Ada may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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

Film and television

  • Ada, a character in 1991 movie Armour of God II: Operation Condor
  • Ada... A Way of Life, a 2008 Bollywood musical by Tanvir Ahmed
  • Ada (dog actor), a dog that played Colin on the sitcom Spaced
  • Ada (1961 film), a 1961 film by Daniel Mann
  • Ada TV, a television channel in Northern Cyprus
  • Ada (2019 film), a short biopic about Ada Lovelace

Aviation

  • Ada Air, a regional airline based in Tirana, Albania
  • Francisco C. Ada Airport, Saipan Island, Northern Mariana Islands
  • IATA airport code for Adana Şakirpaşa Airport in Adana Province, Turkey

Places

Africa

  • Ada Foah, a town in Ghana
  • Ada (Ghana parliament constituency)
  • Ada, Osun, a town in Nigeria

Asia

  • Ada, Karaman, a village in Karaman Province, Turkey
  • Ada, Urmia, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran

Europe

  • Ada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a village
  • Ada Ciganlija or Ada, a river island artificially turned into a peninsula in Belgrade, Serbia
  • Ada, Croatia, a village
  • Ada, Serbia, a town and municipality

United States

  • Ada, Alabama, an unincorporated community
  • Ada County, Idaho
  • Ada, Kansas, an unincorporated community
  • Ada, Minnesota, a city
  • Ada, Ohio, a village
  • Ada, Oklahoma, a city
  • Ada, Oregon, an unincorporated community
  • Ada Township, Dickey County, North Dakota
  • Ada Township, Michigan
  • Ada Township, Perkins County, South Dakota
  • Ada, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Ada, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
  • Mount Ada, a mountain in Alaska

Elsewhere

  • Ada River (disambiguation), various rivers
  • 523 Ada, an asteroid

Schools

  • Ada High School (Ohio), US
  • Ada Independent School District, Oklahoma, US
  • Ada, the National College for Digital Skills, a further education college in Tottenham Hale, London

Science and technology

  • Ada, the cryptocurrency of the Cardano blockchain platform
  • List of storms named Ada

Biology

  • Ada (plant), a genus of orchids
  • Ada (protein), an enzyme induced by treatment of bacterial cells
  • Adenosine deaminase, an enzyme involved in purine metabolism

Computing

  • Ada (computer virus)
  • Ada (programming language), programming language influenced by Pascal and other languages

Ships

  • Ada-class corvette, a class of anti-submarine corvettes developed by Turkey
  • Ada (1897 shipwreck), a wooden ketch, wrecked near Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
  • , a cargo vessel built for the London and South Western Railway

People

  • Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), computer scientist sometimes regarded as the first computer programmer
  • Ada (name), a feminine given name and a surname, including a list of people and fictional characters
  • Ada of Caria (fl. 377 – 326 BCE), satrap of ancient Caria and adoptive mother of Alexander the Great

Other uses

  • Ada Band, an Indonesian pop rock band
  • Ada and Abere, a ceremonial sword of state in Yorubaland and surrounding regions of West Africa
  • Ada Bridge, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Ada (food), a traditional Kerala delicacy
  • Ada Health, a German medical technology company
  • Dangme language (ISO 639-2 and 639-3 code: ada), spoken in Ghana

See also

  • ADA (disambiguation)
  • Ada regulon, an Escherichia coli adaptive response protein
  • Adah (disambiguation)
  • Adha (disambiguation)
  • Ada'a, a woreda in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
  • Ade (disambiguation)
  • USS Little Ada, a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War