MA is an abbreviation and Ma may be an abbreviation, a word or a Chinese or Taiwanese name, each of which may refer to: people: Main article: Ma (surname) - Ma Ying-jeou, president of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
- Ma Jun, a Chinese environmentalist, non-fiction writer and journalist.
- Ma Jun, a Chinese mechanical engineer and government official during the Three Kingdoms era of China.
in academia: - Master of Arts (postgraduate) (MA), academic degree
- Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin) (MA), academic degree of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin
- Master of Arts (Scotland) (MA), academic degree in Scotland
- Marin Academy (MA), high school in San Rafael, California
- Minnehaha Academy (MA), private high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Museums Association (MA), UK
in science and technology: - mya (unit), sometimes written as Ma, means "millions of years ago" or megaannum.
- .ma, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco
- Mach number (Ma), a measure of speed compared to the speed of sound
- Megaannum (Ma), one million (1,000,000) years
- Mechanical advantage (MA), mechanical multiplier of input force
- Mechanical alloying (MA), a technique to produce alloys.
- Medical assistant (MA), a type of health care worker
- Methyl anthranilate (MA), a bird repellent
- Milliampere (mA), a unit of electrical current
- Moving average model (MA(q)), statistics
- MA (complexity), a set of decision problems that can be decided by an Arthur–Merlin protocol
- Martin's axiom, an axiom in mathematical logic
- a type of interface (Ma) in an IP Multimedia Subsystem
in geography: - Ma River, river in Asia, running through Vietnam and Laos
- Madagascar (MA), FIPS 10-4 country code
- Maranhão (BR-MA), part of the ISO 3166-2:BR geocode for the Brazilian state
- Massachusetts (MA), United States postal abbreviations for the state
- Meshwesh (Ma), an ancient Libyan (i.e., Berber) tribe from Cyrenaica
- Metropolitan area (MA), a qualifying term, e.g. "Tokyo MA"
- Morocco (MA), ISO 3166 country code
in myth and culture: - Ma people, a Vietnamese ethnic group
- Ma (Lion King), a main character in the animated film Lion King 1½
- Ma (myth), in Sumerian mythology that from which the "primeval land" was formed
- Ma (surname), a common Chinese family name
- "MA15+", an Australian film and video game classification meaning "Not suitable for under 15s"
- Mature audience is a U.S. television rating system category abbreviated as TV-MA
- Memory Alpha (MA), a Star Trek-oriented wiki
- Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives (MA), a website devoted to heavy metal bands
- Maria (Mª or Ma.), according to Spanish naming customs
- Massive Attack, a British trip hop band
- Ma (negative space), a word of Japanese origin used in art and design
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