Ada

Ada may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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

Film and television

• Ada TV, a television channel in Northern Cyprus
• Ada (1961 film), a 1961 film by Daniel Mann
• Ada (2019 film), a short biopic about Ada Lovelace
• 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, a character in 1991 movie Armour of God II: Operation Condor

Places

Africa

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

Asia

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

Europe

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

United States

• Ada, Alabama, an unincorporated community
• Ada County, Idaho
• Ada, Kansas, an unincorporated community
• Ada Township, Michigan
• Ada, Minnesota, a city
• Ada Township, Dickey County, North Dakota
• Ada, Ohio, a village
• Ada, Oklahoma, a city
• Ada, Oregon, an unincorporated community
• 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

Science and technology

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

Biology

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

Computing

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

Schools

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

Transportation

• Ada Air, a regional airline based in Tirana, Albania
• Francisco C. Ada Airport, Saipan Island, Northern Mariana Islands
• SS Ada (1905), a cargo vessel built for the London and South Western Railway
• Ada (ship), a wooden ketch, wrecked near Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
• Ada-class corvette, a class of anti-submarine corvettes developed by Turkey

People

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

Other uses

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

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