Ata (name)
Ata is the anglicized form of several names.
Ata, Atta, or Ataa may refer more specifically to:- Ataullah, Arabic, meaning gift of God
- Ata-ur-Rahman, Arabic, meaning gift of the Most Merciful
Given name
Arabic
- Ata al-Ayyubi, Ottoman-Arab civil servant
- Ataa Jaber, Israeli-Arab footballer
- Ata-Malik Juvayni, Iranian historian
- Ata Nahai, Kurdish Iranian novelist
- Atta Muhammad Nur, Afghan governor
- Ata Abu Rashta, Islamic jurist, scholar and writer
- Ata Yamrali, German-Afghan footballer
- Ata al-Khadim, governor of Baalbek and viceroy of Damascus
- Ata ibn Haffaz al-Sulami, eunuch and vizier of the emirate of Damascus
Fante
- Ataa Oko, Ghanaian sculptor and artist
Turkish
- Ata Demirer, Turkish stand-up comedian and actor
Surname
Arabic
- Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta, American-Arab militant
- Mohamed Atta, Egyptian Islamist, ringleader of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 in the September 11 attacks
- Shahla Ata, Afghan politician and congresswoman
- Walid Atta, Swedish footballer
- Wasil ibn Ata, Islamic scholar
Turkish
- Ayla Akat Ata, Turkish politician
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish military leader and statesman. Atatürk was an honorary name.
- Üsküplü Ata, Ottoman poet
Common name
- Ata is the commonly-abbreviated name for the Atacama skeleton, the six-inch long remains of a human with major genetic abnormalities that was discovered in 2003
