Carola is a female given name, the Latinized form of the Germanic given names Caroline or Carol.
Notable people named Carola include:
Acting Carola Baleztena (born 1980), Spanish actress Carola Braunbock (1924–1978), Czech-born East German actress Carola Höhn (1910–2005), German actress Carola Lotti (1910–1990), Italian actress Carola Neher (1900–1942), German actress Carola Reyna (born 1962), Argentine actress and director Carola Scarpa (1971–2011), Brazilian actress and socialite Carola Toelle (1893–1958), German actress Thekla Carola Wied (born 1944), German actress
Music Carola Bauckholt (born 1959), German composer Carola Grey (born 1968), German jazz drummer and composer Carola Grindea (1914–2009), Romanian pianist and piano teacher Carola Häggkvist (born 1966), also known as just Carola, Swedish singer, winner of the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest Carola Kinasha (born 1962), Tanzanian musician Carola Moccia (born 1991), known as La Niña, Italian singer-songwriter and actress Carola Nossek (born 1949), German operatic soprano and voice teacher Carola Smit (born 1963), Dutch singer Carola Standertskjöld (1941–1997), Finnish jazz and pop singer
Sports Carola Anding (born 1960), East German cross-country skier Carola Bott (born 1984), German badminton player Carola Calello (born 1977), Argentine alpine skier Carola Casale (born 1998), Italian karateka Carola Cicconetti (born 1962), Italian fencer Carola Ciszewski (born 1968), German handball player Carola Dombeck (born 1960), German gymnast Carola Fasel (born 1997), Swiss footballer Carola Hoffmann (born 1962), German field hockey player Carola Hornig (born 1962), German rower Carola Lichey (born 1961), East German rower Carola López (born 1982), Argentine taekwondo practitioner Carola Mangiarotti (born 1952), Italian fencer Carola Nitschke (born 1962), East German swimmer Pier Carola Pagani (born 1963), Italian racewalker Carola Paul (born 1960s), East German figure skater Carola Salvatella (born 1994), Spanish field hockey player Carola Schneider (born 1993), Danish footballer Carola Söberg (born 1982), Swedish football coach and former goalkeeper Carola Uilenhoed (born 1984), Dutch judoka Carola Weißenberg (born 1962), German figure skater Carola Wolff, West German figure skater Carola Zirzow (born 1954), East German sprint canoer
Politics Carola, wife of Obelerio degli Antenori (), dogaressa of Venice Carola Bluhm (born 1962), German politician Carolina "Carola" Correa Londoño (1905–1986), wife of President of Colombia Gustavo Rojas Pinilla Carola Rackete (born 1988), German ship captain, sea rescuer and politician Carola Reimann (born 1967), German politician Carola Schouten (born 1977), Dutch politician Carola Stabe (born 1955), East German dissident and civil rights activist Carola of Vasa (1833–1907), Queen of Saxony Carola Veit (born 1973), German lawyer and politician
Others Carola Baer-von Mathes (1857–1940), German landscape painter Carola Cobo (1909–2003), Bolivian artist and cookbook author Carola "Ola" Cohn (1892–1964), Australian artist, author and philanthropist Leah Carola Czollek (born 1954), German author, mediator and trainer Carola Dibbell (born 1945), American music journalist and author Carola Doerr (born 1984), German computer scientist Carola Dunn (born 1946), British-American writer Carola Durán (born 1987), Dominican model Carola B. Eisenberg (1917–2021), Argentine-American psychiatrist Jeanne Carola Francesconi (1903–1995), Italian chef and cookbook author Carola Frege (born 1965), German scholar in international and comparative employment relations Carola Garcia de Vinuesa (born 1969), Spanish doctor, scientist and professor Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893–1979), German-Swiss art historian Carola Goya (1906–1994), American dancer, choreographer and teacher Carola Gruber (born 1983), German author Carola Hansson (born 1942), Swedish novelist, dramatist and translator Carola Helbing-Erben, German artist Carola Hicks (1941–2010), British art historian Carola Insolera (born 1985), Norwegian model Carola Lentz (born 1954), German social anthropologist Carola Lorenzini (1889–1941), Argentine aviator Carola Macaulay (1682–?), Scottish milliner and trader Carola Matthiesen (1925–2015), German educator, librarian, writer and poet Carola Ivena Meikle (1900–1970), English algologist Carola Miró (1965–2024), Spanish Catalan teacher Carola Oman (1897–1978), English historical novelist, biographer and children's writer Carola Pavlik (born 1978), Dutch contemporary artist Carola Prosperi (1883–1981), Italian writer, feminist and journalist Carola Richards (1916–2004), English artist Carola Roloff (born 1959), German Tibetologist, scholar of Buddhism and Buddhist nun Carola Saavedra (born 1973) is a Chilean-Brazilian writer Carola Gräfin von Schmettow (born 1964), German businesswoman Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (born 1979), Austrian mathematician Carola Stern (1925–2006), German journalist, author and television presenter Carola Suárez-Orozco, Swiss-American cultural developmental psychologist, academic and author Carola Susani (born 1965), Italian author Carola Trier (1913–2000) was a German dancer, acrobat, contortionist and teacher Carola Unterberger-Probst (born 1978), Austrian filmmaker and artist Carola Wenk (born 1973), German-American computer scientist Carola von der Weth (born 1959), German chess champion Carola Woerishoffer (1885–1911), American labor activist and settlement worker
See also
Carl (name) Carol (disambiguation) Carolan (surname) Caroly (name) Karola