Alma or ALMA may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Alma'' (film), a 2009 Spanish short animated film * ''Alma'', an upcoming film by

Sally Potter Charlotte Sally Potter (born 19 September 1949) is an English film director and screenwriter. She directed '' Orlando'' (1992), which won the audience prize for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. Early life Potter was born and raised in L ...

* ''Alma'' (Oswald de Andrade novel), 1922 * ''Alma'' (Le Clézio novel), 2017 * ''Alma'' (play), a 1996 drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma Mahler-Werfel * ''Alma'' (Carminho album), 2012 *

Alma (Nicki Nicole album) ''Alma'' (Spanish for "Soul") is the third studio album by Argentine singer Nicki Nicole. It was released on May 18, 2023, through Dale Play Records and Sony Music Latin labels. The album features collaborations with Milo J, Young Miko, YSY A an ...

, 2023 * "Alma" (song), by Fonseca, 2008 * "Alma", a song by Tom Lehrer from the 1965 album ''

That Was the Year That Was ''That Was the Year That Was'' (1965) is a live album recorded at the hungry i in San Francisco, containing performances by Tom Lehrer of satiric topical songs he originally wrote for the NBC television series ''That Was the Week That Was'', ...

'' *

ALMA Award The American Latino Media Arts Award or ALMA Award, formerly known as Latin Oscars Award, is an award highlighting the best American Latino contributions to music, television, and film. The awards promote fair and accurate portrayals of Latino ...

, or American Latino Media Arts Award

Businesses

Alma (restaurant) Alma is an Fusion cuisine, Asian fusion restaurant in the Bloordale Village neighbourhood of Toronto's List of neighbourhoods in Toronto#West End, West End. History The restaurant was opened in July 2018 by Anna Chen, who also serves as the head ...

, an Asian fusion restaurant located in Toronto, Ontario *

Alma Books Alma Books is a publishing house based in Richmond, London, founded in 2005 by Alessandro Gallenzi and Elisabetta Minervini, the founders of Hesperus Press. It publishes mainly fiction, both by authors from the English-speaking world and in tra ...

, a British publishing house *

Alma Media Alma Media Oyj is a Finnish media and digital service business company. Its best known products are '' Iltalehti'', '' Kauppalehti'', '' Talouselämä'', Ampparit, and . In addition to news services, the company's products provide informatio ...

, a Finnish digital service business * ALMA de México, a low-cost airline

Military

Battle of the Alma The Battle of the Alma (short for Battle of the Alma River) took place during the Crimean War between an allied expeditionary force (made up of French, British, and Ottoman forces) and Russian forces defending the Crimean Peninsula on 20Sept ...

, an 1854 Crimean War battle * ''Alma''-class ironclad, French Navy corvettes built in the 1860s ** French ironclad ''Alma''

People and fictional characters

Alma (given name) Alma ( )Norman, p. 119. or (according to Jones 1997) /'ælmə/) is an English feminine given name, but has historically been used in the masculine form as well, sometimes in the form ''Almo''.Lang, p. 132. The origin of the name is debated; it m ...

, including a list of people, Mormon religious figures and fictional characters with the name *

Alma (Finnish singer) Alma-Sofia Miettinen (born 17 January 1996), known professionally as Alma (stylised in all caps), is a Finnish singer and songwriter. Beginning her career in 2013, she placed fifth in the seventh season of the Finnish version of '' Idol''. Her ...

(Alma-Sofia Miettinen, born 1996) *

Alma (French singer) Alexandra Maquet (, born 27 September 1988), known professionally as Alma, is a French singer and songwriter. She represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Requiem", finishing twelfth. Early life Alexandra Maquet (Alm ...

(Alexandra Maquet, born 1988)

Places

Australia

Alma, South Australia Alma is a small town in South Australia halfway between the Wakefield River, to the north, and River Light to the south. Alma, Alma South and Alma Plains were named for the cadastral Hundred of Alma in which they lie, which was in turn named a ...

Alma, Victoria Alma is a locality in Victoria, Australia, along the Maryborough – St Arnaud Road, west of Maryborough. In the , Alma and the surrounding area had a population of 692. Alma began as a gold-mining settlement and was named after the Battle ...

Alma, Western Australia Alma is a small town in the Mid West region of Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory t ...

South Broken Hill, New South Wales South Broken Hill is a suburb of the western New South Wales city of Broken Hill in outback The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. The Outback is more remote than Australian bush, the bush. While often envis ...

, formerly known as Alma **

Electoral district of Alma Alma was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1894 to 1904, named after Alma, a locality in southern Broken Hill Broken Hill is a city in the Far West (New South Wales), far west ...

Canada

Alma Parish Alma is a geographic parish on the Bay of Fundy in the southwestern corner of Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes, Alma is divided between the village of Fundy Albert and the Southeast rural district, both of whic ...

, New Brunswick **

Alma, New Brunswick Alma is a disincorporated Village in Fundy Albert, New Brunswick, Canada. It resides in the territorial divisions of parish of Alma, Albert County. Alma is centered on the small delta of the Upper Salmon River and Cleveland Brook, where they ...

, a fishing village *

Alma, Nova Scotia Alma is an unincorporated rural community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Pictou County. It is named after the Battle of Alma which occurred in 1854 during the Crimean War. Alma has an estimated population of 290 as of 2 ...

Alma, Ontario Alma is an unincorporated rural community in Mapleton Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. History Pioneers began settling along the Elora Saugeen Road, which forms the main street of Alma, during the 1840s. Alexander MacCrea and his ...

Alma, Prince Edward Island Alma is a settlement in Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island is an island Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. While it is the smallest province by land area and population, it is the most densely populated. The is ...

Alma, Quebec Alma (; 2021 Town population: 30,331; UA Population 20,274) is a town in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the Canadian province of Quebec. History The present town of Alma was formed in 1962 from the merging of four villages: Isle-Maligne, Naudv ...

United States

* Alma, Alabama *

Alma, Arkansas Alma is a city in Crawford County, in far western Arkansas, United States. It is located within the Arkansas River Valley at the edge of the Ozark Mountains; the city is the sixth largest in the Fort Smith metropolitan area. The population wa ...

* Alma, California *

Alma, Colorado Alma is a statutory town in Park County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 296 at the 2020 United States census. Alma is located West and South of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range ...

Alma, Georgia Bacon County Courthouse Alma is a city in Bacon County, Georgia, United States, and the county seat. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 3,433. Alma is known as Georgia's blueberry capital, and hosts a Blueberry Festival ea ...

Alma, Illinois Alma is a village in Marion County, Illinois, United States. The population was 318 at the 2020 census. History Alma was originally called "Rantoul", and under the latter name was laid out in 1854. The present name, adopted in 1855, commemorate ...

* Alma Township, Marion County, Illinois *

Alma, Kansas Alma is a city in and the county seat of Wabaunsee County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 802. History 19th century For millennia, the land now known as Kansas was inhabited by Native Americ ...

* Alma, Louisiana *

Alma, Michigan Alma is the largest city in Gratiot County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,488 at the 2020 census. It was incorporated as the Village of Alma in 1872 and became a city in 1905. Alma hosts the annual Highland Festival on Memo ...

* Alma Township, Marshall County, Minnesota *

Alma, Missouri Alma is a city in Lafayette County, Missouri, and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area within the United States. The population was 400 at the 2020 census. History Alma was laid out in 1879 when the railroad was extended to that point. ...

Alma, Nebraska Alma is a city in Harlan County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,133 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Harlan County. History Alma was founded in the spring of 1871 by a group of Union Pacific railroad laborers origina ...

* Alma Township, Harlan County, Nebraska * Alma, New Mexico * Alma, New York * Alma, Ohio *

Alma, Oklahoma Alma is a rural community located in southwestern Stephens County, Oklahoma, United States. The Alma Post Office, said to be named for Alma Peeples (an early-day resident), was opened February 14, 1906. At the time of its founding, Alma was lo ...

* Alma, Oregon * Alma, Texas * Alma, Virginia *

Alma, Wisconsin Alma is a city in and the county seat of Buffalo County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 716 at the 2020 census. History Alma was named in commemoration of the Battle of Alma, in the Crimean War. Geography Alma is located on ...

, a city * Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, a town * Alma, Jackson County, Wisconsin, a town

Elsewhere

* Alma (Algeria), former name of Boudouaou *

Alma, Greece Alma (, ) is a settlement in the Xanthi regional unit of Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the north ...

* Alma, Iran *

Alma, Israel Alma (, ) is a religious Jewish moshav in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Merom HaGalil Regional Council. In , it had a population of . It is built on the basaltic plateau 10 km north of Safed, ...

* Alma, Kyrgyzstan *

Alma, Lebanon Alma (), also spelled Aalma, is a village in the Zgharta District, in the North Governorate of Lebanon. Its population is Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslim. Demographics In 2014, Christians made up 74.05% and Muslims made up 25.64% of register ...

* Alma, Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia * Alma, Safad, Mandatory Palestine, a depopulated Palestinian village * Alma, Sibiu, Romania *

Alma, Syria Alma or Elmah () is a village in the Daraa District of the Daraa Governorate, Syria. According to the 2004 census, the population was estimated at 6,297 people. References Bibliography * * {{syria-geo-stub Ancient Jewish settlements of the ...

* Alma, Limpopo, South Africa *

Alma (mountain) Alma is a mountain in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. Description Alma is the fourth-highest peak of the Two Thumb Range which is a subrange of the Southern Alps. It is situated west of the city of Christchurch and is set within Te Kah ...

, a mountain in New Zealand * Alma River (disambiguation) * 390 Alma, an asteroid

Schools

UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe, also known as Louvain-en-Woluwe or Alma, is a campus of the University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium. The campus, built in the 1970s following the Leuven crisis, houses the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry, Pharmac ...

, in Brussels, Belgium, known as Alma, a campus of the University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium *

Alma College (St. Thomas, Ontario) Alma College was a girls' private school in St. Thomas, Ontario, in Canada. Built in 1878, the school was in operation between 1881 and 1988. The college closed in 1988 in part due to a teacher's strike. Primary school and music classes were sti ...

, Canada, a ladies liberal arts college, 1877–1994 *

Alma College Alma College is a Private college, private Presbyterian Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Alma, Michigan. It enrolls approximately 1,200 students and is Higher education accreditation in the United States, accre ...

, in Alma, Michigan, U.S., a liberal arts college * Alma White College, in Zarephath, New Jersey, U.S., a Bible college, 1921–1978 * Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, in Berkeley, California, U.S., founded as Alma College * Collège d'Alma, Alma, Quebec, Canada *

Alma High School (disambiguation) Alma High School may refer to: *Alma High School (Arkansas), in Alma, Arkansas, U.S. *Alma High School (Michigan), in Alma, Michigan, U.S. *Alma High School (Nebraska), in Alma, Nebraska, U.S. See also

*Alma (disambiguation)#Education *Alma Br ...

Transportation

* ''Alma'' (1891), a scow schooner * , a passenger ship * Alma (French automobile), manufactured 1926–1929 *

Alma metro station Alma (; ) is a Brussels Metro List of Brussels metro and premetro stations, station on the eastern branch of Brussels Metro line 1, line 1. It is located in the List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, municipality of Woluwe-Sain ...

in Brussels, Belgium * Alma Airport, Alma, Quebec, Canada * Alma (Rivière La Grande Décharge) Water Aerodrome, Alma, Quebec *

Pont de l'Alma Pont, meaning "bridge" in French, may refer to: Places France * Pont, Côte-d'Or, in the Côte-d'Or ''département'' * Pont-Bellanger, in the Calvados ''département'' * Pont-d'Ouilly, in the Calvados ''département'' * Pont-Farcy, in the Cal ...

('Alma Bridge'), Paris, France

Acronyms

Armenian Library and Museum of America Armenian Museum of America (AMA), located in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States, is an institution that has the largest collection of Armenian culture, Armenian artifacts in North America. History In 1971, alarmed by the growing loss and de ...

, Watertown, Massachusetts, United States *

Asian land mammal age The Asian land mammal ages, acronym ALMA, establish a geologic timescale for prehistoric Asian fauna beginning 58.7 Mya during the Paleogene and continuing through to the Miocene ( Aquitanian) (23.03 Ma). These periods are referred to as ages, sta ...

, a geologic timescale for prehistoric Asian fauna *

Atacama Large Millimeter Array The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which observe electromagnetic radiation at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. The ar ...

, a radio telescope in Chile * The "Aim, Learn, Master, Achieve"

ALMA Initiative A NEET, an acronym for "Not in Education, Employment, or Training", is a person who is unemployed and not receiving an education or vocational training. The classification originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1990s, and its use has spr ...

, a social inclusion scheme of the European Commission

Other uses

Book of Alma The Book of Alma: The Son of Alma (), usually referred to as the Book of Alma, is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon. The title refers to Alma the Younger, a prophet and "chief judge" of the Nephites. Alma is the longest book in the ...

, one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon *

Alma Generating Station Alma Station was a baseload coal power station in Alma, Wisconsin. The plant was built and operated by Dairyland Power Cooperative. Upon the completion of the plant's construction in 1947, it was the largest cooperatively owned power station i ...

, a power station in Wisconsin, United States * Hurricane Alma, the name of several storms * ''

ALMA Magazine ''ALMA'' was a Spanish-language lifestyle magazine published in the United States for the Hispanic community. The magazine was founded in 2005 and hasn't been published since 2022 It focuses mainly on culture, fashion and politics. At the beginn ...

'', an American Spanish-language lifestyle magazine *

Almah In Biblical Hebrew, the words ''almah'' (; ) and ''alamot'' (; ), drawn from a Semitic root implying the vigour of puberty, refer to a young woman who is sexually ripe for marriage. Although the concept is central to the account of the virgin ...

or alma, a Hebrew word for a young woman of childbearing age *

AlmaLinux AlmaLinux is a free and open source Linux distribution, developed by the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, a 501(c) organization, to provide a community-supported, Deployment environment, production-grade enterprise operating system that is Binary-code co ...

, a Linux distribution