Carla

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Carla is the feminized version of Carl, Carlos or Charles, from ceorl in Old English, which means "free man".[1] Notable people with the name include:

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

Fictional characters[]

  • , a character interpreting a rich girl from the popular Spain TV show, Elite (TV series)
  • Carla Connor, a character from the British soap opera, Coronation Street
  • Carla Crozier, a character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
  • Carla Espinosa, a character from Scrubs
  • Carla Gray, a character on One Life to Live
  • Carla Gunderson, a young female Spix's Macaw character from animated movie Rio 2
  • Carla Mitchell, a character from the British soap opera, EastEnders
  • Carla Tortelli, a waitress on the TV show Cheers
  • Carla von Lahnstein, a character from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love)
  • , a character from the manga and anime Attack on Titan

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford paperback reference. Oxford University Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1. OCLC 67869278. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
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