Carla
Carla is the feminized version of Carl, Carlos or Charles, from ceorl in Old English, which means "free man".
People
Notable people with the name include:- Carla Lazzari, French singer and former member of the children's music group Kids United
- Carla Abellana, Filipina actress and commercial model
- Carla Angola, Venezuelan journalist and television presenter
- Carla Azar, drummer and singer for the band Autolux
- Carla Baratta,, Venezuelan actress, model, and artist.
- Carla Barbarella,, Italian politician
- Carla Barbarino, retired Italian sprinter and hurdler
- Carla Beck, Canadian politician
- Carla Berrocal, Spanish comics illustrator
- Carla Berube, American college basketball coach
- Carla Beurskens, prominent long-distance runner from the Netherlands
- Carla Blank, American choreographer, writer, and editor
- Carla Bley, American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader
- Carla Bonner, Australian actress
- Carla Borrego, Jamaican basketball and netball player
- Carla Boyce, Scottish footballer
- Carla Boyd, retired Australian basketball player with 2 Olympic medals
- Carla Bozulich, lead singer, lyricist and founder of The Geraldine Fibbers
- Carla Bruni, Italian-French singer, songwriter and former model
- Carla Cassidy, American romance novelist
- Carla Koplin Cohn, American secretary, personal assistant to Hank Aaron, Baseball Hall of Fame player.
- Carla Cook, jazz vocalist
- Carla Cortijo, Puerto Rican basketball player
- Carla Cotwright-Williams, African-American mathematician
- Carla Couto, Portuguese football striker
- Carla Cunningham, American politician
- Carla Del Poggio, Italian cinema, theatre, and television actress
- Carla Del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor at two United Nations international criminal law tribunals
- Carla Dunlap, American bodybuilding champion.
- Carla Dziwoki, Australian netball player
- Carla J. Easton, Scottish singer-songwriter
- Carla Emery DeLong, American author
- Carla Estrada, Latin American telenovela producer
- Carla Fracci, ballet dancer and actress
- Carla Garapedian, documentary filmmaker
- Carla Gavazzi, Italian operatic soprano
- Carla Geurts, freestyle swimmer
- Carla Giuliano, Italian politician
- Carla Gravina, Italian film actress
- Carla Guevara Laforteza, Filipino musical theater actress
- Carla Gugino, American actress
- Carla Hall, American chef
- Carla Harryman, American poet, essayist, and playwright
- Carla Anderson Hills, American lawyer
- Carla Howell, President of the Center For Small Government
- Carla Humphries, commercial model and actress in the Philippines
- Carla Jimenez, American television and film actress
- Carla Kelly, American romance writer
- Carla Khan, Pakistan squash player
- Carla Kihlstedt, American violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist
- Carla Körbes, Brazilian ballet dancer
- Carla Laemmle, American actress
- Carla Lane, pseudonym of Romana Barrack, an English television writer
- Carla Lehmann, Canadian film and television actress
- Carla Lockhart, British politician
- Carla MacLeod, retired Canadian national women's hockey player
- Carla Marins, Brazilian actress
- Carla Martinez, Filipino musical theater actress
- Carla McGhee, American basketball player
- Carla Speed McNeil, American science fiction writer, cartoonist, and illustrator
- Carla Mendonça, English actress
- Carla Molema, Dutch darts player
- Carla Moreno, Brazilian triathlete
- Carla Morrison, Mexican singer, songwriter and guitarist
- Carla Nunes, Brazilian footballer
- Carla Overbeck, American soccer player
- Carla Padilla, Bolivian footballer
- Carla Padilla Ramos, Mexican politician
- Carla Qualtrough, Canadian politician and former paralympian
- Carla Quevedo, Argentinian actress and designer
- Carla Quint, Dutch water polo player
- Carla Rebecchi, Olympic bronze medalist in field hockey
- Carla Rhodes, American ventriloquist, comedian and musician
- Carla Rueda Cotito, Peruvian volleyball player
- Carla Ruocco, Italian politician
- Carla Ryan, professional cyclist from Australia
- Carla Sacramento, middle distance runner from Portugal
- Carla J. Shatz, American neurobiologist
- Carla Shibley, Canadian para-cyclist
- Carla Maria da Silva, Brazilian footballer
- Carla Sozzani, Italian art dealer
- Carla Stovall, politician and former Attorney General of Kansas
- Carla Suárez Navarro, Spanish tennis player
- Carla Swart, South African cyclist
- Carla Thomas, Queen of Memphis Soul
- Carla Tuzzi, retired Italian hurdler
- Carla Ulbrich, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author
- Carla Van Zon, New Zealand artistic director
- Carla Werner, singer and songwriter from New Zealand
- Carla White, American jazz vocalist
- Carla Witte, German-Uruguayan painter, sculptor, and teacher
- Carla Woodcock, English actress
- Carla Yules, Indonesian beauty queen
- Carla Zampatti, fashion designer and businesswoman
Fictional characters
- Carla Connor, character from the British soap opera, Coronation Street
- Carla Crozier, character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
- Carla Espinosa, character from Scrubs
- Carla Gray, character on One Life to Live
- Carla Gunderson, young female Spix's Macaw character from animated movie Rio 2
- Carla Mitchell, character from the British soap opera, EastEnders
- Carla Tortelli, waitress on the TV show Cheers
- Carla Veloso, Cars series characters Female Auto racing World Grand Prix sports fiction Cars 2
- Carla von Lahnstein, character from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe
- Lola and Carla, two characters from Sega's Joypolis
Other
- Hurricane Carla, Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1961