Iola or IOLA may refer to:

Places in the United States

Iola, Colorado Iola is an Ghost town, extinct town located in Gunnison County, Colorado, Gunnison County, Colorado, United States. The community was inundated and destroyed by the creation of Blue Mesa Reservoir. History When the Denver and Rio Grande Wester ...

, a ghost town *

Iola, Florida Iola (or Yawolla) was a town in Florida on the west side of the Apalachicola River during the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, about Midway between the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers and the mouth of river. It was first known as a ...

, an unincorporated community * Iola, Illinois, a village *

Iola, Kansas Iola () is the county seat of Allen County, Kansas, United States. The city is situated along the Neosho River in southeast Kansas. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 5,396. It is named in honor o ...

, a city * Iola, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place * Iola, Texas, a city *

Iola, Wisconsin Iola is a village in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,236 at the 2020 census. The village is bordered by the towns of Iola and Scandinavia. The community was named after a Potawatomi princess. Geography Iola is lo ...

, a village * Iola (town), Wisconsin, a town next to or partially within the village

Given name

People

* Iola Evans (born 1994), English actress *

Iola Fuller Iola Fuller ( Marcellus, Michigan, January 25, 1906 – April 12, 1993), later Iola Fuller Goodspeed McCoy, was an American writer. Her first novel, ''The Loon Feather'', won the 1939 Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan. Set primarily on ...

(1906–1993), American writer *

Iola Gregory Eirian Iola Gregory (15 September 1946 – 21 November 2017) was a British actress. She was best known for her role as Jean McGurk in the long-running S4C soap series '' Pobol y Cwm''. Early life Gregory's mother, Millicent "Millie" Gregory, wa ...

(1946–2017), Welsh actress *

Iola Abraham Ikkidluak Iola Abraham Ikkidluak (1936–2003) was an Inuk sculptor from Kimmirut, Nunavut. He participated in the Smithsonian Institution's 1979-1981 touring exhibition ''By the Light of the Qulliq''. His work is included in the permanent collections of ...

(1936–2003), Inuk artist *

Iola Johnson Iola Vivian Johnson (born October 10, 1950)"Iola Vivian Johnson" in ''Who's Who Among African Americans'', 23rd edition Gale, 2009. Retrieved July 28, 2010. is an American television anchor, reporter, journalist. She was the first African-American ...

(born 1950), American news anchor * Iola, pen name of American writer

Ida B. Wells Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advance ...

Fictional characters

Iola Boylan ''Mama's Family'' is an American sitcom television series starring Vicki Lawrence as Thelma Harper, Mama (Thelma Harper). The series is a spin-off of a recurring series of comedy sketches called "The Family (sketch), The Family" featured on ''T ...

, on the television series ''Mama's Family'' * the title protagonist of ''

Iola Leroy ''Iola Leroy'', ''or Shadows Uplifted'', an 1892 novel by Frances E. W. Harper, is one of the first novels published by an African-American woman. While following what has been termed the "sentimental" conventions of late nineteenth-century wr ...

'', a novel by Frances Harper *

Iola Morton Many characters have appeared in the fictional series of books about The Hardy Boys. Character history Original series At the beginning of the original Hardy Boys series, Frank is only 16 years old (as opposed to 18 after the revisions betwee ...

, girlfriend of Joe Hardy in the ''Hardy Boys'' novels

Other uses

* ''Iola'' (steamboat 1885), active on Puget Sound from 1885 to 1915 *

Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts (IOLTA) is a method of raising money for charitable purposes, primarily the provision of civil legal services to indigent persons, through the use of interest earned on certain lawyer trust accounts. The establis ...

, a method of raising money for charitable purposes in the United States *

Myrmarachne ''Myrmarachne'' is a genus of ant-mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by W. S. MacLeay in 1839. They are commonly called ant-mimicking spiders, but they are not the only spiders that have this attribute. The name is a combination ...

, a genus of jumping spiders {{disambiguation, given name, geo Feminine given names