Magna

Magna may refer to:

Companies, products and institutions

• Magna (bicycle company), an American bicycle brand
• Magna International, Canada's largest automobile parts manufacture
  • Magna Steyr, a subsidiary
• Magna Natural Stone, Germanys biggest producer of natural stones
• Magna (paint), the world's first artist acrylic paint
• Honda Magna, a motorcycle
• Mitsubishi Magna, a car built by Mitsubishi Motors Australia
• Magna Tyres, a Dutch manufacturer of Industrial and Off-The-Road (OTR) tyres
• Magna Corporation, a film distributing organization primarily associated with Rodgers and Hammerstein films
• Magna Doodle, a children's magnetic drawing toy
• Magna BSP, an Israeli maker of security products
• Magna Carta Records, an independent record label
• Magna Entertainment Corp., a gaming and horse racing company
• Magna Græcia University, a university located in Catanzaro, Italy
• Magna Pacific, an entertainment distributor
• Magna Vista High School (Virginia), a comprehensive public high school in Henry County, Virginia
• Villa Magna Condominiums, an urban development that is planned to rise in downtown Miami, Florida
• Magna Parva, a UK Space engineering company

Place names

• Magna, Utah, a census-designated place and township in Salt Lake County, Utah
• Magna Science Adventure Centre, an educational visitor attraction in Rotherham, England
• Leptis Magna
• Villa Magna, the ancient name of a large imperial Roman villa near the modern town of Anagni
• Magna Graecia, the name of the coastal areas of Southern Italy on the Tarentine Gulf that were extensively colonized by Greek settlers
• Magna Curia, a palace located in Deva, Romania

Place names in England

There are several locations where one settlement is named "Magna" and another nearby "Parva". In this context, magna and parva are the Latin terms for "great" and "little" respectively.

Chew Magna Wigston Magna Appleby Magna Upton Magna Thornham Magna Harborough Magna Canford Magna

Fontmell Magna Magna Carvetiorum Marston Magna Minterne Magna Ashby Magna Kington Magna Peatling Magna Hutton Magna

Fakenham Magna Copston Magna Magna Carta Island Wenham Magna Claybrooke Magna Aston Magna Sheepy Magna

People

• Plancia Magna, a prominent woman from Anatolia during the Roman Empire
• Marcus Magna (born 1988), French professional footballer

Characters

• Magna Defender, a fictional character from the Power Rangers Lost Galaxy TV series

Documents

• Magna Carta, an English charter originally issued in 1215
• Ars Magna (disambiguation)
  • Ars Magna (Gerolamo Cardano), a 1545 important book on Algebra written by Gerolamo Cardano
• Magna Moralia, a treatise on ethics traditionally attributed to Aristotle
• Magna Britannia, an 1822 topographical and historical survey

Biology

• Magna (moth), a genus of moths of the Micronoctuidae family
• Cisterna magna, one of three principal openings in the subarachnoid space between the arachnoid and pia mater layers of the meninges surrounding the brain
• Lacuna magna, the largest of several recesses in the roof of the navicular fossa of the urethra

Other

• Magna-Fi, a band
• Magna cum laude, a Latin phrase used to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree was earned
• IG-100 MagnaGuards, the Guards of General Grievous in the Star Wars Series
• Magna Carta (band), a folk rock group
• Magna Mater (disambiguation), Latin for Great Mother
• Magna Publishing Group, Paramus, New Jersey, one of the largest publishers of pornography in the United States.

See also

• Magnum (disambiguation), of which a rare plural form is magna
• Magnus (disambiguation)
• Magnis (disambiguation)