Puma

Puma or PUMA may refer to:

Animals

• Puma (genus), a genus in the family Felidae
  • Puma (species) or cougar, a large cat

Businesses and organisations

• Puma (brand), a multinational shoe and sportswear company
• Puma Energy, a mid- and downstream oil company
• People United Means Action, originally named "Party Unity My Ass", a political action committee during the 2008 U.S. presidential election

Languages

• Puma language, a language of Nepal
• Teanu language or Puma, a language of the Solomon Islands

People

• Carlos Landín Martínez, a.k.a. El Puma, Mexican drug lord
• José Luis Rodríguez (born 1943), a.k.a. El Puma, Venezuelan singer and actor
• Puma King (born 1990), a.k.a. Puma, Mexican wrestler
• Puma Swede (born 1976), Swedish pornographic actress
• Ricochet (wrestler) (born 1988), a.k.a. Puma, American wrestler
• T. J. Perkins (born 1984), a.k.a. Puma, American wrestler
• Puma Jones (1953–1990), member of the musical group Black Uhuru
• Puma Shen (born 1982), a.k.a. Puma, a Taiwanese criminologist, lawyer, and politician

Places

• Puma (village), Solomon Islands
• Puma (Tanzanian ward)

Sports

• Pumas (Currie Cup), a South African rugby union team representing Mpumalanga province
• Los Pumas, the Argentina national rugby union team
• Pumas UNAH, a defunct Honduran football club
• Pumas UNAM, a Mexican league football club, representing the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
  • Pumas UNAM (women), the organization's women division
  • Pumas UNAM (youth), the organization's youth academy
  • Pumas Morelos, the organization's former subdivision in the state of Morelos
  • Pumas Tabasco, the organization's former subdivision in the state of Tabasco
  • Pumas CU football, the college football team

Science and technology

• Puma (microarchitecture), a computer microarchitecture by AMD
• Puma (web server), an HTTP web server
• Puma (Hewlett-Packard), a codename for the HP 1000CX palmtop PC
• Puma, the codename for Mac OS X 10.1, an operating system by Apple Inc.
• Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly, an industrial robot arm
• Protected User Mode Audio (PUMA), a subset of Protected Media Path, a DRM technology
• p53 upregulated modulator of apoptosis (PUMA), a pro-apoptotic protein
• Paediatric-use marketing authorisation (PUMA), by the European Medicines Agency
• PUMA experiment, an experiment at the antiproton decelerator, CERN

Transportation

Aircraft

• Aero-Service Puma, a Polish ultralight aircraft
• Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma, a helicopter
• BDC Aero Puma, a Canadian ultralight aircraft
• AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma, an American unmanned surveillance aircraft

Automobiles

• Puma (car manufacturer), a Brazilian, then South African, brand of sports cars
• Puma (kit car company), an Italian brand of dune buggy and sports kit-car
• Ford Puma (crossover), an American-German subcompact SUV
• Ford Puma (sport compact), an American-German compact sports coupe
• Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility (PUMA), an experimental vehicle by Segway and General Motors

Combat vehicles

• Puma (AFV), an Italian family of armoured fighting vehicles
• Puma (IFV), a German infantry fighting vehicle
• Puma armored engineering vehicle, an Israeli combat engineering vehicle
• PUMA M26-15, a South African armoured personnel carrier

Other uses

• Puma (band), a Norwegian experimental jazz ensemble
• Puma (character), Marvel Comics character
• Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA), geographic units used by the U.S. Census
• "Puma", a song by TXT from their 2020 EP The Dream Chapter: Eternity

See also

• Lake Puma Yumco, a lake in Tibet
• Pumapunku, an archeological site in Tiwanaku, Bolivia
• Sabel v Puma, a CJEU case