Gala (given name)
Gala is a feminine given name with multiple origins from different cultures. As a Spanish name, it is a feminine version of the name Gallus, derived either from a Latin cognomen meaning rooster or meaning "man from Gaul". Saint Gall was a 6th-century saint. It is also a Russian diminutive form of the name Galina, from the Greek name Galênê meaning "calm", or a variant of the name Helen. As an English name, it might be used in reference to the word gala, meaning "festival"''.''
People
- Gala Aleksić, Serbian actress
- Gala Čaki, Serbian painter, art collector, and organizer of the Gala International Symposium of Art
- Sofía Gala Castiglione Casanova, Argentine actress known as Sofía Gala
- Gala Dalí, born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, Russian-born wife of poet Paul Éluard and later of artist Salvador Dalí, who were both prominent in surrealism, and a muse for many other writers and artists
- Gala Évora, Spanish singer and actress
- Gala León García, Spanish professional tennis player
- Gala Montes, Mexican actress
- Gala Porras-Kim, Colombian interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles
- Gala Rizzatto, Italian pop singer and songwriter known as Gala
Pen name
- Gala Galaction, pen name of Romanian Orthodox clergyman, theologian, writer, journalist, and left-wing activist Grigore or Grigorie Pisculescu