Ada - People

People

  • Ada (name), feminine given name (and list of people with the name)
  • St. Ada, 7th-century French abbess
  • Ada, Countess of Atholl (died 1264)
  • Ada, Countess of Holland
  • Ada de Warenne, Countess of Northumbria and Huntingdon (died 1178)
  • Ada of Caria, satrap deposed by her brother Idrieus and restored by Alexander the Great
  • Ada, sister of Charlemagne, for whom the Ada Gospels at Trier were produced
  • Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), the first computer programmer
  • Ada Yonath (born 1939), Israeli biochemist

Read more about this topic:  Ada

Famous quotes containing the word people:

    “No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.”
    —Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

    “In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.”
    —J. William Fulbright (b. 1905)

    “Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.”
    —Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)