Carla

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
• Carla Balingit, a Filipina beauty queen
• Carla Barbarino, a retired Italian sprinter and hurdler
• Carla Beck, Canadian politician
• Carla Berrocal (born 1983), Spanish comics illustrator
• 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 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
• 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 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 Yules (born 1996), Indonesian beauty queen
• Carla Zampatti, a fashion designer and businesswoman

For other uses, see Carla (disambiguation).

Fictional characters

• 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)

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)

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.