Ultra may refer to:

Science and technology

Ultra (cryptography) Ultra was the designation adopted by United Kingdom, British military intelligence in June 1941 for wartime signals intelligence obtained by breaking high-level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications at the Government Code and Cyp ...

, the codename for cryptographic intelligence obtained from signal traffic in World War II * Adobe Ultra, a vector-keying application *

Sun Ultra series The Sun Ultra is a discontinued line of workstation and server computers developed and sold by Sun Microsystems, comprising two distinct generations. The original line was introduced in 1995 and discontinued in 2001. This generation was parti ...

, a brand of computer workstations and servers * ULTRA (machine translation system), a machine translation system

Music

Ultra (British band) Ultra (also recording as Rider) was an English pop band, which was most successful in the late 1990s. The original line-up consisted of James Hearn (born 1976; vocals), Michael Harwood (born 1975; guitar and vocals), Jon O'Mahony (born 1973; ...

, an English pop band *

Ultra Music Festival Ultra Music Festival (UMF) is an annual outdoor electronic music Music festival, festival that takes place in March in Miami, Florida. The festival was founded in 1999 by Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes. It was first held on Miami Beach, but bes ...

, an annual electronic festival in Miami, Florida *

Ultra Worldwide Ultra Music Festival (UMF) is an annual outdoor electronic music festival that takes place in March in Miami, Florida. The festival was founded in 1999 by Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes. It was first held on Miami Beach, but besides a tenure a ...

, a series of annual electronic music festivals each called Ultra * Ultra, a collaboration between two members of hip hop group

Ultramagnetic MCs The Ultramagnetic MCs is an American hip hop group based in the Bronx, New York City. Founded by Kool Keith, the group also includes Ced Gee, TR Love, and Moe Love. Tim Dog became an unofficial member in 1989. In 1990, DJ Jaycee was added as ...

, who released the album ''Big Time'' *

Ultra (music) Ultra is a Dutch post-punk movement that originated in Amsterdam in the early 1980s. The name "ultra" is a shortening of "ultramodernen". The movement had an avantgarde, experimental, and artistic aesthetic. Many of its participants were stud ...

, a post-punk movement in the Netherlands * Ultra house, a music place in Handen, Sweden *

Ultra Records Ultra Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which is a subsidiary of Sony Music Group. Company history Established in 1995 in New York City by Patrick Moxey, a former executive of PolyGram and Virgin Records ...

, a record label

Albums and songs

* ''Ultra'' (Depeche Mode album), 1997 * ''Ultra'' (Laura Põldvere album), 2009 * ''Ultra'' (Ultra album), 1999 * ''Ultra'' (Zomby album), 2016 * ''Ultra'', by Mickey Kojak, 2022 * ''Ultra'', by

Schaft Schaft is a Japanese musical side project whose main members are Maki Fujii (of minus(ー), formerly of Soft Ballet) and Hisashi Imai (of Buck-Tick). Schaft can be thought of as being a supergroup in that for the release of their debut album ...

, 2016 * "Ultra", a song by

KMFDM KMFDM (originally Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid, loosely translated by the band as "no pity for the majority") is a multinational industrial rock band from Hamburg led by Sascha Konietzko, who founded the band in 1984 as a performance art proje ...

, 1994 * "Ultra", a song by Stray Kids from '' Hop'', 2024

Politics

Ultra (Malaysia) During the 1960s in Malaysia and Singapore, some racial extremists were referred to as "ultras". The phrase was most commonly used by the first Prime Minister of Singapore, Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, and other leaders of his politi ...

, a Malaysian group of racial extremists * ULTRA (UK agency), the Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority, a defunct UK government regulatory body *

Ultra-royalist The Ultra-royalists (, collectively Ultras) were a Politics of France, French political faction from 1815 to 1830 under the Bourbon Restoration in France, Bourbon Restoration. An Ultra was usually a member of the nobility of high society who str ...

s or Ultras, a reactionary group after Napoleon's defeat

Sport

Ultras Ultras are a type of association football fans who are known for their fanatical support. The term originated in Italy, but is used worldwide to describe predominantly organised fans of association football teams. The behavioural tendency ...

, football fans renowned for ultra-fanatical support, sometimes to the point of violence *

The ULTRA The Philippine Institute of Sports Multi-Purpose Arena or PhilSports Arena is an indoor arena, indoor sporting arena located inside the PhilSports Complex in Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines. It was formerly known as the University of Life Th ...

(University of Life Training and Recreational Arena), former name for the PhilSports Arena in Pasig, Philippines *

Ultra Motorsports Ultra Motorsports was a NASCAR Winston Cup and Craftsman Truck Series racing team. Jim Smith helped start the team and the Craftsman Truck Series. It ran full-time in the Craftsman Truck Series from 1995 to 2005, earning 31 series wins and a cha ...

, a NASCAR team that ran from 1995–2005 *

Ultra running An ultramarathon is a footrace longer than the traditional marathon distance of . The sport of running ultramarathons is called ultra running or ultra distance running. Various distances, surfaces, and formats are raced competitively, from the ...

, endurance races at distances typically beyond marathon

Fiction

* ''Ultra'' (film), a 1991 Italian drama film * ''Ultra'' (comics), a miniseries by Image Comics * ''

Ultra Series The , also known as ''Ultraman'', is a Japanese science fiction media franchise owned and produced by Tsuburaya Productions, which began with the television series ''Ultra Q'' in 1966. The franchise has expanded into many television shows, fil ...

'', the Ultraman franchise *

Ultra the Multi-Alien Ultra the Multi-Alien (Ace Arn) is a science fiction superhero featured in comics published by DC Comics. He first appeared in ''Mystery in Space'' #103 (1965), pushing out Adam Strange and Space Ranger from that title. He was created by writer Da ...

, a DC Comics superhero

Other uses

* ''Ultra'' (magazine), avant-garde Finnish-Swedish magazine in Finland * ''Ultra'' (podcast), a 2022 Rachel Maddow podcast series chronicling U.S. right-wing extremism during the 1930s and 1940s *

ULTra (rapid transit) Ultra (a term formed from the first letters of the words in the phrase "urban light transit") is a personal rapid transit podcar system developed by the United Kingdom, British engineering company Ultra Global PRT (formerly Advanced Transport S ...

, a personal rapid transit system deployed at London Heathrow airport * Ultra (TV channel), a Serbian children's channel *

Ultra Electronics Ultra Electronics Holdings is a British defence and security company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index until it was acquired by Cobham, which is itself owned by Advent International. The ...

, a British defence and aerospace company *

Ultra Games Ultra Software Corporation was a shell corporation and publishing label created in 1988 as a subsidiary of Konami of America, in an effort to get around Nintendo of America's strict licensing rules in place at the time for the North American m ...

, a subsidiary of Konami of America *

Ultra-prominent peak An ultra-prominent peak, or ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500. The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or fro ...

, a mountain with a topographic prominence of at least 1,500 metres * Ultra Food & Drug, a defunct supermarket chain in Ontario, Canada * Ultra Distributors, a home video distribution company in India * Ultra Jhakaas, a OTT platform * Ultra Media & Entertainment, a film production company * Unmanned Long-endurance Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft, a developmental unmanned aerial vehicle