Ram, ram, or RAM most commonly refers to: * A male

sheep Sheep (: sheep) or domestic sheep (''Ovis aries'') are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock. Although the term ''sheep'' can apply to other species in the genus '' Ovis'', in everyday usage it almost always refers to d ...

Random-access memory Random-access memory (RAM; ) is a form of Computer memory, electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working Data (computing), data and machine code. A random-access memory device allows ...

, computer memory *

Ram Trucks Ram Trucks (stylized as RAM) is an American brand of light to mid-weight pickup heavy duty trucks and other commercial vehicles, and a division of Stellantis North America (previously Chrysler Group LLC). It was established in a spin-off o ...

, US, since 2009 **

List of vehicles named Dodge Ram Dodge Ram was a nameplate used for light trucks and vans marketed by Chrysler under its Dodge brand from the 1981 model year until Ram Trucks was spun off as a separate brand for the 2011 model year. Pickup trucks: * Dodge Ram (1980–2010), full- ...

, trucks and vans ** Ram Pickup, produced by Ram Trucks Ram, ram, or RAM may also refer to:

Animals

Ram cichlid The ram cichlid (''Mikrogeophagus ramirezi'') is a species of freshwater fish endemic to the Orinoco River basin, in the savannahs of Venezuela and Colombia in South America. The species has been examined in studies on fish behaviour and is a po ...

, a freshwater tropical fish

People

* Ram (given name) *

Ram (surname) Ram is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Abel Ram (disambiguation), several Anglo-Irish landowners and politicians * Andy Ram (born 1980), Israeli tennis player * Arnold Ram, Trinidad and Tobago politician * Buck Ram (1907-1991) ...

Ram (director) Ram is an Indian film director and actor, who works in Tamil cinema. After assisting Hindi director Rajkumar Santoshi and working under Balu Mahendra, he made his directorial debut with ''Kattradhu Thamizh'' (2007), which fetched him strong cri ...

(Ramsubramaniam), an Indian Tamil film director * RAM (DJ), Dutch trance producer and DJ *

Ram Dass Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931 – December 22, 2019), also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and writer. His best-selling 1971 book '' Be Here Now'', which has been d ...

(Richard Alpert), American spiritual teacher and author

Religion

Rama Rama (; , , ) is a major deity in Hinduism. He is worshipped as the seventh and one of the most popular avatars of Vishnu. In Rama-centric Hindu traditions, he is considered the Supreme Being. Also considered as the ideal man (''maryāda' ...

(or Râm), an incarnation of the god Vishnu in Hinduism *

Ram and Rud In Mandaeism, Ram and Rud were a couple named as the progenitors of the second generation of humans. Ram is the husband, while Rud is his wife. According to Book 18 of the ''Right Ginza'', Ram and Rud lived in the second out of four epochs (or e ...

, progenitors of the second generation of humans in Mandaeism

Places

* Roum, Jezzine, village in Lebanon *

Ram, Serbia Ram ( sr-Cyrl, Рам) is a settlement in the municipality of Veliko Gradište, in the Braničevo District of Serbia. The town developed around the Ram Fortress, fortification of the same name. It was known in the Roman times as ''Lederata''. The ...

, Veliko Gradište *

Ram Island (disambiguation) Ram Island or Ram's Island may refer to: Australia * Ram Island (Tasmania) * Ram Island (Victoria) Indonesia * Ram Island (Indonesia), in West Papua United Kingdom * Ram's Island, Northern Ireland United States * Ram Island (Connecticut), in C ...

, several islands with the name *

Ram Fortress The Ram Fortress () is a 15th century fort situated on a steep slope on the right bank of the Danube, in the village of Ram, Serbia, Ram, municipality of Veliko Gradište, eastern Serbia. The fortress is located on a rock, which is from the north ...

, Serbia *

Ram Range The Ram Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies located in David Thompson Country, Canada. The range extends southeast from Abraham Lake Abraham Lake, also known as Lake Abraham, is an artificial lake and Alberta's largest reserv ...

, a mountain range in the Canadian Rockies * Ram River, in Alberta, Canada *

Lake Ram Lake Ram ( and Birkat el-Ram. ) is a crater lake (maar) in the northeastern Golan Heights near the village of Mas'ade and Mount Hermon. History Josephus referred to it as Lake Phiala. The sources of the lake are rain water and an underground sp ...

, Golan Heights, Syria * Mizo Ram, a state in northeastern India

Transport

Ramingining Airport Ramingining Airport is an airport located southwest of Ramingining, Northern Territory, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (contin ...

, IATA airport code "RAM" *

Ramsgate railway station Ramsgate railway station serves the town of Ramsgate in Thanet in Kent, England. The station lies on the Chatham Main Line, down the line from , the Kent Coast Line, and the Ashford to Ramsgate (via Canterbury West) line. The station is mana ...

, Kent, England, National Rail station code "RAM"

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Ram'' (album), a 1971 album by Paul and Linda McCartney *

Ram & Tam The Ramong Sound was a British R&B, soul and ska band, active from 1965 to 1966. Background The Ramong Sound was a London-based outfit, that featured two black lead singers doing Sam & Dave styled duets, one of them being Raymond Morrison ( ...

, a late 1970s-early 1980s reggae duo *

RAM (band) RAM is a '' mizik rasin'' band based in the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The band derives its name from the initials of its founder, songwriter, and lead male vocalist, Richard A. Morse. The band's music has been described by Morse as " V ...

, Port-au-Prince, Haiti * ''Ram'' (film), an upcoming Indian film *

Ram FM Ram FM was an Independent Local Radio station, which broadcast to central and southern parts of Derbyshire on 102.8 FM. The station merged with two other East Midlands stations, Trent FM and Leicester Sound to form Capital FM East Midlands (p ...

, a radio station, Derbyshire, England 1994–2010 *

RAM Records RAM Records is an independent record label established in 1992 by Andy C with the help of his friend Ant Miles. It specialises in drum and bass Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance m ...

, UK * ''

Random Access Memories ''Random Access Memories'' is the fourth and final studio album by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, released on 17 May 2013 through Columbia Records. It pays tribute to late Music history of the United States in the 1970s, 1970s and e ...

'', a 2013 album by Daft Punk * ''

Rock Australia Magazine ''Rock Australia Magazine'' or ''RAM'' (its acronym and popular name) was a fortnightly national Australian music newspaper, which was published from 1975 to 1989. It was designed for people with a serious interest in rock and pop, and was co ...

'', 1975–1989 * '' RAM (Rapid Action Mission)'', a 2024 Indian film * "RAM" (''Person of Interest''), an episode of the American television series ''Person of Interest''

Organizations

Museums

* Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China *

Royal Alberta Museum The Royal Alberta Museum (RAM) is a museum of human and natural history in Downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, located north of City Hall. The museum is the largest in western Canada with more than exhibition space and in total. The museum w ...

, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Other organizations

Revolutionary Action Movement Revolutionary Action Movement (MAR) was a Marxist–Leninist, black nationalist organisation which was active from 1962 to 1968. They were the first group to apply the philosophy of Maoism to conditions of black people in the United States and ...

, a 1960s US black nationalist organization *

Reform the Armed Forces Movement The Reform the Armed Forces Movement, also referred to by the acronym RAM, was a cabal of officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) known for several attempts to seize power in the Philippines during the 1980s and 1990s. In 1986, so ...

, a Philippines military cabal 1980s-1990s * Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps, a US healthcare organization *

Renew America Movement The Renew America Movement (RAM) was an American political group founded in 2021 by former staffers from Republican Party (United States), Republican Party administrations, with the intention of working to reduce political polarization in the Unite ...

, a US political group * Residents Action Movement, a New Zealand political party * Resistencia Ancestral Mapuche, an alleged separatist organization in Argentina and Chile * Rise Above Movement, an American white nationalist organization *

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is one of the oldest music schools in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the firs ...

, London, UK *

Royal Air Maroc Royal Air Maroc (RAM, ; ; ) is the Morocco, Moroccan national carrier, as well as the country largest airline, ranking among the largest in Africa. RAM is wholly owned by the Cabinet of Morocco, Moroccan Government, and has its headquarters o ...

, the national airline of Morocco

Astrology

Aries (astrology) Aries (; , ) is the first astrological sign in the zodiac, spanning the first 30 degrees of celestial longitude (0°≤ <30°), and originates from the Goat (zodiac) The Goat (, sometimes also translated Sheep or Ram) is the eighth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. This zodiacal sign is oftenWen Huang"Year of the Sheep, Goat or Ram?"''Chicago ...

or Ram, a sign of the Chinese zodiac

Science and technology

Computing

Random-access machine In computer science, random-access machine (RAM or RA-machine) is a model of computation that describes an abstract machine in the general class of register machines. The RA-machine is very similar to the counter machine but with the added capab ...

, a theoretical computer model * .ram, a file extension for the

RealAudio RealAudio, also spelled Real Audio, is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995. It uses a variety of audio codecs, ranging from low-bitrate formats that can be used over dialup modems, to high-fidelit ...

file format

Military

Ram (rocket) The RAM, also known as the 6.5-Inch Anti-Tank Aircraft Rocket or ATAR, was an air-to-ground rocket used by the United States Navy during the Korean War. Developed rapidly, the rocket proved successful but was phased out shortly after the end of t ...

, a US Korean War anti-tank weapon * A device used for

ramming In warfare, ramming is a technique used in air, sea, and land combat. The term originated from battering ram, a siege engine used to bring down fortifications by hitting it with the force of the ram's momentum, and ultimately from male sheep. Thus ...

Ram tank The Ram was a cruiser tank designed and built by Canada in the Second World War, based on the U.S. M3 Medium tank chassis. Due to standardization on the American Sherman tank for frontline units, it was used exclusively for training purposes a ...

, Canada, WWII *

RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile The RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) is a small, lightweight, infrared homing surface-to-air missile in use by the German, Japanese, Greek, Turkish, South Korean, Saudi Arabian, Egyptian, Mexican, UAE, and United States navies. It wa ...

, a naval surface-to-air missile

Other uses in science and technology

* Extension ram, a

hydraulic rescue tool Hydraulic rescue tools, also known as jaws of life, are used by emergency rescue personnel to assist in the extrication of victims involved in vehicle accidents or railway accidents and cutting large-sized debris of mild metal structures int ...

Hydraulic ram A hydraulic ram pump, ram pump, or hydram is a cyclic pump, cyclic water pump powered by hydropower. It takes in water at one "hydraulic head" (pressure) and flow rate, and outputs water at a higher hydraulic head and lower flow rate. The device ...

Radar-absorbent material In materials science, radiation-absorbent material (RAM) is a material which has been specially designed and shaped to absorb incident RF radiation (also known as non-ionising radiation), as effectively as possible, from as many incident direc ...

* Rechargeable alkaline manganese battery *

Relative atomic mass Relative atomic mass (symbol: ''A''; sometimes abbreviated RAM or r.a.m.), also known by the deprecated synonym atomic weight, is a dimensionless physical quantity defined as the ratio of the average mass of atoms of a chemical element in a gi ...

Reliability, availability, and maintainability Reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS), also known as reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM), is a computer hardware engineering term involving reliability engineering, high availability, and serviceability design. The ph ...

, in logistics * Root apical meristem, a plant tissue

Other uses

Aries (constellation) Aries is one of the constellations of the zodiac. It is located in the Northern celestial hemisphere between Pisces (constellation), Pisces to the west and Taurus (constellation), Taurus to the east. The name Aries is Latin for sheep, ram. Its ...

, also known as the Ram *

Ram languages The Ram languages are a small group of 3 languages spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. They are spoken directly to the northeast of the Yellow River languages and directly to the south of the Wapei languages, both of which are also Sep ...

, of Papua New Guinea *

RAM Racing RAM Racing was a Formula One racing team which competed during the racing seasons of 1976 to 1985. The team entered other manufacturers' chassis from 1976 to 1980, then ran March's team from 1981 to 1983, only entering a car entirely their ow ...

, F1 team 1976–1985