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:
“Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand—that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“Reality has become so absorbing that the streets, the television, and the journals have confiscated the public interest and people are no longer thirsty for culture on a higher level.”
—Andre Plesu (b. 1948)
“The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)