap, and are contained within a single state. PUMAs ...

(PUMA), geographic units used by the U.S. Census