Kamala is a first name and

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. It means

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in Sanskrit. Notable people and characters with the name include:

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* Kamala Bahuguna (1923–2001), Indian politician *

Kamala Balakrishnan Kamala Balakrishnan (January 16, 1930 – August 7, 2018) was an Indian military officer and immunologist. She was a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Armed Forces, president of the American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASH ...

(1930–2018), Indian immunologist *

Kamala Bhattacharya Kamala Bhattacharya was an Indian student who was martyred in the Bengali Language Movement in Silchar in 1961. Early life Kamala was born to Ramraman Bhattacharya and Suprabasini Devi, the fifth of seven children in the year 1945 in the erstw ...

(1945–1961), Indian martyr *

Kamala Bose Kamala Bose (Bengali) (1947–2012) was a prominent Indian classical vocalist. Biography Kamala Bose (1947–2012) was an eminent vocalist in Hindustani Classical music based in Allahabad. She hails from a family that is deeply rooted in the f ...

(1947–2012), Indian classical vocalist *

Kamala Chakravarty Kamala Chakravarty (born Saraswati Kamala Shastri, 1928) is an Indian classical musician and former dancer, known for her association with sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. From 1967 until the late 1970s, she accompanied Shankar, in the role of tambur ...

(born 1928), Indian classical musician and dancer * Kamala Chandrakirana, Indonesian women's rights activist * Kamala Devi (actress) (born 1933), Indian actress * Kamala Devi (footballer) (born 1992), Indian footballer *

Kamala-Jean Gopie Kamala Jean Gopie is a Jamaican-born Canadian political activist. Early life Gopie, whose ancestors went to Jamaica from India as indentured labourers, was born in Jamaica and moved to Canada in 1963 after graduating from high school. She holds B ...

, Jamaican-born Canadian political activist *

Kamala Hampana Kamala Hampana (Kannada: ಕಮಲಾ ಹಂಪನಾ) (born 28 October 1935) is an Indian writer in Kannada language and Jainism. She was born at Devanahalli, Bangalore, Karnataka. She worked as a scholar, a professor, and a follower of ancien ...

(born 1935), Indian writer * Kamala Harris (born 1964), current vice president of the United States since 2021 *

Kamala Hayman Kamala Hayman is a New Zealand newspaper journalist and editor. In 2018, she was appointed editor of ''The Press'', a metropolitan daily newspaper in Christchurch, New Zealand. Biography Hayman studied journalism at the University of Canterbury ...

, New Zealand newspaper journalist *

Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq (, born 1939) is a Sudanese painter and art teacher, known as one of the founders of The Crystalist conceptual art group in Khartoum. This group rejected common conventions in Sudanese modern painting of the 1960s and strived ...

, Sudanese artist *

Kamala Kanta Kalita Dr. Kamala Kanta Kalita is an Indian politician and General Secretary of the Asom Gana Parishad. Dr. Kalita was Health and Family welfare Minister of Assam two times and a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly from the Chaygaon constituency ...

, Indian politician * Kamala Kamesh (born 1952), Indian actress * Kamala Kumari Karredula, Indian politician * Kamala Krishnaswamy, Indian nutritionist * Kamala Kotnis, Indian actress * Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir, American diplomat, ambassador to Malaysia *

Kamala Laxman Kamala Laxman was an Indian author of children's books, and the wife of cartoonist R. K. Laxman. Kamala died in 2015 at the age of 90. She is survived by her son Srinivas, a retired journalist, her daughter-in-law Usha and granddaughter Rimanika. ...

(died 2015), Indian author of children's books * Kamala Lopez, American filmmaker * Kamala Markandaya (1924–2004), Indian novelist and journalist * Kamala Nehru (1899–1936), wife of Indian Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru *

Kamala Nimbkar Kamala Vishnu Nimbkar (January 5, 1900 – August 29, 1979), born Elizabeth Lundy, was an American-born occupational therapist in India. Early life Elizabeth Lundy was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey the daughter of Joseph Wilmer Lundy and Bess ...

(1900–1979), American-born occupational therapist in India *

Kamala Parks Kamala Lyn Parks is an American drummer and songwriter from Berkeley, California. She played drums for Kamala & The Karnivores (with Ivy DuBois of Bitch Fight and Sweet Baby, Lynda Skulpone, and Michelle Cruz Gonzales of Bitch Fight and Spitboy) ...

, American drummer, songwriter *

Kamala Pujari Kamala Pujari is a tribal woman from Koraput in Odisha, India. She is known for promoting organic farming. Interested in traditional farming, she learned the basic techniques from MS Swaminathan Research Foundation at Jeypore and has contribu ...

, organic agriculture promoter from Orisha *

Kamala Ranathunga Kamala Ranathunga (also spelled Ranatunge) (born 19 October 1937) is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. She belongs to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party which nominated her on its national list to the Parliament of Sri La ...

(born 1937), Sri Lankan politician *

Kamala Rani Balakrishnan On 13 March 1997, at one of the Housing and Development Board, HDB flats in Lavender, Singapore, King George's Avenue, Kallang, 53-year-old Sivapackiam Veerappan Rengasamy was discovered dead in her bedroom by her son. Sivapackiam was found to hav ...

, Singaporean criminal * Kamala Roka, Nepali politician *

Kamala Saikhom Kamala Saikhom is an Indian actress who predominantly appeared in Manipuri films. She was a resident of Uripok, Imphal, Manipur. Besides acting in films, she had also produced two movies ''Nangsu Mouni'' and ''Kadarmapee''. She had acted in mo ...

, Indian actress * Kamala Sankaran, Indian academic administrator *

Kamala Sankrityayan Kamala Sankrityayan (; 1920-2009) was a 20th century Indian writer, editor and scholar of Hindi and Nepali literature. She was the wife of the renowned historian Rahul Sankrityayan. Biography Kamala Sankrityayan was born on 15 August 1920 in ...

(1920–2009), Indian writer *

Kamala Selvaraj Kamala Selvaraj is an obstetrician and gynecologist from Tamil Nadu, India. Born to Tamil film actor Gemini Ganesan, she commissioned the first test tube baby of South India in August 1990. In 2002 she was awarded PhD for her thesis on "Prema ...

, Indian obstetrician and gynecologist *

Kamala Shankar Vidushi Dr. Kamala Shankar a renowned first lady Indian Classical Slide Guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) agains ...

, Indian slide guitar player *

Kamala Sinha Kamala (Kamla) Sinha (30 September 1932 – 31 December 2014) was an Indian politician and diplomat. She was twice elected to the Rajya Sabha from 1990 to 2000, and later served as Ambassador to Suriname and Barbados. She was also Union Minister ...

(1932–2014), Indian politician * Kamala Sohonie (1912-1998), Indian biochemist * Kamala Surayya (1934–2009), Indian short story writer and autobiographer * Kamala Todd, Canadian filmmaker

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* Diodorus Kamala (born 1968), Tanzanian politician * Kumari Kamala (born 1934), Indian classical dancer

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* Kamala (wrestler) (James Arthur Harris, 1950–2020), American professional wrestler

Fictional characters

* Kamala Khan, Marvel Comics superheroine * Kamala, a character in '' Siddhartha'' by Hermann Hesse * Kamala, a character in "

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", an episode of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' * Kamala, a main character in the Netflix

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comedy-drama series Never Have I Ever

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