Orta

Orta may refer to:

Places

 * Orta, Møre og Romsdal, an island in Aukra, Norway
 * Orta, Çankırı, a district of Çankırı Province, Turkey
 * Orta, a town near Rome which, in medieval contexts, may also be called Orte
 * Lake Orta, in north Italy
 * Orta di Atella, comune in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania
 * Orta Nova, town and comune from Foggia, in the region of Apulia, in southern Italy
 * Orta San Giulio, a town on Lake Orta
 * Orta, Tavas, populates place in Denizli Province, Turkey

People

 * Garcia de Orta (1501 – 1568) Portuguese physician, herbalist and naturalist
 * Jorge Orta (born 1950), Mexican Major League Baseball player
 * Lucy Orta, a British contemporary artist
 * Ramsey Orta, a friend of Eric Garner's who recorded on his cell phone the police murdering Garner

Other uses

 * Orta (Janissary), a military rank of Janissaries
 * Orta, a fictional Italian village in the film Captain Carey, U.S.A.
 * Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA), an organizational structure established in federal laboratories though the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-480)-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-480)
 * Panzer Dragoon Orta, the describer and heroine of the fourth game in the Panzer Dragoon series