Gala

Gala may refer to:

Music

• Gala (album), a 1990 album by the English alternative rock band Lush
• Gala (singer), Italian singer and songwriter
• Gala – The Collection, a 2016 album by Sarah Brightman
• GALA Choruses, an association of LGBT choral groups
• Gala, a 1986 album by The Walker Brothers

Organizations and brands

• GALA (Gay and Lesbian Acceptance), a Missouri non-profit organization for LGBT individuals connected with the Community of Christ
• Gala (supermarket), an Irish convenience store chain
• Gala Coral Group, a betting shop and bingo hall operator based in the United Kingdom
• Gala Inc., a Japanese holding company
• Gala RFC, a rugby club in Galashiels, Scotland
• Gala TV, a television channel
• "Gala", a nickname of Turkish football club Galatasaray S.K.
• Girls Academic Leadership Academy, a public 6-12 school for girls in Los Angeles

People

• Gala (given name), the given name
• Gala (king), king of the Massylii of eastern Numidia
• Gala (singer), Italian singer/songwriter
• Gala Dalí (1894-1982), wife of French poet Paul Éluard and Catalan painter Salvador Dalí
• Gala Aleksić (born 1969), Serbian actress
• Gala Varo, Mexican drag queen
• Antonio Gala (1930–2023), Spanish poet and novelist
• Gabe Gala (born 1989), Nigerian-born Canadian soccer player
• Rosa Gala (born 1995), Angolan basketball player

Places

• Gala, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
• Gala, Tibet, a village
• Gala, Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Puerto Gala, a hamlet in southern Chile
• A contraction of Galashiels, a Border town in Scotland

Others

• Gala (apple), a type of apple grown particularly in New Zealand
• Gala (board game), a board game played in Thailand and Myanmar
• Gala (festivity), a festival
• Gala (film), a 1982 Canadian documentary film
• Gala (literary prize), awarded by the Tbilisi City Assembly, Georgia
• Gala (magazine), a French magazine
• Gala (potato)
• Gala (priests), the lamenting priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna
• Gala Brand, a fictional character of the James Bond novel Moonraker (did not appear in the film version)
• Gala (γάλα), a Greek word meaning milk; see Galaxy § Etymology
• Swimming gala, an amateur swimming competition

See also

• Gala Group (disambiguation)
• Durham Miners' Gala, an annual gathering and labour festival held in Durham, England
• Galah, a cockatoo native to Australia
• Galas, Greek mythological figure
• Galla Placidia, Roman empress, daughter of Emperor Theodosius the Great
• Gela (disambiguation)