Marla (disambiguation)

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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 means modelling clay.

People named Marla

• Marla Adams, American soap opera actress
• Marla Dorrel, American politician
• 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
• Marla Wood, one of the original employees of Microsoft

In fiction

• Marla McGivers, Star Trek: historian aboard the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
• Marla Singer, female character from the 1996 novel Fight Club

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 Pakistan and it is approximately equal to 25 sq yards or 225 sq ft (20.9 m²). This measuring unit is also used in some places of India and Afghanistan
• The rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), a small desert marsupial of Australia; also mala or maala.

Places

• The town of Marla, South Australia

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