Carla

For other uses, see Carla (disambiguation).

Carla is the feminized version of Carl, Carlos or Charles, from ceorl in Old English, which means "free man".

People

Notable people with the name include:

• Carla Lazzari, French singer and former member of the children's music group Kids United
• Carla Abellana, Filipina actress and commercial model
• Carla Angola, Venezuelan journalist and television presenter
• Carla Azar, drummer and singer for the band Autolux
• Carla Baratta, (born 1990), Venezuelan actress, model, and artist.
• Carla Barbarella, (born 1940), Italian politician
• Carla Barbarino, retired Italian sprinter and hurdler
• Carla Beck, Canadian politician
• Carla Berrocal (born 1983), Spanish comics illustrator
• Carla Berube, American college basketball coach
• Carla Beurskens, prominent long-distance runner from the Netherlands
• Carla Blank, American choreographer, writer, and editor
• Carla Bley, American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader
• Carla Bonner, Australian actress
• Carla Borrego, Jamaican basketball and netball player
• Carla Boyce (born 1998), Scottish footballer
• Carla Boyd, retired Australian basketball player with 2 Olympic medals
• Carla Bozulich, lead singer, lyricist and founder of The Geraldine Fibbers
• Carla Bruni, Italian-French singer, songwriter and former model
• Carla Cassidy, American romance novelist
• Carla Cook, jazz vocalist
• Carla Cortijo, Puerto Rican basketball player
• Carla Cotwright-Williams, African-American mathematician
• Carla Couto, Portuguese football striker
• Carla Cunningham (born 1963), American politician
• Carla Del Poggio, Italian cinema, theatre, and television actress
• Carla Del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor at two United Nations international criminal law tribunals
• Carla Duff, brazilian waxer
• Carla Dunlap, American bodybuilding champion.
• Carla Dziwoki, Australian netball player
• Carla J. Easton, Scottish singer-songwriter
• Carla Emery DeLong, American author
• Carla Estrada, Latin American telenovela producer
• Carla Fracci, ballet dancer and actress
• Carla Gallardo (born 1999), Spanish long-distance runner
• Carla Garapedian, documentary filmmaker
• Carla Gavazzi, Italian operatic soprano
• Carla Geurts, freestyle swimmer
• Carla Giuliano, Italian politician
• Carla Gravina, Italian film actress
• Carla Gugino, American actress
• Carla Hall, American chef
• Carla Harryman, American poet, essayist, and playwright
• Carla Anderson Hills, American lawyer
• Carla Howell, President of the Center For Small Government
• Carla Humphries, commercial model and actress in the Philippines
• Carla Jimenez, American television and film actress
• Carla Kelly, American romance writer
• Carla Khan, Pakistan squash player
• Carla Kihlstedt, American violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist
• Carla Körbes, Brazilian ballet dancer
• Carla Laemmle, American actress
• Carla Lane, pseudonym of Romana Barrack, an English television writer
• Carla Lehmann, Canadian film and television actress
• Carla Lockhart (born 1985), British politician
• Carla MacLeod, retired Canadian national women's hockey player
• Carla Marins, Brazilian actress
• Carla McGhee, American basketball player
• Carla Speed McNeil, American science fiction writer, cartoonist, and illustrator
• Carla Mendonça, English actress
• Carla Molema, Dutch darts player
• Carla Moreno, Brazilian triathlete
• Carla Morrison, Mexican singer, songwriter and guitarist
• Carla Nunes, Brazilian footballer
• Carla Overbeck, American soccer player
• Carla Padilla (born 1988), Bolivian footballer
• Carla Padilla Ramos (born 1969), Mexican politician
• Carla Qualtrough (born 1971), Canadian politician and former paralympian
• Carla Quevedo (born 1988), Argentinian actress and designer
• Carla Quint (born 1972), Dutch water polo player
• Carla Rahal, Bulgarian actress
• Carla Rebecchi, Olympic bronze medalist in field hockey
• Carla Rhodes, American ventriloquist, comedian and musician
• Carla Rueda Cotito, Peruvian volleyball player
• Carla Ruocco (born 1973), Italian politician
• Carla Ryan, professional cyclist from Australia
• Carla Sacramento, middle distance runner from Portugal
• Carla J. Shatz, American neurobiologist
• Carla Maria da Silva, Brazilian footballer
• Carla Sozzani, Italian art dealer
• Carla Stovall, politician and former Attorney General of Kansas
• Carla Suárez Navarro, Spanish tennis player
• Carla Swart, South African cyclist
• Carla Thomas, Queen of Memphis Soul
• Carla Tuzzi, retired Italian hurdler
• Carla Ulbrich, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author
• Carla Werner, singer and songwriter from New Zealand
• Carla White, American jazz vocalist
• Carla Witte (1889–1943), German-Uruguayan painter, sculptor, and teacher
• Carla Woodcock (born 1998), English actress
• Carla Yules (born 1996), Indonesian beauty queen

• Carla Zampatti, fashion designer and businesswoman

Fictional characters

• Carla Connor, character from the British soap opera, Coronation Street
• Carla Crozier, character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
• Carla Espinosa, character from Scrubs
• Carla Gray, character on One Life to Live
• Carla Gunderson, young female Spix's Macaw character from animated movie Rio 2
• Carla Mitchell, character from the British soap opera, EastEnders
• Carla Tortelli, waitress on the TV show Cheers
• Carla Veloso, Cars series characters Female Auto racing World Grand Prix sports fiction Cars 2 (2011)
• Carla von Lahnstein, character from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love)

Other

• Hurricane Carla, Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1961

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Carla
• All pages with titles containing Carla
• Calla (name)
• Carli (given name)
• Carly (name)
• Charla (name)
• Karla (name)
• Carlia S. Westcott