Nola (name)

Nola is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

• Aaron Nola (born 1993), American baseball player
• Austin Nola (born 1989), American baseball player
• Giovanni da Nola (1478–1559), Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect
• Giovanni Domenico da Nola (c. 1510 to 1520-1592), Italian Renaissance composer and poet
• Lukas Nola (born 1964), Croatian film director
• Pavlina Nola (born 1974), retired tennis player

Given name:

• Nola Barber (1901–1985), first woman mayor of Chelsea City, Australia
• Nola Barron (born 1931), New Zealand potter
• Nola Blake (born c. 1952), Australian woman sentenced to death in Thailand for drug trafficking; sentence later commuted
• Nola Fairbanks (born 1924), Broadway actress
• Nola Ishmael (born 1943), Barbadian nurse
• Nola Marino (born 1954), member of the Australian Parliament
• Nola Rae (born 1950), Australian mime artist

Other:

• Nola (rhinoceros), a female rhinoceros at the San Diego Zoo