Pola Explained

Pola or POLA may refer to:

People

• House of Pola, an Italian noble family
• Pola Alonso (1923–2004), Argentine actress
• Pola Brändle (born 1980), German artist and photographer
• Pola Gauguin (1883–1961), Danish painter
• Pola Gojawiczyńska (1896–1963), Polish writer
• Pola Illéry (born 1908), Romanian actress
• Pola Kinski (born 1952), German actress
• Pola Negri (1897–1987), Polish actress
• Pola Oloixarac, Argentine writer
• Pola Raksa (born 1941), Polish actress and singer
• Pola Susswein, Holocaust survivor and subject of Pola's March, a 2001 documentary film
• Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin (born 1959), British politician
• Spike Pola (1914–2012), Australian rules footballer
• Adrián Alonso Pereira (born 1988), Spanish futsal player commonly known as Pola

Places

• Pola (Buenos Aires Premetro), a railway station in Villa Lugano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Pola, Italian name for Pula, the largest city in Istria, Croatia
  • Pola (Italian province), in the Kingdom of Italy, 1923–1947
• Pola, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in south Poland
• Pola, Oriental Mindoro, a municipality in the Philippines
  • Pola (river), Russia

Acronyms

• Principle of least astonishment, in human–computer interaction
• Principle of least authority, in computer security
• Port of London Authority, more often referred to as PLA
• Port of Los Angeles
• POLA, a German factory of plastic model kits for model railroad, since 1997 owned by Faller

Other uses

• Italian cruiser Pola, World War II Italian warship
• Pola Flotilla, an Imperial Germany Navy formation of the First World War
• polA, the bacterial gene encoding DNA polymerase I
• Pola (festival), a bull-centered festival in India
• Pola (skipper), a genus of skipper butterflies
• "Pola" (song), 2019 song by Muniek Staszczyk
• Pola (given name)

See also

• • Pola de Allande, a town and a parish in Allande, Asturias, Spain
• Pola de Siero, a town in Asturias
• Poland, a country located in Central Europe
• Santa Pola, a town in Spain
• Pola X, a 1999 French film