Toba

Toba may refer to:

Languages

 * Toba Sur language, spoken in South America
 * Batak Toba, spoken in Indonesia

People

 * Toba people, indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco in South America
 * Toba Batak people, a sub-ethnic group of Batak people from North Sumatra, Indonesia
 * Tuoba (拓拔), an early name for a clan of the Xianbei people in ancient China
 * Toba Sōjō (1053–1140), Japanese astronomer and artist-monk
 * Emperor Toba, emperor of Japan
 * Toba Spitzer, lesbian rabbi in Arizona, USA
 * Petre Tobă (born 1964), Romanian politician
 * Toshimasa Toba (born 1975), Japanese footballer
 * Georgian Tobă (born 1989), Romanian footballer
 * Andreas Toba (born 1990), German gymnast

Places

 * Toba, an area in Northern Sumatra that is now included in the Toba Samosir Regency
 * Lake Toba, a lake in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and site of the volcanic Toba eruption 75,000 years ago
 * Toba catastrophe theory, according to which modern human evolution was affected by the Toba eruption
 * Toba, Mie, a city in Mie prefecture, Japan
 * Toba (Nova Crnja), a village near Nova Crnja, Serbia
 * Toba, Tibet
 * Toba, Jhelum, a village in Pakistan
 * Toba Tek Singh, a district city in Punjab, Pakistan
 * La Toba, central Spain

Other

 * Crataegus × mordenensis 'Toba', cultivar of the Morden Hawthorn
 * Japanese gunboat Toba of the 1930s–40s
 * Month of Tobi, or Touba, the fifth month of the Coptic calendar
 * Theatre Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.), a major black vaudeville circuit
 * Tobă, a traditional Romanian sausage
 * Torsion-Bar Antenna (TOBA), a proposed gravitational wave detector
 * Istighfar, a form of repentance sometimes invoked by the word "Toba"
 * Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA), annually reviews/establishes Grading for Thoroughbred horse races in North America