Carola is a female
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
, the Latinized form of the Germanic given names Caroline or Carol.
People named Carola include:
Acting
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Carola Braunbock (1924–1978), Czech-born East German actress
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Carola Höhn (1910–2005), German actress
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Carola Lotti (1910-1990), Italian actress
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Carola Neher (Karola Neher), German actress
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Carola Reyna, Argentine actress and director
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Carola Toelle (1893–1958), German actress
Music
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Carola Grindea (1914–2009), Romanian pianist and piano teacher
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Carola Häggkvist, also known as just Carola, Swedish singer, winner of the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest
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Carola Smit, Dutch singer
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Carola Standertskjöld, Finnish jazz and pop singer
Politics
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Carola Reimann (born 1967), German politician
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Carola Schouten, Dutch politician
Others
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Carola Dunn, British-American writer
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Carola Rackete
Carola Rackete (; born 8 May 1988 in Preetz, Germany) is a German ship captain who volunteered with the German sea rescue organisation Sea-Watch. In June 2019, she was arrested for docking a migrant rescue ship without authorization in the por ...
, German ship captain and sea rescuer
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Carola Roloff, German Buddhist nun
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Carola Unterberger-Probst, Austrian filmmaker and artist
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Carola of Vasa, Queen of Saxony
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Carola, wife of Obelerio degli Antenori, dogaressa of Venice
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Carola Gräfin von Schmettow, German businesswoman
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Carl (name)
Carl is a North Germanic male name meaning "free man". The name originates in Old West Norse. It is the first name of many Kings of Sweden including Carl XVI Gustaf. It is popular in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, and w ...
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Carol (disambiguation)
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Carolan (surname) Carolan is a surname that is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cearbhalláin, meaning ‘descendant of Cearbhallán’, which is a diminutive of the personal name Cearbhall (see Carroll). Notable people with the name include the following:
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Caroly (name)
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Karola
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Feminine given names