Ada

Ada may refer to:

Food

• Ada (food), traditional Kerala delicacy, made with rice, coconut powder mix, and sugar

People

• Ada (name), feminine given name (and list of people with the name)
• St. Ada, 7th-century French abbess
• Ada, Countess of Atholl (died 1264)
• Ada, Countess of Holland
• Ada de Warenne, Countess of Northumbria and Huntingdon (died 1178)
• Ada of Caria, satrap deposed by her brother Idrieus and restored by Alexander the Great
• Ada, sister of Charlemagne, for whom the Ada Gospels at Trier were produced
• Ada Lovelace (Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace) (1815–1852), English mathematician and writer

Places

See also: Ada River (disambiguation) and Ada Township (disambiguation)

Europe

• Ada, Croatia, village in Croatia, municipality Šodolovci, Vukovar-Syrmia County
• Ada, Serbia, town and municipality

Africa

• Ada, Ghana, or Ada Foah
• Ada (Ghana parliament constituency)
• Ada, Delta, Isoka town in Delta State, Nigeria
• Ada, Osun, town in Osun State, Nigeria
• Ada Estate, luxury residential suburb of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Asia

• Ada, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province
• Ada, Karaman, a village in the central district (Karaman) of Karaman Province, Turkey

North America

• Ada, Alabama, unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama
• Ada County, Idaho
• Ada, Minnesota, Norman County, Minnesota
• Ada, Ohio, Hardin County, Ohio
• Ada, Oklahoma, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma
• Ada, Oregon, Lane County, Oregon
• Ada, West Virginia, Mercer County, West Virginia
• Ada, Wisconsin, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

Literature, film, music, and the arts

• Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, 1969 novel by Vladimir Nabokov

Television and film

• Ada TV, broadcasts in both satellite and terrestrial in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
• Ada (film), 1961 film by Daniel Mann
• Ada (dog actor), dog that played Colin on the sitcom Spaced

Video games

• Ada (Castlevania), character in Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
• Ada Wong, character in the Resident Evil franchise

Science and engineering

• Ada (ship), wooden Ketch, wrecked near Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
• USS Little Ada (1864), steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War

Astronomy

• 523 Ada, minor planet orbiting the Sun

Biology

• Ada (orchid), genus of orchids
• Ada aurantiaca, species of orchid and the type species of its genus
• Ada keiliana, species of orchid

Scientific and medical organizations

• AdA (physics) or Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (National Institute for Nuclear Physics), Italy
• American Dental Association
• American Diabetes Association
• American Dietetic Association

Computer science

• Ada (programming language), programming language based on Pascal
• Ada (computer virus)

Biochemistry

• Adenosine deaminase, enzyme involved in purine metabolism
• Ada (protein), enzyme induced by treatment of bacterial cells
• Ada regulon, one of the Escherichia coli adaptive response proteins

Meteorology

• Cyclone Ada (disambiguation), two tropical cyclones named Ada

Air travel

• Ada Air, regional airline based in Tirana, Albania
• Ada International Airport or Saipan International Airport, Saipan Island, Northern Mariana Islands
• Aerolínea de Antioquia, Colombian Airline
• Airline Deregulation Act, 1978 US bill removing governmental control from commercial aviation
• Adana Şakirpaşa Airport's IATA code

See also

• ADA (disambiguation)
• Adah (disambiguation)
• Adha (disambiguation)