Gisela (name)

Gisela is a female given name of Germanic origin. The name derives from the Old High German word gīsal, "pledge".

Variations on the name in other languages include:

The male forms is Gísli and Gisle, from Gísla saga (Gisli's saga) possibly known from place names such as Gislaved, a municipality in Sweden.

Noble Giselas

Gisela (daughter of Pepin the Short) (757 - 810-11), abbess
Gisela, daughter of Charlemagne (in or before 781 - after 808)
Gisela of Burgundy (c. 955 - 1007), daughter of Conrad, king of Burgundy, wife of Henry the Wrangler
Giselle of Bavaria (c. 1085 - 1065), her daughter (also Gisela of Hungary), wife of Stephen I of Hungary
Gisela of Swabia (c. 990-1043), Holy Roman Empress, wife of Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
Gisela Agnes of Rath (1669-1740), Duchess of Anhalt-Köthen, Countess of Nienburg, regent of Anhalt-Köthen
Archduchess Gisela of Austria (1856-1932), daughter to Emperor Franz Joseph I

Gisela (singer) (born 1979), Catalan singer
Gisela Arendt (1918–1969), German swimmer
Gisela Biedermann (born 1948), Liechtensteiner physician and politician
Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg (born 1929), German sociologist, ethnologist, sexologist and writer
Gisela Boniel (1977–2017), Filipino politician
Gisela Casimiro (born 1984), Portuguese writer and activist
Gisela Depkat (born 1942), Canadian cellist and teacher
Gisela Dulko (born 1985), Argentine tennis player
Gisela Grothaus (born 1955), German slalom canoeist
Gísela López (born 1968), Bolivian journalist and politician
Gisela McDaniel (born 1995), Indigenous Chamorro visual artist
Gisela Richter (1882–1972), British-born archaeologist
Gisela Steineckert (born 1931), German writer
Gisela Storz, American microbiologist
Gisela Stuart (born 1955), German-born British politician
Gisela Valcárcel (born 1963), Peruvian TV host
Gisela Wuchinger (born 1950), German Austrian singer, also known as Gilla