Sala (surname)

Sala is a surname with several origins. First, in Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish, Occitan, and Romanian, a topographic or occupational name meaning someone living in or employed at a hall or manor. Notable people with the surname include:

Arts and entertainment

Musicians

• Alessandro Sala (composer) (1816–1890), Italian composer, organist, and pianist
• Flavio Sala (born 1983), Italian Classical guitar player
• Ingrid Sala Santamaria (born 1940), Filipina pianist
• Nicola Sala (1713–1801), Italian composer
• Oskar Sala (1910–2002), German composer
• Pep Sala (born 1960), Catalan musician, songwriter and record producer

Other arts

• Anri Sala (born 1974), Albanian artist
• Emilio Sala (painter) (1850–1910), Spanish painter
• Emilio Sala (sculptor) (1864–1920), Italian sculptor
• Emilio Grau Sala (1911–1975), Catalan painter
• Giuseppe Sala (music publisher) (c.1643—1727), music publisher
• Richard Sala (1954–2020), American cartoonist, illustrator and comic book creator

Athletes

• Albert Sala (born 1981), Spanish field hockey player
• Andrea Sala (footballer) (born 1993), Italian footballer
• Carlos Sala (born 1960), retired Spanish hurdler
• Claudio Sala (born 1947), former Italian association football player and current commentator
• Costantino Sala (1913–?), Italian professional football player
• Darío Sala (born 1974), Argentine football goalkeeper
• Emiliano Sala (1990–2019), Argentine football forward
• Giovanni Sala (born 1963), Italian enduro rider and a six-time World Enduro Champion
• Guido Sala (1928–1987), Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and world champion kart racer
• Lee Sala (born 1926–2012), American contender for the middleweight boxing crown in the 1940s and 1950s
• Luigi Sala (born 1974), Italian football defender
• Luis Pérez-Sala (born 1959), Catalan-Spanish racing driver
• Manuel Sala (born 1982), Angolan football player
• Marco Sala (footballer, born 1886) (1886–1969), Italian professional footballer, who played as a defender
• Marco Sala (footballer, born 1999), Italian football defender
• Patrizio Sala (born 1955), Italian former footballer
• Ramón Sala (born 1971), Spanish field hockey defender
• Valentino Sala (1908–?), Italian football player and coach

Politics

• Giuseppe Sala (born 1958), Italian politician
• Michel Sala (born 1954) is an Algerian-born French trade unionist and politician
• Milagro Sala (born 1964), leader of the Tupac Amaru neighborhood association, Argentina
• Ricardo Sala Gaitán (fl. 1992–1996), Colombian industrial engineer and politician

Others

• Enric Sala Rosés (1934-2025) Spanish writer and economist
• Roberto Sala (born 1974) Costarican-born American computer scientist in AI
• Mario Sala (born 1972) Catalan medical doctor
• Alessandra Sala, Italian computer scientist
• André Ricard Sala (born 1929), Catalan industrial designer
• Enric Sala (born 1968), marine ecologist and an Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic
• Galdino della Sala (1096–1176), tenth century Christian saint from Milan, Italy
• George Augustus Sala (1828–1895), British journalist
• Giuseppe Antonio Sala (1762–1839), Italian cardinal
• Jean Sala Breitenstein (1900–1986), United States federal judge
• Louis Sala-Molins (born 1935), essayist and political philosophy professor at Paris-I and Toulouse-II universities
• Luc Sala (born 1949), Dutch entrepreneur and writer
• Oscar Sala (1922–2010), Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist
• Xavier Sala-i-Martin (born 1963), Spanish academic economist

See also

• Sala (given name)