Mala may refer to:

Comics

Mala (Amazon) Mala is the name of two fictional characters who first appeared in the DC Comics' universe as two members of Wonder Woman's fellow Amazons. Fictional character biography Golden/Silver age Mala was one of the most important Amazons in the Golden ...

, an Amazon from Wonder Woman's side of the DC Universe *

Mala (Kryptonian) Mala is a fictional supervillain in the DC Comics universe. The male version first appeared in ''Superman'' #65 (July 1950) in the story "''The Three Supermen from Space!''" Fictional character biography Mala, along with his brothers Kizo and U ...

, a villain from Superman's corner of the DC Universe

Films and television

* ''Mala'' (1941 film), a Bollywood drama film * , a Yugoslav drama film with

Danilo Stojković Danilo Stojković ( sr-cyr, Данило Стојковић; 11 August 1934 – 16 March 2002), commonly nicknamed Bata (Бата), was a Serbian theatre, television and film actor. Stojković's numerous comedic portrayals of the "small man fi ...

* ''Mala'' (2013 film), an Argentine crime film

Music

* '' Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou'', a 2002 Greek soundtrack album by Anna Vissi ** "Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou" (song), a song from the album * ''Mala'' (Yolandita Monge album), 2008 ** "Mala" (song), a song from the album * ''Mala'' (Devendra Banhart album), an album by folk-rock musician Devendra Banhart * "Mala" (6ix9ine song), a Spanish song by American rapper 6ix9ine *

Mala Records Mala Records was a small record label founded as a Bell Records subsidiary in 1959. Beginning in 1967, albums by Mala recording artists were issued on the Bell label instead of Mala. Along with Bell, Mala was acquired in the late sixties by Colum ...

, a record label

People

Given name

Mala (Pakistani singer) Naseem Begum (Punjabi, ur, ; 9 November 1942 – 5 March 1990), known professionally as Mala ( ur, ), was a Pakistani playback singer of Urdu and Punjabi films. In the 1960s, Mala was a 'hit pair for singing duet film songs' with famou ...

(1939–1990), Pakistani playback singer of Urdu and Punjabi films *

Mala Aravindan Mala Aravindan (15 January 1939 – 28 January 2015) was an Indian actor. He was best known for his work as a comedian and character artist in Malayalam films. He has acted in over 500 films. Early life He was born in Vadavucode, Ernakulam d ...

(1939–2015), Malayalam film actor *

Mala Gaonkar Mala Gopal Gaonkar (born November 1969) is an American businesswoman, and the co-portfolio manager at investment firm Lone Pine Capital. Early life Gaonkar was born in November 1969 in the US and mostly raised in Bangalore, India. She earned a d ...

(born 1969), American businessperson *

Mala Kachalla Mala Kachalla (November 1941 – 18 April 2007) was governor of Borno State in Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2003. Background Mala Kachalla was born in 1941 in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. Borno Governor Mala Kachalla was elect ...

(1941–2007), former governor of Borno State in Nigeria *

Mala Powers Mary Ellen "Mala" Powers (December 20, 1931 – June 11, 2007) was an American actress. Early life Powers was born in San Francisco, California, and raised in Los Angeles. Her father was a United Press executive, while her mother was a minister. ...

(1931–2007), American actress *

Mala Rodríguez María Rodríguez Garrido, known as Mala Rodríguez, is a Spanish Latin hip hop artist based in Barcelona. She appeared as a judge on Spain's '' La Voz'' prior to releasing her first album in seven years, ''Mala'', in May 2020. Rodríguez re ...

, also known as La Mala, La Mala María, Spanish hip hop rapper *

Mala Roy Mala Roy (''née'' Sarkar; born 19 November 1957) is an Indian politician who has been a Member of Lok Sabha for Kolkata Dakshin since 2019. She is a member of All India Trinamool Congress party. She has been the Chairperson of Kolkata Munici ...

, Indian politician *

Mala Sinha Alda Sinha (born 11 November 1936), better known by her stage name Mala Sinha is a former Indian actress who has worked in Hindi, Bengali and Nepali films. Initially starting her career with regional cinema, she went on to become a top leading ...

(born 1936), Indian actress * Mala Zimetbaum (1922–1944), Belgian woman of Polish Jewish descent executed for escaping from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

Nickname

Malá (footballer) Muhamed Lamine Jabula Sanó (born 6 December 1979 in Bissau), simply Malá, is a retired Bissau-Guinean football midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive ro ...

(born 1979), Bissau-Guinean football midfielder *

Mala (musician) Digital Mystikz are a dubstep production duo consisting of Mala (born Mark Lawrence), and Coki (born Dean Harris, 26 August 1980) from the South London suburb of Norwood. Along with Loefah and SGT Pokes, who make up the group ASBO (All Soundbwo ...

, a member of Deep Dub duo Digital Mystikz

Surname

Doueugui Mala Doueugui Jean-Marie Mala (born December 20, 1993) is an Ivorian footballer who plays for F.C. Kafr Qasim in the Israeli National League. Career Mala signed with United Soccer League side Phoenix Rising FC Phoenix Rising Football Club is an ...

(born 1993), Ivorian footballer *

Esat Mala Esat Reshat Mala (born 18 October 1998) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Albanian club Vllaznia Shkodër. Club career Ballkani Mala spent the first part of the 2017–18 season in the First Football League of ...

(born 1998), Albanian footballer *

Ray Mala Ray Mala (born Ray Agnaqsiaq Wise, also known as Ach-nach-chiak ( Iñupiaq othography: ''Aġnatchiaq''); December 27, 1906 – September 23, 1952) was a prominent Native American Hollywood actor. He was one of Hollywood's Native American m ...

(1906–1952), Native American movie actor *

Shormi Mala Shormi Mala is a Bangladeshi stage, television and film actress. She won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the film '' Mrittika Maya'' (2013). Career Mala got involved in acting with the theater troupe ''Palakar'' ...

, Bangladeshi stage, television and film actress *

Zef Mala Zef Mala (Shkodër, April 14, 1915 – Tirana, December 31, 1979) was an Albanian publicist and early communist. He was the leader of the Communist Group of Shkodër. Life Mala was born in the "Skënderbeg" neighborhood of Shkodër, the son of ...

(1915–1979), Albanian publicist and communist activist

Places

Mała Mała is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ropczyce __NOTOC__ Gmina Ropczyce is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Ropczyce-Sędziszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. Its seat is the tow ...

, a village in Poland *

Mäla Mäla is a village in Muhu Parish, Saare County in western Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland ...

, a village in western Estonia *

Mala, Homalin Mala is a village on the Chindwin River in Homalin Township, Hkamti District, in the Sagaing Region of northwestern Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ ...

, a village in Burma *

Mala, Lanzarote Mala is a village in the municipality of Haría on Lanzarote in the province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. Its population in 2012 was 533. The village's economy is based around tourism and agriculture (principally rearing of cochineal beet ...

, a village in the Canary Islands *

Mala, Kerala Mala is a small town in Thrissur district of Kerala state, India. There is a Jewish synagogue in Mala town. At the moment, it is in ruins. The famous Pambu Mekkattu Mana (temple) is located here and attracts thousands of devotees every year. ...

, a village in southern India * Mala, Nepal, a village and village development committee *

Mala, Sweden Mala is a locality situated in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of Swe ...

, a village *

Mala District Mala District is one of sixteen districts of the province Cañete in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital''. Retrieved April 11, 2008. It limits on the north with San Antonio District and Santa ...

, Peru ** Mala,

Cañete Province Cañete Province is located in southern Lima Region, Peru. It is bordered by the Lima Province on the north, the Ica Region on the south, the Huarochirí Province and Yauyos Province on the east, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Its capital ...

, capital of the district *

Malå Municipality Malå Municipality (; sju, Málágen kommuvdna) is a municipality in Västerbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Malå. History Between 1974 and 1982 Malå Municipality was included in Norsjö Municipality. In 1983 it was ...

, in northern Sweden * Mala, a village in

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, Ghazni, Afghanistan *

Malaita Malaita is the primary island of Malaita Province in Solomon Islands. Malaita is the most populous island of the Solomon Islands, with a population of 161,832 as of 2021, or more than a third of the entire national population. It is also the se ...

or Mala, an island of the Solomon Islands

Other

Mala (caste) Mala is a Telugu caste of Malla Yodhas from the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. They are also present in smaller numbers in the states of Karnataka and Maharashtra. They are considered as Scheduled Caste (SC) by the Governm ...

or Mala community, from Andhra Pradesh *

Mala (river) The Mala is a small left tributary of the Danube in Romania. It discharges into the Porțile de Fier I Reservoir, which is drained by the Danube, near Eșelnița Eșelnița ( hu, Jeselnica) is a commune located in Mehedinți County, Romani ...

, a small tributary of the Danube in Romania *

Mala (seasoning) ''Mala'' is a spicy and numbing seasoning made from Sichuan peppercorn and chilli. Most commonly, ''mala'' is made into a sauce (麻辣醬 ''málàjiàng'') by simmering it in oil and other spices. Characteristic of Sichuan cuisine, particul ...

(麻辣, or ''málà''), a numbing and spicy Chinese seasoning made from chillies and Sichuan pepper * Malå IF, Swedish football club located in Malå in Västerbotten County * Mala language, a Papuan language *

Mala language (Nigeria) Mala (Tumala, Amala), also known as Rumaya, is a Kainji language of Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country ...

, a language of Nigeria * Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithm (MALA), a Markov chain Monte Carlo method * Chera dynasty or Mala, South India *

Cyclone Mala Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Mala was the strongest tropical cyclone of the 2006 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. In mid-April 2006, an area of disturbed weather formed over the southern Bay of Bengal and nearby Andaman Sea. Over a period o ...

, a cyclonic storm that killed 22 people in Burma in 2006 *

Japamala A japamala, , or simply mala ( sa, माला; , meaning 'garland') is a loop of prayer beads commonly used in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism for counting recitations when performing ''japa'' (reciting a ...

, known simply as mala, a loop of prayer beads commonly used in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism *

Rufous hare-wallaby The rufous hare-wallaby (''Lagorchestes hirsutus''), also known as the mala, is a small macropod found in Australia. It was formerly widely distributed across the western half of the continent, but naturally occurring populations are now confine ...

or mala, a small wallaby native to Australia