Sala (surname)
Sala is a surname with several origins. First, in Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish, Occitan, and Romanian, a topographic or occupational name meaning someone living in or employed at a hall or manor. Notable people with the surname include:
Arts and entertainment
Musicians
- Alessandro Sala (composer), Italian composer, organist, and pianist
- Flavio Sala, Italian Classical guitar player
- Ingrid Sala Santamaria, Filipina pianist
- Nicola Sala, Italian composer
- Oskar Sala, German composer
- Pep Sala, Catalan musician, songwriter and record producer
Other arts
- Anri Sala, Albanian artist
- Emilio Sala (painter), Spanish painter
- Emilio Sala (sculptor), Italian sculptor
- Emilio Grau Sala, Catalan painter
- Giuseppe Sala (music publisher), music publisher
- Richard Sala, American cartoonist, illustrator and comic book creator
Athletes
- Albert Sala, Spanish field hockey player
- Andrea Sala (footballer), Italian footballer
- Carlos Sala, retired Spanish hurdler
- Claudio Sala, former Italian association football player and current commentator
- Costantino Sala, Italian professional football player
- Darío Sala, Argentine football goalkeeper
- Emiliano Sala, Argentine football forward
- Giovanni Sala, Italian enduro rider and a six-time World Enduro Champion
- Guido Sala, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and world champion kart racer
- Lee Sala, American contender for the middleweight boxing crown in the 1940s and 1950s
- Luigi Sala, Italian football defender
- Luis Pérez-Sala, Catalan-Spanish racing driver
- Manuel Sala, Angolan football player
- Marco Sala (footballer, born 1886), Italian professional footballer, who played as a defender
- Marco Sala (footballer, born 1999), Italian football defender
- Patrizio Sala, Italian former footballer
- Ramón Sala, Spanish field hockey defender
- Valentino Sala, Italian football player and coach
Politics
- Giuseppe Sala, Italian politician
- Michel Sala is an Algerian-born French trade unionist and politician
- Milagro Sala, leader of the Tupac Amaru neighborhood association, Argentina
- Ricardo Sala Gaitán, Colombian industrial engineer and politician
Others
- Enric Sala Rosés Spanish writer and economist
- Roberto Sala Costarican-born American computer scientist in AI
- Mario Sala Catalan medical doctor
- Alessandra Sala, Italian computer scientist
- André Ricard Sala, Catalan industrial designer
- Enric Sala, marine ecologist and an Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic
- Galdino della Sala, tenth century Christian saint from Milan, Italy
- George Augustus Sala, British journalist
- Giuseppe Antonio Sala, Italian cardinal
- Jean Sala Breitenstein, United States federal judge
- Louis Sala-Molins, essayist and political philosophy professor at Paris-I and Toulouse-II universities
- Luc Sala, Dutch entrepreneur and writer
- Oscar Sala, Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist
- Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Spanish academic economist