# Ala

Ala, ALA, Alaa or Alae may refer to:

## Places

* Ala, Hiiu County, Estonia, a village
* Ala, Valga County, Estonia, a village
* Ala, Alappuzha, Kerala, India, a village
* Ala, Iran, a village in Semnan Province
* Ala, Gotland, Sweden
* Alad, Seydun or Ala, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
* Ala, Trentino, Italy, a comune
* Alà dei Sardi, Italy, a comune
* Alabama, a state in the United States
* Alae (Cilicia), a town of ancient Cilicia

## Science

* Acetylated lanolin alcohol
* Ala of nose, in human anatomy
* Alae (nematode anatomy)
* Ala (or A), abbreviation for alanine, an α-amino acid
* Alpha lipoic acid, a nutritional supplement
* Alpha-linolenic acid, an omega−3 fatty acid
* δ-aminolevulinic acid or δ-ALA

## Mythology and religion

* Ala (demon), a female demon in Serbian mythology
* Ala (Luwian goddess), a Hittite and Luwian goddess
* Ala (Odinani), an Alusi (deity) in the Odinani beliefs of the Igbo people of Nigeria

## Military

* USS Ala (YT-139), a US Navy tugboat
* Ala (Roman allied military unit), a Republican-period, largely infantry, formation of 5,400 men
* Ala (Roman cavalry unit), an Imperial-period, purely cavalry, formation of 500 men
* American Legion Auxiliary
* Arab Liberation Army
* Arakan Liberation Army

## Organizations

* African Leadership Academy
* Alleanza Liberalpopolare – Autonomie, an Italian political party
* Allgemeine Anzeigen GmbH
* American Latvian Association
* American Leadership Academy
* American Legion Auxiliary
* American Library Association
* American Literature Association
* American Lung Association
* Arizona Lutheran Academy
* Associate of the Library Association
* Association for Laboratory Automation
* Australian Lacrosse Association
* Australian Liberty Alliance, a political party
* Atlas of Living Australia (online database)

## Codes

* Åland Islands, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code
* Åland, ISO 3166-1 country code
* Former NYSE stock symbol of Alcatel; see Alcatel-Lucent
* Almaty International Airport, IATA code

## People
### Given name

* Ala al-Din Atsiz (died 1214), Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty from 1213 to 1214
* Ala al-Din Ali ibn Shuja al-Din Mohammad , aka Zia al-Din Ali, last Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty, from 1214 to 1215
* Alā ad-Dīn Kayqubād bin Kaykāvūs, aka Kayqubad I (1188–1237), Seljuq Sultan of Rûm
* Ala al-Din Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qurashi al-Dimashq, or Ibn al-Nafis, (1213–1288), Arab Muslim polymath
* Ala ul-Haq (d. 1398), Islamic scholar of Bengal
* Ata-Malik Juvayni (in full: Ala al-Din Ata-ullah) (1226–1283), Persian historian
* Alā ud-Dīn Atsiz, Khwarazm Shah from 1127 until his death in 1156
* Ala ad-Din Tekish, (died 1200), Khwarazm Shah from 1172
* Ala ad-Din Muhammad II of Khwarezm (died 1221), Khwarazm Shah from 1200
* Ala ud din Masud, Sultan of Delhi from 1242 to 1246
* Ala ud-Daula Simnani (1261–1336), Persian Sūfī, writer and teacher
* Ala Al-Kuwaikabi (born 1980), Saudi Arabian former footballer
* Ala Bashir (born 1939), Iraqi painter, sculptor and plastic surgeon
* Ala Boratyn (born 1992), Polish singer also known as simply Ala
* Ala Mândâcanu (born 1954), Moldovan politician and journalist
* Ala Nemerenco (born 1959), Moldovan politician
* Ala Stanford, American physician
* Ala Yaacoubi, Tunisian rapper known as Weld El 15
* Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Egyptian blogger and dissident
* Alaa Abdelnaby, Egyptian-American retired professional basketball player, current broadcaster/analyst
* Alaa Batayneh, Jordanian businessman and politician
* Alaa Gatea, Iraqi footballer
* Alaa Ibrahim, Egyptian footballer
* Alaa Mubarak, Egyptian businessman
* Alaa Murabit, Canadian Physician, Commissioner
* Alaa Al-Sasi (born 1987), Yemeni footballer
* Alaa Al Shbli, Syrian footballer
* Alaa Al-Zahra, Iraqi footballer

### Surname

* Efkan Ala (born 1965), Turkish civil servant and government minister
* Hossein Ala' (1882–1964), former prime minister of Iran

## Other uses

* Acta Linguistica Asiatica, linguistics journal
* ALA-LC, a set of romanization standards
* Atlas of Living Australia, online data
* Austral Líneas Aéreas, an Argentine domestic airline
** Former airline Aerotransportes Litoral Argentino, merged into Austral Líneas Aéreas
* 'Alá', the last month of the Bahá'í calendar
* Ala Mai, 2023 heavy metal album by Polynesian band Shepherds Rein.