Carla is the feminized version of Carl or Charles, from ceorl in Old English, which means "free man". Notable people with the name include:
Carla Abellana, a Filipina actress and commercial modelCarla Azar, a drummer and singer for the band Autolux.Carla Balingit a beauty queen from the PhilippinesCarla Barbarinoa retired Italian sprinter and hurdlerCarla Beurskens a prominent long distance runner from the NetherlandsCarla Bley, an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader.Carla Bonner, an Australian actressCarla Borrego, a Jamaican basketball and netball playerCarla Boyd, a retired Australian basketball player with two Olympic medals.Carla Bozulich, the lead singer, lyricist and founder of The Geraldine Fibbers and Evangelista.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 playerCarla Couto, a Portuguese football strikerCarla Del Poggio, an Italian cinema, theatre, and television actressCarla Del Ponte, the Chief Prosecutor at two United Nations international criminal law tribunals.Carla Dunlap, an American bodybuilding champion.Carla Dziwoki, an Australian netball playerCarla Emery DeLong, an author born in Los AngelesCarla Estrada, one of the foremost telenovela producers of Latin America.Carla Fracci, a ballet dancer and actressCarla Garapedian, a documentary filmmakerCarla Gavazzi, an Italian operatic sopranoCarla Geurts, a freestyle swimmerCarla Gravina, an Italian film actress.Carla Gugino, an American actress.Carla Hall, an American chefCarla Harryman, an American poet, essayist, and playwrightCarla Anderson Hills, an American lawyerCarla 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 writerCarla Khan, a Pakistan squash playerCarla Kihlstedt, an American violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist.Carla Körbes, a Brazilian ballet dancerCarla Laemmle, an American actressCarla Lane, pseudonym of Romana Barrack, an English television writer.Carla Lehmann, a Canadian film and television actressCarla MacLeod, a retired Canadian national women's hockey playerCarla Marins, a Brazilian actressCarla McGhee, an American basketball playerCarla Speed McNeil, an American science fiction writer, cartoonist, and illustratorCarla Mendonça, an English actressCarla Molema, a Dutch darts playerCarla Moreno, a Brazilian triathleteCarla Morrison, a Mexican singer, songwriter and guitarist.Carla Overbeck, an American soccer playerCarla Rahal, a Bulgarian actressCarla Rebecchi, an Olympic bronze medalist in field hockeyCarla Rhodes, an American ventriloquist, comedian and musicianCarla Rueda Cotito, a Peruvian volleyball playerCarla Ryan, a professional cyclist from AustraliaCarla Sacramento, a middle distance runner from Portugal.Carla J. Shatz, an American neurobiologistCarla Sozzani, an Italian art dealerCarla Stovall, a politician and former Attorney General of KansasCarla Suárez Navarro, a Spanish tennis player.Carla Swart, a South African cyclistCarla Thomas, the Queen of Memphis Soul.Carla Tuzzi, a retired Italian hurdlerCarla Ulbrich, an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and authorCarla Werner, a singer and songwriter from New ZealandCarla White, an American jazz vocalistCarla Zampatti, a fashion designer and businesswoman.