Vata may refer to: People Vata (noble), 11th-century Hungarian chieftain Vata, Bishop of Várad, 12th-century Hungarian prelate Vata Matanu Garcia, former Angolan football striker Fatmir Vata (born 1971), Albanian footballer Rudi Vata (born 1969), Albanian footballer and manager Places Vata, Central African Republic Vața, a village in Vedea Commune, Argeș County, Romania Vața de Jos, a commune in Hunedoara County, Romania, and its village of Vața de Sus In religion Vāta, another name for Vāyu, Hindu deity, lord of the winds, father of Bhima A particular Zoroastrian divinity, one half of the pair Vata-Vayu Other uses Vata (beetle), a genus of ground beetles in the family Carabidae Vata pagan uprising, a Hungarian rebellion in 1046 A dialect of the Dida language spoken in Ivory Coast One of the three elemental substances, or doshas, of the Ayurveda discipline of traditional medicine