Carla
Carla is the feminized version of Carl, Carlos or Charles, from ceorl in Old English, which means "free man". Notable people with the name include:
- Carla, a French singer, a former member of the children's music group Kids United
- Carla Abellana, a Filipina actress and commercial model
- Carla Azar, a drummer and singer for the band Autolux
- Carla Balingit, a Filipina beauty queen
- Carla Barbarino, a retired Italian sprinter and hurdler
- Carla Beck, Canadian politician
- Carla Berrocal, Spanish comics illustrator
- Carla Beurskens a prominent long-distance runner from the Netherlands
- Carla Blank, an American choreographer, writer, and editor
- Carla Bley, an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader
- Carla Bonner, an Australian actress
- Carla Borrego, a Jamaican basketball and netball player
- Carla Boyd, a retired Australian basketball player with 2 Olympic medals
- Carla Bozulich, the lead singer, lyricist and founder of The Geraldine Fibbers
- Carla Bruni, an Italian-French singer, songwriter and former model
- Carla Cassidy, an American romance novelist
- Carla Cook, a jazz vocalist
- Carla Cortijo, a Puerto Rican basketball player
- Carla Cotwright-Williams, African-American mathematician
- Carla Couto, a Portuguese football striker
- Carla Cunningham, American politician
- Carla Del Poggio, an Italian cinema, theatre, and television actress
- Carla Del Ponte, the Chief Prosecutor at two United Nations international criminal law tribunals
- Carla Dunlap, an American bodybuilding champion.
- Carla Dziwoki, an Australian netball player
- Carla J. Easton, Scottish singer-songwriter
- Carla Emery DeLong, an author born in Los Angeles
- Carla Estrada, one of the foremost telenovela producers of Latin America
- Carla Fracci, a ballet dancer and actress
- Carla Garapedian, a documentary filmmaker
- Carla Gavazzi, an Italian operatic soprano
- Carla Geurts, a freestyle swimmer
- Carla Gravina, an Italian film actress
- Carla Gugino, an American actress
- Carla Hall, an American chef
- Carla Harryman, an American poet, essayist, and playwright
- Carla Anderson Hills, an American lawyer
- Carla Howell, President of the Center For Small Government
- Carla Humphries, a commercial model and actress in the Philippines
- Carla Jimenez, an American television and film actress
- Carla Kelly, another American romance writer
- Carla Khan, a Pakistan squash player
- Carla Kihlstedt, an American violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist
- Carla Körbes, a Brazilian ballet dancer
- Carla Laemmle, an American actress
- Carla Lane, pseudonym of Romana Barrack, an English television writer
- Carla Lehmann, a Canadian film and television actress
- Carla Lockhart, British politician
- Carla MacLeod, a retired Canadian national women's hockey player
- Carla Marins, a Brazilian actress
- Carla McGhee, an American basketball player
- Carla Speed McNeil, an American science fiction writer, cartoonist, and illustrator
- Carla Mendonça, an English actress
- Carla Molema, a Dutch darts player
- Carla Moreno, a Brazilian triathlete
- Carla Morrison, a Mexican singer, songwriter and guitarist
- Carla Overbeck, an 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 Rahal, a Bulgarian actress
- Carla Rebecchi, an Olympic bronze medalist in field hockey
- Carla Rhodes, an American ventriloquist, comedian and musician
- Carla Rueda Cotito, a Peruvian volleyball player
- Carla Ryan, a professional cyclist from Australia
- Carla Sacramento, a middle distance runner from Portugal
- Carla J. Shatz, an American neurobiologist
- Carla Sozzani, an Italian art dealer
- Carla Stovall, a politician and former Attorney General of Kansas
- Carla Suárez Navarro, a Spanish tennis player
- Carla Swart, a South African cyclist
- Carla Thomas, the Queen of Memphis Soul
- Carla Tuzzi, a retired Italian hurdler
- Carla Ulbrich, an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author
- Carla Werner, a singer and songwriter from New Zealand
- Carla White, an American jazz vocalist
- Carla Witte, German-Uruguayan painter, sculptor, and teacher
- Carla Yules, Indonesian beauty queen
- Carla Zampatti, a fashion designer and businesswoman
Fictional characters
- Carla Connor, a character from the British soap opera, Coronation Street
- Carla Crozier, a character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
- Carla Espinosa, a character from Scrubs
- Carla Gray, a character on One Life to Live
- Carla Gunderson, a young female Spix's Macaw character from animated movie Rio 2
- Carla Mitchell, a character from the British soap opera, EastEnders
- Carla Tortelli, a waitress on the TV show Cheers
- Carla von Lahnstein, a character from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe
