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 f ...
, 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
Carola Lotti (1907–1990) was an Italian actress.Bertellini p.255 She was the elder sister of the actress Mariella Lotti.
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(1910–1990), Italian actress
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Carola Neher
Carola Neher (born Karoline Neher; 2 November 1900 – 26 June 1942) was a German actress and singer.
Biography
Neher was born in Munich in 1900. She worked as a bank clerk at the Munich branch of the Deutsche Bank from 11 June 1917 to 15 Octob ...
(Karola Neher), German actress
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Carola Reyna
Carola Reyna (born 15 April 1962) is an Argentine actress and director from Buenos Aires. She has won the ACE Award and the Martin Fierro Awards five times.
Biography
Daughter of TV Producer Eduardo Reyna, she grew up in Argentina, Spain and ...
, Argentine actress and director
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Carola Toelle (1893–1958), German actress
Music
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Carola Grindea
Carola Grindea ( Rabinovici) (29 January 1914 – 10 July 2009) was a Romanian-born British pianist and piano teacher who established the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA) and the International Society for Study of Tension in Performance ...
(1914–2009), Romanian pianist and piano teacher
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Carola Häggkvist
Carola Maria Häggkvist (; born 8 September 1966), commonly known simply as Carola, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She has been among Sweden's most popular performers since the early 1980s and has released albums ranging from pop and disco ...
, also known as just Carola, Swedish singer, winner of the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest
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Carola Smit
Carola Sier-Smit (born 1 September 1963)
is a Dutch singer and was a member of Dutch pop band BZN from 1984 until 2007 when the band disbanded.
Biography
Musical career
Smit was born Volendam, and began her musical career in 1980 (at age 17), w ...
, Dutch singer
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Carola Standertskjöld
Carola Christina Standertskjöld-Liemola (23 March 1941 – 12 November 1997), professionally known as Carola, was a Finnish jazz and pop singer. Her style was partially inspired by American singers of the 1950s. Simultaneously, it was in the spi ...
, Finnish jazz and pop singer
Politics
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Carola Reimann
Carola Reimann (born 25 August 1967) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as State Minister for Social Affairs, Health, and Equality in the cabinet of Minister-President Stephan Weil of Lower Saxony from 2017 to ...
(born 1967), German politician
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Carola Schouten
Cornelia Johanna "Carola" Schouten (; born 6 October 1977) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Union (CU). She was Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality and Third Deputy Prime Minister in the third Rutte cabinet from 2017 to 20 ...
, Dutch politician
Others
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Carola Dunn
Carola Dunn (born 14 November 1946) is a British writer of regency romances and detective fiction.
Life
Dunn attended Friends' School, Saffron Walden, and graduated from the University of Manchester.Carola Pavlik
Carola Pavlik (born 1978) is a Dutch people, Dutch contemporary artist.
Biography
As an artist and creator of Czech descent Carola became interested in the art of human behaviour and beauty as a child.
Pavlik was born in The Hague. She started ...
, Dutch contemporary artist
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Carola Rackete
Carola Rackete (; born 8 May 1988) is a German conservation ecologist, activist, politician and former ship captain. She was elected to the European Parliament as an independent candidate for the Left Party on June 9, 2024.
Rackete participa ...
, German ship captain and sea rescuer
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Carola Roloff
Carola Roloff (born 1959 in Holzminden, Germany) is a Tibetologist, scholar of Buddhism, and Buddhist nun. Since 2025, she is a Senior Research Fellow in Pluralistic Dialogical Religious Education at the University of Hamburg. Under her monastic ...
, 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 masculine name meaning "free man". The name originates in Old Norse. It is the first name of many Kings of Sweden including Carl XVI Gustaf. It is a variant of the English Charles, and the Latin Carolus (name), Carolus.
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Carol (disambiguation)
Carol may refer to:
People with the name
* Carol (given name)
* Avedon Carol (born 1951), British writer and feminist
* Henri Carol (1910–1984), French composer and organist
* Martine Carol (1920–1967), French film actress
* Sue Carol (1906†...
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Carolan (surname) Carolan is a surname that is an Anglicized form of Gaelic language, Gaelic Ó Cearbhalláin, meaning ‘descendant of Cearbhallán’, which is a diminutive of the personal name Cearbhall (see Carroll (surname), Carroll). Notable people with the nam ...
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Caroly (name) Caroly is a name that can be a variant of Carol. It is used by notable people including the following:
* Caroly Wilcox, stage name of Carolyn Wilcox (1931 – 2021), American theatre professional
* Vera Karalli, sometimes credited as Vera Caroly ( ...
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Karola Karola is a Danish language, Danish, Finnish language, Finnish, German language, German, Hungarian language, Hungarian, Norwegian language, Norwegian, and Swedish language, Swedish feminine given name that is a feminine form of Karol (name), Karol ...
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