Sala (name)
# Sala (name)

Sala is a surname and given name with several origins. First, in Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish, Occitan, and Romanian, a topographic or occupational name meaning someone living in or employed at a hall or manor. Second, in Hungarian, a short for the Biblical name Solomon. Third, a variant of the name Salah. Notable people named Sala include:

## Surname

### Arts and entertainment

**Musicians**

* Alessandro Sala (composer) (1816–1890), Italian composer, organist, and pianist
* Flavio Sala (born 1983), Italian Classical guitar player
* Ingrid Sala Santamaria (born 1940), Filipina pianist
* Nicola Sala (1713–1801), Italian composer
* Oskar Sala (1910–2002), German composer
* Pep Sala (born 1960), Catalan musician, songwriter and record producer

**Other arts**

* Anri Sala (born 1974), Albanian artist
* Emilio Sala (painter) (1850–1910), Spanish painter
* Emilio Sala (sculptor) (1864–1920), Italian sculptor
* Emilio Grau Sala (1911–1975), Catalan painter
* Richard Sala (1954–2020), American cartoonist, illustrator and comic book creator

### Athletes

* Albert Sala (born 1981), Spanish field hockey player
* Andrea Sala (footballer) (born 1993), Italian footballer
* Carlos Sala (born 1960), retired Spanish hurdler
* Claudio Sala (born 1947), former Italian association football player and current commentator
* Costantino Sala (1913–?), Italian professional football player
* Darío Sala (born 1974), Argentine football goalkeeper
* Emiliano Sala (1990–2019), Argentine football forward
* Giovanni Sala (born 1963), Italian enduro rider and a six-time World Enduro Champion
* Guido Sala (1928–1987), Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and world champion kart racer
* Lee Sala (born 1926–2012), American contender for the middleweight boxing crown in the 1940s and 1950s
* Luigi Sala (born 1974), Italian football defender
* Luis Pérez-Sala (born 1959), Catalan-Spanish racing driver
* Manuel Sala (born 1982), Angolan football player
* Marco Sala (footballer, born 1886) (1886–1969), Italian professional footballer, who played as a defender
* Marco Sala (footballer, born 1999), Italian football defender
* Patrizio Sala (born 1955), Italian former footballer
* Ramón Sala (born 1971), Spanish field hockey defender
* Valentino Sala (1908–?), Italian football player and coach

### Politics

* Giuseppe Sala (born 1958), Italian politician
* Michel Sala (born 1954) is an Algerian-born French trade unionist and politician
* Milagro Sala (born 1964), leader of the Tupac Amaru neighborhood association, Argentina
* Ricardo Sala Gaitán (fl. 1992–1996), Colombian industrial engineer and politician

### Others

* Alessandra Sala, Italian computer scientist
* André Ricard Sala (born 1929), Catalan industrial designer
* Enric Sala (born 1968), marine ecologist and an Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic
* Galdino della Sala (1096–1176), tenth century Christian saint from Milan, Italy
* George Augustus Sala (1828–1895), British journalist
* Jean Sala Breitenstein (1900–1986), United States federal judge
* Louis Sala-Molins (born 1935), essayist and political philosophy professor at Paris-I and Toulouse-II universities
* Luc Sala (born 1949), Dutch entrepreneur and writer
* Oscar Sala (1922–2010), Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist
* Xavier Sala-i-Martin (born 1963), Spanish academic economist

### Given name

* Sala Baker (born 1976), New Zealand actor and stuntman
* Sala Burton (1925–1987), United States Representative from California
* Sala Fa'alogo (born 1977), New Zealand rugby league player
* Sala, folk hero who killed a tiger; see Hoysala Empire#History
