Gabriela (given name)
Appearance
Origin | |
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Word/name | Hebrew |
Meaning | "God is my strength" |
Other names | |
Related names | Gabriella, Gabriel, Gabriele, Gabrielė, Gabrielle, Gabbie, Gabi, Gabe |
Gabriela is the Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Latvian, Polish and Bulgarian feminine form of the Hebrew name Gabriel.
List of people with the given name Gabriela
[edit]Entertainment
[edit]- Gabriela Anders (born 1972), Argentine singer and pianist
- Gabriela Beňačková (born 1947), Slovak soprano opera singer
- Gabriela Böhm (born 1964), Argentinian independent documentary filmmaker
- Monique Gabriela Curnen (born 1970), American film and television actress
- Gabriela Duarte (born 1974), Brazilian actress
- Gabriela Dzuríková (born 1973), Slovak actress
- Maria Gabriela de Faría Chacón (born 1992), Venezuelan television actress and singer
- Gabriela Flores, Argentine television and film actress
- Gabriela Lena Frank (born 1972), American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist
- Gabriela Frías (born 1971), Mexican journalist and business anchor for CNN en Español and host of En Efectivo
- Gabriela Irimia (born 1982), Romanian singer and member of pop music duo The Cheeky Girls with her twin sister Monica
- Gabriela Isler (born 1988), Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe 2013
- Gabriela Kownacka (1952–2010), Polish television, film and theatre actress
- Gabriela Kulka (born 1979), Polish musician
- Gabriela Marcinková (born 1988), Slovak actress
- Gabriela Markus (born 1988), Brazilian model
- Gabriela Montero (born 1970), Venezuelan-American pianist
- Gabriela Moyseowicz (born 1944), Polish composer and pianist
- Gabriela N (born 1993), Maltese singer/songwriter
- Gabriela Ortiz (born 1964), Mexican music educator and composer
- Gabriela Palacio Díaz de León (born 1989), Mexican winner of the 2010 Nuestra Belleza Internacional México beauty pageant
- Gabriela Quintero, Mexican guitarist of the duo Rodrigo y Gabriela
- Gabriela Robin, pseudonym of musician Yoko Kanno
- Gabriela Scherer (born 1981), Swiss mezzo-soprano opera singer
- Gabriela Spanic Utrera (born 1973), Venezuelan actress
- Cecilia Gabriela Vera Sandoval (born 1961), Mexican actress
- Gabriela Velasco (1941-2019), Chilean actress and television presenter
- Gabriela Vergara Aranguren (born 1974), Venezuelan model and telenovela actress
- Gabriela Villalba (born 1985), Ecuadorian singer and actress
Politics and history
[edit]- Gabriela Crețu (born 1965), Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Party of European Socialists
- Gabriela Cuevas Barron (born 1979), Mexican politician with the National Action Party (PAN) who has served as a federal deputy of the Mexican Congress from 2000 to 2003 and 2009 to 2012
- Gabriela Konevska-Trajkovska (1971–2010), Macedonian politician who served as the country's Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs from 2006 until 2008
- Gabriela Masłowska (born 1950), Polish politician and member of Sejm from 2001 to 2007
- Gabriela Ngirmang (1922–2007), Palauan peace and anti-nuclear activist
- Gabriela Rosa (born 1966), American politician
- Gabriela Rothmayerová (born 1951), Slovak writer and politician
- Gabriela Shalev (born 1941), Israeli ambassador to the United Nations from 2008 to 2011
- María Josefa Gabriela Silang (1731–1763), wife of Ilocano insurgent leader Diego Silang in the Philippines
- Gabriela Silva Leite, Brazilian retired prostitute, sociologist and founder of NGO Davida
- Archduchess Gabriela von Habsburg (born 1956), Georgian ambassador to Germany
Sports
[edit]- Gabriela Andersen-Schiess (b. 1945), Swiss long-distance runner
- Gabriela Dabrowski (b. 1992), Canadian tennis player
- Gabriela Drăgoi (b. 1992), Romanian artistic gymnast
- Gabriela Grillo (b. 1952), German equestrian
- Gabriela Guimarães (b.1994), Brazilian volleyball player
- Gabriela Hanuláková (1957–2024), Slovak track and field athlete
- Gabriela Kouassi (b. 1979), French-Ivorian hepathlete
- Gabriela Liz (b. 1961), field hockey player from Argentina
- Gabriela Marginean (b. 1987), Romanian professional basketball player
- Gabriela Medina Solórzano (b. 1985), Mexican sprinter
- Gabriela Navrátilová (b. 1976), tennis player from the Czech Republic
- Gabriela Ņikitina (b. 1994), Latvian swimmer
- Gabriela Paz Franco (b. 1991), Venezuelan tennis player
- Gabriela Pando (b. 1970), Argentine field hockey player
- Gabriela Pérez del Solar Cuculiza (b. 1968), Peruvian volleyball player
- Gabriela Potorac (b. 1973), Romanian artistic gymnast
- Gabriela Sabatini (b. 1970), Argentine tennis player
- Gabriela Stacherová (b. 1980), Slovak slalom canoer
- Gabriela Svobodová (b. 1953), Czech cross country skier
- Gabriela Szabo (b. 1975), Romanian track and field athlete
- Gabriela Trușcă (b. 1957), Romanian artistic gymnast and coach
- María Gabriela Pazos (b. 1967), Argentine field hockey player
- Gabriela Sánchez Grossi (b. 1962), Argentine field hockey player
Literature and art
[edit]- Gabriela Adameșteanu (born 1942), Romanian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and translator
- Gabriela Brimmer (1947–2000), Mexican writer and activist for people with disabilities who were born with cerebral palsy
- Gabriela Bustelo (born 1962), Spanish neorealist novelist and translator
- Gabriela Dauerer (born 1958), German painter
- Gabríela Friðriksdóttir (born 1971), Icelandic artist and sculptor
- Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, feminist and winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Gabriela Mistral Inter-American Prize for Culture, award by the Organization of American States from 1979 to 2000 in her memory
- Gabriela Preissová (1862–1946), pen name of Matylda Dumontová, Czech writer and playwright
- Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (1857–1921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, Polish novelist, playwright, and stage actress
Science
[edit]- Gabriela Basařová (1934–2019), professor of chemistry who researched fermentation chemistry, brewing, and malting