Alma or ALMA may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Alma'' (film), a 2009 Spanish short animated film * ''Alma'' (Oswald de Andrade novel), 1922 * ''Alma'' (Le Clézio novel), 2017 * ''Alma'' (play), a 1996 drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma Mahler-Werfel * ''Alma'' (album), by Carminho, 2012 * "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 Latinos ...

, or American Latino Media Arts Award *

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award ( sv, Litteraturpriset till Astrid Lindgrens minne) is an international children's literary award established by the Swedish government in 2002 to honour the Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren (1907– ...

, an international children's literary award established by the Swedish government

Businesses

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 tran ...

, 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'', and . In addition to news services, the company's products provide information related to ...

, a Finnish digital service business *

ALMA de México Aerolíneas Mesoamericanas, S.A. de C.V., operating as ALMA de Mexico, was a low-cost airline based in Guadalajara, Mexico. It suspended all service on November 7, 2008. The airline once operated flights to more than 18 domestic destinations, wit ...

, a low-cost airline

Military

Battle of the Alma The Battle of the Alma (short for Battle of the Alma River) was a battle in the Crimean War between an allied expeditionary force (made up of French, British, and Ottoman forces) and Russian forces defending the Crimean Peninsula on 20Septemb ...

, 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 ...

, including a list of people, fictional characters and Mormon religious figures 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''. He ...

(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 aft ...

Alma, Victoria Alma is a town 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 of ...

Alma, Western Australia Alma is a small town in the Mid West region of Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounde ...

South Broken Hill, New South Wales South Broken Hill is a suburb of the western New South Wales city of Broken Hill in outback Australia. The suburb is located in the City of Broken Hill local government area, separated by the "Line of Lode" from the rest of the city. The Silver ...

, 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, now known as South Broken Hill. Members for Alma Josiah Thomas ea ...

Canada

Alma Parish, New Brunswick Alma is a civil parish on the Bay of Fundy in the southwestern corner of Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. It comprises one village and one local service district (LSD), both of which are members of the Southeast Regional Service Commiss ...

Alma, New Brunswick Alma ( 2011 Population 232, 2016 population 213) is a village in the parish of Alma, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. This village is centered on the small delta of the Upper Salmon River and Cleveland Brook, where they empty into Salisbu ...

, 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. It is on Nova Scotia Trunk 4 which was formerly ...

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 w ...

Alma, Prince Edward Island Alma is a settlement in Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, but the most densely populated. The islan ...

Alma, Quebec Alma ( 2021 Town population: 30,331; CA Population 33,018; UA Population 26,016) is a town in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the Canadian province of Quebec. Geography Alma is located on the southeast coast of Lac Saint-Jean where it flows int ...

United States

Alma, Alabama Alma is an unincorporated community in Clarke County, Alabama, United States. The community was named for Alma Flinn, a local teacher. Geography Alma is located at and has an elevation of . Demographics According to the returns from 1850-20 ...

Alma, Arkansas Alma is a city in Crawford County, 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 was 5,419 at the ...

Alma, California Alma is a ghost town and drowned town in Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County in California, United States. It lies beneath the waters of the Lexington Reservoir above Los Gatos, California, Los Gatos. The location is latitude 37.1 ...

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 Ran ...

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 eac ...

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 Township is located in Marion County, Illinois, Marion County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 836 and it contained 374 housing units. Geography Alma Township (T3N R3E) is centered at 38°41'N 88°52'W (38.689, -88.865 ...

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 Americans ...

Alma, Louisiana Alma was the name of a community located in southeastern Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community was located east of Lakeland. The area is currently home to Pointe Coupee Parish's only operating sugar mill, Alma Plantation. ...

Alma, Michigan Alma is the largest city in Gratiot County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,383 at the 2010 census. It was incorporated as the Village of Alma in 1872 and became a city in 1905. Alma hosts the annual Highland Festival on Memor ...

Alma Township, Marshall County, Minnesota Alma Township is a township in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 94 at the 2000 census. Alma Township was organized in 1882, and named for Alma Dahlgren, the first white child born there. Geography According to the U ...

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 402 at the 2010 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 original ...

Alma Township, Harlan County, Nebraska Alma Township is one of sixteen townships in Harlan County, Nebraska Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, b ...

Alma, New Mexico Alma is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Catron County, New Mexico, United States, north of Glenwood and south of Reserve. Demographics History Sergeant James C. Cooney laid out a town on site of Alma in the early 187 ...

Alma, New York Alma is a town in Allegany County, New York, United States. The population was 785 at the 2020 census. The source of the town name is uncertain. One source credits it to Charles Wyvell's interest in the Battle of the Alma, while another attribu ...

Alma, Ohio Alma is an unincorporated community in Ross County, in the U.S. state of Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 m ...

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 is a former unincorporated community and now a restricted site, the location of a work camp for the county Department of Corrections in Lane County, Oregon, United States. Alma is located on Siuslaw River Road near the Siuslaw River, west-s ...

Alma, Texas Alma is a town in Ellis County, Texas, United States. The population was 331 at the 2010 census. Geography Alma is located on Interstate 45 about southeast of Ennis and north of Corsicana. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town ...

Alma, Virginia Alma is an unincorporated community in Page County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. The community is said to have been named, in the mid-1850s, by local doctor James Lee Gillespie. The doctor, who relocated to Page County around 1851 is said to ...

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. The motto for the city of Alma is: "Step into Living History." History Alma was named in commemoration of the Battl ...

, a city *

Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin Alma is a town in Buffalo County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 297 at the 2010 census. The city of Alma is located along the western town line. The unincorporated community of Tell is located in the town. Geography Alma is ...

, a town *

Alma, Jackson County, Wisconsin Alma is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin in the United States. The population was 983 at the 2000 census. The Village of Alma Center is located within the town. The ghost town of Wrightsville was also located in the town. Geography Accordi ...

, a town

Elsewhere

Alma (Algeria) Boudouaou, during French Algeria, French colonialism known as L'Alma (or Alma) is a town in the western part of Boumerdès Province, Boumerdès, Algeria. It is a coastal town on the Mediterranean Sea. Its population in 2008 was 56,398.

, former name of Boudouaou *

Alma, Greece Alma ( el, Άλμα, bg, Егнила, Egnila) is a settlement in the Xanthi regional unit of Greece. It is part of the community of Myki Myki ( ), stylised as myki, is a reloadable ISO/IEC 7810, credit card-sized contactless smart card A ...

Alma, Iran Alma-ye Sofla ( fa, الماسفلي, also Romanized as Almā-ye Soflá; also known as Almā) is a village in Shalal and Dasht-e Gol Rural District, in the Central District of Andika County, Khuzestan Province, Iran Iran, officially ...

Alma, Israel Alma ( he, עַלְמָה) 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 north of Safe ...

Alma, Kyrgyzstan Alma is a village in Jalal-Abad Region of Kyrgyzstan. It is part of Nooken District Nooken District ( ky, Ноокен району, before 1992: ''Lenin District'') is a district of Jalal-Abad Region in western Kyrgyzstan. The administrative sea ...

Alma, Lebanon Alma ( ar, علما) is a village in Zgharta District, in the Northern Governorate of Lebanon. Its population is Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslim. References External links Ehden Family Tree
Populated places in the North Governorate ...

Alma, Bukit Mertajam Alma ( Jawi: ألما) ( zh, 阿儿玛) is a suburb in Bukit Mertajam, Penang Penang ( ms, Pulau Pinang, is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia, by the Malacca Strait. It has two parts: Penang Island, wh ...

, Penang, Malaysia *

Alma, Safad Alma ( ar, علما, ) is a former village in Upper Galilee, 10 km north of Safed. In medieval times, Alma was a Jewish settlement. It became an Arab village during the 19th century. Under British rule, Alma was a part of the Safad Subdistrict. I ...

, Mandatory Palestine, a depopulated Palestinian village *

Alma, Sibiu Alma ( hu, Küküllőalmás; german: Almaschken) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Alma, Giacăș (''Gyákos''; ''Jakobsdorf'') and Șmig (''Somogyom''; ''Schmiegen''). At the 2011 censu ...

, Romania *

Alma, Limpopo Alma is a small town situated south of Vaalwater in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The area is surrounded by green-gray bushveld vegetation and a few private game reserves are located in the malaria free area. The Mokolo River originates ...

, South Africa *

Alma River (disambiguation) Alma River may refer to: * Alma River (Manouane River), a tributary of Lac Saint-Jean in Quebec, in Canada * Alma (Crimea) * Alma River (New Zealand) * Alma River (Australia), a 32 km tributary of Lyons River The Lyons River is a river in th ...

390 Alma Alma (minor planet designation: 390 Alma) is an asteroid from the intermediate asteroid belt, approximately 24 kilometers in diameter. It was Guillaume Bigourdan's only asteroid discovery. He discovered it on 24 March 1894 in Paris. References ...

, 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, Pharmacy ...

, 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 stil ...

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

Alma College Alma College is a private liberal arts college in Alma, Michigan. It enrolls approximately 1,400 students and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Alma College is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and offers bachelor's ...

, in Alma, Michigan, U.S., a liberal arts college *

Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University The Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University is a Jesuit seminary within Santa Clara University and one of the member colleges of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California. Prior to its merger with Santa Clara Univer ...

, in Berkeley, California, U.S., founded as Alma College *

Collège d'Alma Collège d'Alma is a CEGEP in Alma, Quebec, Canada. History The college traces its origins to the merger of several institutions which became public ones in 1967, when the Quebec system of CEGEPs was created. In 1970, l'Externat classique d'Alm ...

, 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 Brya ...

Transportation

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

Alma metro station Alma is a Brussels Metro station on line 1.https://www.metrolinemap.com/station/brussels/alma/ It is located in the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert/Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, in the eastern part of Brussels, Belgium, serving the Brussels-W ...

in Brussels, Belgium *

Alma Airport Alma Airport is located south of Alma, Quebec, Canada. It mainly offers private flights, but it also has storage for private jets. Other services provided by Alma Airport are refuelling of Jet A type services, service of charters of helicopte ...

, Alma, Quebec, Canada *

Alma (Rivière La Grande Décharge) Water Aerodrome Alma (Rivière La Grande Décharge) Water Aerodrome is located northeast of Alma, Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian Fren ...

, Alma, Quebec *

Pont de l'Alma The Pont de l'Alma ( en, Alma Bridge) is a road bridge in Paris, France, across the Seine. It was named to commemorate the Battle of Alma during the Crimean War, in which the Ottoman-Franco-British alliance achieved victory over the Russian army ...

('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 artifacts in North America. History In 1971, alarmed by the growing loss and destruction of Arm ...

, 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, stag ...

, 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. Th ...

, a telescope in Chile

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 t ...

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

Alma Generating Station Alma Station was a base load 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 in ...

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

ALMA Magazine ''ALMA'' is a Spanish-language lifestyle magazine published in the United States for the Hispanic community. The magazine was founded in 2005. It focuses mainly on culture, fashion and politics. At the beginning It was published in Argentina ten t ...

'', an American Spanish-language lifestyle magazine *

Almah ''Almah'' ( ''‘almā'', plural: ''‘ălāmōṯ''), from a root implying the vigour of puberty, is a Hebrew word meaning a young woman ripe for marriage; despite its importance to the account of the virgin birth of Jesus in the Gospel of ...

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

AlmaLinux AlmaLinux is a free and open source Linux distribution, created originally by CloudLinux to provide a community-supported, production-grade enterprise operating system that is binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The first st ...

, a Linux distribution