Karla (name)
Karla is the feminine form of Karl.
People with this given name include;
- Karla Álvarez, Mexican actress
- Karla Aponte, Puerto Rican model
- Karla Bigham, Minnesota politician
- Karla Bernard, Canadian politician
- Karla Black, Scottish sculptor
- Karla Boddy, British racing cyclist
- Karla Bonoff, American singer-songwriter
- Karla van der Boon, Dutch water polo goalkeeper
- Karla Borger, German beach volleyball player
- Karla Burns, American mezzo-soprano and actress
- Karla Cabello, Cuban-American singer-songwriter
- Karla Carrillo, Mexican beauty pageant
- Karla Cossío, Mexican actress
- Karla Costa, Brazilian basketball player
- Karla Crome, English actress
- Karla Cubias, Salvadoran singer
- Karla DeVito, American singer
- Karla Drenner, American academic and politician in Georgia
- Karla Echenique, Dominican Republic volleyball player
- Karla Erbová, Czech writer
- Karla Estrada, Filipina actress and singer
- Karla Fernández, Venezuelan weightlifter
- Karla Frister, German coxswain
- Karla Gallardo, Ecuadorian-American businesswoman
- Karla González Cruz, Mexican politician
- Karla Gower, American public relations professor
- Karla Grant, Australian presenter, producer and journalist
- Karla M. Gray, American judge, first woman to serve as a state Chief Justice
- Karla Gutöhrlein née Knospe, German dancer and film actress
- Karla Hart, Australian Noongar movie director and presenter
- Karla Henry, Filipino-Canadian beauty pageant
- Karla Höcker, German writer and musician
- Karla F.C. Holloway, American legal scholar
- Karla Homolka, Canadian serial killer
- Karla Huston, American poet
- Karla Jay, American feminist and gender studies academic
- Karla Jensen, American television personality
- Karla Jiménez, Mexican beauty pageant
- Karla Karch-Gailus, Canadian basketball player
- Karla Kienzl, Austrian luger
- Karla Kirkegaard, American geneticist and microbiologist
- Karla Kuskin, American children's author, poet, and illustrator
- Karla LaVey, American radio host, former High Priestess of the Church of Satan
- Karla Linke, East German breaststroke swimmer
- Karla López, Swedish Green Party politician
- Karla MacFarlane, Canadian politician
- Karla Martínez, Mexican TV Show Host
- Karla Mayer, German Nazi death camp guard
- Karla Monroig, Puerto Rican actress, model and television host
- Karla Montana, American television actress
- Karla Moreno, Guatemalan weightlifter
- Karla Moskowitz, American justice
- Karla Cheatham Mosley, American actress and singer
- Karla Nelsen, American bodybuilder
- Karla Nieto, Mexican footballer
- Karla Ortiz, Bolivian volleyball player
- Karla Peijs, Dutch politician, minister of Transport and Waterworks
- Karla Peniche, Mexican model
- Karla Poewe, German-born American anthropologist and historian
- Karla Pollmann, German classical scholar
- Karla Pretorius, South African netball player
- Karla Quinn, British figure skater
- Karla Reuter, Australian soccer player
- Karla Roffeis, German volleyball player
- Karla Rothstein, American architect
- Karla Satchell, American microbiologist
- Karla Schmidt, German writer and editor
- Karla Schramm, American film actress
- Karla Rosa da Silva, Brazilian pole vaulter
- Karla Šitić, Croatian distance swimmer
- Karla Šlechtová, Czech politician and economist
- Karla Souza, Mexican actress
- Karla Stephens-Tolstoy, Canadian businesswoman
- Karla Suárez, Cuban writer
- Karla Tamburrelli, American actress and television producer
- Karla Tritten, Canadian wheelchair basketball player
- Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984
- Karla Urrutia, Mexican squash player
- Karla Villalobos, Costa Rican footballer
- Karla Villarreal Benassini, Mexican politician
- Karla Vreš, Croatian basketball player
- Karla Wheelock, Mexican mountaineer, writer, and lecturer
- Karla Jessen Williamson, Greenlandic epistemologist and Director of the Arctic Institute of North America
- Karla Woisnitza, 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
