Gabriela (given name)
Gabriela is the Spanish feminine form of the Hebrew name Gabriel.
List of people with the givne name Gabriela
Entertainment
- "Gabriela", Mexican guitarist of the duo Rodrigo y Gabriela who specializes in a rhythmic acoustic guitar style
- Gabriela Spanic Utrera (b.1973), award-winning Venezuelan actress best known for her roles in telenovelas
- Gabriela Beňačková (b.1947), Slovak soprano opera singer
- Gabriela Robin, singer and lyricist, credited for lyrics and vocals on many songs composed and arranged by Yoko Kanno, who is speculated to be Yoko's pseudonym
- Gabriela Montero (b.1970), Venezuelan-American pianist
- Cecilia Gabriela Vera Sandoval, Mexican actor known best for her work in telenovelas
- Gabriela Vergara Aranguren (b.1974), Venezuelan model and telenovelas actress
- Gabriela Palacio Díaz de León (b.1989), Mexican winner of the 2010 Nuestra Belleza Internacional México beauty pageant
- Gabriela Ortiz (b.1964), Mexican music educator and composer
- Gabriela Böhm (b.1964), Argentinian independent documentary filmmaker
- Gabriela Lena Frank (b.1972), American composer of contemporary classical music and a pianist
- Gabriela Anders (b.1972), Argentine singer and pianist specializing in soul, jazz and Latin music
- Monique Gabriela Curnen (b.1970), American film and television actress
- Gabriela Barros Tapia (b.1980), model and winner of Miss Chile Universe 2004 beauty pageant
- Gabriela Villalba (b.1985), Ecuadorian singer and actress
- Gabriela Irimia (b.1982) of Romania is part of the pop music duo The Cheeky Girls with her twin sister Monica
- Gabriela Kownacka (1952–2010), Polish television, film and theater actress
- Gabriela Moyseowicz (b.1944), Polish composer and pianist
- Gabriela Kulka (b.1979), Polish independent musician with classical, jazz and pop influences
- Gabriela Frías (b.1971), Mexican journalist who is a business anchor for CNN en Español and host of En Efectivo
- Gabriela Scherer (b.1981), Swiss mezzosoprano opera singer
- Gabriela Flores, Argentine television and film actress
- Maria Gabriela de Faría Chacón (b.1992), Venezuelan television actress and singer
Politics and history
- María Josefa Gabriela Silang (1731–1763) was the wife of the Ilocano insurgent leader, Diego Silang. After her husband's assassination, she led the insurgency for four months before she was captured and executed
- Archduchess Gabriela von Habsburg (b.1956), Ambassador of Georgia to Germany is the granddaughter of the last Emperor of Austria. She is also an abstract sculptor and lithographer
- Gabriela Shalev (b.1941), Israeli ambassador to the United Nations from 2008 to 2011
- Gabriela Creţu (b.1965), Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Party of European Socialists
- Gabriela Masłowska (b.1950), Polish politician and member of Sejm from 2001 to 2007
- Gabriela Cuevas Barron (b.1979), Mexican politician with the National Action Party (PAN) who has served as a federal deputy of the Mexican Congress from 2000 to 2003 and 2009 to 2012
- Gabriela Konevska-Trajkovska (1971–2010), Macedonian politician who served as the country's Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs from 2006 until 2008
- Gabriela Silva Leite, Brazilian retired prostitute, sociologist and founder of Davida
Sports
- Gabriela Sabatini (b.1970), professional Argentine tennis player
- Gabriela Szabo (b.1975), retired Romanian track and field athlete, a three-time world champion and 2000 Summer Olympics gold medal winner
- Gabriela Navrátilová (b.1976), professional tennis player from the Czech Republic
- Gabriela Dabrowski (b.1992), Canadian professional tennis player
- Gabriela Drăgoi (b.1992), Romanian artistic gymnast and Olympic bronze medalist
- Gabriela Medina Solórzano (b.1985), Mexican sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres
- Gabriela Potorac (b.1973), Romanian artistic gymnast who is a three time Olympic medalist and a two time world medalist for the balance beam
- Gabriela Truşcă (b.1957), retired Romanian artistic gymnast and Olympic silver medalist with her team. She has coached young gymnasts including Gabriela Dragoi
- Gabriela Marginean (b.1987), Romanian professional women's basketball player who has playing for Panathinaikos of Greece and in early 2010 in the WNBA with the Minnesota Lynx
- Gabriela Paz-Franco (b.1991), Venezuelan professional tennis player
- Gabriela Pando (b.1970), retired Argentine female field hockey player and 1995 Pan American Games gold medalist
- Gabriela Stacherová (b.1980), Slovak slalom canoer who won a silver medal in the K-1 team event at the 2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
- Gabriela Svobodová (b.1953), retired Czech cross country skier whose team won a silver metal in the 1984 Winter Olympics
- Gabriela Liz (b.1961), retired female field hockey player from Argentina whose team won a gold medals at the 1987 and 1991 Pan American Games
- Gabriela Grillo (b.1952), German equestrian whose team won a gold medal in dressage at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Gabriela Andersen-Schiess (b.1945), former Swiss long-distance runner who won the inaugural California International Marathon in 1983
- Gabriela Pérez del Solar Cuculiza (b.1968), Peruvian female volleyball player whose team that won the silver medal in the 1988 Olympic Summer Games. In 2006 she was elected to the Peruvian Congress with the party Unidad Nacional
- María Gabriela Pazos (b.1967), retired Argentine female field hockey player whose team won a gold medal at the 1991 Pan American Games
- Gabriela Sánchez Grossi (b.1962), retired Argentine female field hockey player whose team won gold medals at the 1987 and 1995 Pan American Games
Literature and art
- Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, feminist and winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (1857–1921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, Polish novelist, playwright, and stage actress
- Gabriela Adameșteanu (b.1942), Romanian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and translator
- Gabríela Friðriksdóttir (b.1971), Icelandic artist and sculptor
- Gabriela Brimmer (1947–2000), Mexican writer and activist for persons with disabilities who was b.with cerebral palsy
- Gabriela Preissová was the pen name of Matylda Dumontová (1862 March 23 – 1946 March 27) a Czech writer and playwright
- Gabriela Dauerer (b.1958), German painter
- Gabriela Bustelo (b.1962), Spanish neorealist novelist and translator
See also