Marla (disambiguation)

Marla is a female given name in English. It is a variant of the name Marlene, which comes from Mary Magdalene, the biblical woman to whom Jesus Christ first appeared after his resurrection.

In Hiberno-English, the word marla (called marla in Irish) means modelling clay.

People named Marla[]

Marla Adams, American soap opera actress
Marla Gibbs, American actress
Marla Glen, American jazz singer
Marla Hanson, American screenwriter and ex-model, attack victim
Marla Heasley, American film and TV actress
Marla Landi, British film actress
Marla Lukofsky, Canadian stand-up comedian
Marla Maples (Trump), American actress and model, married to Donald Trump from 1993 to 1997
Marla Olmstead, American artist, considered to be a child prodigy of abstract art
Marla Pennington, American actress
Marla Runyan, American marathon runner, legally blind
Marla Ruzicka, American activist and aid worker, killed by a car-bomb in Iraq
Marla Shapiro, Canadian medical reporter
Marla Sokoloff, American actress
Marla Streb, professional mountain bike racer

In fiction[]

Marla McGivers, Star Trek: historian aboard the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
Marla Singer, female character from the 1996 novel Fight Club
Marla, Colonel Raeburn's Venusian secretary in the 1962 television series Space Patrol.
Marla Grayson, the main character in the 2020 black comedy film I Care a Lot

Other[]

Marla faith, the traditional religion of the Mari people of the republic of Mari El, Russia
Marla (unit), a unit of measuring land (surface) in Southern Asia approximately equal to 25 sq yards or 225 sq ft (20.9 m²)
The rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), a small desert marsupial of Australia

Places[]

Marla, South Australia, a town and locality
- Marla Airport

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