Spina (disambiguation)
Appearance
Spina is an Etruscan port city established by the end of the 6th century BCE on the Adriatic, Italy.
Spina may also refer to:
Places
Italy
- Spina di Gualdo, a mountain of Marche
- Monti la Spina – Zaccana, a mountain of Basilicata
- Monte Spina, a mountain of Lombardy
Other places
- Spina, Minnesota, abandoned townsite in Great Scott Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, U.S.
People
- Agostino Spina (born 2001), Argentine footballer
- Alessandro Spina (1927-2013), the pen name of Basili Shafik Khouzam
- Alphonso de Spina (died 491), Spanish Franciscan Catholic Bishop, author of a Classification of demons
- Angelo Spina (born 1954), Italian Roman Catholic prelate who serves as the current archbishop of Ancona-Osimo
- Ashley Spina (born 1992), Australian soccer player
- Ben Spina (born 1988), Australian professional rugby league footballer
- Dave Spina (born 1983), American professional ice hockey right winger
- Francis X. Spina (born 1946), former Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- Franz Spina (1868-1938), German-Czechoslovakian right-wing and activist politician of the First era
- Harold Spina (1906-1997), American composer of popular songs
- Joanie Spina (1953-2014), American dancer, choreographer, magician and director
- Joe Spina (born 1946), former politician in Ontario, Canada
- Joey Spina (born 1977), American professional boxer
- Juan-Francisco Spina (born 1985), Argentine tennis player
- Lane Spina (born 1962 or 1963), American freestyle skier
- Laurie Spina (born 1963), rugby league commentator and an Australian former professional rugby league footballer
- Maria Grazia Spina (born 1936), Italian television, film and stage actress
- Marcelo Spina (born 1970), Argentine architect
- Scipione Spina (died 1639), Roman Catholic Bishop of Lecce
Anatomy
- Spina helicis, a small projection of cartilage at the front part of the auricula
- Spina iliaca posterior inferior, at the posterior and inferior surface of the iliac bone
- Spina iliaca posterior superior, the posterior border of the ala of sacrum
- Spina ischiadica, from the posterior border of the body of the Ischium
- Spina nasalis anterior maxillae, bony projection in the skull in the order of cephalometric landmark
- Spina nasalis posterior ossis palatini, attachment of the musculus uvulae
- Spina suprameatica, at the inner end of the external acoustic meatus, in the tympanic membrane
- Spina ventosa, a skeletal manifestation of tuberculosis
- Spina vestibuli, a triangular thickening near the coronary sinus
Zoology
- Cingulina spina, a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae
- Damochlora spina, a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks
- Pollex spina, a moth of the family Erebidae
Other uses
- Santa Maria della Spina, a small church in Pisa, Italy
- Assunta Spina (1915 film), a 1915 Italian silent film
- Parco Spina Verde di Como, regional natural park in Lombardy, Italy
- Peggy Spina Tap Company, an American tap dance company
- Ziziphus spina-christi or Christ's thorn jujube, an evergreen plant native to northern and tropical Africa
- Spina of a hippodrome, a low wall running most of the length of a hippodrome and dividing the course