Karla (name)

Karla is the feminine form of Karl.

People with this given name include;


 * Karla Álvarez (1972–2013), Mexican actress
 * Karla Aponte (born 1998), Puerto Rican model
 * Karla Avelar (born 1978), Salvadoran activist
 * Karla Barrera (born 1984), Puerto Rican windsurfer
 * Karla Bernard, Canadian politician
 * Karla Bigham (born 1979), Minnesota politician
 * Karla Black, Scottish sculptor
 * Karla Boddy (born 1985), British racing cyclist
 * Karla Bonoff (born 1951), American singer-songwriter
 * Karla van der Boon (born 1968), Dutch water polo goalkeeper
 * Karla Borger (born 1988), German beach volleyball player
 * Karla Borovská (born 1932), Czech speed skater
 * Karla Burns (1954–2021), American mezzo-soprano and actress
 * Karla Cabello (born 1997), Cuban-American singer-songwriter
 * Karla Cardoso (born 1981), Brazilian judoka
 * Karla Carrillo (born 1988), Mexican beauty pageant
 * Karla Conga (born 1994), Peruvian footballer
 * Karla Conway (born 1946), American model
 * Karla Cossío (born 1985), Mexican actress
 * Karla Costa (born 1978), Brazilian basketball player
 * Karla Crome (born 1988), English actress
 * Karla Cubias (born 1983), Salvadoran singer
 * Karla Cuevas, Honduran justice minister
 * Karla DeVito (born 1953), American singer
 * Karla Drenner (born 1961), American academic and politician in Georgia
 * Karla Echenique (born 1986), Dominican Republic volleyball player
 * Karla Erbová (born 1933), Czech writer
 * Karla Estrada (born 1974), Filipina actress and singer
 * Karla Fernández (born 1977), Venezuelan weightlifter
 * Karla Frister (fl. 1958–62), German coxswain
 * Karla González Cruz (born 1976), Mexican politician
 * Karla Gower (born 1957), American public relations professor
 * Karla Grant, Australian presenter, producer and journalist
 * Karla M. Gray (1947–2017), American judge, first woman to serve as a state Chief Justice
 * Karla Gutöhrlein née Knospe (born 1910, date of death unknown), German dancer and film actress
 * Karla Hart, Australian Noongar movie director and presenter
 * Karla Henry (born 1986), Filipino-Canadian beauty pageant
 * Karla Höcker (1901–1992), German writer and musician
 * Karla F.C. Holloway (born 1949), American legal scholar
 * Karla Homolka (born 1970), Canadian serial killer
 * Karla Huston (born 1949), American poet
 * Karla Jay (born 1947), American feminist and gender studies academic
 * Karla Jiménez (born 1982), Mexican beauty pageant
 * Karla Karch-Gailus (born 1964), Canadian basketball player
 * Karla Kienzl (1922–2018), Austrian luger
 * Karla Kirkegaard (born 1954), American geneticist and microbiologist
 * Karla Klarić (born 1994), Croatian volleyball player
 * Karla Kuskin (1932–2009), American children's author, poet, and illustrator
 * Karla LaVey (born 1952), American radio host, former High Priestess of the Church of Satan
 * Karla Linke (born 1960), East German breaststroke swimmer
 * Karla López (born 1977), Swedish Green Party politician
 * Karla MacFarlane (born 1969), Canadian (Nova Scotia) politician
 * Karla Máchová (1853–1920), Czech teacher, women's rights activist, politician
 * Karla Martínez (born 1976), Mexican TV Show Host
 * Karla Mayer (1918–?), German Nazi death camp guard
 * Karla Monroig (born 1979), Puerto Rican actress, model and television host
 * Karla Moreno (born 1988), Guatemalan weightlifter
 * Karla Moskowitz (born ca. 1942), American justice
 * Karla Cheatham Mosley (born 1981), American actress and singer
 * Karla Nelsen (born 1965), American bodybuilder
 * Karla Nieto (born 1995), Mexican footballer
 * Karla Ortiz (born 1991), Bolivian volleyball player
 * Karla Peijs (born 1944), Dutch politician, minister of Transport and Waterworks
 * Karla Peniche (born 1988), Mexican model
 * Karla Poewe (born 1941), German-born American anthropologist and historian
 * Karla Pollmann (born 1963), German classical scholar
 * Karla Pretorius (born 1990), South African netball player
 * Karla Quinn (born 1988), British figure skater
 * Karla Reuter (born 1984), Australian soccer player
 * Karla Roffeis (born 1958), German volleyball player
 * Karla Rothstein (born 1966), American architect
 * Karla Rubilar (born 1977), Chilean politician
 * Karla Satchell, (born 1975), American microbiologist
 * Karla Schmidt (born 1974), German writer and editor
 * Karla Schramm (1891–1980), American film actress
 * Karla Rosa da Silva (born 1984), Brazilian pole vaulter
 * Karla Šitić (born 1992), Croatian distance swimmer
 * Karla Šlechtová (born 1977), Czech politician and economist
 * Karla Souza (born 1985), Mexican actress
 * Karla Stephens-Tolstoy (born 1969), Canadian businesswoman
 * Karla Suárez (born 1969), Cuban writer
 * Karla Tamburrelli, American actress and television producer
 * Karla Tritten (born 1978), Canadian wheelchair basketball player
 * Karla Faye Tucker (1959–1998), the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984
 * Karla Urrutia (born 1994), Mexican squash player
 * Karla Villalobos (born 1986), Costa Rican footballer
 * Karla Villarreal Benassini (born 1975), Mexican politician
 * Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (born 1989), Ecuadorian-American writer
 * Karla Vreš (born 1999), Croatian basketball player
 * Karla Wheelock (born 1968), Mexican mountaineer, writer, and lecturer
 * Karla Jessen Williamson (born 1954), Greenlandic epistemologist and Director of the Arctic Institute of North America
 * Karla Woisnitza (born 1952), German artist
 * Karla Zadnik, American optometrist

Fictional characters

 * Karla, a character in Jacqueline Susann's novel Once Is Not Enough
 * Karla, a fictional male Soviet Intelligence officer in several novels by John le Carré
 * Karla, a fictional swordmaster from the tactical role-playing game Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade
 * Karla Bentham, a character in the BBC series Waterloo Road
 * Karla-Heinrike Langer, a fictional character from Strike Witches
 * Karla Sofen, Marvel Comics supervillain known as Moonstone
 * Karla the Zebra, a fictional zebra on Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies