Marla (disambiguation)
# Marla (disambiguation)

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.

## People named Marla

* Marla Adams, American soap opera actress
* 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 to 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

## In fiction

* Marla McGivers, Star Trek: historian aboard the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
* Marla Singer, female character from the 1996 novel Fight Club
* Marla, Colonel Raeburn's Venusian secretary in the 1962 television series Space Patrol
* Marla Grayson, the main character in the 2020 black comedy film I Care a Lot

## 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 Southern Asia approximately equal to 25 sq yards or 225 sq ft (20.9 $m^2)$

## Places

* Marla, South Australia, a town and locality
   * Marla Airport
