Alta (given name)
Alta is a feminine given name and a nickname. It may refer to:
Given name
- Alta Bates, American nurse anesthetist, founder and director of the hospital now known as Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
- Alta Charo, American bioethicist and law professor
- Alta Fixsler, British girl with Haredi parents who died after her life support was removed, subject of a best interests case
- Alta Gerrey, aka Alta (poet), American poet and prose writer
- Alta M. Hulett, American lawyer
- Alta Kotze, South African former cricketer
- Alta Little, American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Alta Rockefeller Prentice, American philanthropist and socialite
- Alta Schrock, American biology professor and community activist, first Mennonite woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D.
- Alta Faige Teitelbaum, Polish-born American Hasidic community leader
- Alta Corbett Thomas, American pilot for the Women Airforce Service Pilots
- Alta Walker, American geologist
- Alta Weiss, American semiprofessional minor league baseball pitcher
- Alta Allee Willis, American songwriter and art director
Nickname
- Albert Alta Cohen, American Major League Baseball player
- Aletta Alta Schutte, South African medical researcher