Galla
Appearance
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Galla may refer to:
Given name
[edit]- Galla (wife of Julius Constantius), member of the Constantinian dynasty
- Galla (wife of Theodosius I) (370s–394), empress of the Roman Empire
- Galla (wife of Eucherius) (c. 380–420s), wife of Eucherius, saint and Archbishop of Lyon
- Galla Placidia (392–450), daughter of Emperor Theodosius I
- Galla of Rome (died 550), Roman saint
- Galla Gaulo, fifth traditional Doge of Venice (755–756)
Surname
[edit]Telugu people
[edit]- Galla Aruna Kumari (born 1949), government minister of Andhra Pradesh, wife of Galla Ramachandra Naidu and mother of Galla Jayadev
- Galla Ramachandra Naidu (born 1938), Indian industrialist, founder and former CEO of Amaraja Group, father of Galla Jayadev
- Galla Jayadev (born 1966), Indian politician and industrialist
- Galla Madhavi (born 1984), Indian politician
Other people
[edit]- Rainer Galla (born 1961), German politician
- Ryszard Galla, Polish politician
Places
[edit]- Galle, Sri Lanka, romanized as Gālla, a city
- Galla Township, Pope County, Arkansas, United States
Other uses
[edit]- Another name for P'tcha, a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish food
- Outdated exonym for the Oromo people of Ethiopia and northern Kenya
- Galla, Mesopotamian mythological guardians of the underworld - see Inanna
See also
[edit]- Apostolic Vicariate of the Galla, a Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate embracing the territory of the Oromo people
- Galla tinctoria, the commercial nutgall produced by the gall oak
- Gallu, a Mesopotamian demon