# 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 Patricia Ruiz MacFarland, Mexican politician, 28th mayor of Tijuana
* 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 character from Open Season: Call of Nature, see List of fictional musteloids in animation
* 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