title: Mala
text: # Mala
  
  Mala may refer to:
  
  ## Comics
  
  * Mala (Amazon), an Amazon from Wonder Woman's side of the DC Universe
  * Mala (Kryptonian), a villain from Superman's corner of the DC Universe
  
  ## Films and television
  
  * Mala (1941 film), a Bollywood drama film
  * Mala (1991 film) [sr], a Yugoslav drama film with Danilo Stojković
  * Mala (2013 film), an Argentine crime film
  
  ## Languages
  
  * Mala language, a Papuan language
  * Mala language (Nigeria), a language of Nigeria
  
  ## Music
  
  * Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou, a 2002 Greek soundtrack album by Anna Vissi
     * "Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou" (song), a song from the album
  * Mala (Yolandita Monge album), 2008
     * "Mala" (song), a song from the album
  * Mala (Devendra Banhart album), an album by folk-rock musician Devendra Banhart
  * "Mala" (6ix9ine song), a Spanish song by American rapper 6ix9ine
  * Mala Records, a record label
  
  ## People
  
  ### Given name
  
  * Mala (Pakistani singer) (1939–1990), Pakistani playback singer of Urdu and Punjabi films
  * Mala Aravindan (1939–2015), Malayalam film actor
  * Mala Gaonkar (born 1969), American businessperson
  * Mala Kachalla (1941–2007), former governor of Borno State in Nigeria
  * Mala Powers (1931–2007), American actress
  * Mala Rodríguez, also known as La Mala, La Mala María, Spanish hip hop rapper
  * Mala Roy, Indian politician
  * Mala Sinha (born 1936), Indian actress
  * Mala Zimetbaum (1922–1944), Belgian woman of Polish Jewish descent executed for escaping from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
  
  ### Nickname
  
  * Malá (footballer) (born 1979), Bissau-Guinean football midfielder
  * Mala (musician), a member of Deep Dub duo Digital Mystikz
  
  ### Surname
  
  * Doueugui Mala (born 1993), Ivorian footballer
  * Esat Mala (born 1998), Albanian footballer
  * Ray Mala (1906–1952), Native American movie actor
  * Shormi Mala, Bangladeshi stage, television and film actress
  * Zef Mala (1915–1979), Albanian publicist and communist activist
  
  ## Places
  
  ### Asia
  
  * Mala, Homalin, a village in Burma
  * Mala, Kerala, a village in southern India
  * Mala, Nepal, a village and village development committee
  * Mala, a village in Jaghori District, Ghazni, Afghanistan
  
  ### Europe
  
  * Mała, a village in Poland
  * Mäla, a village in western Estonia
  * Mala, Sweden, a village
  * Malå Municipality, in northern Sweden
  * Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, a town
  
  ### South America
  
  * Mala District, Peru
     * Mala, Cañete Province, capital of the district
  
  ### Elsewhere
  
  * Mala, Lanzarote, a village in the Canary Islands
  * Malaita or Mala, an island of the Solomon Islands
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Chera dynasty or Mala, South India
  * Cyclone Mala, a cyclonic storm that killed 22 people in Burma in 2006
  * Japamala, also known as mala, a loop of prayer beads commonly used in several Indian religions
  * Mala (caste) or Mala community, from Andhra Pradesh
  * Mala (river), a small tributary of the Danube in Romania
  * Mala (seasoning) (麻辣, or málà), a numbing and spicy Chinese seasoning made from chillies and Sichuan pepper
  * Malå IF, Swedish football club located in Malå in Västerbotten County
  * Mala story, an Aboriginal Dreamtime story of central Australia
  * Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithm (MALA), a Markov chain Monte Carlo method
  * Rufous hare-wallaby or mala, a small wallaby native to Australia
  