Ala (name)
Ala or Alaa is an Arabic masculine given name meaning "elevation, exaltedness, highness, loftiness, sublimity" or "honor and glory, might, power, dignity" or "prestige, greatness, noble, high in rank" or "eminence, glorious, grandeur" or "high in position and status". The name is also used as a feminine given name.
Alaa is an Arabic female name, meaning "uncountable blessings".
Ala is also a surname. Like Alaa Abu Elasal the famous orthopaedic surgeon from Nazareth.
Given name
Notable people with the given name Ala include:- Ala al-Din Atsiz, Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty from 1213 to 1214
- Ala al-Din Ali ibn Shuja al-Din Mohammad, aka Zia al-Din Ali, last Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty, from 1214 to 1215
- Alā ad-Dīn Kayqubād bin Kaykāvūs, aka Kayqubad I, Seljuq Sultan of Rûm
- Ala al-Din Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qurashi al-Dimashq, or Ibn al-Nafis,, Arab Muslim polymath
- Ala ul-Haq, Islamic scholar of Bengal
- Ata-Malik Juvayni, Persian historian
- Alā ud-Dīn Atsiz, Khwarazm Shah from 1127 until his death in 1156
- Ala ad-Din Tekish,, Khwarazm Shah from 1172
- Ala ad-Din Muhammad II of Khwarezm, Khwarazm Shah from 1200
- Ala ud din Masud, Sultan of Delhi from 1242 to 1246
- Ala ud-Daula Simnani, Persian Sūfī, writer and teacher
- Ala Al-Kuwaikabi, Saudi Arabian former footballer
- Ala Bashir, Iraqi painter, sculptor and plastic surgeon
- Ala Boratyn, Polish singer also known as simply Ala
- Ala Mândâcanu, Moldovan politician and journalist
- Ala Nemerenco, Moldovan politician
- Ala Stanford, American physician
- Ala Yaacoubi, Tunisian rapper known as Weld El 15
- Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Egyptian blogger and dissident
- Alaa Abdelnaby, Egyptian-American retired professional basketball player, current broadcaster/analyst
- Alaa Batayneh, Jordanian businessman and politician
- Alaa Gatea, Iraqi footballer
- Alaa Ibrahim, Egyptian footballer
- Alaa Mubarak, Egyptian businessman
- Alaa Murabit, Canadian physician, commissioner
- Alaa Najjar, physician, Wikipedian, and internet activist
- Alaa Al-Sasi, Yemeni footballer
- Alaa Al Shbli, Syrian footballer
- Alaa Al-Zahra, Iraqi footballer
- Alaa Abu Elasal, Nazareth, Orthopaedic Surgeon
Surname
Notable people with the surname include:- Efkan Ala, Turkish civil servant and government minister
- Hossein Ala', former prime minister of Iran