Gala may refer to:

Music

* ''Gala'' (album), a 1990 album by the English alternative rock band Lush *'' Gala – The Collection'', a 2016 album by Sarah Brightman *

GALA Choruses The Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses ("GALA Choruses") is an international association of LGBT choruses founded in 1982. In its inaugural performance 14 choruses performed together in September 1982 in San Francisco as part of the first Gay ...

, an association of LGBT choral groups *''Gala'', a 1986 album by The Walker Brothers

Organizations and brands

GALA (Gay and Lesbian Acceptance) Harmony, formerly ''GALA, Gay and Lesbian Acceptance'', is a non-profit organization for LGBTQIA+ people, allies, and their family and friends who are connected with Community of Christ. Harmony's mission is "to provide advocacy, education, and r ...

, a Missouri non-profit organization for LGBT individuals connected with the Community of Christ *

Gala (supermarket) Gala is a convenience store chain in Ireland. Established in 1998, as of 2021 Gala had approximately 200 stores nationwide, all under franchise. The symbol group is supplied by a number of independent wholesalers which were formerly part of the ...

, an Irish convenience store chain *

Gala Coral Group Gala Bingo is an online bingo and casino offering under the ownership of Entain. Gala Bingo was created in 1991 as a division of Bass plc. It later became an independent company, and then became the Gala Coral Group after acquiring Coral Euro ...

, a betting shop and bingo hall operator based in the United Kingdom *

Gala Inc. is a holding company based in Tokyo, Japan, that administers GALA Group, which is made up of subsidiary companies of Gala Inc. The group of companies embraces three types of business: MMORPG games, web design, and data mining. Within the group ...

, a Japanese holding company *

Gala RFC Gala Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team based in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. Founded in 1875, it plays its home games at Netherdale. The team currently competes in Scottish National League Division One, the second tier of Scottish ...

, a rugby club in Galashiels, Scotland *

Gala TV Gala TV was a Bingo (United Kingdom), bingo channel in the United Kingdom, launched in 2006 by Gala Bingo. The channel was removed from the satellite lineup in 2011. It continued as an online television channel, and in 2012 was renamed as Gal ...

, a television channel *"Gala", a nickname of Turkish football club Galatasaray S.K.

People

Gala (king) Gaia (Numidian: ) (died 207 BCE) was an ancient Berber king of the Massylii,Livy, ''Ab Urbe Condita'', 24.48 an eastern Numidian tribe in North Africa. Gaia reigned during the Second Punic War of ancient Rome. He was the father of King Masinissa ...

, king of the Massylii of eastern Numidia *

Gala (singer) Gala (born Gala Rizzatto ) is an Italian pop singer and songwriter. Her debut album '' Come into My Life'' included the multiplatinum singles "Freed from Desire", "Let a Boy Cry" and " Come into My Life" which reached the Top 3 in music charts a ...

, Italian singer/songwriter *

Gala Dalí Gala Dalí (born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, Елéна Ивáновна Дья́конова; – 10 June 1982), usually known simply as Gala, was the wife of poet Paul Éluard and later of artist Salvador Dalí, who were both prominent in ...

(1894-1982), wife of French poet Paul Éluard and Catalan painter Salvador Dalí * Gala Aleksić (born 1969), Serbian actress *

Antonio Gala Antonio Gala Velasco (born 2 October 1930) is a Spanish poet, playwright, novelist and writer. Life and career Gala was born in Brazatortas, Ciudad Real ( Castile-La Mancha), although he moved very soon to Córdoba and is widely considered an ...

(born 1930), Spanish poet and novelist * Gabe Gala (born 1989), Nigerian-born Canadian soccer player *

Rosa Gala Rosa Maria Luísa Gala (born April 17, 1995) is an Angolan female basketball player. Born in Lubango, Gala was selected to play for the Angola women's national basketball team that won bronze at the 2011 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship. the fo ...

(born 1995), Angolan basketball player

Places

Gala, Iran Qaleh-ye Aslanian ( fa, قلعه اصلانيان, also Romanized as Qal‘eh-ye Aşlānīān; also known as Gala, Kalāt, and Qal‘eh) is a village in Kaghazkonan-e Shomali Rural District, Kaghazkonan District, Meyaneh County, East Azerbaijan Pro ...

, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran *

Gala, Tibet Gala (; ) is a township of Kangmar County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It has four villages under its administration. See also *List of towns and villages in Tibet This is an alphabetical list of all populated places, including cities, t ...

, a village *

Gala, Virginia Gala is an unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appala ...

, an unincorporated community in the United States *

Puerto Gala Puerto Gala or Gala is a hamlet and fishing community in Toto Island, southern Chile. It is located at the meeting point of Jacaf Channel with Moraleda Channel Moraleda Channel () is a body of water separating the Chonos Archipelago from the ma ...

, a hamlet in southern Chile *A contraction of

Galashiels Galashiels (; sco, Gallae, gd, An Geal Àth) is a town in the Scottish Borders with a population of around 12,600. Its name is often colloquially shortened to "Gala". The town is a major commercial centre for the Borders region with extensive ...

, a Border town in Scotland

Others

Gala (apple) Gala is an apple cultivar with a sweet, mild flavour, a crisp but not hard texture, and a striped or mottled orange or reddish appearance. Originating from New Zealand in the 1930s, similar to most named apples, it is clonally propagated. In 20 ...

, a type of apple grown particularly in New Zealand *

Gala (board game) Mak-yek ( th, หมากแยก, ) is a two-player abstract strategy board game played in Thailand and Myanmar. Players move their pieces as in the rook in Chess and attempt to capture their opponent's pieces through custodian and interventio ...

, a board game played in Thailand and Myanmar *

Gala (festivity) A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival co ...

, a festival * ''Gala'' (film), a 1982 Canadian documentary film *

Gala (literary prize) Gala (Georgian: გალა) is a literary competition founded under the aegis of the Tbilisi Sakrebulo (Tbilisi City Assembly, Georgia). The idea of the competition belongs to writer and member of Tbilisi City Assembly Zaal Samadashvili. The ...

, awarded by the Tbilisi City Assembly, Georgia * ''Gala'' (magazine), a French magazine *

Gala (potato) Gala is an early-ripening firm-fleshed edible potato, for which good eating and keeping qualities are claimed. It was developed by the Groß Lüsewitz-based plant breeder Norika. In 2010, it was chosen as Thuringia's potato of the year in a pub ...

Gala (priests) The Gala ( Sumerian: ''gala'', Akkadian: ''kalû'') were priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. They made up a significant number of the personnel of both temples and palaces, the central institutions of Mesopotamian city states. Originally sp ...

, the lamenting priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna *

Gala Brand Moonraker may refer to: * Moonrakers, a colloquialism for people from Wiltshire, England ''James Bond'' media franchise * ''Moonraker'' (novel), a 1955 James Bond novel by Ian Fleming * ''Moonraker'' (film), a 1979 film based on the novel * ...

, a fictional character of the ''James Bond'' novel ''Moonraker'' (did not appear in the film version) *Gala (γάλα), a Greek word meaning ''milk''; see *

Swimming gala A swimming gala is a swimming competition between clubs or groups of swimmers, usually of young people. This term is primarily used in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and South Africa. In Australia ''swimming carnival'' is the norm. Overview In the ...

, an amateur swimming competition