Alma Explained

Alma or ALMA may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Alma (film), a 2009 Spanish short animated film
• Alma (Oswald de Andrade novel), 1922
• Alma (Le Clézio novel), 2017
• Alma (play), a 1996 drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma Mahler-Werfel
• Alma (Carminho album), 2012
• Alma (Nicki Nicole album), 2023
• "Alma" (song), by Fonseca, 2008
• "Alma", a song by Tom Lehrer from the 1965 album That Was the Year That Was
• ALMA Award, or American Latino Media Arts Award

Businesses

• Alma Books, a British publishing house
• Alma Media, a Finnish digital service business
• ALMA de México, a low-cost airline

Military

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

People and fictional characters

• Alma (given name), including a list of people, Mormon religious figures and fictional characters with the name
• Alma (Finnish singer) (Alma-Sofia Miettinen, born 1996)
• Alma (French singer) (Alexandra Maquet, born 1988)

Places

Australia

• Alma, South Australia
• Alma, Victoria
• Alma, Western Australia
• South Broken Hill, New South Wales, formerly known as Alma
  • Electoral district of Alma

Canada

• Alma Parish, New Brunswick
  • Alma, New Brunswick, a fishing village
• Alma, Nova Scotia
• Alma, Ontario
• Alma, Prince Edward Island
• Alma, Quebec

United States

• Alma, Alabama
• Alma, Arkansas
• Alma, California
• Alma, Colorado
• Alma, Georgia
• Alma, Illinois
• Alma Township, Marion County, Illinois
• Alma, Kansas
• Alma, Louisiana
• Alma, Michigan
• Alma Township, Marshall County, Minnesota
• Alma, Missouri
• Alma, Nebraska
• Alma Township, Harlan County, Nebraska
• Alma, New Mexico
• Alma, New York
• Alma, Ohio
• Alma, Oklahoma
• Alma, Oregon
• Alma, Texas
• Alma, Virginia
• Alma, Wisconsin, a city
• Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, a town
• Alma, Jackson County, Wisconsin, a town

Elsewhere

• Alma (Algeria), former name of Boudouaou
• Alma, Greece
• Alma, Iran
• Alma, Israel
• Alma, Kyrgyzstan
• Alma, Lebanon
• Alma, Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia
• Alma, Safad, Mandatory Palestine, a depopulated Palestinian village
• Alma, Sibiu, Romania
• Alma, Syria
• Alma, Limpopo, South Africa
• Alma River (disambiguation)
• 390 Alma, an asteroid

Schools

• UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe, in Brussels, Belgium, known as Alma, a campus of the University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium
• Alma College (St. Thomas, Ontario), Canada, a ladies liberal arts college, 1877–1994
• Alma College, in Alma, Michigan, U.S., a liberal arts college
• Alma White College, in Zarephath, New Jersey, U.S., a Bible college, 1921–1978
• Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, in Berkeley, California, U.S., founded as Alma College
• Collège d'Alma, Alma, Quebec, Canada
• Alma High School (disambiguation)

Transportation

• Alma (1891), a scow schooner
• , a passenger ship
• Alma (French automobile), manufactured 1926–1929
• Alma metro station in Brussels, Belgium
• Alma Airport, Alma, Quebec, Canada
• Alma (Rivière La Grande Décharge) Water Aerodrome, Alma, Quebec
• Pont de l'Alma ('Alma Bridge'), Paris, France

Acronyms

• Armenian Library and Museum of America, Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
• Asian land mammal age, a geologic timescale for prehistoric Asian fauna
• Atacama Large Millimeter Array, a radio telescope in Chile
• The "Aim, Learn, Master, Achieve" ALMA Initiative, a social inclusion scheme of the European Commission

Other uses

• Book of Alma, one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon
• Alma Generating Station, a power station in Wisconsin, United States
• Hurricane Alma, the name of several storms
• ALMA Magazine, an American Spanish-language lifestyle magazine
• Almah or alma, a Hebrew word for a young woman of childbearing age
• AlmaLinux, a Linux distribution

See also

• Alma Bay, Queensland, Australia
• Port Alma, Queensland, Australia
• Alma Depot, Alma, Georgia, United States, a historic site
• Alma City, Minnesota, United States, an unincorporated community
• Alma Center, Wisconsin, United States, a village
• Alma School/Main Street station, a station on the Metro light rail line in Mesa, Arizona, U.S.
• Alma – Marceau (Paris Métro), a station in Paris, France
• Almas (disambiguation)
• Almah (disambiguation)
• Alma mater (disambiguation)
• Alma Park (disambiguation)
• Alma-0, a programming language
• Almaty, formerly Alma-Ata, the largest city in Kazakhstan