Malaya or Malayan may refer to:
Political entities
On Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia:
- British Malaya (1826âÂÂ1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits Settlements and the British protectorates of the Malay States
- Malayan Union (1946âÂÂ1948), a post-war British colony consisting of all the states and settlements in British Malaya except Singapore
- Federation of Malaya (1948âÂÂ1963), the successor to the Malayan Union, which gained independence within the Commonwealth of Nations in 1957
- The States of Malaya (1963âÂÂpresent)
Science
Organisations
People
- Malaya Akulukjuk (born 1915?), Canadian Inuk artist
- Malaya Drew (born 1987), American actress
- Malaya Marcelino, Canadian politician
- Oxana Malaya (born 1983), Ukrainian mental patient known for her morbid dog-like childhood behaviour
- Malaya (born 1980), a founding member of the Chilean-Argentine group
Other uses
- University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- , a Royal Navy battleship which served in both world wars
- Operation Malaya, a police investigation taking place in Spain
- Malaya (film), a 1949 American war film set in Japanese-occupied Malaya
- Malaya, a 1961 documentary film produced by Malayan Film Unit (later Filem Negara Malaysia)
- Malaya (newspaper), a newspaper in the Philippines
- Malaya (album), an album by Filipino singer, Moira Dela Torre
- Malaya Mountains, a place in Hindu mythology
- Malaya Kuonamka, a river in Yakutia, Russia
- Malaya-sundari, a character in the 11th-century Indian story collection Shringara-manjari-katha
See also