Inga (disambiguation)
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Given name
Inga is a Germanic first name for females, meaning "protected by Yngvi" (Germanic God of fertility etc.). In American films and television shows, usually comedies, female characters from a non-English speaking European countries are frequently named Inga. Some male counterparts of this name are Ingvar, Ingo, and Ingolf.- Inga ÅbergInga ÅbergInga Åberg was a Swedish actress and opera singer, one of the most popular and well known actors of her time in Sweden...
(1773–1837), Swedish actress and singer - Inga AfoninaInga AfoninaInga Afonina is a retired female diver from Russia, who is best known for winning the silver medal at the 1991 European Championships in the women's 10 m platform, behind Yelena Miroshina. She represented the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics, finishing in fifth place at the Platform...
(b. 1969), Russian diver - Inga MuscioInga MuscioInga Muscio, , is a feminist, anti-racist writer and public speaker.She became famous after the publication of her 1998 Seal Press book Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, which called for women to break down boundaries between themselves and their bodies, and each other.She is also the author of...
(b. 1966), American feminist author - Inga SwensonInga SwensonInga Swenson is an American actress.Inga Swenson was a graduate of Central High School in Omaha, Nebraska, Class of 1950...
(b. 1932), American actress - Inga Tidblad (1901-1975), Swedish actress
Places
- IngáIngáIngá is one of the 48 administrative districts in which the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is divided. It lies in the southern zone of the city, in coast of the Guanabara Bay. The Tupi name ingá is a Brazilian native tree....
, district of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil - Ingá, ParaíbaIngá, ParaíbaIngá is a town and municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil.A notable landmark of Ingá is the Ingá Stone, a rock with huge pre-Columbian inscriptions which are still undeciphered.-References:...
, city in Paraíba state, Brazil- Ingá StoneIngá stoneThe Ingá Stone is located in the middle of the Ingá river near the small city of Ingá, 96km from João Pessoa, in Paraíba State in the northeast of Brazil. The Ingá Stone is also called Itacoatiara do Ingá...
(Pedra do Ingá, Itacoatiara do Ingá), a big basalt stone in Ingá city, covered by undeciphered pre-colombian inscriptions
- Ingá Stone
- Inga DamInga DamThe Inga Dams, located in western Democratic Republic of the Congo 140 miles southwest of Kinshasa, are hydroelectric dams on the largest waterfalls in the world, Inga Falls. Here the Congo River drops 96 metres and has an average flow of 42,476 m³/s....
, various hydroelectric projects taking place at Inga Falls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Inga FallsInga FallsInga Falls is a rapids 40 km from Matadi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where the Congo River drops 96 m over the course of 15 km ....
, a waterfall on the Congo (former Zaire) River - Inga LakeInga LakeInga Lake is a freshwater lake located in north-eastern British Columbia. It is located between Fort Nelson and Fort St. John on the Alaska Highway. It is at mile 91 of the Alaska Highway, and features a maintained free campsite. Outhouses, and large camping spots are featured as well as quad,...
, a Canadian lake along the Alaska Highway
Other
- Inga (Young Frankenstein)Inga (Young Frankenstein)Inga is a fictional character in the Mel Brooks film Young Frankenstein and its 2007 musical adaptation.- Character biography :Inga was born in Transylvania, Romania, and grew up as a farm girl. She supposedly has a degree in Laboratory Science from the local community college...
, a fictional character - Prince Inga of Pingaree, a fictional character in Rinkitink in OzRinkitink in OzRinkitink in Oz: Wherein is Recorded the Perilous Quest of Prince Inga of Pingaree and King Rinkitink in the Magical Isles that Lie Beyond the Borderland of Oz. is the tenth book in the Land of Oz series written by L. Frank Baum. Published on June 20, 1916, with full-color and black-and-white...
- IngaIngaInga is a genus of small tropical, tough-leaved, nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs, subfamily Mimosoideae. Ingas leaves are pinnate, and flowers are generally white...
, a genus of tropical trees and shrubs, member of the legume infrafamily Ingeae - Inga (moth), a genus of moths in the family OecophoridaeOecophoridaeOecophoridae is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The phylogeny and systematics of gelechoid moths are still not fully resolved, and the circumscription of the Oecophoridae is strongly affected by this....
- Inga, Korean name of the Zen Buddhist concept InkaInka, is a term used in Zen Buddhism to denote a high-level of certification, and literally means "the legitimate seal of clearly furnished proof." In ancient times inka usually came in the form of an actual document, but this practice is no longer commonplace...
- Inga, a 1968 film by Joseph W. SarnoJoseph W. SarnoJoseph W. Sarno was an American film director and screenwriter.One of the most prolific and distinctive auteurs to emerge from the proto-pornographic sexploitation film genre of the 1960s, Joe Sarno had written and directed approximately 75 theatrically released feature films in the sexploitation,...
- Inga, an episode of the sitcom M*A*S*H
- Inga peopleInga peopleThe Inga People are an indigenous ethnic group from the Southwest region of Colombia.They speak a dialect of Quechua known as Inga Kichwa. Almost all Inga people are bi-lingual in Inga and Spanish, which has caused fear that the Inga language might be an endangered language.Many today live...
, a group of indigenous peoples in ColombiaIndigenous peoples in ColombiaThe indigenous peoples in Colombia comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country's present territory prior to its discovery by Europeans around 1500.-Origins:...
- Inga KichwaInga KichwaInga Kichwa is a Quechua language spoken in the Colombian Putumayo region by the Inga people. There are two dialects: Highland Inga, spoken in the Sibundoy valley; and Jungle Inga, spoken on the Putumayo and Japurá Rivers. Inga Kichwa belongs to Quechua II subgroup Kichwa .-External links:*...
, their language
- Inga Kichwa
- InGaAsIndium gallium arsenideIndium gallium arsenide is a semiconductor composed of indium, gallium and arsenic. It is used in high-power and high-frequency electronics because of its superior electron velocity with respect to the more common semiconductors silicon and gallium arsenide. InGaAs bandgap also makes it the...
, a semiconductor material