Mata

Mata may refer to:

People

• Mata (surname), for people with the surname Mata
• Juan Mata (born 1988), Spanish football player who plays for English club Manchester United
• Eduardo Mata (1942–1995), Mexican conductor and composer
• Mata Hari (1876–1917), stage name of exotic dancer, courtesan and spy Margaretha Zelle
• Mata, term in Hindi used for Mother, Skandamata, mother of war god, Skanda, Kartikeya
• Mata Amritanandamayi (born 1953), Hindu spiritual leader and guru
• 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, the mother of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism

Places

• Mata, Rio Grande do Sul, town in Brazil
• Mata, Dianbai County (马踏镇), town in Guangdong, China
• 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, Portugal in Castelo Branco
• Mata, Afghanistan
• Mata Island, in the Hudson Bay of Nunavut, Canada
• Mata River, of the East Coast of North Island, New Zealand

Transportation

• Memphis Area Transit Authority, serving Memphis, Tennessee, United States
• McKinney Avenue Transit Authority, serving Dallas, Texas, United States

Other

• Mata (film), a Kannada language movie released in 2006
• MATA Festival, short for Music at the Anthology, Inc., a festival of contemporary classical music based in New York
• Mata, may refer to Mataji or Devi in Hindu religion

See also

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