Alma
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Alma may refer to:
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Places
- Canada
- Alma, Ontario, a small village in Ontario, Canada
- Alma, Quebec, a town in Quebec, Canada
- Alma, New Brunswick, a fishing village on the Bay of Fundy
- Crimea
- Alma (river) and the site of the Battle of Alma (September 20, 1854)
- Kazakhstan
- New Zealand
- Alma, New Zealand, a small locality in the North Otago district of New Zealand
- Palestine
- Alma, Palestine, a village in Palestine destroyed in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
- United States
- Alma, Arkansas
- Alma, Colorado
- Alma, Georgia
- Alma, Illinois
- Alma, Kansas
- Alma, Michigan - site of Alma College
- Alma, Missouri
- Alma, Nebraska
- Alma, New York
- Alma, Texas
- Alma, Wisconsin, a city in Buffalo County
- Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, a town in Buffalo County
- Alma, Jackson County, Wisconsin, a town in Jackson County
- Alma Center, Wisconsin, a village in Jackson County
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People
- Alma, an antagonist from the game F.E.A.R.
- Alma Baldwin, a character on the soap opera Coronation Street and one-time wife of Mike Baldwin
- Alma Mahler (1879-1964), wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, Franz Werfel and subject of a song by Tom Lehrer
- Alma the Elder, a person in the Books of Mosiah and Alma, part of the Book of Mormon.
- Alma the Younger, the son of Alma the Elder, the Book of Alma in the Book of Mormon is named after him.
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Other
- Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), an array of radio telescopes in Chile
- Alma (1891), an 1891 built scow schooner now preserved in San Francisco, California.
- Alma, or malus sieversii, the modern ancestor of the domesticated apple.
- "Alma" is Spanish for soul
- Almas (cryptozoology), a Mongolian name for wild man (singular), a cryptozoological species
- Alma-0, a programming language
- Alma (software tool), a software workshop for programmers
- Book of Alma, part of the Book of Mormon
- Alma Awards, U.S. awards for Latinos performers
- Alma mater, a term of academia
- Alma is a monster in the Eggerland games.