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Vala or VALA may refer to:

Religion and mythology

• Vala (Vedic), a demon or a stone cavern in the Hindu scriptures
• Völva, also spelled Vala, a priestess in Norse mythology and Norse paganism

Fiction

• Vala (Middle-earth), an angelic being in J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction
• Vala Mal Doran, a fictional character in the Canadian-American television series Stargate SG-1
• Vala (Blake), a character in the mythological writings of William Blake
• Vala, or The Four Zoas, a poem by Blake

People

• Vala (clan), a Rajput clan found in Gujarat in India

Surname

• Aleš Vála (born 1973), a Czech ice hockey player
• Asad Vala (born 1987), a Papua New Guinean cricketer
• Jessie Rose Vala (born 1977), an American artist
• Jorge Vala (born 1984), a Portuguese academic
• Katri Vala (1901–1944), a Finnish poet
• Lobat Vala (born 1930), an Iranian poet and activist
• Numonius Vala, a Roman family name, or any of the men of that name
• Vajubhai Vala, an Indian politician

Given name

• Vala Flosadóttir (born 1978), an Icelandic former pole vaulter
• Vala Chakradhar Rao (1928–1991), an Indian doctor and politician

Places

• Vala State, a former Indian princely state during the British Raj
• Våla Hundred, see List of hundreds of Sweden
• 131 Vala, an asteroid discovered in 1873 named after Völva

Other uses

• Vala (programming language), a programming language targeting GNOME's object system
• VALA, Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc., an Australian not-for-profit organisation
• Vala GSM, a mobile operator in Kosovo
• Vala halt, a closed railway station in the municipality of Silves, Portugal

See also

• Wala (disambiguation)
• Val (disambiguation)
• Valan (disambiguation)
• Valo (disambiguation)
• Vola (disambiguation)
• Volo (disambiguation)

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