Carola

Carola is a female given name, the Latinized form of the Germanic given names Caroline or Carol.

GenderFemale

Word/nameThe Latinized form of Germanic names, coming from Charles or Karl.

Meaningfree woman

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Carola
Origin
Gender	Female
Word/name	The Latinized form of Germanic names, coming from Charles or Karl.
Meaning	free woman
Other names
Related names	Charlize, Carla, Karla, Karolina, Karoline, Caroline, Charlotte, Carolien, Karoliina, Carole, Charline, Carolin, Karola

Notable eople 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 (fl. 804–811), 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