Gavalas or Gabalas (), feminine form Gavala/Gabala (Γαβαλά), is a Greek family name. It can refer to: *

Jabalah IV ibn al-Harith Jabalah IV ibn al-Ḥārith (), known also by the tecnonymic Abū Shammar (), known in Byzantine sources as Gabalas (Greek: ), was a ruler of the Ghassanids. At first an enemy of the Eastern Roman Empire, he raided Palestine but was defeated, beco ...

(died 528), Ghassanid Arab phylarch, known as Gabalas in Greek sources *

Leo Gabalas Leo Gabalas () was a Byzantine Greek magnate and independent ruler of a domain, centered on the island of Rhodes and including nearby Aegean islands, which was established in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Byzantine Empire by the Fourth ...

(fl. 1240s), autonomous ruler of Rhodes and other islands after the Fourth Crusade * John Gabalas (fl. 1250s), brother and successor of the above * Panos Gavalas (1926–1988), Greek singer

See also