Alfa may refer to:

Businesses and organisations

Broadcasting

Alfa Radio Alfa Radio ( mk, Алфа Радио) was a private radio station broadcasting in the Municipality of Radoviš, North Macedonia, with its headquarters located in the city of Radoviš. It started broadcasting on 1 May 2002, and since then it is o ...

, a Macedonian radio station *

XHFAJ-FM XHFAJ-FM is a radio station on 91.3 FM in Mexico City. The station is owned by Grupo Radio Centro and carries a Contemporary hit radio format known as Alfa 91.3. XHFAJ-FM broadcasts in HD.http://hdradio.com/mexico/estaciones HD Radio Guide for ...

, a Mexico City radio station better known as Alfa 91.3 *

Alfa TV Alfa TV was a former pay television service available in Cyprus, that broadcast sports and children's programming as well as the odd film. It was owned by Alfa TV Ltd. and was launched in 1998. Alfa TV was one of only 2 pay-TV services in Cyprus, ...

, a premium television service available in Cyprus *

Alfa TV (North Macedonia) Alfa TV () is a privately owned TV station in North Macedonia. Its headquarters is in Skopje, and the program director until 2018 was Ljubomir Nikolovski. Since 2018, the director is Vasko Eftov. The station is considered to be supportive of f ...

Industrial

ALFA (Mexico) Alfa S.A.B. de C.V., also known as Alfa or Alfa Group, is a Mexican multinational conglomerate headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico. It is a diversified group of businesses, mainly industrial, that produces petrochemicals, aluminum auto components ...

, a Mexican industrial conglomerate *

Alfa Aesar Alfa Aesar, headquartered in Ward Hill, Massachusetts, United States, is a supplier of reagents and materials for use in research and development, and analysis. They have facilities in many countries and manufacture many of the chemicals they se ...

, a chemical supply company

Science and technology

Alfa (Lebanon) Alfa (or Alfa Telecommunications, Arabic: الفا) is a state-owned Lebanese telecom company, founded in 1994, and one of the two operating GSM networks in Lebanon, the other being touch. Previously managed by Orascom TMT, its management ha ...

, a Lebanese telecom company *

Alfa Financial Software Alfa Financial Software Holdings plc is a business providing software for customers working in the asset finance (i.e. leasing) industry. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. History The company was founded by Justin Cooper, Ian Hargra ...

, a British software company *

Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. () is an Italian luxury car manufacturer and a subsidiary of Stellantis. The company was founded on 24 June 1910, in Milan, Italy. "Alfa" is an acronym of its founding name, "Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili." ...

, an Italian luxury automobile manufacturer founded as A.L.F.A.

Other businesses

Alfa (cigarette) Alfa was an Italian brand of cigarettes, owned by multinational British American Tobacco. The brand was manufactured by its local subsidiary, BAT Italia, until it was discontinued in 2014. In Japan, Alfa is still being manufactured by Japan Tob ...

, an Italian brand *

Alfa Brewery Alfa Brewery (Alfa Brouwerij) is a family-owned independent brewery located in Schinnen, the Netherlands. Alfa was started in 1870 by Joseph Meens and is one of the few independent breweries left in the Province of Limburg. Availability Unti ...

, a Dutch brewery *

Alfa Group Alfa Group Consortium () is Russian international privately owned investment groups, with interests in oil and gas, commercial and investment banking, asset management, insurance, retail trade, telecommunications, water utilities and special sit ...

Consortium, a Russian privately owned investment group **

Alfa-Bank ALFA-BANK JSC (Alfa-Bank), is the largest of the private banks in Russia. It was founded in 1990 by Russian businessman Mikhail Fridman, who is still the controlling owner today. Headquartered in Moscow, it operates in seven countries, providin ...

, the Alfa Group corporate treasury *

Alfamart PT Sumber Alfaria Trijaya Tbk or Alfamart is a primarily-franchised Indonesian convenience store chain. As of May 2021, it had over 17,000 stores spread across Indonesia, 4 million daily customers and tens of thousands of micro, small and medium- ...

, an Indonesian retail company *

Alfa Records , originally a publisher known as Alfa Music Ltd. and later succeeded by record company Alfa Music Inc., was established in 1969 by composer and record producer Kunihiko Murai. It was formed into an independent record label known as Alfa Record ...

, a Japanese record label * Alfa Co., a subsidiary of the

Al Faisaliah Group The Al Faisaliah Group ( ar, مجموعة الفيصلية), is a Saudi-based conglomerate established in 1970. Its name is derived from the name of its founder, Abdullah Al Faisal, eldest son of the late King Faisal. Al Faisaliah Group includes ...

People

Isaac Alfa Isaac Mohammed Alfa (born 15 September 1950 in Inye, Kogi State, Nigeria) is a retired Nigerian Air Force Air Marshal, former Chief of Air Staff, and Senator from Kogi State. In 2003 he contested the governorship of Kogi State. In July 201 ...

, a retired Nigerian Air Force officer *

El Alfa Emanuel Herrera Batista (born 18 December 1990), known professionally as El Alfa El Jefe, or simply as El Alfa, is a Dominican rapper, known as "The King of Dembow". Batista was born in Bajos de Haina, Santo Domingo. He is known for his sensual ...

, a Dominican recording artist

Other uses

* Alfa, code word for the letter "A" in the

NATO phonetic alphabet The (International) Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used set of clear code words for communicating the letters of the Roman alphabet, technically a ''radiotelephonic spellin ...

International Code of Signals The International Code of Signals (ICS) is an international system of signals and codes for use by vessels to communicate important messages regarding safety of navigation and related matters. Signals can be sent by flaghoist, signal lamp ("bl ...

and related alphabet codes *

Alfa class submarine The Alfa class, Soviet designation Project 705 Lira (russian: Лира, meaning "Lyre", NATO reporting name Alfa), was a class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in service with the Soviet Navy from 1971 into the early 1990s, with one servin ...

, NATO name for Soviet Union/Russian Navy Project 705 submarines *

ALFA (XACML) ALFA, or the Abbreviated Language For Authorization, is a domain-specific language used in the formulation of access-control policies. History Origin XACML, the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language, uses XML as its main encoding langua ...

, a pseudocode language used in the formulation of access-control policies *

Alfa (rocket) Alfa was the designation of an Italian ballistic missile program that started in 1971 under the control of the GRS (Gruppo di Realizzazione Speciale Interforze). It was related to the Polaris A-3 missile. Development Born from the developmen ...

, a 1970s Italian ballistic missile *

ALFA (band) ALFA is a Myanmar Pop boy band formed bJBJ entertainmentin 2019. The group has been strongly influenced by the Korean wave and popularity of K-pop following myanmar. ALFA has built up a strong local following in Yangon, Myanmar's commercial ca ...

, a boy band in Myanmar *

ALFA (rowing) ALFA is the biggest indoor rowing competition in the Baltics"Biggest indoor ...

, an international indoor rowing competition in Estonia *

Alfa (title) Alfa is a title given to distinguished figures in Guinea, particularly in the Kankan Region The Kankan region now has more than 6,167,904 inhabitants (2021) the most popular region of Guinea The region has five (5) prefectures (Kankan, Kéroua ...

, a title given to distinguished figures in Guinea *

Subtropical Storm Alfa The 1973 Atlantic hurricane season was the first season to use the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale, a scale developed in 1971 by Herbert Saffir and Robert Simpson to rate the intensity of tropical cyclones. The season produced 24 tropical a ...

, the first subtropical storm of the 1973 Atlantic hurricane season *

Liberal Conservative Reformers The Liberal Conservative Reformers (german: Liberal-Konservative Reformer, LKR) is a centre-right to right-wing political party in Germany which was known from July 2015 to November 2016 as ALFA. The party was established in July 2015 as a spli ...

, a political party in Germany formerly called ALFA *

Flugschule Wings Alfa The Flugschule Wings Alfa ( en, Wings Flying School Alpha) is an Austrian high-wing, single-place, hang glider that was designed and produced by Flugschule Wings, a flying school based in Spital am Pyhrn.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''Wor ...

, an Austrian hang glider