Madeira (disambiguation)

Madeira (the Portuguese word for wood), officially named the Autonomous Region of Madeira (Região Autónoma da Madeira), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with the Azores); it is an archipelago situated in the north Atlantic Ocean, southwest of mainland Portugal.

Madeira may also refer to:

Geography[edit]

Madeira, Ohio, a city in the United States
Madeira Beach, Florida, an American city
Madeira evergreen forests, a wooded area covering the archipelago of Madeira and some nearby islands
Madeira Island, the largest of the Madeira group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean
Madeira Park, an unincorporated community in British Columbia, Canada
Madeira River, one of the tributaries of the Amazon River in South America

People[edit]

George Madeira (1836–1922), a mining engineer and mineralogist who founded the first astronomical observatory in California
Jamila Madeira (born 1975), a Portuguese socialist politician and Member of the European Parliament
Phil Madeira (born 1952), an American songwriter, producer, musician and singer from Nashville, Tennessee

Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

Have Some Madeira M'Dear, a darkly comic song by Flanders and Swann
Madeira, the fictionalized name of Debra Newell's interior design firm in the Bravo TV series, Dirty John
Miss Madeira, a 2011 novel by Austin Gary
RTP Madeira, a Portuguese TV channel

Food and wine[edit]

Madeira cake, an English cake originating in the 18th Century
Madeira wine, a fortified wine made on the island of Madeira

Schools[edit]

Madeira School, a private girls' school in the state of Virginia, in the United States
Universidade da Madeira, a public university in Madeira

Other uses[edit]

C.F. União, an association football club commonly known as União da Madeira
Madeira (shipwreck), a schooner-barge which sank on the north shore of Lake Superior in November 1905
Madeira Airport
Madeira Andebol SAD, a Portuguese handball club