Carola is a female

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, the Latinized form of the Germanic given names Caroline or Carol. People named Carola include:

Acting

* Carola Braunbock (1924–1978), Czech-born East German actress *

Carola Höhn Carola Höhn (30 January 1910 – 8 November 2005) was a German stage and movie actress. Selected filmography Film * '' The Weekend Bride'' (1928) * '' Don Juan in a Girls' School'' (1928) * ''From a Bachelor's Diary'' (1929) * '' Youthful Ind ...

(1910–2005), German actress *

Carola Lotti Carola Lotti (1907–1990) was an Italian actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio ...

(1910-1990), Italian actress *

Carola Neher Carola Neher (born Karola Neher; 2 November 1900 – 26 June 1942) was a German actress and singer. Biography Neher was born in Munich in 1900. She started to work as a bank clerk in 1917. In the summer of 1920, she made her debut performance ...

(Karola Neher), German actress *

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 V ...

, Argentine actress and director *

Carola Toelle Carola Toelle (born Henriette Dorothea Helene Karola Toelle; 2 April 1893 – 28 January 1958) was a German stage and film actress. She was the elder sister of the actress Uschi Elleot. Selected filmography * '' Johannes Goth'' (1920) * ''Haza ...

(1893–1958), German actress

Music

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 *

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 *

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 *

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

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 *

Carola Schouten Cornelia Johanna "Carola" Schouten (born 6 October 1977) is a Dutch politician serving as third Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister for Poverty Policy, Participation and Pensions in the IV Rutte Cabinet since 10 January 2022. Sh ...

, Dutch politician

Others

Carola Dunn Carola Dunn (born November 14, 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 Rackete Carola Rackete (; born 8 May 1988 in Preetz, Germany) is a German ship captain who volunteered with the German sea rescue organisation Sea-Watch. In June 2019, she was arrested for docking a migrant rescue ship without authorization in the po ...

, German ship captain and sea rescuer *

Carola Roloff Carola Roloff (born 1959 in Holzminden, West Germany) is a German Buddhist nun. Her monastic name is Bhiksuni Jampa Tsedroen. An active teacher, translator, author, and speaker, she is instrumental in campaigning for equal rights for Buddhist n ...

, German Buddhist nun *

Carola Unterberger-Probst Carola Unterberger-Probst (born 1978), aka up'' or Carola Unterberger, is an Austrian media artist and philosopher of art. In addition to video installations and experimental films, her work contains Objet d'art, paintings and digital art. She sp ...

, Austrian filmmaker and artist *

Carola of Vasa Carola of Vasa-Holstein-Gottorp (''Caroline Friederike Franziska Stephanie Amalie Cäcilie''; 5 August 1833 – 15 December 1907), was by birth a titular Princess of Sweden and styled ''Princess of Vasa'' as member of the House of Holstein-Go ...

, Queen of Saxony *

Carola, wife of Obelerio degli Antenori Carola (fl. 811) is the name used by Edgecumbe Staley in his book ''The dogaressas of Venice'' to refer to the Dogaressa of Venice married to Doge Obelerio degli Antenori (r. 804-811). Among many claims, she is sometimes purported to be the first c ...

, dogaressa of Venice * Carola Gräfin von Schmettow, German businesswoman

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