Mata

Mata may refer to:

Places

• Mata, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
• Mata, Israel, a Moshav in the Judaean Mountains, south-west of Jerusalem, not far from Beit Shemesh
• Mata, Rio Grande do Sul, town in Brazil
• Mata Island, in the Hudson Bay of Nunavut, Canada
• Mata River, of the East Coast of North Island, New Zealand
• Mata, Afghanistan
• Mata, in Castelo Branco, Portugal
• Mata, Dianbai County (马踏镇), town in Guangdong, China

People

• Mata (surname), for people with the surname Mata
• Mata Amritanandamayi (born 1953), Hindu spiritual leader and guru
• Mata Hari (1876–1917), stage name of exotic dancer, courtesan and spy Margaretha Zelle
• Mata Sundari, Mata Jito, and Mata Sahib Kaur, the wives of Sikh guru Gobind Singh; according to one theory, the first two are the same person
• Mata Tripta, mother of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism
• Mata (rapper) (born 2000), Polish rapper

Entertainment

• Mata (2006 film), a Kannada language film
• Mata (1942 film), a Bollywood film
• MATA Festival, short for Music at the Anthology, Inc., a festival of contemporary classical music based in New York
• Mata (album), a 2022 album by M.I.A.

Other uses

• Ma Ta, Marathi newspaper based in Mumbai, India.
• Mata, may refer to Mataji
  • Hindi term for mother - for example Skandamata, the mother of war god Skanda
  • Devi in Hindu religion
• Mata (cicada), a genus of cicadas
• Matha, is a Hindu religious institution

See also

• La Mata (disambiguation)
• Mata (programming language)
• MATA (disambiguation)
• Mata mata, a freshwater South American turtle
• Matas (disambiguation)
• Matos (disambiguation)