Bama or BAMA may refer to:

Places

* Bama, shortened form of

Alabama (We dare defend our rights) , anthem = " Alabama" , image_map = Alabama in United States.svg , seat = Montgomery , LargestCity = Huntsville , LargestCounty = Baldwin County , LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham , area_total_km2 = 135,7 ...

, a state of the United States of America **

The University of Alabama The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, or Bama) is a public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is the oldest and largest of the public ...

, the public university serving the state, often known as simply ''Bama'' * Bama, one of the colloquial Burmese

names of Myanmar The country known in English as Burma, or Myanmar, has undergone changes in both its official and popular names worldwide. The choice of names stems from the existence of two different names for the country in Burmese, which are used in differ ...

Bama, Borno Bama is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. It has its headquarters in the town of Bama. Landscape It has an area of 4,997 km2 Population a population of 269,986 at the 2006 census. Postal Code The postal code of the ar ...

, Nigeria, a Local Government Area of Borno State * Bama, Burkina Faso, a town in Banwa Province, Burkina Faso * Bama Department, Houet Province, Burkina Faso * Bama, New South Wales, a parish in Cadell County in New South Wales, Australia * Bama Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China ** Bama Town, Guangxi, seat of Bama County * Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis, colloquially known as "The Sprawl", a fictional near-future urban agglomeration in William Gibson's

Sprawl trilogy The Sprawl trilogy (also known as the Neuromancer, Cyberspace, or Matrix trilogy) is William Gibson's first set of novels, composed of ''Neuromancer'' (1984), ''Count Zero'' (1986), and ''Mona Lisa Overdrive'' (1988). The novels are all set in t ...

People

Bama (writer) Bama (born 1958), also known as Bama Faustina Soosairaj, is a Tamil Dalit feminist, teacher and novelist. Her autobiographical novel '' Karukku'' (1992) chronicles the joys and sorrows experienced by Dalit Christian women in Tamil Nadu. She su ...

(born 1958), Indian Tamil author *

James Bama James Elliott Bama (April 28, 1926 – April 24, 2022) was an American artist known for his realistic paintings and etchings of Western subjects. Life in Wyoming led to his comment, "Here an artist can trace the beginnings of Western history, see ...

(born 1926), American artist * Momodu Bama (died 2013), Nigerian member of Boko Haram *

Bama Rowell Carvel William "Bama" Rowell (January 13, 1916 – August 16, 1993) was an American professional baseball player. In Major League Baseball, he was a second baseman and outfielder for the Boston Bees/Braves (1939–41 and 1946–47) and Philadelph ...

(1916–1993), American baseball player

Other uses

Bama (band) Bama was a studio pop group from Muscle Shoals, Alabama composed of Terry Skinner, Ken Bell, and J.L. Wallace. They released one album in 1979, ''Touch Me When We're Dancing'', which included the single and title track " Touch Me When We're Dancin ...

, an American pop group *

Bama (soil) Bama is the official state soil of Alabama. The Professional Soil Classifiers Association of Alabama adopted a resolution at its 1996 annual meeting recommending the Bama Soil Series as the state soil. The association is of a group of soil class ...

, the official state soil of Alabama * Bama Gruppen, Norwegian food wholesaler *

British Aerosol Manufacturers' Association The British Aerosol Manufacturers' Association (BAMA) is a UK trade association based in Stevenage representing companies involved in the aerosol supply chain, including suppliers of components and ingredients to fillers and marketers. History ...

* Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, abbreviated BAMA * Bama (fly), a signal fly, described by David McAlpine, 2001, in the family

Platystomatidae The Platystomatidae (signal flies) are a distinctive family of flies (Diptera) in the superfamily Tephritoidea. Signal flies are worldwide in distribution, found in all the biogeographic realms, but predominate in the tropics. It is one of the ...

(Diptera) * BAMA (organization), Black Archives of Mid-America {{disambiguation, geo, surname