Marla (disambiguation)
Marla is a female given name in English. It is a variant of the name Marlene, which comes from Mary Magdalene, the biblical woman to whom Jesus Christ first appeared after his resurrection.
In Hiberno-English, the word marla (called mála in Irish) means modelling clay.
People named Marla
- Marla Adams, American soap opera actress
- Marla Gibbs, American actress
- Marla Glen, American jazz singer
- Marla Hanson, American screenwriter and ex-model, attack victim
- Marla Heasley, American film and TV actress
- Marla Landi, British film actress
- Marla Lukofsky, Canadian stand-up comedian
- Marla Maples (Trump), American actress and model, married to Donald Trump from 1993–1997
- Marla Olmstead, American artist, considered to be a child prodigy of abstract art
- Marla Pennington, American actress
- Marla Runyan, American marathon runner, legally blind
- Marla Ruzicka, American activist and aid worker, killed by a car-bomb in Iraq
- Marla Shapiro, Canadian medical reporter
- Marla Sokoloff, American actress
- Marla Streb, professional mountain bike racer
In fiction
- Marla McGivers, Star Trek: historian aboard the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
- Marla Singer, female character from the 1996 novel Fight Club
- Marla, Colonel Raeburn's Venusian secretary in the 1962 television series Space Patrol.
Other
- Marla faith, the traditional religion of the Mari people of the republic of Mari El, Russia
- Marla (unit), a unit of measuring land (surface) in Southern Asia approximately equal to 25 sq yards or 225 sq ft (20.9 m2)
- The rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), a small desert marsupial of Australia
Places
- Marla, South Australia, a town and locality
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