Adela (given name)
Adela is a female given name, the latinate form of Adele, meaning 'noble' or 'serene'. Adela is a male name in Ethiopia, meaning 'favours', and a female name in Arabic.
Notable people named Adela include:
Saints
- Adela of Pfalzel, saint and founder of convent of Pfalzel
- Adela of France, saint, Duchess of Normandy, and Countess of Flanders
- Adela of Normandy, saint, daughter of William I of England
- Adela, mother of Saint Trudo
Pre-modern world
- Adela of Champagne, Queen of France as the third wife of King Louis VII, later regent for her son
- Adela of Flanders, Queen consort of Denmark by marriage to King Canute IV and Duchess of Apulia
- Adela of France, Duchess of Normandy and Countess of Flanders
- Adela of Hamaland, sovereign Countess of Hamaland in the Netherlands
- Adela of Meissen, Danish Queen consort, spouse of King Sweyn III of Denmark
- Adela of Milan, Margravine of Milan by marriage
- Adela of Normandy, daughter of William I of England and sister of Henry I of England
- Adela of Pfalzel, saint and founder of convent of Pfalzel
- Adela of Ponthieu, Countess of Surrey
- Adela de Warenne, Anglo-Angevin noblewoman
Modern world
- Adéla (singer), Slovak singer-songwriter and dancer
- Lady Adela, Kurdish ruler of the Jaff tribe
- Adella Brown Bailey, American politician and suffragist
- Adéla Bruns, Czech sports shooter
- Adéla Cernousek, French golfer
- Adela Coit, German women's suffragist
- Adella Colvin, American yarn dyer
- Adela Cortina, Spanish philosopher
- Adela Garcia, Dominican IFBB Pro Fitness competitor
- Adéla Hanzlíčková, Czech freestyle wrestler
- Adela Helić, Serbian volleyball player
- Adéla Holubová, Czech mountain biker
- Adella Hunt Logan, American writer, educator and suffragist
- Adéla Lehovcová, Czech field hockey player
- Adella Prentiss Hughes, American pianist
- Adela Jušić, visual artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Adela Micha, Mexican journalist
- Adela Milčinović, Croatian feminist author, critic and suffragette
- Adela Navarro Bello, Mexican journalist
- Adela Neffa, Uruguayan-born Argentine sculptor
- Adela Noriega, Mexican actress
- Adéla Matasová, Czech sculptor
- Adéla Odehnalová, Czech former football defender
- Adella Kean Zametkin, American writer and activist
- Adela Pankhurst, British-Australian political activist
- Adella M. Parker, American suffragist and politician
- Adela Peña, American violinist
- Adéla Pivoňková, Czech former football midfielder
- Adela Popescu, Romanian actress and singer
- Adella Prentiss Hughes, American pianist and impresario
- Adela Raz, Afghan politician
- Adéla Šapovalivová, Czech ice hockey player
- Adela Sequeyro, Mexican journalist, actress, filmmaker and screenwriter'
- Adéla Škrdlová, Czech ice hockey player
- Adéla Stříšková, Czech handball player
- Adela Rogers St. Johns, American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter
- Adela Świątek, Polish mathematician
- Adella Turner, American activist
- Adela Verne, English pianist
- Adela Vinczeová, Slovak television presenter
- Adella Wotherspoon, American, youngest and last living survivor of the General Slocum ship disaster
- Adela Xenopol, Romanian feminist and writer