Viola (given name)

Viola

Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Latin
Meaning	"violet"
Other names
Related names	Violet

Viola is a feminine given name, a variant of the given name Violet.

List of people with the given name Viola

• Viola (footballer), Brazilian footballer
• Viola (singer), an Italian singer
• Viola Allen, American stage actress
• Viola B. Sanders, director of Women in the Navy
• Viola Barry, American silent film actress
• Viola Baskerville, Secretary of Administration in the Cabinet of Virginia Governor Tim Kaine
• Viola Bauer, German cross-country skier
• Viola Bayley, British children's writer
• Viola Canales, American writer
• Viola Cheptoo Lagat (born 1989), Kenyan middle-distance runner
• Viola Compton, British film actress
• Viola Dana, American silent film actress
• Viola Davis, American actress
• Viola Desmond, African-Nova Scotian civil rights figure
• Viola Elisabeth of Cieszyn, Queen of Bohemia and Poland
• Viola Farber, American choreographer and dancer
• Viola Fischerová, Czech poet and translator
• Viola Florence Barnes, American historian and author
• Viola Frey, American ceramics artist
• Viola Garfield, American anthropologist
• Viola Garvin, English poet and editor
• Viola Gentry, American aviator
• Viola Gillette, American contralto
• Viola Goretzki, German rower
• Viola Grahl, German former field hockey player
• Viola Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster, widow of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster
• Viola Haqi, Dutch fashion model
• Viola Harris, American actress
• Violah Jepchumba (born 1990), Kenyan long-distance runner
• Viola Jimulla, Chief of the Prescott Yavapai tribe
• Viola Keats, British film and television actress
• Viola Kibiwot, Kenyan distance runner
• Viola Liuzzo, Unitarian Universalist civil rights activist
• Viola Lyel, British film and television actress
• Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress and former Canadian Senator
• Viola McCoy, African-American blues singer
• Viola Meynell, English writer, novelist and poet
• Viola Myers, Canadian athlete
• Viola Odebrecht, German footballer
• Viola Pettus, American nurse
• Viola Pitts, Fort Worth community activist
• Viola Poley, German rower
• Viola R. MacMillan, Canadian authority on mining
• Viola Richard, American silent film actress
• Viola S. Wendt, American poet and educator
• Viola Shelly Shantz, American biologist and zoologist
• Viola Slaughter, Arizona rancher and the wife of sheriff John Slaughter
• Viola Spolin, American director and teacher
• Viola Thompson, American professional baseball player
• Viola Valentino, Italian singer
• Viola Valli, Italian long distance swimmer
• Viola Wills, American pop singer
• Viola Yanik, Canadian wrestler

Fictional characters

• Viola, a character from Eternal Sonata
• Viola (Kiddy Grade), a character in the Japanese TV series Kiddy Grade
• Viola (She's the Man), a character in the American film She's the Man
• Viola (TimeSplitters), a character in the English video game series TimeSplitters
• Viola (Twelfth Night character), a character in the play Twelfth Night, by English writer William Shakespeare
• Viola (Zone of the Enders), a character in the Japanese video game series Zone of the Enders
• Viola (Soulcalibur V), is a character in the Soul series of fighting games.