Pola

Pola may refer to:

Places

• Pola, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in south Poland
• Pola, Oriental Mindoro, a municipality in the Philippines
• Pola, Russia, a settlement in Novgorod Oblast, Russia
• Pola de Allande, a town and a parish in Allande, a municipality within the province of Asturias, in northern Spain
• Italian name for Pula, the largest city in Istria, Croatia
• Santa Pola, a town in Spain
• Pola de Siero, a town in Asturias

Acronyms

• Principle of least astonishment, in human-computer interaction
• Principle of least authority, in computer security
• Port of London Authority, more often referred to as P.L.A.

People

• Adrián Alonso Pereira (born 1988), a Spanish futsal player commonly known as Pola
• Pola Alonso (1923–2004), an Argentine actress
• Pola Brändle (born 1980), a German artist and photographer
• Pola Gauguin (1883–1961), a Danish painter
• Pola Gojawiczyńska (1896–1963), a Polish writer
• Pola Illéry (born 1908), a Romanian actress
• Pola Kinski (born 1952), a German actress
• Pola Negri (1897–1987), a Polish actress
• Pola Oloixarac, an Argentine writer
• Pola Raksa (born 1941), a Polish actress and singer
• Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin (born 1959), a British politician
• Spike Pola (1914–2012), Australian rules footballer

Fictional characters

• Pola Ivanova, a fictional character from the James Bond film A View To Kill

Other uses

• Italian cruiser Pola, World War II Italian warship
• Pola Flotilla, an Imperial Germany Navy formation of the First World War
• Pola River, a river in Russia
• polA, the bacterial gene encoding DNA polymerase I
• Pola (festival), a bull-centered festival in India
• Pola (skipper), a genus of skippers in the family Hesperlidae
• Pola X, a 1999 French film
• Pola's March, a 2001 documentary film
• POLA, a German factory of plastic model kits for model railroad, since 1997 owned by Faller
• House of Pola, an Italian noble family