# Mala

Mala may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment
### Fictional characters

* Mala (Amazon), an Amazon from Wonder Woman's side of the DC Universe
* Mala (Kryptonian), a villain from Superman's corner of the DC Universe

### Films and television

* Mala (1941 film), a Bollywood drama film
* Mala (1991 film) [sr], a Yugoslav drama film with Danilo Stojković
* Mala (2013 film), an Argentine crime film

### Music

* Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou, a 2002 Greek soundtrack album by Anna Vissi
** "Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou" (song), a song from the album
* Mala (Yolandita Monge album), 2008
** "Mala" (Yolandita Monge song), a song from the album
* Mala (Devendra Banhart album), 2013
* "Mala" (6ix9ine song), 2018
* "Mala", a song by Maluma from Magia (Maluma album), 2012
* "Mala", a song by Peso Pluma from Éxodo, 2024
* Mala Records, a record label

## Languages

* Mala language, a Papuan language
* Mala language (Nigeria), a language of Nigeria

## People
### Given name

* Mala (Pakistani singer) (1939–1990), Pakistani playback singer of Urdu and Punjabi films
* Mala Aravindan (1939–2015), Malayalam film actor
* Mala Gaonkar (born 1969), American businessperson
* Mala Htun (1969 or 1970–2025), American political scientist
* Mala Kachalla (1941–2007), former governor of Borno State in Nigeria
* Mala Powers (1931–2007), American actress
* Mala Rodríguez, also known as La Mala, La Mala María, Spanish hip hop rapper
* Mala Roy, Indian politician
* Mala Sinha (born 1936), Indian actress
* Mala Zimetbaum (1922–1944), Belgian woman of Polish Jewish descent executed for escaping from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

### Nickname

* Malá (footballer) (born 1979), Bissau-Guinean football midfielder
* Mala (musician), a member of Deep Dub duo Digital Mystikz

### Surname

* Doueugui Mala (born 1993), Ivorian footballer
* Esat Mala (born 1998), Albanian footballer
* Ray Mala (1906–1952), Native American movie actor
* Shormi Mala, Bangladeshi stage, television and film actress
* Zef Mala (1915–1979), Albanian publicist and communist activist

## Places
### Asia

* Mala, Homalin, a village in Burma
* Mala, Kerala, a village in southern India
* Mala, Nepal, a village and village development committee
* Mala, a village in Jaghori District, Ghazni, Afghanistan

### Europe

* Mała, a village in Poland
* Mäla, a village in western Estonia
* Mala, Sweden, a village
* Malå Municipality, in northern Sweden
* Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, a town

### South America

* Mala District, Peru
** Mala, Cañete Province, capital of the district

### Elsewhere

* Mala, Lanzarote, a village in the Canary Islands
* Malaita or Mala, an island of the Solomon Islands

## Other uses

* Chera dynasty or Mala, South India
* Cyclone Mala, a cyclonic storm that killed 22 people in Burma in 2006
* Japamala, also known as mala, a loop of prayer beads commonly used in several Indian religions
* Mala (caste) or Mala community, from Andhra Pradesh
* Mala (river), a small tributary of the Danube in Romania
* Mala (seasoning) (麻辣, or málà), a numbing and spicy Chinese seasoning made from chillies and Sichuan pepper
* Malå IF, Swedish football club located in Malå in Västerbotten County
* Mala story, an Aboriginal Dreamtime story of central Australia
* Metformin-associated lactic acidosis (MALA)
* Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithm (MALA), a Markov chain Monte Carlo method
* Rufous hare-wallaby or mala, a small wallaby native to Australia
* R-1 and R-2 Mala-class swimmer delivery vehicle, a Yugoslav and Croatian vessel type