Karla (name)

Karla is the feminine form of Karl.

People with this given name include;

• Karla Álvarez (1972–2013), Mexican actres
• Karla Aponte (born 1998), Puerto Rican model
• 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), a Dutch water polo goalkeeper
• Karla Borger (born 1988), German beach volleyball player
• Karla Burns (born 1954), American mezzo-soprano and actress
• Karla Carrillo (born 1988), Mexican beauty pageant
• 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 DeVito (born 1953), American singer
• Karla Drenner (born 1961), American academic and politician in Georgia
• Karla Echenique (born 1986), a 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 Gallardo, Ecuadorian-American businesswoman
• 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), 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 Jensen, American television personality
• Karla Jiménez (born 1982), Mexican beauty pageant
• Karla Karch-Gailus (born 1964), Canadian basketball player
• Karla Kienzl (born 1922), Austrian luger
• 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 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 Montana, American television actress
• 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 Satchell, 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 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 fictional male Soviet Intelligence officer in several novels by John le Carré
• Karla Sofen, Marvel Comics supervillain known as Moonstone
• Karla the Zebra, a fictional zebra on Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies

See also

• Karla Caves, a complex of ancient Buddhist rock-cut caves in India
• Karla (disambiguation), for other uses