Gala is a feminine given name with multiple origins from different cultures. As a Spanish name, it is a feminine version of the name Gallus, derived either from a Latin cognomen meaning rooster or meaning "man from Gaul". Saint Gall was a 6th-century saint.[1] It is also a Russian diminutive form of the name Galina, from the Greek name Galênê meaning "calm weather", or a variant of the name Helen. As an English name, it might be used in reference to the word gala, meaning "festival".[2]

People

  • Gala Aleksić (born 1969), Serbian actress
  • Gala Čaki (born 1987), Serbian painter, art collector, and organizer of the Gala International Symposium of Art
  • Sofía Gala Castiglione Casanova (born 1987), Argentine actress known as Sofía Gala
  • Gala Dalí (1894–1982), born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, Russian-born wife of poet Paul Éluard and later of artist Salvador Dalí, who were both prominent in surrealism, and a muse for many other writers and artists
  • Gala Évora (born 1983), Spanish singer and actress
  • Gala León García (born 1973), Spanish professional tennis player
  • Gala Montes (born 2000), Mexican actress
  • Gala Porras-Kim (born 1984), Colombian interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles
  • Gala Rizzatto (born 1975), Italian pop singer and songwriter known as Gala

Pen name

  • Gala Galaction, pen name of Romanian Orthodox clergyman, theologian, writer, journalist, and left-wing activist Grigore or Grigorie Pisculescu

See also

  • Gala Varo, stage name of drag performer Jesús Meza Arroyo, also known as Josué Armez

References

  1. ↑ Campbell, Mike. "Gala". www.behindthename.com. Behind the Name. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
  2. ↑ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 105. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.
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