Alta (given name)

Alta is a feminine given name and a nickname. It may refer to:

Given name

• Alta Bates (1879–1955), American nurse anesthetist, founder and director of the hospital now known as Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
• Alta Charo (born 1958), American bioethicist and law professor
• Alta Fixsler (2018–2021), British girl with Haredi parents who died after her life support was removed, subject of a best interests case
• Alta Gerrey (1942–2024), aka Alta (poet), American poet and prose writer
• Alta M. Hulett (1854–1877), American lawyer
• Alta Kotze (born 1971), South African former cricketer
• Alta Little (1923–1999), American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• Alta Rockefeller Prentice (1871–1962), American philanthropist and socialite
• Alta Schrock (1911–2001), American biology professor and community activist, first Mennonite woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D.
• Alta Faige Teitelbaum (1912–2001), Polish-born American Hasidic community leader
• Alta Corbett Thomas (1918–2017), American pilot for the Women Airforce Service Pilots
• Alta Walker (1942–2015), American geologist
• Alta Weiss (1890–1964), American semiprofessional minor league baseball pitcher
• Alta Allee Willis (1947–2019), American songwriter and art director

Nickname

• Albert Alta Cohen (1908–2003), American Major League Baseball player
• Aletta Alta Schutte (born 1977), South African medical researcher