Spina (disambiguation)

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

• 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
• 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
• 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