Carola is a female
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
, the Latinized form of the Germanic given names Caroline or Carol.
People named Carola include:
Acting
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Carola Braunbock (1924–1978), Czech-born East German actress
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Carola Höhn (1910–2005), German actress
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Carola Lotti
Carola Lotti (1907–1990) was an Italian actress.Bertellini p.255 She was the elder sister of the actress Mariella Lotti.
Selected filmography
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(1910–1990), Italian actress
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Carola Neher (Karola Neher), German actress
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Carola Reyna, Argentine actress and director
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Carola Toelle (1893–1958), German actress
Music
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Carola Grindea (1914–2009), Romanian pianist and piano teacher
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Carola Häggkvist, also known as just Carola, Swedish singer, winner of the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest
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Carola Smit, Dutch singer
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Carola Standertskjöld, Finnish jazz and pop singer
Politics
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Carola Reimann (born 1967), German politician
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Carola Schouten, Dutch politician
Others
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Carola Dunn, British-American writer
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Carola Pavlik
Carola Pavlik (born 1978) is a Dutch people, Dutch contemporary artist.
Biography
As an artist and creator of Czech descent Carola became interested in the art of human behaviour and beauty as a child.
Pavlik was born in The Hague. She started ...
, Dutch contemporary artist
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Carola Rackete
Carola Rackete (; born 8 May 1988) is a German conservation ecologist, activist, politician and former ship captain. She was elected to the European Parliament as an independent candidate for the Left Party on June 9, 2024.
Rackete participa ...
, German ship captain and sea rescuer
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Carola Roloff
Carola Roloff (born 1959 in Holzminden, Germany) is a Tibetologist, scholar of Buddhism, and Buddhist nun. Since 2025, she is a Senior Research Fellow in Pluralistic Dialogical Religious Education at the University of Hamburg. Under her monastic ...
, German Buddhist nun
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Carola Unterberger-Probst, Austrian filmmaker and artist
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Carola of Vasa, Queen of Saxony
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Carola, wife of Obelerio degli Antenori, dogaressa of Venice
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Carola Gräfin von Schmettow, German businesswoman
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Carl (name)
Carl is a North Germanic masculine name meaning "free man". The name originates in Old Norse. It is the first name of many Kings of Sweden including Carl XVI Gustaf. It is a variant of the English Charles, and the Latin Carolus (name), Carolus.
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Carol (disambiguation)
Carol may refer to:
People with the name
* Carol (given name)
* Avedon Carol (born 1951), British writer and feminist
* Henri Carol (1910–1984), French composer and organist
* Martine Carol (1920–1967), French film actress
* Sue Carol (1906†...
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Carolan (surname) Carolan is a surname that is an Anglicized form of Gaelic language, Gaelic Ó Cearbhalláin, meaning ‘descendant of Cearbhallán’, which is a diminutive of the personal name Cearbhall (see Carroll (surname), Carroll). Notable people with the nam ...
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Caroly (name) Caroly is a name that can be a variant of Carol. It is used by notable people including the following:
* Caroly Wilcox, stage name of Carolyn Wilcox (1931 – 2021), American theatre professional
* Vera Karalli, sometimes credited as Vera Caroly ( ...
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Karola Karola is a Danish language, Danish, Finnish language, Finnish, German language, German, Hungarian language, Hungarian, Norwegian language, Norwegian, and Swedish language, Swedish feminine given name that is a feminine form of Karol (name), Karol ...
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