Alfa may refer to:

Businesses and organisations

Broadcasting

Alfa Radio Alfa Radio () was a private radio station broadcasting in the Radoviš municipality, Municipality of Radoviš, Macedonia (country), North Macedonia, with its headquarters located in the city of Radoviš. It started broadcasting on 1 May 2002, and ...

, a Macedonian radio station *

XHFAJ-FM XHFAJ-FM (91.3 FM) is a Mexican radio station 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 Radi ...

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

Alfa TV (Cypriot TV channel) Alfa TV was a 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, the o ...

, a premium television service available in Cyprus * Alfa TV (North Macedonia)

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 componen ...

, a Mexican industrial conglomerate *

Alfa Aesar Alfa Aesar was a supplier of reagents and materials for use in research and development, and analysis. The company had facilities in a variety of countries and manufactured many of the chemicals they sold. The company was bought by Thermo Fishe ...

, a chemical supply company

Science and technology

* Alfa (Lebanon), a Lebanese telecom company * Alfa Financial Software, a British software company *

Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. () is an Italian carmaker known for its sports-oriented vehicles, strong auto racing heritage, and iconic design. Headquartered in Turin, Italy, it is a subsidiary of Stellantis Europe and one of 14 brands of mu ...

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

Other businesses

* Alfa (cigarette), an Italian brand * Alfa Brewery, a Dutch brewery *

Alfa Group Alfa Group Consortium () is a 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 ...

Consortium, a Russian privately owned investment group **

Alfa-Bank Alfa-Bank JSC () is the largest of the private banks in Russia. It was founded in 1990 by Russian businessman Mikhail Fridman, who remains the controlling owner. Headquartered in Moscow, it operates in seven countries, providing financial servi ...

, the Alfa Group corporate treasury *

Alfamart PT Sumber Alfaria Trijaya Tbk, doing business as Alfamart, is an Indonesian primarily-franchised convenience store chain. As of June 2023, it has over 18,000 stores in 27 provinces spread across Indonesia, with 4 million daily customers and tens ...

, 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 Recor ...

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

People

Alfa (singer) Andrea De Filippi (born 22 August 2000), known professionally as Alfa, is an Italian singer and rapper. Early life De Filippi grew up in the Quarto dei Mille district of Genoa. His father is a nurse and his mother is a psychologist. He origin ...

, an Italian singer and rapper * Isaac Alfa, a retired Nigerian Air Force officer *

El Alfa Emanuel Herrera Batista (born 18 December 1990), known by his stage name El Alfa or El Alfa El Jefe, is a Dominican rapper, known as the King of Dembow. Batista was born in Bajos de Haina, San Cristobal. He is known for his initial afro hair ...

, a Dominican recording artist

Other uses

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

NATO phonetic alphabet The International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet or simply the 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 Latin/Roman ...

International Code of Signals The International Code of Signals (INTERCO) 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 ...

and related alphabet codes *

Alfa class submarine The Alfa class, Soviet designation Project 705 Lira (, 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 serving in the Russian Na ...

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

ALFA (XACML) The Abbreviated Language for Authorization (ALFA) 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 language ...

, a domain-specific 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 UGM-27 Polaris, Polaris A-3 missile. Development Born from ...

, a 1970s Italian ballistic missile *

ALFA (band) ALFA is a Myanmar Pop boy band formed by JBJ entertainment in 2019. The group has been strongly influenced by the Korean wave and popularity of K-pop K-pop (; an abbreviation of "Korean popular music") is a form of popular music originatin ...

, 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 ou Alpha is a title given to distinguished figures in Guinea Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea, is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Guinea-Bissau to the northwest, Senegal to the nort ...

, a title given to distinguished figures in Guinea *

Subtropical Storm Alfa The 1973 Atlantic hurricane season was a below average tropical cyclone season overall. Of the 24 tropical or subtropical cyclones which developed, only 8 became named storms, and of those, only 4 became hurricanes, with 1 reaching major hurr ...

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

We Citizens (Germany) We Citizens (, WB) is a list of political parties in Germany, political party in Germany. Formerly Liberal Conservative Reformers (, LKR), it was known from July 2015 to November 2016 as ALFA. The party was established in July 2015 as a split f ...

, a political party in Germany formerly called ALFA *

Flugschule Wings Alfa The Flugschule Wings Alfa () 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: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviat ...

, an Austrian hang glider