Ultra may refer to:

Science and technology

Ultra (cryptography) adopted by 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 Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park. ...

, the codename for cryptographic intelligence obtained from German signal traffic in World War II *

Adobe Ultra Adobe Ultra is a discontinued vector keying application, helping produce blue-screen/green-screen effects for video (although the background can actually be any color). Ultra performs complex image analysis to produce high quality chroma-key ef ...

, a vector-keying application *

Sun Ultra series The Sun Ultra series 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 wa ...

, a brand of computer workstations and servers *

ULTRA (machine translation system) ULTRA is a machine translation system created for five languages (Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, English, and German) in the Computing Research Laboratory in 1991. ULTRA (Universal Language Translator), is a machine translation system developed at ...

, a machine translation system

Music

Ultra (British band) Ultra (also recording as Rider) was an English boy band, which was most successful in the late 1990s. The original line-up consisted of James Hearn (born 19 June 1976; vocals), Michael Harwood (born 12 December 1975; guitar and vocals ), Jo ...

, an English pop band *

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

, an annual electronic festival in Miami, Florida *

Ultra Worldwide adopted by 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 Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park. '' ...

, 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 ...

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

Ultra (music) Ultra is a Dutch post-punk punk movement, 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 particip ...

, a post-punk movement in the Netherlands *

Ultra house Ultrahuset (literally "the Ultra house") was a punk music venue run by the Ultra cultural society in Haninge, between June 1980 and August 1988. During those years it was a central point in the young punk Stockholm. The society was founded by yo ...

, a music place in Handen, Sweden *

Ultra Records Ultra Records is an American record label formed in New York City in 1995 by former PolyGram and Virgin Records executive Patrick Moxey. As of December 23, 2012, Ultra entered a global partnership with Sony Music, giving its artists access to ...

, 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 Michael Dable (born 20 September 1994), known professionally as Mickey Kojak, is an Australian musician, singer, songwriter and producer from Sydney, New South Wales. Mickey supported Bag Raiders on their 2019 ''Horizons'' tour. Mickey received ...

, 2022 * ''Ultra'', by Schaft, 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 band from Hamburg led by Sascha Konietzko, who founded the band in 1984 as a performance art project. ...

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, Lee Kuan Yew, and other leaders of his political party, the People's Actio ...

, a Malaysian group of racial extremists *

ULTRA (UK agency) ULTRA, the Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority, was a British agency that regulated organ transplants. According to the official website: :The Human Organ Transplants Act 1989 ("the HOT Act") forbids payment for organs and places co ...

, the Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority, a defunct UK government regulatory body *

Ultra-royalist The Ultra-royalists (french: ultraroyalistes, collectively Ultras) were a French political faction from 1815 to 1830 under the Bourbon Restoration. An Ultra was usually a member of the nobility of high society who strongly supported Roman Catho ...

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

Sport

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

, 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 sporting arena located inside the PhilSports Complex in Pasig, Philippines. It was formerly known as the University of Life Theater and Recreational Arena ...

(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 ...

, a NASCAR team that ran from 1995–2005 *

Ultra running An ultramarathon, also called ultra distance or ultra running, is any footrace longer than the traditional marathon length of . Various distances are raced competitively, from the shortest common ultramarathon of to over . 50k and 100k are bot ...

, endurance races at distances typically beyond marathon

Fiction

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

Ultra Series ''Ultraman'', also known as the , is the collective name for all media produced by Tsuburaya Productions featuring Ultraman, his many brethren, and the myriad monsters. Debuting with ''Ultra Q'' and then ''Ultraman'' in 1966, the series is one ...

'', the Ultraman franchise *

Ultra the Multi-Alien Ultra the Multi-Alien 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 Dave Wood and ...

, 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), a personal rapid transit system deployed at London Heathrow airport *

Ultra (TV channel) Ultra TV was a Television in Serbia, Serbian TV channel, which started broadcasting on January 28, 2008, at 8 A.M. It also broadcast in Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia. It aired a diverse number of TV programs for Children's ...

, 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. Hist ...

, 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 ...

, 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 Ultra Food & Drug was a supermarket and drug store chain in Ontario, Canada from the 1980s to 2008. It was begun in the 1980s as Miracle Ultra Mart, and was an attempt by the Miracle Mart department store and Miracle Food Mart supermarket chain ...

, a defunct supermarket chain in Ontario, Canada *

Ultra Distributors Ultra Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., earlier known as Ultra Distributors, is an Indian Film production company established in the year 1982. It started out in Home Video distribution and gradually forayed into film production and theatrical dis ...

, a home video distribution company in India