Ava may refer to:

Places

• Ava, Illinois, a city in Jackson County, Illinois, United States
• Ava, Missouri, a city in Douglas County, Missouri, United States
• Ava, New York, a town in Oneida County, New York, USA
• Ava, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Noble County, Ohio, United States
• Ava, New Zealand, a suburb of Lower Hutt City
• Ava, the former name for modern Inwa, the ancient capital of Burma
  • Ava Kingdom, in upper Burma from 1364 to 1555
  • British colonial earldom - Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, later Earl of Ava in Burma, and Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
  • SS Ava (1855), P & O steamship wrecked off Ceylon in 1858
• Ivah, a city that was in Assyria, possibly the same as above

Personal name

• Ava (given name)
  • variant of Eve (Bible)
• Hurricane Ava (disambiguation), five tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

People

• Ava (poet) (c. 1060-1127), the first named female writer in any genre in the German language
• Saint Ava, ninth century Roman Catholic saint
• Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902 1956), American socialite, daughter of Ava Lowle Willing and John Jacob Astor IV
• Ava Barber (born 1954), U.S. country singer
• Ava Gardner (1922 1990), American actress
• Ava Leigh (born 1985), British reggae singer
• Ava Lowle Willing (1868 1958), American socialite
• Ava Ohlgren (born 1988), American collegiate swimmer
• Lee Jung Hyun (born 1980), South Korean singer known as Ava in the United States

Fictional characters

• Ava Lord, in Frank Miller's Sin City universe
• Ava Moore, on the FX Network television series Nip/Tuck
• Ava Peralta, on the daytime soap opera Guiding Light
• Ava Benton, on the soap opera All My Children
• Ava, in the ABC medical series Grey's Anatomy

AVA may refer to:

Companies and organizations

• Australian Veterinary Association
• American Viticultural Area, a designation regarding recognized winemaking regions of the United States
• Adult Visual Animation, a San Diego based film studio, sometimes abbreviated to AVA
• American Vecturist Association, organization of transportation token collectors in the United States and Canada
• Australian Veterinary Association
• Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists, group of people who promote the use and study of anaesthetics in veterinary medicine
• Institute A.V.A. Academy of Visual Arts, Ljubljana, a visual arts academy in Ljubljana
• AVA Radio Company, Polish electronics firm
• AvA Musical Editions, a Portuguese classical sheet music publisher

Music

• Angels & Airwaves, an American alternative rock band,
• A Vacant Affair, a Singaporean metalcore band

Other

• ava, the language code for the Avar language
• Ava, a ceremonial ritual and beverage of the Samoa Islands
• Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed, tradename Biothrax
• Ava (building), a highrise in Seattle
• MTV3 AVA, Finnish television channel owned by MTV3
• Alliance of Valiant Arms, a computer game
• Activity vector analysis (AVA), a personality test

See also

• Avatar (disambiguation)

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