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
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