Alma facts for kids

Alma may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Film

• Alma (film), a 2009 short film

Literature

• Alma (novel), a 1922 novel by Oswald de Andrade
• Alma (play), a 1996 drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma Mahler-Werfel
• Alma (film), a 2009 short film

Music

• "Alma" (song), a song by Colombian musician Fonseca
• "Alma", a song from That Was the Year That Was by Tom Lehrer

People

Names

• Alma (given name)
• Almah (or alma), a Hebrew word meaning a young woman

Stage names

• Alma (American singer), stage name of American singer-songwriter Alma Lynn Cook
• Alma (Finnish singer), stage name of Finnish singer and songwriter Alma-Sofia Miettinen
• Alma (French singer), stage name of French singer and songwriter Alexandra Maquet

Places

Australia

• Alma, South Australia, a town
• Alma, Victoria, a gold mining town
• Port Alma, Queensland, a port
• South Broken Hill, New South Wales, a suburb of Broken Hill, formerly known as Alma
  • Electoral district of Alma, former New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral district

Canada

• Alma, Nova Scotia, a village
• Alma, Ontario, a village
• Alma, Prince Edward Island, a settlement
• Alma, Quebec, a town
• Alma Parish, New Brunswick
  • Alma, New Brunswick, a fishing village on the Bay of Fundy

New Zealand

• Alma River (New Zealand)

United States

• Alma, Alabama, an unincorporated community
• Alma, Arkansas, a city
• Alma, California, a ghost town in Santa Clara County
• Alma, Colorado, a Statutory Town
• Alma, Georgia, a city
• Alma, Illinois, a village
• Alma, Kansas, a city
• Alma, Louisiana, a former community
• Alma, Michigan, a city
• Alma, Missouri, a city
• Alma, Nebraska, a city
• Alma, New Mexico, an unincorporated community
• Alma, New York, a town
• Alma, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Alma, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
• Alma, Oregon, an unincorporated community
• Alma, Texas, a town
• Alma, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Alma, Wisconsin, a city
• Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, a town
• Alma, Jackson County, Wisconsin, a town
• Alma Township (disambiguation)

Elsewhere

On Earth

• Alma, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province
• Alma, Israel, a moshav in the Galilee
• Alma, Lebanon, a village
• Alma, Limpopo, a village in the Limpopo Province of South Africa
• Alma, Safad, a village in Mandatory Palestine depopulated in 1948
• Alma, Sibiu, a commune in Romania
• Alma River (Crimea), Ukraine, site of the 1854 Crimean War Battle of Alma

In space

• 390 Alma, an asteroid

Military

• Alma-class ironclad, a French Navy class of armored corvettes built in the 1860s
  • French ironclad Alma, a warship
• Battle of Alma, an 1854 Crimean War battle

Religion

• Alma the Elder, in the Books of Mosiah and Alma
  • Alma the Younger, son of Alma the Elder, namesake of the Book of Alma
• Book of Alma, a part of the Book of Mormon

Transport

Metro stations

• Alma – Marceau (Paris Métro), a station of the Paris Metro
• Alma metro station in Brussels

Ships

• Alma (1891), a scow schooner built in 1891
• SS Alma (1894), a passenger ship

Other uses

• Alma (French automobile), manufactured between 1926 and 1929
• Pont de l'Alma (In English: Alma Bridge), Paris, France, a road bridge over the Seine River

Other uses

• Alma, a cultivar of the common fig
• Alma Generating Station, a power station in Wisconsin, United States
• Alma-0, a programming language
• Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), a telescope in the Atacama desert of northern Chile.
• Tropical Storm Alma (disambiguation), various tropical storms, hurricanes and a typhoon

See also

In Spanish: Alma (desambiguación) para niños

• ALMA (disambiguation)
• Almas (disambiguation)
• Almeh