title: Karla
text: # Karla
  
  Karla may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Karla (name), a feminine given name
  * Petras Karla (1937–1969), Soviet Olympic rower
  
  ## Places
  
  * Karla, Kose Parish, a village in Kose Parish, Harju County, Estonia
  * Karla, Rae Parish, a village in Rae Parish, Harju County, Estonia
  * Kärla, a settlement in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, Estonia
  * Karla, Greece
  * Karla, Mawal, a village in Pune district, Maharashtra, India
  * Karla, Ratnagiri, a village in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India
  * Karli, India, a town in Maharashtra, India, site of the Karla Caves
  * Karla crater, a meteorite impact crater in Russia
  * (181708) 1993 FW, a trans-Neptunian object, the second discovered, for which Karla was an early proposed name
  
  ## Fiction
  
  * Karla (character), the Soviet spymaster who serves as an overarching antagonist in the works of John le Carré
     * The Karla trilogy, three of le Carré's George Smiley novels focusing on Karla
  * Karla (film), a 2006 film by Joel Bender
  