List of Famous people named Paula

Mother Paula of Odivelas, religious name of Paula Teresa da Silva e Almeida, was a Portuguese nun and royal mistress.

Paula Forteza is a French politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of France in the 2017 French legislative election, as a member of La République En Marche!. She represents the Second constituency for French residents overseas. Head of Cedric Villani list in the 19th arrondissement of Paris for the 2020 municipal elections, she left LREM during the campaign.

Ana Paula Leandro de Oliveira Mourão is a Brazil lawyer, military and, since January 2019, Second Lady of Brazil. She's the second spouse of the current and 25th Vice President of Brazil, Hamilton Mourão.

Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books. She also won several awards for particular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel The Slave Dancer; a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart; and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for A Portrait of Ivan (1969) in its German-language edition Ein Bild von Ivan.

Paula Trueman was an American film, stage and television actress.

Paula Tsui Siu-fung is a Cantopop singer in Hong Kong, with a career spanning over 50 years. She was affiliated with the TVB television station until the mid-1990s and has performed for Asia Television on several occasions since 1995.

Paula Renata Marques Pequeno, better known as Paula Pequeno, is a two-time Olympic gold medal winning volleyball player from Brazil. She was born in Brasília, Distrito Federal. She plays for Vôlei Bauru. She is one of the few female players in the volleyball league who can effectively use the round-house arm swing.

Paulette Siragan Yaghobian, better known as Paula Yacoubian is a Lebanese politician of Armenian origins. She was previously known as a journalist and a television host. Throughout her career, she had worked as a host in a number of Lebanese and pan-Arab international television stations. Known for the transformational impact she's had in her organizations and the broader community, Paula became one of the experts chosen by the World Bank group as a member of their 'External Advisory Panel for Diversity and Inclusion' as a result of her advocacy for women's rights, her efforts for women empowerment, as well as for being a fierce defender of electoral women quota and a fairer electoral law in Lebanon.

Paula Jacques is a French novelist, journalist, and host of the program Cosmopolitaine on the French public station France Inter.

Pauline Philippine Thiede was a German trade unionist. She was the first woman to hold a full-time post as a trade union leader in Germany.