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Pola

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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 province), in the Kingdom of Italy, 1923–1947
  • Pola, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in south Poland
  • Pola, Oriental Mindoro, a municipality in the Philippines
  • Pola, Russia, a rural locality in Novgorod Oblast, Russia
  • Pola (river), Russia
  • Italian name for Pula, the largest city in Istria, Croatia

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

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
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