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, (born 1990), Venezuelan actress, model, and artist.
 * Carla Barbarella, (born 1940), Italian politician
 * Carla Barbarino, retired Italian sprinter and hurdler
 * Carla Beck, Canadian politician
 * Carla Berrocal (born 1983), 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 (born 1998), 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 Cook, jazz vocalist
 * Carla Cortijo, Puerto Rican basketball player
 * Carla Cotwright-Williams, African-American mathematician
 * Carla Couto, Portuguese football striker
 * Carla Cunningham (born 1963), 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 Duff, brazilian waxer
 * 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 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 (born 1985), British politician
 * Carla MacLeod, retired Canadian national women's hockey player
 * Carla Marins, Brazilian 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 (born 1988), Bolivian footballer
 * Carla Padilla Ramos (born 1969), Mexican politician
 * Carla Qualtrough (born 1971), Canadian politician and former paralympian
 * Carla Quevedo (born 1988), Argentinian actress and designer
 * Carla Quint (born 1972), Dutch water polo player
 * Carla Rahal, Bulgarian actress
 * Carla Rebecchi, Olympic bronze medalist in field hockey
 * Carla Rhodes, American ventriloquist, comedian and musician
 * Carla Rueda Cotito, Peruvian volleyball player
 * Carla Ruocco (born 1973), Italian politician
 * Carla Ryan, professional cyclist from Australia
 * Carla Sacramento, middle distance runner from Portugal
 * Carla J. Shatz, American neurobiologist
 * 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 Werner, singer and songwriter from New Zealand
 * Carla White, American jazz vocalist
 * Carla Witte (1889–1943), German-Uruguayan painter, sculptor, and teacher
 * Carla Woodcock (born 1998), English actress
 * Carla Yules (born 1996), Indonesian beauty queen
 * Carla Yules (born 1996), 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 (2011)
 * Carla von Lahnstein, character from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love)

Other

 * Hurricane Carla, Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1961