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Musicians

Marcela Bovio Marcela Alejandra Bovio García (born October 17, 1979) is a Mexican singer and violinist who is currently a member of the Dutch symphonic metal bands Stream of Passion and MaYaN. In 1995, she joined Hydra, a Mexican metal band, singing and ...

, Mexican musician * Marcela Lucatelli (born 1988), Brazilian composer * Marcela Morelo, Argentine singer-songwriter * Marcela Oroši, Croatian singer * Marcela Rodríguez, Mexican composer

Politicians

Marcela Guerra Castillo Marcela Guerra Castillo (born 7 November 1959) is a Mexican politician from Nuevo León. She was a local deputy in the Congress of Nuevo León and twice federal deputy of the Congress of Mexico. From 2012 to 2018, she was a senator representing ...

, Mexican politician * Marcela Čavojová, Slovakian politician * Marcela Lombardo Otero, Mexican politician * Marcela Mitaynes, American politician

Sportspeople

Marcela Acuña Marcela Eliana Acuña (born 16 October 1976) is an Argentine professional boxer and part-time politician. She has held multiple super bantamweight world titles, including the IBF title since 2018; the WBA title from 2006 to 2008; the WBC titl ...

, Argentine boxer * Marcela Cuesta, Costa Rican swimmer * Marcela Daniel, Panamanian sprinter * Marcela Hussey, Argentine field hockey player *

Marcela Kubalčíková Marcela Kubalčíková (born 23 April 1973) is a retired female backstroke and butterfly swimmer from the Czech Republic, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta ( ) is the List of capita ...

, Czech swimmer *

Marcela Marić Marcela Marić (born 18 October 1996) is a Croatian diver. She competed in the women's 3 metre springboard at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she finished 25th out of 29 competitors. In 2019, she finished in 35th place in the preliminary round ...

, Croatian Olympic diver *

Marcela Richezza Marcela Fabiana Richezza (born December 23, 1964) is a retired female field hockey player from Argentina. She was a member of the Women's National Team that finished in seventh place at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea after having ...

, Argentine field hockey player *

Marcela (wrestler) María Elena Santamaría Gómez (born May 31, 1971) is a Mexican professional wrestler, known mainly for her work in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), where she works under the ring name Marcel ...

, ring name of professional wrestler María Elena Santamaría Gómez

Writers

* Marcela Delpastre, French-Occitan author * Marcela Paz, Chilean novelist *

Marcela Serrano Marcela Serrano (born 1951) is a Chilean novelist. In 1994, her first novel, ''Para que no me olvides'', won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book, ''Nosotras que nos queremos tanto,'' won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for wom ...

, Chilean novelist

Other

Marcela Agoncillo Doña Marcela Mariño de Agoncillo (née Mariño y Coronel; June 24, 1859 – May 30, 1946) was a Filipina who was the principal seamstress of the first and official flag of the Philippines, gaining her the title of "The Mother of the Philippin ...

, Filipina seamstress of the first Philippine flag *

Marcela Barrozo Marcela de Sousa Barrozo (born Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, January 21, 1992) is a Brazilian theatre and screen actress. TV career * 2002 - '' Sabor da Paixão'' .... Madona * 2003 - '' Chocolate com Pimenta'' .... Estela Albuquerque * 2004 - '' ...

, Brazilian actress *

Marcela Bilek Marcela Bilek (born Marcela Bílková 20 January 1968) is a professor of applied physics and surface engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research interests focus on the use of plasma related methods to synthesise thin film ...

, Czech-Australian physicist *

Marcela Carena Marcela Silvia Carena Lopez is an Argentine theoretical physicist, and since November 2024 the executive director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, ON, Canada. Prior to taking this position she was a Distinguished Sc ...

, Argentine-born U.S. physicist *

Marcela Contreras Dame Carmen Marcela Contreras Arriagada, DBE (born 4 January 1942) is a Chilean-born British leading blood expert, immunologist and university educator. Born in Curicó in central Chile and raised in Coelemu, she originally obtained her M.D. ...

, Chilean-British blood expert and educator *

Marcela Gallego Marcela Gallego (born October 4, 1971) is a Colombian actress, born in Tunja. Most of her work has been in Colombian telenovelas including '' Celia'', some of which have appeared in the U.S. She is also known for acting in the film '' Satanás''. ...

, Colombian actress *

Marcela Hope Yellowbear Andrew John Yellowbear Jr. (born September 5, 1974) was the defendant in one of Wyoming's most notorious capital murder trials. He was convicted in April 2006 in Thermopolis, Wyoming, of premeditated first-degree murder in the death of his 22-month- ...

, U.S. murder victim *

Marcela Topor Marcela Topor (; born 8 September 1976) They married in 2000. Topor is the editor of '' Catalonia Today'', an English-language magazine and website based in Girona. She also hosts the television programme ''Catalan Connections'', which features i ...

, journalist, born in Romania *

Marcela Trujillo Marcela Trujillo (Santiago, Santiago de Chile, 1969), better known by her pseudonym Maliki,"Maliki Trujillo". Artes y Letras. ''El Mercurio''. 30 November 2008. is a Chilean visual arts, visual artist, painter, cartoonist and professor who has dab ...

, Chilean visual artist, painter, cartoonist, professor *

Marcela Valladolid Marcela Luz Valladolid (born July 19, 1978) is an American chef and author. She was the host of the Food Network television series ''Mexican Made Easy'', and a judge on the Food Network series ''Best Baker in America''. Early life Valladolid was ...

, celebrity chef *

Marcela Walerstein Marcela Walerstein Martín (born in San Fernando de Apure, Apure 1971) is a Venezuelan actress. Biography Walerstein is of Mexican and Ashkenazi origin on her father's side, and Cuban and Yugoslavian on her mother's side. She comes from a famil ...

, Venezuelan actress. * Marcela Zamora, Salvadoran-Nicaraguan documentary director and journalist *Marcela, the plant ''

Achyrocline satureioides ''Achyrocline satureioides'', commonly known as macela or marcela, is a species of plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to South America, from Argentina to Colombia to Guyana. A semi-annual herbaceous plant reaching about a meter tall, it ...

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