Paola is a female given name, the Italian form of the name Paula. Notable people with the name include:

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In arts and entertainment

Paola Del Medico Paola del Medico Felix (born 5 October 1950) is a Swiss singer. Career Born in Saint-Gall to an Italian father and a Swiss mother, Paola del Medico has sung mostly in German and French. She represented Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Conte ...

(born 1950), Swiss singer *

Paola e Chiara Paola e Chiara is an Italian pop music duo consisting of Paola Iezzi and Chiara Iezzi, two sisters, born in Milan. They are the best selling female Italian group with over 35 million records sold. Their national career began when the manager o ...

, pop music duo consisting of two sisters born in Milan, Italy *

Paola Foka Paola (born Pagona Karamitsou on 25 June 1982) is a Greek singer. Early life and career Born on 25 June 1982 in Thessaloniki and raised in Sykia Halkidiki. Ηer Greek parents, Alexandros and Maria, were also musicians. She has an older brother ...

(born 1982), Greek singer *Paola Gaviria known as

Power Paola Power Paola (born Paola Andrea Gaviria Silguero; June 20, 1977) is a Colombian-Ecuadorian cartoonist. She is the author of graphic memoirs ''Virus Tropical'' (2011)'','' ''Por Dentro'' (2012), ''Diario'' (2013), ''qp'' (2014), ''Todo Va a Estar B ...

(born 1977), Colombian-Ecuadorian cartoonist *

Paola Oliveira Caroline Paola Oliveira da Silva (born April 14, 1982), best known as Paolla Oliveira, is a Brazilian actress. Biography Paolla Oliveira was born in São Paulo. Her father is a retired military policeman while her mother is a housewife. Paol ...

, Brazilian actress *

Suzanne Paola Susanne Antonetta is the pen name of Suzanne Paola (born September 29, 1956, in Georgia), an American poet and author who is most widely known for her book ''Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir''. In 2001, ''Body Toxic'' was named by the ''New Y ...

(born 1956), American poet and author *

Paola Rey Paola Andrea Rey Arciniegas (born December 19, 1979, in San Gil, Santander, Colombia) is a Colombian actress and model. Biography Paola Andrea Rey Arciniegas was born on December 19, 1979 in San Gil, Santander, Colombia. She is the daughte ...

(born 1979), Colombian actress * Paola Rojas (born 1976), Mexican television news personality *

Paola Turbay Paola Turbay Gómez (born November 29, 1970) is a Colombian-American actress, model, beauty queen, and television presenter. Related to Julio César Turbay Ayala, Turbay represented Bogotá in the Miss Colombia beauty pageant and won in 1991. ...

(born 1970), Colombian actress * Danna Paola (born 1995), Mexican actress and singer *

Paola Lázaro Paola Lázaro (/pao-lah/ born October 24, 1987) is a Puerto Rican actress, writer, and playwright. She is best known for portraying Juanita "Princess" Sanchez on the Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, apocalyptic Drama (film and televisio ...

(born 1994), Puerto Rican actress and playwright

In politics

Paola Balducci Paola Balducci (born 14 November 1949) is an Italian lawyer and politician, member of the High Council of the Judiciary from 2014 to 2018. Biography A student of Giovanni Conso and Giuliano Vassalli, Balducci graduated in Law at the Sapienza ...

(born 1949), Italian politician and jurist * Paola Concia (born 1963), Italian politician *

Paola De Micheli Paola De Micheli (born 1 September 1973) is an Italian manager and politician of the Democratic Party (Italy), Democratic Party (PD), who served as Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport in the ...

(born 1973), Italian politician *

Paola Pabón Paola Verenice Pabón Caranqui (born 28 January 1978) is an Ecuadorian lawyer, politician and feminist, who in the course of her career, has served as a representative to the National Assembly for the PAIS Alliance movement from 2009 and 2015 an ...

(born 1978) Ecuadorian politician and feminist *

Paola Pinna Paola Pinna (born 11 November 1974) is an Italian politician. Born in Cagliari, Pinna graduated in Political Science, and earned an MBA in Business Management at the LUISS School of Government in Rome. She worked for seven years for a network ...

(born 1974), Italian politician *

Paola Pisano Paola Pisano (born 4 January 1977) is an Italian academic and politician for the Five Star Movement. In September 2019, she was appointed Minister for Technological Innovation in the Conte II Cabinet. Biography City Council member (Assessor) ...

(born 1977) Italian academic and politician *

Paola Severino Paola Severino (born 22 October 1948) is an Italian lawyer, academic and politician. She served as Minister of Justice in the Monti cabinet from November 2011 to April 2013, being the first woman appointed Minister of Justice in Italian history. ...

(born 1948), Italian politician *

Paola Taverna Paola Taverna (born 2 March 1969) is an Italian politician for the Five Star Movement, who has been a member of the Senate of the Republic since the 2013 Italian general election. In March 2018, she was elected Vice-President of the Senate. ...

(born 1969), Italian politician

In sports

Paola Cardullo Paola Cardullo (born 18 March 1982 in Omegna) is a volleyball player from Italy, who was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 2007 European Championship in Belgium and Luxembourg. There she was named ''Best Libero ...

(born 1982), Italian volleyball player *

Paola Cavallino Paola Cavallino (born 6 June 1977 in Genoa) is a butterfly swimmer from Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediter ...

(born 1977), Italian swimmer *

Paola Croce Paola Croce (born March 6, 1978, in Rome) is an Italian volleyball player, who plays as a libero. She currently plays for RC Cannes RC Cannes is a French women's volleyball club based in Cannes and playing in the Ligue AF. History was creat ...

(born 1978), Italian volleyball player *

Paola Duguet Paola Duguet (born October 1, 1987 in New York, United States) is a Colombian-American Olympic freestyle swimmer. She swam for Colombia at the 2004 Olympics, swimming the 400 (29th) and 800 frees (27th). She is the daughter of and Noel Dugu ...

(born 1987), Colombian swimmer *

Paola Ogechi Egonu Paola Ogechi Egonu (born 18 December 1998) is an Italian volleyball player. She plays for Turkish volleyball club VakıfBank S.K. and was part of the Italy women's national volleyball team until 2022 when she is considering leaving from the team ...

(born 1998), Italian volleyball player *

Paola Espinosa Paola Milagros Espinosa Sánchez (born 31 July 1986) is a Mexican diver and represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she was her national team's flagbearer, and the 2012 Summer Ol ...

(born 1986), Mexican diver *

Paola Longoria Paola Michelle Longoria López (born July 20, 1989) is a Mexican racquetball player. She is the current Women's World Champion in both Singles and Doubles, winning both divisions at the 2022 International Racquetball Federation (IRF) World Champ ...

(born 1989), Mexican racquetball player *

Paola Moro Paola Moro (born 14 August 1952) is a retired female long-distance runner from Italy. Biography She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), o ...

(born 1952), Italian long-distance runner *

Paola Paggi Paola Paggi (born 6 December 1976 in Ivrea, Piedmont) is a volleyball player from Italy, who represented her native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. She was a member of the Women's National Team, that won the ...

(born 1976), Italian volleyball player *

Paola Pezzo Paola Pezzo (born 8 January 1969, in Bosco Chiesanuova) is an Italian cross-country mountain bike racer from Verona. In 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, in the U.S. The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United Stat ...

(born 1969), Italian mountain bike racer *

Paola Reis Paola Reis (born 15 August 1999) is a Brazilian BMX rider. Reis participated at the 2019 Pan American Games The 2019 Pan American Games ( es, Juegos Panamericanos de 2019, links=no), officially the XVIII Pan American Games and commonly known ...

(born 1999), Brazilian BMX rider * Paola Suárez (born 1976), Argentinian tennis player *

Paola Vukojicic Paola Vukojicic ( sr, Paola Vukojičić, Паола Вукојчић; born August 28, 1974) is a retired field hockey goalkeeper from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the national women's hockey team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydne ...

(born 1974), Argentinian field hockey player *

Andrea De Paola Andrea De Paola (born 2 October 1990) is an Italian footballer who played in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione. Club career Early career Born in Gaeta, Lazio, De Paola started his career at Lazio-based team Cisco Roma. In the 2007–08 season he w ...

(born 1990), Italian footballer

In other fields

Paola De Luca Paola De Luca (born November 18, 1966) is an Italian luxury trends forecaster best known for developing a book predicting global jewellery design trends. She has also worked as a jewellery designer and has been the Design Director of Rio Tinto D ...

(born 1966), Italian designer *

Paola del Medico Paola del Medico Felix (born 5 October 1950) is a Swiss singer. Career Born in Saint-Gall to an Italian father and a Swiss mother, Paola del Medico has sung mostly in German and French. She represented Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Conte ...

(born 1950), Italian singer *

Paola Drigo Paola (''née'' Bianchetti) Drigo (4 January 1876 – 4 January 1938) was an Italian writer of short stories, novellas, and novels. Her first collection of short stories, ''La fortuna'', was published in 1913 and caught the attention of literary c ...

(1876–1938), Italian writer *

Paola Flocchini Paola Flocchini is a Canadian computer scientist known for her research in distributed computing, pattern formation, self-organizing systems, swarm behavior, and cellular automata. She is University Research Chair on Intruder Agents and the Decont ...

, Italian-Canadian computer scientist *

Paola Leone Paola Leone is an Italian researcher of Canavan disease, a leukodystrophy. Leone was born and raised in Cagliari, Italy. She received her undergraduate and graduate training in Italy, followed by post-doctoral studies in Montreal and Yale Univers ...

, Italian biologist *

Paola Loreti Paola Loreti is an Italian mathematician, and a professor of mathematical analysis at Sapienza University of Rome. She is known for her research on Fourier analysis, control theory, and non-integer representations. The Komornik–Loreti constant, t ...

, Italian mathematician *

Paola Voci Paola Voci is an Italian-born academic specialising in Chinese language and culture, film and media studies, visual culture, and digital culture. She is a professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Biography Voci was born i ...

, academic specialising in Chinese language and culture *

Queen Paola of Belgium Paola (born Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria;AlthougThe Belgian Monarchy websiteattributes the title of "Princess" to Queen Paola prior to marriage, Burke's Peerage 1973, The Descendants of Louis XIII 1999, ''Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels'' 200 ...

(born 1937), Belgian queen consort *

Paola Paola is a female given name, the Italian form of the name Paula. Notable people with the name include: People In arts and entertainment *Paola Del Medico (born 1950), Swiss singer *Paola e Chiara, pop music duo consisting of two sisters born i ...

(Maltese: ''Raħal Ġdid''), a town in Malta

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